Prof. Silke Helmerdig, PhD

Artistic Photography

Head of the Department of Art

Room G1.229
Holzgartenstr. 36
75175 Pforzheim

Phone +49 (7231) 28-6743

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2016 – PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England

2012 – Professorship of Artistic Photography, Pforzheim University School of Design

2005 – 2010 Visiting Professor of Photography, HBK Braunschweig

1991 – Master of Arts, Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design. England

1990 – 2012 Freelance photo designer/ artist

1990 – Diploma (FH), Design, FH Dortmund

appointed member of the DGPH

appointed member of the German Photographic Academy

Member of the NGBK

2020 – “Thinking Figures in Pictures - Reflecting on Photography”, Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Pforzheim, with Manfred Schmalriede

“Rehearsal on the Mirror Stage”, MyBerlinWall (curator Raphael von Uslar), Berlin

2019 – “Randnotizen”, artists' guild Buslat, Pforzheim, with Monika Markert

2018 – book launch “Berlin by Numbers/London from A-Z”, 25 books, Berlin

2015 – “Fragments, futures, absence and the past”, AND Event Space, London

2008 – 2010 Hotel illustration, concepts and realization HBK BS with Intercityhotel GmbH

2021 – The universe is not representable - Markus Feifel-Pargas, Konstantin Koposov, Jasper O'Callaghan, Jeain Pyo. Photo exhibition at the Brötzinger Art Gallery, Pforzheim

2019 – Hingeschaut - Nareh Apelian, Kostya Koposov, Jasper O'Callaghan: Exhibition of students at the Buslat Artists' Guild

2017 – Moments in silver - Exhibition of students for the jewelry anniversary at Kultirhaus Osterfeld

2016 – Iris Ebert, Tatsiana Tribulanove, Benjamin Voit: Exhibition of students at the Buslat Artists' Guild

2015 – Looking at suffering, exhibition on the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Pforzheim in the Schlosskirche, Pforzheim

2013 – Exhibition participation Johanna Hößle, student of fashion design, exhibition Oskar Schlemmer, Society of Friends of Young Art Baden-Baden

2009 – BMBF-funded excursion to Israel, collaborations

Helmerdig, S. (2018). Berlin by Numbers/London from A-Z

Helmerdig, S. (2016). Fragments, Futures, Absence and the Past: A new approach to photography

Helmerdig, S. (2012). Pavement Drawings

Helmerdig, S. (2010). 3030 km as the crow flies; results of a research excursion to Jerusalem.

Helmerdig, S. (2007). “Welt-Raum-Körper-Bild”. in: Carsten Würmann / Martina Schuegraf / Sandra Smykalla / Angela Poppitz (eds.) Welt.Raum.Körper

Helmerdig, S. (2006). Ein Pixel Zwei Korn - Grundlagen analoger und digitaler Fotografien und ihre Gestaltung, with Dr. Martin Scholz

2021 “Boundaries of the Photographic”, EP contemporary, Berlin, K

“The third gender”, A.K.T. Pforzheim

2020 “Difference and Repetition”, EMOP 2020, Atelier Sabine Wild, group exhibition, K

“Earth 1970-2020”, AND Association, London, group exhibition

2019 - “Show your darlings - Wilderness”, Atelier Sabine Wild, Berlin, group exhibition, K

“1000 realities - 100 years of GDL/DFA”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, group exhibition

2018 - “And again - lens based exhibition”, AND Association, London, group exhibition

“Show your darlings - Das Bett”, Atelier Sabine Wild, Berlin, group exhibition, K

2016 - “Das Technische Rathaus - documentary and artistic”, Galerie zum Hof, Kunstverein, Pforzheim, group exhibition

2015 - “It could have been like this”, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin, group exhibition

2014 - “Dear artist, draw me”, Galerie Semjon Contemporary, Berlin, group exhibition, K

“Courage”, 48 hours Neukölln, Hi-Res, Berlin

2013 - “La Qualité de l'Ombre”, Museum Ludwig Koblenz, group exhibition, K

2013 – Funding as part of the call for proposals "Initiative zur SS 2014 hochschuldidaktischen Professionalisierung der Lehrenden im Zusammenhang mit dem Hochschulausbau" for an interdisciplinary project on the development of historical photo emulsions; together with Prof. Dr. Esther Rösch