BIOGRAPHY FRIEDERIKE VON RAUCH

born 1967 in Freiburg, Germany; lives and works in Berlin.
Friederike von Rauch is a visual artist who works mainly with photography.Originally trained as a silversmith, she later studied industrial design at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her photographic work focuses on themes such as space, atmosphere, slowness, and the meticulous modulation of light through reduction and concentration.
Her work has been widely exhibited, with recent shows at institutions including Kunstverein Detmold, Haus am Kleistpark in Berlin, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Museum Dr. Guislain in Ghent, Goethe-Institut in Paris, Berlinische Galerie, KunstHaus Potsdam, Deutsche Oper Berlin, i8 Gallery in Reykjavík, Forum für Fotografie in Cologne, MARTa Herford, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Goethe-Institut Rio de Janeiro, Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, and Hafnarborg Museum in Iceland.
Von Rauch has received numerous awards, published multiple books, and her works are included in both private and public collections. Notably, her pieces are part of the Bundestag, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Hess Art Collection, and the Royal Dutch Collection.

Friederike von Rauch has found a subtle and very differentiated language that reflects her highly concentrated working method. Her images embody a photographic minimalism characterized by the utmost reduction of visual stimuli and the almost complete elimination of all illustrative references. They create an impression of dreamlike emptiness and timelessness. She deliberately excludes anything overtly dramatic or narrative.
The images derive their particular tension from the fact that the viewer, due to the near-complete absence of context and information, relies solely on the few remaining clues. Each of her photographs can stand alone in its compositional integrity, but together they develop a context that reveals much about spaces and places in our reality that we would otherwise not perceive.
In summary, Friederike von Rauch’s photographs reflect her personally formulated conception of the discovered locations while also shaping our perception of reality as we begin to see our environment through her visual language.
Andres Lepik

EDUCATION

1992–97 Industrial Design, Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1987–90 Silversmithing Apprenticeship, Kaufbeuren, Germany

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS

2024 Förderung Töpfer Stiftung
2023 Presentation Grant Visual Arts, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin
2022 Research Scholarship, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin
2022 Neustart Grant for Visual Artists, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 Art Program “EEW-ART”, EEW Group, Germany
2019 Residency, Potter’s House, Mallorca, Spain
2018 Residency, Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
2016 Residency, House Van Wassenhove, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
2015 Residency, Abdij Roosenberg, Belgium
2014 Residency, Couvent de la Tourette, Eveux, France
2014 Nomination, German Photo Book Award, In Secret (Sieveking Verlag)
2010 Residency, Hafnarborg Museum for Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
2010 Finalist, Gabriele Münter Award
2009 Winner, DAM Architectural Book Award, Neues Museum (Hatje Cantz Verlag)
2009 Nomination, German Photo Book Award, Neues Museum (Hatje Cantz Verlag)
2008 Residency, Baer Art Centre, Iceland
2007 Residency, “The Flemish-Dutch House” deBuren, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006 Residency, “The Flemish-Dutch House” deBuren, Brussels, Belgium

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Dunkelschimmer, Galerie Commeter, Persiehl & Heine, Hamburg
2022 Kunstverein Lippe, Schloss Detmold
2019 Insgeheim, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
2019 10 Jahre Neues Museum, DCA Showroom, Berlin, Germany
2017 Insgeheim, Goethe-Institut, Paris, France
2017 In Seclusion, Ito Projektraum, Stuttgart, Germany
2016 Enclosure, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Friederike von Rauch, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
2015 Carte Blanche, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam, Germany
2015 Nachkriegsmoderne, Deutsche Oper, Berlin, Germany
2014 Snid (with Eggert Pétursson), i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 In Secret, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2013 Sleeping Beauties, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany
2012 Sleeping Beauties, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2011 New Works, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin, Germany
2010 Sites, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
2009 Friederike von Rauch, Galerie Kunstagenten, Berlin, Germany
2008 Brussels, Kabinet van Cultuur, Brussels, Belgium
2007 90daysrotterdam, Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, Brussels. Belgium
2006 Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Chez Berlin, Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico
2024 Bright Days Ahead, Galerie Commeter, Persiehl & Heine, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Chez Icke, Ortstermin, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Germany
2023 Chez Icke, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2023 Century: Idee Bauhaus, Sammlung Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany
2023 Century: Idee Bauhaus, Sammlung Schroth, Dubniczay Palace, Veszprém, Hungary
2023 Mikrokosmos Westberlin, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2022 Art & Nature, Marsano, Berlin, Germany
2021 Trauma, Triennale Brugge, Brugge, Belgium
2021 Upspace, Multiples and Series, DRJ Art Project, Berlin, Germany
2020 Moderne und Refugium, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
2020 Art Brussels @ Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2020 100xBerlin, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2019 Was vergeht – was bleibt: Photographs from the Collection of the German Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
2019 Hyper, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Century: Idee Bauhaus, DRJ, Berlin, Germany
2019 Schönheit gegen Gewalt, Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, German
2018 Substance, DRJ, Berlin, Germany
2018 Prikkels, Museum Dr. Guislain, Ghent, Belgium
2018 Decade, Dr. Julius, Berlin, Germany
2017 Dom Hans van der Laan: VAI, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Happyland, Scotty Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2017 Start Up, Multiples + Series, Dr. Julius, Berlin, Germany
2017 Architecture + Abstraction, 68projects, Berlin, Germany
2016 Formes du Silence, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
2016 Papier!, 68projects, Berlin, Germany
2016 Berlin Raum Radar, Neue West Berlin, Germany
2016 Geheimnis, Kunstverein KunstHaus Potsdam, Germany
2016 Zeitgeist, CCBB & Goethe-Institut, Brasília, Brazil
2016 Zeitgeist, CCBB & Goethe-Institut, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2016 Accrocharge, Dr. Julius I AP, Berlin, Germany
2015 In Between, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., USA
2015 Radikal Modern, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2015 Zeitgeist, CCBB & Goethe-Institut, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2015 The Pistil’s Waltz, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 10, Halle am Berghain, Berlin, Germany
2014 Traces of Creation, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
2014 Hoge Horizon Bruegelland, Stedelijk Museum Lier, Belgium
2013 Piece of Cake, Format Photography Festival, Derby, England
2013 Present Tense, Future Perfect, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2012 Ashes and Gold, MARTa, Herford, Germany
2012 Ashes and Gold, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
2011 Insight, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2011 Erfundene Künstler, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Germany
2011 Architektur + Fotografie, Architektur Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2011 Water, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Neue Werke 2010, Kommunale Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2010 Gabriele Münter Prize 2010, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2010 Gabriele Münter Prize 2010, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
2008 Interiors, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2008 Festival Voies Off des Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2008 51 Celebrates, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2006 90daysbrussels, Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Golab Grande Show, Monat der Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
2006 Été de la Photographie, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Talking Cities, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2005 White on White, Liike Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2002 KunstWinter-Berlin, Kunstwelt e.V., Berlin, Germany

COLLECTIONS

Collection, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
Collection, Bundesrat, Germany
Collection, Bundestag, Germany
Collection, Deutsche Bank, Germany
Photo Collection, Allreal, Switzerland
Collection, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany
Collection, Investitionsbank Berlin, Germany
Prussian Palaces & Gardens Foundation, Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
Royal Dutch Collection, The Netherlands
The Flemish-Dutch House deBuren, Belgium
The Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
The Hess Art Collection, Switzerland
Photo Collection, Wienerberger, Austria
Collection, EEW, Germany
Collection, Spallart, Austria
And worldwide in private collections

ARTWORK IN FEATURE FILMS

2018 The Girl in the Spider’s Web, Fede Alvarez
2015 Homeland, Season 5
2013 A Most Wanted Man, Anton Corbijn
2010 The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski
2004 Bourne Supremacy, Paul Greengrass

ARTWORK IN MUSIC

2010 Dettmann, Ostgut Ton
2013 Dettmann II, Ostgut Ton
2017 Rauch (A-Ton), Ostgut Ton

LECTURES

2024 Guest lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Fachhochschule Potsdam, Department of Design, Germany
2024 Guest lecturer, AA Visiting School Neuendorf House, Mallorca, Spain
2022 Guest lecturer, University of Applied Sciences Fachhochschule Potsdam, Department of Design, Germany
2022 Lecture on atmospheric dimensions of photography of built spaces, Die Hegge, Germany
2010 Lecture, Iceland Academy of Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2010 Lecture, The Hafnarfjörður Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland
2009 Lecture, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Symposium, Heinle & Wischer and Partner Architects, Berlin, Germany

ART FAIRS

2022 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 Photo London, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 Photo London, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Photo London, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2015 Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 Art Paris, La Galerie Particulière, Paris, France
2014 Art Rotterdam, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2013 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 Paris Photo, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2013 SP Arte, São Paulo, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2013 Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 Paris Photo, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2012 Fotofever, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2012 Viennafair, Galerie FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin, Germany
2011 Viennafair, Galerie Kunstagenten Berlin, Germany
2010 Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2010 Viennafair, Galerie Kunstagenten Berlin, Germany
2009 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Photo Madrid, Galerie Kunstagenten Berlin, Germany
2007 Art Cologne, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Photo London, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY/LOCATION SCOUTING

2009 The International, Tom Tykwer, Sony Productions
2009 Mr. Nobody, Jaco van Dormael, Pan Européenne
2009 Pandorum, Christian Alvart, Constantin Film
2009 Desert Flower, Sherry Horman, Desert Flower Filmproduktion
2008 The Reader, Steven Daldry, The Weinstein Company
2008 Speed Racer, Andy & Larry Wachowski, Warner Bros. Pictures
2005 V for Vendetta, Andy & Larry Wachowski, Warner Bros. Pictures
2005 Flightplan, Robert Schwentke, Touchstone Pictures
2004 The Bourne Supremacy, Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures
2004 Beyond the Sea, Kevin Spacey, Quality International
2004 Around the World in 80 Days, Frank Coraci, Walden Media
2002 Equilibrium, Kurt Wimmer, Miramax Films
2001 Enemy at the Gates, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mandalay Pictures

VOLUNTEER WORK

2022–Present Cultural Advisory Board, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin
2023–Present Volunteer at the Distribution Center of the BERLINER TAFEL