Katharina Sieverding

Katharina Sieverding, *1944, lives and works in Düsseldorf
Katharina Sieverding is one of the internationally renowned artists who, from an early age on, renewed the artistic potential of photography with extraordinary pictorial inventions and an innovative media art practice. Sieverding’s “Deutschland wird deutscher” (Germany is becoming more german) was created in the time of the just reunited Germany and the 1992 racist attacks on the Central Reception Office for asylum applications and a hostel for former Vietnamese contract workers in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. With regard to the forthcoming refoundation of the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty, “Die Zeit” noted at the time that the German interest in this cross-border community has continued to decline. “Poor Germany”, Roger de Weck begins his article, its striking headline: “Germany becomes more German” was appropriated by Sieverding in the twinkling of an eye for her photographic work and became a synonym for
questions of German identity: What does Germany do and what should Germany be?
Should one be afraid of Germany? What are the moral concepts of the nation? And in which direction is the new German Republic developing?
If one considers the murders of the NSU and other right-wing extremist acts of violence and the language using
“Flyspeck” for the atrocities of the Third Reich since then, then this work is more topical today than ever.
“Deutschland wird deutscher”, 1992 (2020)
b/w photography
total approx. 260 x 360 cm, 3-parts