Prof. Nora Bibel
Professor Campus Berlin, R. 3.09B.A. Graphic Design and Visual Communication
M.A. Communication Design and Creative Strategies
M.A. Visual and Media Anthropology
Background
Nora Bibel was born in Munich in 1971 and moved to Berlin in 1999, after graduating with a Diploma in Photography from the University of Bielefeld. Bibel travels internationally for her work as a freelance artist and photographer in the field of portraiture and documentary and also teaches photography at Media University's Berlin campus, where she became a professor in 2015.
Bibel’s main focus is the interplay and impact of social change and personal fates mostly explored in her portrait photography. Although her pictures appear to be quiet, concentrated and precise images of everyday scenes, they are in fact staged moments quasi suspended in time, choreographed by the photographer in collaboration with her chosen subjects.
In 2006, Bibel became a member of the agency laif. In 2011, her book „Heimat – Que Huong“ was published by Kerber. In recent years, she realized several projects in Asia with the funding of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), VG Bild-Kunst and the Goethe Institute.
Her work has been exhibited worldwide in solo and group shows.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 1999-2000 | Complementary Studies of Communication Design, University of Art, Berlin-Weissensee, Germany | |
| 1997 | Studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Faculty of Photography, Australia | |
1993-1999 | Graduated in Photography and Media, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany, Diploma (Dipl.Des.) | |
| 1992-1993 | Studied Psychology, University of Trier, Germany |
Work Experience
| 2016 | Photography workshop at the 19th International Dresden Summer Academy for Visual Arts | |
Since 2015 | Professor for Photography and Film at Media University Berlin | |
2014 | Workshops “Subjective Photography: What means Democracy from your personal view?”, Yangon und Mandalay, Myanmar | |
| 2009 | Workshop at Winter Academy 4: ‘Lets say I!’, Theatre at the Parkaue, State Theatre for Children and Young People in Berlin and House of Theatre Gessnerallee, Zurich, Switzerland | |
2009 | Workshop at Pottfiction, Camp 1, ‘The World Outside My Front Door’. Ruhr 2010, Gelsenkirchen, Germany | |
| Since 2007 | Part-time Lecturer for Photography at Best Sabel Vocational School for Design, Berlin, Germany |
Photography and artistic career
2015 | Artist in Residence, Goethe Institute, Trivandrum, India | |
2014 | bengaloREsidency, Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore, India Freelens Foundation, Hamburg, Myanmars Driving Force, Project funding Artist in Residence, New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar | |
2013 | VG Bild-Kunst Collecting Society for Visual Arts, Bonn: Grant | |
| 2010 | ifa, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Trien lam anh, An Dinh Palast, Hué, Vietnam, project funding | |
2008 | Descubrimientos PhotoEspana08, Complejo el Aguila, Madrid, Spain | |
| Since 2006 | Member of laif agency for photos and reportages | |
| Since 2006 | Member of FREELENS e.V. | |
| Since 1999 | Freelance Photographer regularly on assignment for leading magazines, agencies and companies, mainly in the fields of travel, documentary and portraiture. www.nora-bibel.de |
Publications and Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | “Freezing frames of Chala”, Streetexhibition, Trivandrum, Indien |
| “Family comes first”, Townhall Tempelhof, Berlin | |
| “Myanmar´s driving force”, Tempelhof Museum, Berlin | |
| “Wildfang”, Berolina Gallery, Townhall Mitte, Berlin | |
| 2015 | “Wildfang”, Jugendamt Lichtenberg, Berlin |
| 2014 | ‘Heimat - Que Huong’, Alabama, Sir, F/Stop Festival, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012 | ‘Heimat - Que Huong’, Vietnamese German Cultural Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam, presented by the German Embassy in Vietnam, with the support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) |
| ‘Heimat - Que Huong’, Museum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany | |
| ‘Heimat - Que Huong’, Showroom of the Days of Photography at the House of Literature, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| 2011 | ‘Heimat - Que Huong’, book launch, ifa-Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| 2002 | ‘Transition’, Goethe Institute, Belgrade, Serbia |
| 1999 | Diploma Exhibition, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany |
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
| 2017 | Show your darlings II: Darkness, Atelier Sabine Wild, Berlin, Germany |
| 2016 | Faculty exhibition Summer Academy for Fine Arts, Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany |
| VIS Á VIS, Art Photography by Nora Bibel and Julia Gaisbacher, Bautzner 69, Dresden, Germany | |
| 2015 | ‘Wiesbadener Fototage’, SV Insurance, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| ‘frei sehen’, Gallery Tempelhof Museum, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2014 | ‘Family comes first’, 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore, India |
| ‘Messages’, 6th European Month of Photography, Strahler, Berlin, Germany | |
| ‘Democracy?’, New Zero Art Space, Yangon, Myanmar | |
| ‘Art Exhibition 3+1’, Goethe Institute, Yangon, Myanmar | |
| 2013 | ‘Dozenten Expo’, Best Sabel, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | ‘The View of the Other’, 5th European Month of Photography, Artificial Image, Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 | ‘Trien lam anh’, An Dinh Palace, Hué, Vietnam |
| 2009 | ‘Childhood Stories’, white-BOX Gallery, Munich, Germany |
| 2008 | ‘Salt’, Art Gallery Villa Kobe, Halle, Germany |
| ‘The Assumption of Values’, 3rd European Month of Photography, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2007 | ‘The Assumption of Values’, Art Gallery Bocholt, Germany |
| 2006 | ‘Club Photography’, Gruner&Jahr, Hamburg and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany |
| ‘Days of Photography’, Museum Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany | |
| ‘Big Art Show’, Art Gallery Villa Kobe, Halle, Germany | |
| ‘Kaunas Photo Days 06’, Lithuania | |
| ‘2nd European Month of Photography’, GOLAB, Berlin, Germany | |
| ‘Floating Series’, Schalter, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2002 | ‘East of 30 degrees east’, Photo Forum, Innsbruck, Austria |
| ‘Ive met Kylie’, America House, Bielefeld, Germany | |
| 2001 | ‘Platform for New Photography’, Praterinsel, Munich, Germany |
| ‘Aenne Biermann Prize’, Museum for Applied Arts Gera, Germany | |
| ‘Fascination Technology’, [k3] at Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2000 | ‘Reinhart Wolf Award’, Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg, Germany |
| ‘New Photography in Berlin, Photography Now’, Berlin and Pixelpark, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1998 | ‘Pictures of Salzwedel’, group show, Jenny Marx Museum, Salzwedel, Germany |
| 1997 | ‘underexposure’, group show, RMIT Union Gallery, Melbourne, Australia |
Monographs
Family Comes First, The Green Box, 2017
Heimat - Que Huong (Homeland) with an essay by Dr. Ingo Schöningh and Kristina Stang, Kerber, 2011
Im Horizont des Unendlichen with an essay by Kai Ehlers, self-published, 1999
Bibliography
| 2016 | Darkness, Atelier Sabine Wild, Berlin (catalogue) |
| 2015 | Wiesbaden Photo Days, heimat X, Photowork e.V., Wiesbaden (catalogue) |
| 2014 | bangaloREsidency, Bangalore, India (catalogue) |
| frei sehen, entwerter/oder, Uwe Warnke Publisher, Berlin | |
| 6th European Month of Photography, Kehrer, Heidelberg Berlin (catalogue) | |
| Get lucky!, f/stop Festival, Leipzig | |
| 2012 | Peoplealbum 02, seltmann & söhne, Lüdenscheid |
| The View Of The Other, Michael Maria Mџller, ©-editions (catalogue) | |
| 2011 | PHOTONEWS Newspaper for Photography, Denis Brudna, Hamburg, Nr 11/11 |
| 2010 | An Dinh – Hue`s Hidden Pearl, Federal Foreign Office of Germany (book) |
| 2009 | Busted, pH PowerHouse Magazine, Issue 5, New York (magazine) |
| 2008 | Descubrimientos PHE, PhotoEspana, Madrid (catalogue) |
| 2006 | Self Perception – Stepping into the Picture, Days of Photography Darmstadt e.V., Darmstadt (catalogue) |
| Big Art Show Halle (Saale), Kunst Halle e.V., Halle (Saale) (catalogue) | |
| berliner 11, values, Berlin (magazine) | |
| 2004 | selected views No.6, Bensheim (catalogue) |
| berliner 06, wall to wall, Berlin (magazine) | |
| 2003 | Übersee 3, Summertime, Die Gestalten Publishing House, Berlin (magazine) |
| berliner 04, home, berliner, Berlin (magazine) | |
| 2001 | places to go, people to see, Die Gestalten Publishing House, Berlin (book) |