Laura J. Padgett
born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Education
1994 Masters in Art History and Aesthetics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
1990-92 Lecturer in Photography and Art Theory at the Art and Design University, Offenbach am Main
1983-85 Film- und Photography Studies with Peter Kubelka and Herbert Schwöbel at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
1976-80 Painting Studies at Pratt Institute of Art and Design (BFA), Brooklyn, New York
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019 Open Equations, Galerie-Peter-Sillem, Frankfurt am Main
2017 somehow real, Museum Giersch der Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt
2016 Confined Space, Galerie Rautenstrauch, zu Gast im Onomato Künstlerverein, Düsseldorf
Many Told Tales, Galerie Straihammer & Seidenschwann, Vienna
2015 Confined Space, Heussenstammstiftung, Frankfurt am Main
2014 MONUMENT, 18. Künstlerfahnenfestival, Eppingen
2012 Standardeinstellung, Neuer Giessener Kunstverein
2011 frames of reference, Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2008 seeing things, The Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (Catalog)
holding onto things, Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2006 slow motion, Gallery Odakule, Istanbul
2005 inside-out, Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2004 vorübergehende Ortschaften, Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2003 conversation pieces, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (Catalog)
improbabilities, Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2001 Raumaufnahmen, Paul Gallery, Bremerhaven
morning glories, AusstellungsHalle Schulstrasse 1A, Frankfurt am Main
1999 Marginalia, Goethe Institut, Warschau
ein Moment der Klarheit – an enlightened Moment, Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar
Foto-Text-Arbeiten, KunstRaum – Klaus Hinrichs, Trier
1998 systematische Erneuerungen, dirty windows, Berlin
1996 common occurrences, KunstRaum – Klaus Hinrichs, Trier
1994 Telltales, Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822, Frankfurt am Main (Catalog)
Group Exhibitions, Film Screenings (Selection)
2020 CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Francisco Cinematheque
Die Niche – A Missing Link, Augmented Reality Projekt für die
Luminale 2020, Frankfurt am Main
2019 Remake, Frauenfilmfestival, Kintothek Asta Nielsen, Frankfurt am Main
Bollwerk – Zeitgenössische Kunst in den Dillenburger Kasematten, Dillenburg
Our House. Festival der Selbstverwaltung, Kurzfilmprogramm, Pupille, Goethe-Universität
Frankfurt am Main
2018 Les Rencontres Internationales, Cité, Paris and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Media City Film Festival Windsor, Canada / Detroit, MI
IAPT PHOTOBOOK: 2018 Koraï Project Space, Nicosia, Cyprus organized and curated by The International Association of Photography and Theory
Kinothek-Asta Nielsen, Film Screening SOLITAIRE with the documentary “Hannah Arendt in Conversation with Günter Gaus”
Städelschule 200 years 200 artists, Galerie Perpétuel, Frankfurt am Main
2017 LOKALE GRUPPE Annual Exhibition of the Darmstädter Sezession, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
2016 MADE FOR AROLSEN – Reise nach Arglosen, Museum Bad Arolsen
Schnitt-Schnitt, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (Collage and Film – Screening)
2015 Still, The Still Life in Contemporary Photography, Traveling Exhibit Lower Austria Society for Art and Culture (Catalog)
32. Kasseler Documentary and Video Festival, Kassel (Catalog
Movie Night, Ethan Pettit Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2014 Alle Tage wieder – let them swing!, Kino Arsenal, Berlin (Catalog)
The Face of the City, Stadtvisionale, evangelische Akademie, Frankfurt am Main
2013 Give me five!, New Acquistions in the Graphics Collection, Städel Museum
Eine Winter-Reise, Galerie Seitz&Partner, Berlin
No-Men’s Land, Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg
Am Anfang war das Wort…?, Quadrart Artspace, Dornbirn, Austria
2012 „wie gemalt“ (“picture perfect”), Kunstmuseum Ahlen (Catalog)
Himmelüber, Römer9, Frankfurt am Main
Personal Choice, curated by Peter Weiermair, AusstellungsHalle 1A, Frankfurt am Main
Speaking of Reality, mit Marianna Christofides, TheArtSpace, Düsseldorf
2011 Luis Camnitzer’s: The Last Book (contribution), New York Public Library
2010 „wie gemalt“, (“picture perfect”) Kunsthalle Erfurt
2009 Books, Books, Books, Nothing but Books, Ursula Blickle Foundation (Catalog)
OBERFIN, Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt am Main
Kleine Formate, Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2008 Arch/Spaces, Swiss Museum of Architecture, Basel
Pharos = 10, The Power Station, Nicosia Municipal Arts Center, Nicosia
A book for a lifetime., Artspace und the Goethe-Centre, Nicosia
2007 Unverzagt! The Hotel Balzer, Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, Bad Ems (Catalog)
Documenta 12. Plattform, in collaboration with Archplus
Räume – Kraftfelder, Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2006 Lightcone Preview Show, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Heaven, London Biennale
2005 Stabwechsel, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, CH
Wohnen, „real to reel“ Film program at the Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main
Kleine Formate, Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2004 Relating to Photography, Highlights from Private Collections,
Photography Forum International, Frankfurt am Main
Querschnitt_Sezione Trasversale, GAS Art Gallery, Turin
Gallery Seitz & Partner, Berlin
2003 D’Après, GAS Art Gallery, Turin (Catalog)
Kleine Formate, Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt am Main
2002 Desire, Gallerie d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (Catalog)
2001 Recovered and Restored Film Festival (S-8 Section), Cineteca di Bologna
Filme aus Frankfurt, Künstlerhaus Kino, Wien
Mega Pearls, Haus am Kleistpark und Gallery weisser elefant, Berlin (CD-ROM)
Desire, Ursula Blickle Foundation
2000 Heimat Kunst, House of World Cultures, Berlin (Catalog)
1999 Die Liebe zu den Dingen, (For the Love of Objects) Kino Arsenal, Berlin
pleasure principle, (props), Kunstamt Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
Focus Trier, Städtisches Museum Simeonstift, Trier
1997 essential byproducts, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
fototexttextfoto, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Fotomuseum Winterthur (Catalog)
1996 fototexttextfoto, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bozen / Bolzano
Prospect 96 – Photography in Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein, (Catalog)
1994 Art in Frankfurt, Museum of Modern Art – Schirn Kunsthalle (Catalog)
4. International Week of Experimental Film, Madrid
1992 Listen im Portikus, Portikus (Catalog)
43. International Film Festival, Film-Video, Montecatini Terme)
Viper Filmfestival, Bern
1991 37. International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen (Catalog)
Residencies, Grants, Awards
2017 Marielies Hess-Kunstpreis 2017
2013 Artist Contacts Residency in Lebanon, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa),
Stuttgart
2008 Photography Residency, Dover Arts Development, Dover, England
2004 Artists in Residence in Burgdorf, Switzerland from the Frankfurt Cultural Office
2001-2002 Studio Residency in London from the Hessian Cultural Foundation
1996/97 Studio Residency at Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
1978 Ford Foundation Grant in Painting
Work in Public Collections
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Städel Museum, Graphics Collection
DZ BANK Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Wiesbaden
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam
Museum of Modern Art, Museion, Bozen
Dommuseum, Mainz
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Museum Simeonstift, Trier
The Sir John Soane Museum, London
The State of Rheinland Pfalz
The State of Hessen
The City of Frankfurt
Teaching Positions
WS 2019/2020- present Lecturer in Film at the Goethe-Universtiy, Frankfurt am Main
WS 2018/2019 Flying Faculty at the German-Jordanian-University, Amman, lectures in Photography, Art History and Design Visualisation
WS 2017/2018 Flying Faculty at the German-Jordanian-University, Amman, lectures in Photography, Art History and Design Visualisation
2010- present Lecturer in Photography and Art History at the Hochschule RheinMain, Wiesbaden
WS2016/2017 – Lecturer in Found Footage – Film Editing, University of Paderborn
2015 Rankin Visiting Scholar, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2003-2007 Lecturer in Photography, Film, and Art Theory at the Art and Design University, Offenbach am Main
2005 Lecturer in analog and digital Film Editing and Film History, University of Paderborn
2001/2002 Lecturer in Art Criticism and Theory at the Art Academy of Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz
since 2000 Contributing Editor of the Film Journal Frauen und Film
1994-99 Lecturer in Photography at the Bauhaus University, Weimar
Guest Lectures / Artists’ Talks
2018 “Forming Content: Divisions, Disruptions and Expectations”, Lecture and Workshop at the Lebanese American University, Beirut
2015 „Photographing without distraction“, Frei Kunstakademie Frankfurt am Main
[en]visioning the interior, Lebanese American University, Beirut / Byblos
2014 Artist’s Talk in conjunction with the Phd Programm
„The Photographic Dispositif“, Hochschule der Künste, Braunschweig
2013 Lebanese American University, Beirut / Byblos
2012 Summer Academy (Workshop), Photography Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
2011 Lebanese American University, Beirut
2011 Summer Academy (Workshop), Photography Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
2010 01. International Conference on Photography and Theory, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, 2010
2009 The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
2008 Summer Academy, Photography Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
Marta Hoepffner Society for Photography, Hofheim am Main
ARTALK, in conversation with the curator Denise Robinson Nicosia, Cyprus
Symposium: Film as Material – Filmic Experiments: Women Filmmakers in the Bundesrepublik, 17.-18. July 2008 at Paderborn University
2006 1. International Photography Biennial, Istanbul, On Photography and Text
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main
2004 Hochschule der Künste, Braunschweig
2003 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main
2000 Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth, UK
Yale Art College, Wrexham, UK
Mount Ida College, Boston, USA
Public Art Projects
Deutsche Flugsicherung, Langen, 2010
Robert-Bosch-Hospital, Stuttgart, 2010
New Justice Department, Darmstadt, 2006
Ministry of Justice, Wiesbaden, 2002
Civic Center, Frankfurt am Main, 1995