Paula Muhr

1977 born in Subotica, Serbia
Lives in Berlin, Germany

Education

1998-2002    BA in photography, Academy of Arts BK, Belgrade, Serbia
1999-2004   Studies of General Literature & Theory of Literature, Philological Faculty, Belgrade 2003-2006   MA in photography, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2006-2009   Master Class Studies at the Academy of Visual Arts
(Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst) in Leipzig

Awards, Grants and Residencies

2009
__ Production residency by Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes at CNA, Centre national de l'audivisuel, Luxembourg

2008
__ Nominated for"Exhibition of the Year Award" within Month of Photography, Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for the solo exhibition "On Show"

2007
__ Winner of "sittcomm.award 2007", photography prize for Central & Eastern European artists
__ Shortlisted for "Ricardo Pezza European Photography Prize"
__ First award at the International Photography Competition "Trust Me" within "F/Stop", International Photography Festival in Leipzig, Germany

2005
__ Third award at "Terminal00", International Arts Festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia
__ Production grant of the Secretary of Culture Belgrad, Serbia
__ Pro Helvetia (Swiss Cultural Programme) grant for the curatorial project "Yugoline"
__ Resident Artist at Baodo im Nil, Graz, Austria

Solo Exhibitions

2009
__ "Highest Common Factor" (with L. Bisagno), Centre national de l'audivisuel, Luxembourg
__ "Etat normal", Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig, Germany

2008
__ "Identite(s)", within Lyon Septembre de la photographie 2008, Galerie Caroline Vachet (with P. Blondeau) and Modernart Cafe, Lyon, France 
__ "On Show", Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
__ "Golden Boys", Kunstverein Leipzig, Germany

2007
__ "Tata", Lumen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
__ "Serbian Beauty", Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany

2006
__ "Absence", MXEspai, Barcelona, Spain
__ "Fetish", Gallery of Icons, City Museum, Prilep, Macedonia

2005
__ "Casanova", Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Kevin", DOB Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Absence", SULUJ Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Oasis", Cultural Centre Tocak, Skopje, Macedonia

2004
__ "Ideal Place", Baodo im Nil, Graz, Austria
__ "Ideal Place", within Balkan Fest, Totalkunst, The Forest, Edinburgh, UK

2003
__ "Fetish", SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Fetish", Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania

2002
__ "Intimate Album", Artget Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia
__ "One Possible Portrait", Museum of the Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Ripida", within April Meetings Festival, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia

2001
__ "Transience", Gallery of the Open University, Subotica, Serbia

1999
__ "Unbereaved", Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Targets", Paleta Gallery, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Serbia

Group Exhibitions

2009
__ "Pursuit of Happiness", Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands
__ "Recycled", Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
__ "Future Together Now", Konfuzius Institute, Leipzig, Germany
__ "Tickle Attack", Nei Liicht Galerie, Dudelange, Luxembourg
__ "Chahun son Histoire", Galerie Caroline Vachet, Lyon, France
__ "Durchdringen", Kunstgarten, Graz, Austria
__ "Meisterschüler 2009", HGB Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
__ "International Photo Festival", Lodz, Poland
__ "Ehrliche Haut", Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

2008
__ "Photomeetings Luxembourg 2008", Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
__ "We Know the Taste but not the Smell", Galerie Baer, Dresden, Germany
__ "Tickle Attack, Backlight 08", 8th International Photographic Triennial, TR1, Tampere, Finland, Fluss, Wolkersdorf, Austria and Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy
__ "We Will Always Be There For You", Kunsthaus Dresden
__ "6th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts", MAMAC, Liege, Belgium
__ "Riccardo Pezza European Photography Prize", Trienale di Milano, Milan, Italy
__ "Das dritte Ohr", UFO Galerie, Halle/Saale, Germany
__ "Europa neurotisch", Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
__ "Das dritte Ohr", UFO Galerie, Halle/Saale, Germany
__ "Konstruierte Wirklichkeiten", Das Slowakische Institut, Berlin, Germany
__ "Places and Manners of Worship", 20th International Meetings of Photography Thessaloniki, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki, Greece
__ "Frauenportäts", Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Kunsthaus Luebeck, Germany

2007
__ "So jung kommen wir nicht mehr zusammen", Pasinger Fabrik, München
__ "Photophobia", within International Biennial of Photography Photomania, The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts Kaliningrad, Russia
__ "n/osztalgia", Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin, Germany
__ "Contemporary Balkan Art Week", Westbourne Studios, London, GB
__ "Red Dawns Festival", Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
__ "Viennafair 2007", Vienna, Austria
__ "f/stop, First International Photography Festival", Leipzig, Germany
__ "Festival Voies Off 2007", Arles, France

2006
__ "Eine Frage (nach) der Geste", The Opera House, Leipzig, Germany
__ "x-mas fair", 00130Gallery, Helsinki, Finnland
__ "Erosion", Klaipeda, Lithuania
__ "FONA", Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia
__ "The Great Takeover", Atelier Dolce Vita, Brussels, Belgium
__ "Eye2Eye", Collaboration of women photographers from 3 continents, V_art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
__ "++", Gallery of Contemporary Art, Smederevo, Serbia
__ "8th International Festival of Photography", Athens, Greece

2005
__ "Aktuelle Fotografie aus Serbien", Fotohof Galerie, Salzburg, Austria
__ "NE(A)T", Women on Women, Kogart House, Budapest, Hungary
__ "38th Winter salon", Herceg Novi, Montenegro
__ "Soho in Ottakring", Artists Curate Artists, Basement, Vienna, Austria
__ "Yugoline", Esc im Labor, Graz, Austria
__ "Month of Photography", Fournos Centre for Digital Arts, Athens, Greece
__ "Terminal00", International Balkan Arts Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
__ "Photonic Moments", Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
__ "10th International Biennial", Milena Pavlovic Barilli Gallery, Pozarevac, Serbia

2004
__ "Continental Breakfast", 45th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia
__ "Family and Society", International Meetings of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
__ "Marubi Photography Exhibition", National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
__ "BELEF 04", Belgrade Summer Festival, Serbia
__ "(Re)Visited", Basement gallery, Vienna, Austria
__ "Danube Streaming Show", quartier21/ Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria

2003
__ "44th October Salon", Positiv/Negativ, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Photography", Duplex Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
__ "Balkanize it!", Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria & Media Nox, Maribor, Slovenia
__ "Civilians in Uniform", Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Identity and Difference", Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
__ "BELEF 03", Belgrade Summer Festival, Serbia

2002
__ "Time Codes", 5th International Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia
__ "Art-Reality-Action", City Museum, Subotica, Serbia

2001
__ "Real Presence", Museum of 25th May, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Model of Life", Month of Photography, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Serbia

2000
__ "New Serbian Photography", SKC Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
__ "Yugoslavia 2000", Fiera di Roma, Rome, Italy

1999
__ "New F", Museum of Contemporay Art, Belgrade, Serbia

Bibliography

Books__
__ PAULA MUHR - ODSUSTVO / ABSENCE, selection of photographs and texts by Jovan Cekic and Maja Stankovic, Edition Photo Artget, Monographs 5½, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2005
__ CIVILIANS IN UNIFORM, Stichtung Alia, Amsterdam; REX, B92, Belgrade, 2003
__ MONOGRAPHY ABOUT THE CALENDARS OF NEW ART AND CONTEMPORARY LIFE 1993-2003, ed. Nada Rajicic and Djordje Milekic, Publikum, Belgrade, 2002

Catalogues__
__ KUNST DES ALTERNS, NGBK, Berlin and Kunsthaus Dresden, 2008
__ SO JUNG KOMMEN WIR NICHT MEHR ZUSAMMEN, exhibition catalogue, HGB Leipzig and Pasinger Fabrik Munich, 2007
__ TERRITOIRES, 6th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VISUAL ARTS, exhibition catalogue, Liege, 2008
__ SECOND CITIES, photography project, Kosice, Slovakia, 2007
__ 1st INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL LEIPZIG 2007, catalogue, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Leipzig, 2007
__ REMONT Gallery Annual Catalogue for 2005, Remont Independent Artistic Association, Belgrade, 2006
__ YUGOLINE, CAPA, Graz, 2005
__ CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST - 45TH OCTOBER SALON, exhibition catalogue, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2004
__ POSITIVE/NEGATIVE - 44th OCTOBER SALON, exhibition catalogue, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, 2003
__ IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE, A Selection of Contemporary Serbian Photography, exhibition catalogue, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade, 2003

Portfolios, articles and works in magazines__
__ Leipziger Volkszeitung, K. Vokoun: "Ironisch, kritisch, realistisch", 25.03.2008
__ Antilipseis, #11, "Places and Manners of Worship", Thessaloniki, 2008
__ PHOTONEWS, Zeitung für Fotografie, Horst Kloever: "Vorwärts und nicht vergessen... Der Monat der Fotografie in Bratislava 2007", Dezember 2007, Januar 2008
__ SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, (Muenchen Kultur), Christoph Wiedemann: "Wie sich das Leben verabschiedet", 15./16.12.2007
__ PHOTONEWS, Zeitung für Fotografie, D. B.: "Leipziger Allerlei, F/ Stop ein Festival in Leipzig", September 2007
__ CAPRICIOUS #3, "New Photography", Amsterdam, 2005
__ FOTOGRAF #5, Vaclav Hajek: "Paula Miklosevic: Re-constructing Space in Portrait", Brno, 2005
__ THE PURPLE JOURNAL #3, Pariz, 2005
__ BALKON #7-8, Ivanyi Bianca: "A nok metamorfózisa(i)", Budapest, july-august 2005
__ "Gegen den Anstand und mit Charme" - "Aktuelle Fotografie aus Serbien" in Salzburg. , Der Standard, 15.07.2005
__ IMAGO 20, Goran Malic: "Absence by Paula Miklosevic Muhr", Bratislava, summer 2005
__ IDEA arta+societate #20, Cristian Nae: "The Virtues of Proximity: Vector Gallery, Iasi, 2004-2005", Kluj, 2005

Curating and Writing__
__ 2002-2005 Curator at the Photographic Gallery »Circus«, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade
__ from 2002 Writes reviews for IMAGO - Magazine for Photography in Central and Eastern Europe
__ from 2005 Member of the Editorial Board of the IMAGO magazine