Paula Muhr
Born in 1977 in Serbia. Lives in Berlin, Germany.
Education
2006-2009 Master Class Studies (Meisterschuelerin) at the Academy of Visual Arts
(Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst) in Leipzig
2003-2006 MA in photography, University of Arts, Faculty of Applied Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
1999-2004 Studied General Literature & Theory of Literature, Philological Faculty, Belgrade
1998-2002 BA in photography, Academy of Arts BK, Belgrade, Serbia
Awards, Grants and Residencies
2011
- Fotonoviembre 2011, Autores in seleccion, Tenerife, Spain
2009
- Production residency by Pépinières Européennes pour jeunes artistes at CNA, Centre national de l'audivisuel, Luxembourg
- Mangelos Award production grant, Serbia
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 within "F/Stop", International Photography Festival in Leipzig, Germany
2005
- Production grant of the Secretary of Culture Belgrad, Serbia
- Pro Helvetia (Swiss Cultural Programme) project grant
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
- "Paula Muhr - Photographs/Videos", Petra Rietz Salon Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2011
- "Females under Tension", within Fotonoviembre, Authors in Selection, Sala de Arte Contemporaneo, El Tragaluz Digital, Tenerife, Spain
- "On Show", Forum der Kunstfreunde, Bayer Pharma, Berlin, Germany
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
- "Mutations III", Public Images - Private Views, European Month of Photography, Carres Rotondes, Luxemburg
- "Ausloeser", Fotografie-Konzepte aus Leipzig, Kunsthalle Leipzig, Germany
- "Lab East", V8 Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne, Germany
- "Sentai Denki", Chung Shan Creative Hub, Taipei City, Taiwan
- "Neue Bilder vom Alter(n)", Staedtischen Galerie Isny im Allgaeu, Germany & Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt, Brussels, Belgium
2010
- "Mutations III", Public Images - Private Views, MUSA –Museum auf Abruf, Vienna
- "Now, Time, Told", Darmstaedter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany
- "DB Mangelos Award Produced Works", Remont Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
- "Kunstvlaai / Artpie", Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- "Neue Bilder vom Alter(n)", vhs Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
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
- "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
- "Frauenportraits", 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
- "Erosion", Klaipeda, Lithuania
- "FONA", Festival of New Art, Rijeka, Croatia
- "++", 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
- "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
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
1999
- "New F", Museum of Contemporay Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Other Activities
2011 Lecturer in Photography at the Brand Academy - University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
2002 - 2009 Writes reviews for IMAGO - Magazine for Photography in Central and Eastern Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005 - 2009 Member of the Editorial Board of the IMAGO magazine, Bratislava, Slovakia
2002 - 2005 Curator at the Photographic Gallery "Circus", Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade