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Ramona Schacht lives and works in Leipzig
| 2022 – 2025 |
Meisterschülerin, Prof. Heidi Specker
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| 2016 – 2020 |
Diploma Photography, Prof. Heidi Specker Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig (HGB Leipzig) |
| 2015 – 2016 |
Master of Photography, Academy of Fine Arts
Burg Giebichenstein, Halle |
| 2012 |
one-year grant for photographic research in Namibia (NA) |
| 2009 – 2015 |
State Examination in Fine Arts, History and Religion, Universities of Essen and Greifswald |
image: Henry W. Laurisch
Collectives / Curatorial Practice
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since 2024 |
Co-founder of the artist collective HITR – Halle Institute for Textile and Spatial Production, including projects with Burg Giebichenstein Halle (Prof. Bettina Göttke-Krogmann), and the Industrial and Film Museum Wolfen |
| since 2023 |
Curatorial program in collaboration with Luca Bublik: including Reading the Spinnerei. The Work and Industrial Photography of Rita Große at Archiv Massiv, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig |
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since 2020 |
Member of the artist collective Center for Optimistic Mining Research (ZfoB), |
Artistic Teaching / Lectures / Panel Discussions (selection)
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2025 |
Lecturer in Cultural Studies: Cultural and Media History (Master’s Program), with Dr. Rico Rokitte, University of Applied Sciences Merseburg |
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Artist Talk: p.a.a.p., 14th Documentary Photography Award, with curator Matthias Gründig, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig |
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| Workshop: Weben an Industriewebstühlen, zwischen Textildesign und Kunst, with ZfoB, Atelier Savvy , Weberei Teuscher, Halle (Saale) | |
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Panel & Lecture: Textilarbeit, Design und Weiblichkeit – worüber müssen wir bis heute sprechen? with Prof. Bettina Göttke-Krogmann and Johanna Rogalla, Exhibition Connecting Threads, Archiv Massiv, Leipzig |
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2024 |
Panel & Lecture: Invisible Labor and Artistic Practice in/with the (Textile) Archive, with Luca Bublik, Forschungskolloquium Kulturanthropologie des Textilen TU Dortmund |
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Panel & Lecture: Transformationsgeschichte bearbeiten durch künstlerische Forschung, with Luca Bublik, Symposium Zukunftsdialog, Leibniz-Netzwerk Wissen für nachhaltige Entwicklung, Bergbaumuseum Bochum |
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Workshop: Archives as a Working Basis and Source of Inspiration, with Prof. Dr. Ines Schaber and Giulia Cramm (Ruhr Museum Essen), Spinnerei Leipzig |
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Panel & Lecture: Of Female Photographers and Workers, with Christina Glanz and contemporary witnesses from the GDR , Saline Museum, Halle |
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| Artist Talk: p.a.a.p., Soft Power, with curator Daniel Milnes, DAS MINSK Kunsthaus, Potsdam | |
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2023 |
Panel: Stereotypes and Attributions: Historical Representations of Female Labor in Transition,
with Alison Shea and Margit Schneeweiß (former textile
worker)
Symposium Making Industrial Labor Visible, Spinnerei Leipzig |
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Artist Talk: p.a.a.p., 14th Documentary Photography Award, with curator Matthias Gründig, Museum Folkwang, Essen |
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Lecture: Archives, Textiles and Body Politics – A Transcultural Perspective, with Mohira Mullyadjanova and Maren Niemeyer , Goethe-Institut Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Teaching: Photography and Textile – Exhibition Project,
Evening Academy, HGB Leipzig |
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Artist Talk: p.a.a.p., 14th Documentary Photography Award, with curator Matthias Gründig, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart |
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2022 |
Lecture: Fragmentation and Textiles – Work Presentation,
Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA) |
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Teaching: Photography and Textile – Exhibition Project,
Evening Academy, HGB Leipzig |
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| 2021 |
Lecture: Memory in Fragments – Body, Work and Image Politics,
Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ukraine |
Grants (selected)
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2024 |
Urbane Künste Ruhr, Guest Artist Program, Stiftung Industriedenkmalpflege und Geschichtskultur Kokerei Hansa Dortmund |
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2023 |
Prize winner of the Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis 14 founded by the Wüstenrot Stiftung |
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Artist Residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop |
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2022 |
Scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfonds |
| Working Scholarship, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen | |
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2021 |
Artist Residency in Kyiv, Goethe Institut Ukraine (UKR), UCF (Ukraine), EVZ Foundation (Berlin) |
| Scholarship VG BIldkunst, Kulturwerk Foundation | |
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2020 |
PLAYGROUND Art PRIZE 2020 (3. Award) |
| Scholarship Denkzeit, Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen | |
| 2019 |
Nomination Young Art Prize for Visual Arts, Ministry of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 2018 |
Prize winner of the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (MdbK) (Connect Leipzig) |
| 2017 – 2018 | Caspar-David-Friedrich-Stipendium, Ministry of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
| 2016 |
Artist Residency in CAMAC Art Centre, Marnay sur Seine France (FR) |
| Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow | |
| 2015 | Artist Residency in Rostock, Foundation Mecklenburg and KARO gAG |
Solo exhibitions (selected)
| 2022 | MY COVERED (FEM.)HISTORY, Spinnerei Leipzig | |
| 2021 | (FEM.) OWNERSHIP, Archiv Massiv, Spinnerei Leipzig | |
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ARCHIVE WORK, Handstand und Moral, Leipzig |
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| 2020 |
TOGHETHERNESS IS NOT A STATE, LFN, Spinnerei Leipzig |
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| 2018 |
NOT ENOUGH, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (MdbK), Leipzig (catalogue) |
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| 2017 | Zwischen mir und mir kein Unterschied, Handstand und Moral, Leipzig | |
| 2015 | Hand-Werk, NDR Studio, Greifswald |
Exhibitions (selected)
| 2025 |
Zwischen Erfinden und Erfassen. Duisburger Innenhafen, Urbane Künste Ruhr/ Ruhrtriennale |
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CONNECTING THREADS – Textilproduktion und die Arbeit an Bildern, Archiv Massiv Spinnerei |
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Fotografie Leipzig, Freunde aktueller Kunst, Kunstverein Zwickau |
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14. Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis der Wüstenrot Stiftung, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig |
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| 2024 |
14. Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis der Wüstenrot Stiftung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (cat.) |
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Soft Power, DAS MINSK Potsdam (cat.) |
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| 14. Fotografie Förderpreis, Haus am Kleistpark Berlin (cat.) | ||
| Romantic, Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop | ||
| 2023 |
14. Fotografie Förderpreis, Museum Folkwang Essen (cat.).
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Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt |
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win/ win, Halle14, Leipzig |
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| 2022 | We are, Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg | |
| 2021 | Allied, Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Ukraine (UKR) | |
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Diversity, Kulturquartier Mecklenburg-Strelitz |
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| 2020 |
PLAYGROUND Art PRIZE, Galerie VON&VON, Nürnberg |
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| 1937–2017: Von Entarteter Kunst zu Entstellter Kunst, HGB Galerie, Leipzig | ||
| 2019 |
Preview. Fotografie in Leipzig. Morgen, Kunsthalle Sparkasse, Leipzig (cat.) |
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Hier & Jetzt – Young Art Prize for Visual Arts, Schloss Plüschow (cat.) |
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| 2018 |
Stipendiat*innenausstellung, Schloss Plüschow (cat.) |
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| Pictures for Donald, Werkschauhalle Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig | ||
| 2017 | Masse macht Kollektiv, Bistro 21, Kunstverein gegenwart, Leipzig | |
| Positiones of the Portrait, Kunstverein Rostock | ||
| 2016 | Hazy Borders of the heart, ACUD Berlin | |
| Plan F, Ratshof Halle |
Collections
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Kunstfonds der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), Dresden
Museum Folkwang, Essen |