Biografie

Thekla Ehling was born in Bielefeld, Germany. After doing an apprenticeship as a bookbinder, she studied Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund and at the College of Fine Arts in Limerick, Ireland.

Her photo books ‘Sommerherz’ and ‘Vergizsmeinnicht’ are published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. Both books have been nominated for the German Photo Book Award in 2009 and 2012.

She works for magazines in Germany and abroad and is represented by the Galerie Robert Morat in Berlin and by the Agency Focus in Hamburg.

In 2014 she was one of the members who founded the The PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne.

Thekla Ehling  lives in Cologne.

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Clients

Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
brand eins
brand eins Neuland
Brigitte
Chrismon
Constantin Film
Daylight & Architecture
De Volkskrant
Der Spiegel
Die Weltwoche
Die Zeit

Eltern
Eltern Family
Essen & Trinken
Foam Magazin
Fons Hickmann m23
Greenpeace Magazin
Geo

Geo Lino
Häflinger&Wagner
Max Joseph Magazin
Monopol

Monocle
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Neon
Nido
Little Sark Entertainment
Living at home
Manager Magazin
Medica Mondiale
Ohrenkuss
Photonews
Rat Pack Filmproduktion
ROB-ERT
Senator Film
Siemens

Spiegel Wissen

Stern

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Süddeutsche Magazin

Taz

Theo

The Weekender

Werde Magazin
Werte Magazin


Westside Filmproduktion
Wüstefilm

Zeit Campus

Zeit Leo
Zentralbüro Köln
Zukunft
Velux
Zum goldenen Hirschen

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Selected Exhibitions

2019   SK Stiftung, Köln, Pänz und Bran (GA)

2017   NRW Forum, Düsseldorf ,  100 years nikon‘ (GE)

V&A Museum of Childhood, London, ,Tazipan‘ (GE)
Kunstverein Leverkusen, ‚elf uhr elf‘ (GE)
2016    V8//The PhotoBookMuseum, International Photoszene Cologne, ‘Sommerherz, später’ (SE)
Artarea Gallery, Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Georgia, ‘Sommerherz, später’ (GE)
2015    Galerie Axel Obiger, Berlin, ‘Familie – Erinnerung’ (GE)
2014    MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen ‘elf uhr elf’ (GE)
Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, ‘Unsichtbare Dinge!’ (GE)
Co-foundation of The PhotoBookMuseum, Edition Carlswerk, Cologne, since then conception of projects, curating and supervising exhibitions in Germany and abroad, i.a. in Oslo (2015) and Krakow (2015)
Galerie Laif, Cologne, ‘elf uhr elf’ (GE)
2013    International Welde Art Award for Photography, Mannheim (GE)
2012    Galerie Robert Morat, Berlin, ‘Vergiszmeinnicht’ (SE)
ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, ‘Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia/Germany’ (GE)
Stilwerk, Hamburg, brand eins, ‘Wo Wirtschaft spielt’ (GE)
‘Vergiszmeinnicht’ nominated for the German Photo Book Award 2012, part of travelling exhibition ‘Nominiert 2012’ (GE)
2011    Städtische Galerie Schloss Borbeck, Essen, ‘Vergiszmeinnicht’ (SE)
2010    The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, ‘Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia/Germany’ (GE)
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, ‘Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia/Germany’ (GE)
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, ‘Sommerherz’ (GE)
Photo Festival Warsaw, ‘Sommerherz’ (SE)
2009    Randall Scott Gallery, New York, ‘Sommerherz’ (SE)
‘Sommerherz’ selected for the Contemporary Book Award at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles (GE)
FotoGrafia – festival Internazionale di Roma (GE)
Lindner& Schildkowsy Galerie, Münster, ‘Sommerherz’ (SE)
2008    Photo Miami, presented by Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg (GE)
‘Sommerherz’ nominated for the German Photo Book Award 2009, part of travelling exhibition ‘Nominiert 2009’ (GE)
Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, ‘Sommerherz’ (SE)
The New York Photo Festival, ‘Sommerherz’, exhibition at Foam Magazin (SE)
Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg, ‘Sommerherz’ (SE)
2007    Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Voies Off 2007 – Sélection, ‘Mir fehlt etwas im Herzen’ (GE)
2001    Galerie S., Aachen, ‘Kindersommer’ (GE)
1996    Brotfabrik, Berlin, ‘Zwischen Zeitraum’ (SE)
1995    Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, ‘nahe-stehend’ (SE)
1994    Project of Fotogalerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin, ‘Hotel Europa’ (GE)
Biennale Rotterdam, Salon Futura, ‘Hotel Europa’ (GE)

 

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Publications

2014    Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, ‘elf uhr elf’

Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, ‘Forschen, Bauen, Staunen von A bis Z’,
Author: Tinkerbrain, concept and text: Anke M. Leitzgen, design: Gesine Grotrian, photos: Thekla Ehling, Petra Stockhausen

2013    Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’,  Texts: Anke M. Leitzgen, Lisa Rienermann, design:Lisa Rienermann

2012    Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim, ‘Meine Gartenwerkstatt’, Concept and text: Anke M. Leitzgen, illustrations: Judith Drews, design: Hans Baltzer

2011    Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, ‘Vergiszmeinnicht’, Text: David Almond, design: Gesine Grotrian

Verlag Karmann, Berlin, ‘Für dunkle Tage’, Fotografien von Jörg Immendorff und seinen Skulpturen’, publication of Galerie Rackey, Bad Honneff

2010    Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, ‘Entdecke deine Stadt’, Texts: Anke M. Leitzgen, Lisa Rienermann, design: Lisa Rienermann

Big City Press, Australia/Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, ‘Hijacked Volume 2 – Australia/Germany’

2008    Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, ‘Sommerherz,
Text: Christoph Schaden

2007    Verlag Schaden.com, ‘Sommerherz’, handmade edition of 150 copies

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Awards and prizes

2014    Award of Stiftung Buchkunst 2014, ‘Forschen, Bauen, Staunen von A bis Z’
2013    German Youth Literature Award, nomination division non-fiction books, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’
Leipzig Reading Compass, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’
Lesepeter, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’
Luchs, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’
The best 7 books of Deutschlandfunk, ‘Entdecke, was dir schmeckt’
2012    The best 7 books of Deutschlandfunk, ‘Entdecke deine Stadt’
2011    ‘Vergiszmeinnicht’ nominated for the German Photo Book Award 2012
2009    ‘Sommerherz’ selected for the Contemporary Book Award at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles
2008    ‘Sommerherz’ nominated for the German Photo Book Award 2009

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Lectureship

since  2019 University of Applied Sciences and  Arts, Dortmund 

since  2017 University of Applied Sciences and  Arts, Hannover

2013    Photography/Editorial Design, Berlin University of the Arts, course of study: Visual Communication

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Lectures and workshops

2017   Photobook Masterclass with Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi, Chobi Mela IX, Dhaka, Bangladesch

2016    University of applied sciences and arts, Hanover (lecture)
Kolga Tbilisi Photo, Georgia (workshop)
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (lecture and workshop)
2015    Lichtblick School, Cologne (portraiture workshop)
2014    Photobook Masterclass with Markus Schaden, Frederic Lezmi and Wolfgang Zurborn, The PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne (workshop)
‘Déja Vu und die Schönheit des Alltäglichen’, Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg (lecture)
Lichtblick School, Cologne (portraiture workshop)
2013    Photobook Masterclass with Markus Schaden, Frederic Lezmi and Wolfgang Zurborn in Arles (workshop)
German Photographic Academy, Leinfeld-Echterdingen (lecture)
Lichtblick School, Cologne (portraiture workshop)
2012    Sprechsaal, Berlin (lecture)
2010    Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart (lecture)
2009    Zurich University of the Arts, Dept. Art & Media, Photography (lecture)
German Photographic Academy, Leinfeld-Echterdingen (lecture)
2008    Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim (lecture)
Fotosalon, Cologne (lecture)

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