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SIMONE NIEWEG

1984-1990

• Focused from the beginning on photography

• Studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf

• Studied under Bernd Becher, a professor

• Dates her first independent work from 1986, when

she switched to colour photography

ABOUT PHOTOS

• First series centered around annymous architecture

of gardens: the self-made toolsheds, garden

cottages, or pigeon houses.

• Often created photos of department stores and

black-and-white city-scapes as well

• most impressive are the colour photographs of

garden areas, where people use the land that is at

their disposal, free of the city planners’ ideas about

order, how to grow vegetables or to raise rabbits or

doves.

ONGOING SERIES

• She started to go devoid of all architecture but not

human intervention.

• “Garden” and “Landscapes” show signs of human

intervention, whether addressing the suburban and

peripheral gardens or allotments, or almost-

manufactured farmland.