Annette Kelm studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. She lives and works in Berlin. Annette Kelm works conceptually with photography, drawing on classical genres of photographic history, which she develops further and modernizes from a contemporary perspective. Her photographic works consciously point beyond the objects themselves: to social contexts, to images of history and cultural practices, to the use and power of images.

In Los Angeles, Annette Kelm will continue her work on objects and places of exile literature, which is based on intensive research. She would like to explore the theme of transit in architecture. Exile as a place of transit will serve as a starting point for examining the after-effects of the exile experience in the city's present-day cultural and social fabric.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 | Die Bücher, Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Kunsthalle Wien
2017 | Leaves, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
2016 | Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
2009 | Kunst-Werke Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 I Eine Sammlung für das 21. Jahrhundert, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
2016 I Invisible Adversaries, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
2013 I New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011 I Illuminations, 54th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia

Selected Prizes/Awards
2019 I Shortlist Sparda Art Prize
2015 I Camera Austria Prize for Contemporary Photography
2015 I Shortlist AIMIA | AGO Photography Prize
2009 I Audience Award of the Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2005 I ART COLOGNE Award for Young Art
2005 I Travel Grant "Neue Kunst in Hamburg" to Los Angeles