Annette Kelm Last updated August 25, 2025  German contemporary artist and photographer (born 1975)
Annette Kelm  (born 1975 in Stuttgart , West Germany ) is a German contemporary artist and photographer who is particularly known as a conceptual artist. Kelm uses medium or large format cameras in her work, creating still life and portraits. She favours using analog photography methods in her work. [ 2]     [ 3]    
Kelm graduated from the Hochschule für bildende Künst  in Hamburg  in 2000, after which she moved to Berlin . She was awarded the Camera Austria  Award  for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz in 2015. [ 4]    
Work Kelm explores ideas through "baffling narratives" which use typology, patterns  and the intersection of design and technology. [ 5]     Her work has been inspired by traditional photography genres such as the still life , landscapes and portraits. [ 6]     The New York Times    describes her work as playing with "watered-down semiotics ." [ 7]    
Exhibition History MoMA PS1 (The Gold Standard , [ 8]     10/29/2006 - 01/15/2007) CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art in San Francisco (PASSENGERS: 1.6 ANNETTE KELM , [ 9]     02/06/2008 - 03/01/2008) Kunsthalle Zürich (Annette Kelm , [ 10]     01/24/2009 - 04/26/2009) 54th Venice Biennale [ 11]     (06/04/2011 - 11/27/2011) Museum of Modern Art (New Photography 2013 , [ 12]     09/14/2013 - 01/06/2014) Whitney Museum of American Art (Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner , [ 13]     11/20/2015 - 03/06/2016) VOX Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Annette Kelm,  05/11/2016 - 06/25/2016) [ 14]     Honours and awards 1999 Kodak Young Photographers Award [ 15]     2004 Artist residency Heanavesi, Finland Working Grant for Fine Art, Hamburg [ 15]     2005 ART COLOGNE-Award for young art Working Grant of Stiftung Kunstfonds Travel-Grant Los Angeles [ 15]     2015 Camera Austria - Award for contemporary photography, Graz [ 15]     Galleries Esther Shipper Gallery, Berlin, Germany. [ 16]     Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA. [ 17]     Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria. [ 18]     Herald St Gallery, London, England. [ 19]     Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA. [ 20]     Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. [ 21]     Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan,Italy.  [ 22]     References  ↑     Holman, Martin (October 2013).  "Dear Portrait, Annette Kelm, Franco Vaccari"   . Art Monthly  (370): 28– 30. Retrieved 31 March  2016 –  via EBSCO.  ↑     Bell, Kirsty (1 March 2014).  "Analog Encounters"   . Art in America . 102  (3): 102– 105. Retrieved 31 March  2016 –  via EBSCO.  ↑      "Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography by the City of Graz 2021 Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński" . Camera Austria . Retrieved 2023-03-29  .  ↑      "Annette Kelm" . MoMA . 2013. Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑      "About Annette Kelm" . AIMIA AGO Photography Prize . Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑     Schwendener, Martha (24 October 2013). "Annette Kelm" . The New York Times . Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑      "MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: The Gold Standard" . momaps1.org . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑      "Passengers: 1.6 Annette Kelm | CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts" . archive.wattis.org . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑      "Annette Kelm | Kunsthalle Zürich" . kunsthallezurich.ch . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑      "La Biennale di Venezia - 54th International Art Exhibition" . www.labiennale.org . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑      "New Photography 2013: Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Brendan Fowler, Annette Kelm, Lisa Oppenheim, Anna Ostoya, Josephine Pryde, Eileen Quinlan | MoMA" . The Museum of Modern Art . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑      "Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner | Whitney Museum of American Art" . whitney.org . Retrieved 2016-04-04  .  ↑     Joan, Müller, Vanessa (2016). "Annette Kelm" . e-artexte.ca . Retrieved 2018-03-24  . {{cite web }}:  CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link ) 1    2    3    4     Gallery, Andrew Kreps. "Annette Kelm" . Andrew Kreps Gallery . Archived from the original  on 28 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May  2016 .  ↑      https://www.estherschipper.com/artists/161-annette-kelm/    ↑      "Annette Kelm" . Andrew Kreps Gallery . Archived from the original  on 3 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑      "Annette Kelm" . Galerie Meyer Kainer . Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑      "Annette Kelm" . Herald St . Retrieved 5 May  2016 .  ↑      "Annette Kelm" . Marc Foxx . Retrieved 5 May  2015 .  ↑      https://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/6256/    ↑      https://giomarconi.com/en/artist/annette-kelm   External links 
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