Education

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2014–2018

Master’s program in visual studies, Master of Arts

Faculty of Education, Art and Architecture, University for Continuing Education Krems

                               

2007–2008

Certificate course in cultural management

Institute for Cultural Concepts, Vienna

 

1999–2003

Course in art photography

Institute fotoK, Vienna

 

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Exhibitions and photo projects

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2023–2024         

STOPOVER Korneuburg  in the City Museum of Korneuburg, Austria:

Photo workshops and exhibition project with Austrian teenagers and unaccompanied minor refugees

 

2022–2024         

Camps in the Center of Lower Austria: History, Transformation and Memory  
Project by Institute for Jewish History and University for Continuing Education Krems, my part is to guide the citizen scientists in the photographic documentation of what is left from camps from World War Two.

 

2003–2024

National and international photography exhibitions:

• "Heute befinden sich hier Wohnungen, eine Arztpraxis und ein Kaffeehaus." NS-Zwangslager im Bezirk Krems - eine Spurensuche / 
  “Today there are apartments, a doctor's surgery and a coffee house here.” Nazi forced labor camps in the district of Krems - a search for traces in the City Hall of Krems

• Die Weißen Flecken von Krems 2.0 / White spots in Krems in the gallery Daliko, Krems

• Wasser / Water  in the NÖ Dokumentationszentrum für Moderne Kunst, St. Pölten, Austria

• Zwischen.Raum / In the gap  in Městská Gallery in Volary, Czech Republic

• Home Stories in the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and Warsaw as well as in the Architekturzentrum West in Vienna

• Austria Today  in Westlicht Vienna and in Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Germany

• Magische Orte / Magic Places  in WienMuseum Hermesvilla, Vienna

• Mutual Fields  in the artspace 5020, Salzburg

• Gemischtwaren / Assorted Goods  in the Schlierbach Abbey, Upper Austria

• Rom 2005 / Rome 2005  in the Photo Bookstore Lia Wolf, Vienna

 

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Publications

 

2024         

Nothing Left to See? Stalag XVII B Krems-Gneixendorf – A Topographic Survey

By Karin Böhm and Edith Blaschitz, with an essay by Viola Rühse

Translated by Tim Corbett

Published by Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz

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***   27 May 2024  ***

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Our book is among the 50 shortlisted books at the Book Program of the Athens Photo Festival 2024.

The books are on display at Benaki Museum from June 6 - July 28, 2024.

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Stipends

 

2006                      ECB Annual Photography Award, Austria Today

                                Among the top 10 best young photographers

 

2005                      Stipend for art photography, 3-months-residency in Rome, Italy

                                Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports

 

2003                      Stipend for art photography, 2-months-residency in Paris, France

                                Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sports

 

2001                      Photography courses at ICP – International Center of Photography, New York

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Karin Böhm, Austrian photo journalist

+43 676 420 8587

info@karinboehm.at