Carola Lampe, is a Berlin-based artist working with photography, installation and performance. She graduated from Osnabrück University with a master’s in Fine Arts, has studied Dance and Choreography at Laban Centre London and Photography at Ostkreuzschule Berlin. Carola’s work has been exhibited at festivals, galleries and institutions in Germany, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Italy and Hungary. Her performances have been shown in Germany, the UK and Japan. She has been chosen as an emerging artist for the 3rd cycle (2019-2020) and 4th cycle of PARALLEL Photo Platform programme. Carola is a winner of Belfast Photo Festival 2021 and was shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival 2017, 2020 and Format International Photography Festival 2021. Some of her recent photography projects have been featured in Der Greif, PARALLEL Atlas and dienacht magazine. She is currently interested in the implications of technology on the human being. By observing everyday life and by investigating boundaries of what is real and what isn’t, her art shifts between documentary and fiction.

Exhibitions

2022 PhMuseum Days International Photography Festival - Bologna, Italy (upcoming)
2022 Verzasca Foto Festival - Brione, Switzerland (upcoming)
2022 Jakarta International Photo Festival - Jakarta Timur, Indonesia (upcoming)
2022 "VISUAL REALITIES - THE COMPUTATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY" - AFF Galerie, Berlin, DE
2021 "Liebe Grüße" - Kuenstlerquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2021 Fotofestival Schiedam - Open Call Exhibition 2021, Schiedam, NL
2021 PARALLEL Review - Fotofestiwal Lodz, PL
2021 FUTURE(S) - Belfast Photo Festival 2021 Open Submission exhibition, Belfast, UK
2020 PARALLEL Intersection - Landskrona Fotofestival 2020, Landskrona, SE
2020 "What you don’t know…" - Kuenstlerquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2020 "Notes on Space" - Odesa PhotoDays Festival, Odesa, UA
2020 "The illegal image" f³ - Freiraum fur Fotografie, Berlin
2019 Humanoid - Showcase Parallel Intersection Budapest
2018 Humanoid - Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2017 Beyond Control - Foto-Forum, Bolzano, Italy
2017 Beyond Control - Metamatic:taf, Athens, Greece
2017 Don't forget me not - Alte Feuerwache projektraum, Berlin
2016 Unterholz/ Underwood - Petra Rietz Salon Gallery, Berlin
2016 Unterholz/ Underwood - Freies Museum Berlin
2015 Bygone Days - H02, Berlin

Awards & Mentions

2022 Finalist Main Shortlist, PhMuseum Photography Grant
2021 Winner, Belfast Photo Festival 2021 Open Submission - FUTURE(S)
2021 Shortlisted, Spotlight Award, Belfast Photo Festival
2020 Selected Emerging Artist, PARALLEL European based Platform program 4rd cycle
2020 Format21 Festival, Derby, Open Call
2020 Shortlisted, Athens Photo Festival, Open Call
2019 Selected Emerging Artist, PARALLEL European based Platform program 3rd cycle
2019 Shortlisted 'Belfast Photo Festival'
2017 Shortlisted 'Athens Photo Festival'
2015 Shortlisted 'Athens Photo Festival'

Publications

'Der Greif', Curated by Mirjam Kooiman, 2021 (online)
PARALLEL Atlas, 2020
'The future is (not) guilty', Exhibition Catalogue, 2020
'Notes on Space', Exhibition Catalogue, 2020
'Der Greif', Guestroom Monica Allende, October 2018 (online)
dienacht special edition, printed Magazine for Photography, Design and Subculture

Education

2015 - 2020 Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany - Photography seminars with Linn Schroeder, Grit Schwerdtfeger, Tobias Kruse
1994 -1995 Postgraduate Diploma in Dance Studies and Choreography at Laban Center London, Uk
1985 - 1992 M.A. in fine arts at University Osnabrück, Germany
Main focus: Painting, Performance