Bettina Lockemann. Contact Zones

After pursuing professional training in photography, Bettina Lockemann attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 1994 to 1999. In 1995 she founded the Büro für Bildangelegenheiten (Office for Image Affairs) together with Elisabeth Neudörfl. In 2007 she completed her dissertation, entitled Das Fremde sehen (Seeing the Other), which takes up the European view on Japan in contemporary artistic documentary photography (published by Transcript Verlag publishers in Bielefeld). Since 2007 she has been teaching artistic photography and art theory at institutions of higher education in Stuttgart (Merz Academy, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design), Leipzig, and Zurich.

Lockemann’s works have been exhibited at various venues, including the Nederlands Foto Instituut in Rotterdam (2002), the Fotomuseum Winterthur (2001), and as part of the International Photo Triennale in Esslingen (2004) and the International Photo Biennale in Rotterdam (2000). She has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, two of which being a German Institute for Japanese Studies Scholarship (2006, Japan) and a Fulbright Scholarship (2003, USA).

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