simone niewig
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1 9 6 2 G E R M A N Y
SIMONE NIEWEG
1984-1990
• Focused from the beginning on photography
• Studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf
• Studied under Bernd Becher, a professor
• Dates her first independent work from 1986, when
she switched to colour photography
ABOUT PHOTOS
• First series centered around annymous architecture
of gardens: the self-made toolsheds, garden
cottages, or pigeon houses.
• Often created photos of department stores and
black-and-white city-scapes as well
• most impressive are the colour photographs of
garden areas, where people use the land that is at
their disposal, free of the city planners’ ideas about
order, how to grow vegetables or to raise rabbits or
doves.
ONGOING SERIES
• She started to go devoid of all architecture but not
human intervention.
• “Garden” and “Landscapes” show signs of human
intervention, whether addressing the suburban and
peripheral gardens or allotments, or almost-
manufactured farmland.