REGINE PETERSEN
*1976 in Hamburg, Germany


EDUCATION

2009
MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London
2006
Diploma Communication Design / Photography, University of Applied Sciences Hamburg


SOLO SHOWS

2023
A Star like a Sword, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
2018
Find a Fallen Star, Jantar Mantar Astronomical Observatory, JaipurPhoto, India
2016
Find a Fallen Star / Son of a God, Museum für Photographie, Brunswick, Germany
2015
The Indian Iron, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
Find a Fallen Star, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stars Fell on Alabama, Photoforum PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
2013
Stars Fell on Alabama, POMO Gallery, Milan, Italy
Stars Fell on Alabama, SI Fest, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy
2012
Stars Fell on Alabama, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
Stars Fell on Alabama, Parc des Ateliers, Rencontres d'Arles, France
Find a Fallen Star, B2 Institute, Oracle, USA
2011
To Think About Things, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
Find a Fallen Star, Science Operations Center, UA Lunar & Planetary Lab, Tucson, USA
2006
The Hair, Galerie Linda, Hamburg, Germany


GROUP SHOWS

2021
Open Circle, Lived Relation, Roca Umbert, Festival Panoràmic, Barcelona, Spain
2019
Format: Sleight of Hand, Lishui Art Museum, Lishui Photography Festival, China
Le Pong Le Ping, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
2017
The Intimate Enemy, Pelagica, Milan, Italy
Hängung # 16, Stiftungspreis Fotokunst, KUNSTWERK Sammlung Klein, Eberdingen, Germany
2016
Roads Less Traveled, Tiff Festival, Gallery BWA SiC, Wroclaw, Poland
Uncommon Places, Palazzo da Schio, Vicenza, Italy
Young Memories, Galerie Episodique, Paris, France
2015
Beyond Evidence, Format Festival, Derby, UK
The Day Will Come, Container, Triennal of Photography, Hamburg, Germany
Human Nature, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
For Future Reference, East Wing Gallery, Paris Photo, France
All Creatures Small and Great, Galerie Christina Haubs, Munich, Germany
For Future Reference, East Wing Gallery, UNSEEN Amsterdam, Netherlands
Human Nature, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt, Germany
Global Photography Europe, Old Factory, Rovinj, Croatia
2013
Just for a Night, Galerie Jo van de Loo, Munich, Germany
Das Nahe und die Ferne, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
City of Hamburg Scholarship for the Visual Arts, Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
2012
City of Hamburg Scholarship for the Visual Arts, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
The World in London, Victoria Park, London, UK
2011
Exposure 2011, James Hyman Gallery, London, UK
Il Dubbio Della Bellezza, Fruttiere di Palazzo, Mantova, Italy
reGeneration2, Aperture Gallery, New York, USA
reGeneration2, Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Fes, Morocco
2010
Women in Art Photography UK, Taschen Store, London, UK
Session_12_Words, Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark
Poetry of the Functional, Sächsisches Industriemuseum, Chemnitz, Germany
reGeneration2, Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland
reGeneration2, International Photography Festival, Pyngyao, China
Teaching Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2009
Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London, UK
Shadow of a Doubt, Galerie Michel Journiac, Paris, France
Saatchi 4 New Sensations, A Foundation, London, UK
Now: Art of the 21st Century, Phillips de Pury, London, UK
Summer Show, Hoopers Gallery, London, UK
Show RCA, Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
gute aussichten, Hanse Office, Brussels, Belgium
Prix Leica, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008
Off Topic, Ada Gallery, London, UK
gute aussichten, Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany
2007
Soiree des Projections, Festival Voies Off, Arles, France
Fotosommer Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
gute aussichten, House of Photography / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
gute aussichten, Photo Espana, Goethe Institut, Madrid, Spain
2006
Humble Arts Foundation - Pinned up, 3rd Ward, New York, USA
gute aussichten - new german photography 2006/07, Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany
Ein freies Land, Sagerviertel, Neumünster, Germany
2005
Private Space, International Festival of Photography, Ikona Gallery, Lódz, Poland
Patagonia, Galerie Rainer Maas, Hamburg, Germany


PUBLICATIONS

2024
Almost Elvis, Hapax #5
2023
Passion Play, text by Natasha Christia, The Eriskay Connection
A Star like a Sword, exhibition catalogue
2020
image/con/text: Documentary Practices between Journalism, Art and Activism, Reimer Verlag
Carol Mavor: Like a Lake, contributor, Fordham University Press
2018
Teufelsstein, with Henning Rogge, self published
2017
Contact Sheet #192, Light Work Annual 2017, text by Andreas Bedenbender
Firecrackers, text by Fiona Rogers et al.
2016
Young Memories, exhibition catalogue, text by Alexandra Roussopoulos et al.
2015
Find a Fallen Star, text by Natasha Christia, Kehrer Verlag
Find a Fallen Star, exhibition catalogue, Foam, text by Shoair Mavlian
XL Photography 5, Art Collection Deutsche Börse, text by Anne-Marie Beckmann et al.
Evidence, exhibition catalogue, QUAD / Format, text by Lars Willumeit et al.
2014
A Brief History of Meteorite Falls, Textem Verlag
Unseen 2014, exhibition catalogue
2013
Global Photography Europe, exhibition catalogue, text by Stefania Rössl et al.
SI Fest, exhibition catalogue, text by Massimo Sordi et al.
Stars Fell on Alabama, exhibition catalogue, text by Britta Peters
2012
Session_12_Words, Am Nuden Da / Krabbesholm Hojskole
1000 Words Photography, text by Lucy Davies
2011
An Unknown Route: Denkbilder, Photographies #04, text by Olivier Richon
2010
Poetry of the Functional, exhibition catalogue, Villa Arte
Teaching Photography, exhibition catalogue, Museum Folkwang
reGeneration2, exhibition catalogue, Musee d'Elysee
2009
To Think About Things, self published
An Unknown Route: Denkbilder, Material #02
2008
Ok, But No Fighting, self published
2006
gute aussichten, exhibition catalogue, text by Josefine Raab
Ein freies Land, exhibition catalogue


AWARDS & GRANTS

2024
Best Dutch Book Designs 2023
Artist Meets Archive #4, Finalist
2023
PhotoEspaña Book Awards, Finalist
2022
Neustart Kultur, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2021
INITIAL Grant, Akademie der Künste
2019
Lishui Photography Festival Grand Award
2018
International Cultural Exchange Bursary, India
2017
Stiftungspreis Fotokunst, Finalist
2016
Artist in Residence, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2015
German Photobook Award
2014
Outset / Unseen Exhibition Fund
City of Hamburg Project Bursary for the Visual Arts
Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, Finalist
2012
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation Bursary
Rencontres d'Arles Prix Decouverte, Finalist
City of Hamburg Scholarship for the Visual Arts
VG-Bildkunst Bursary
Albert Renger-Patzsch Award, Finalist
2011
Artist in Residence, Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ
2010
National Media Museum Bursary
4. Int. Marianne Brandt Contest, Finalist
reGeneration 2010/11
2009
Saatchi 4 New Sensations
Hoopers Gallery Award, Finalist
2008
Prix Leica
Artist in Residence, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Royal College of Art Bursary
2007
Otto Steinert Award, Honorable mention
DAAD Scholarship for Graduates
2006
gute aussichten - new german photography 2006/07