Vita
Monika Reimann · VISUAL ARTIST
For me, art is a journey, an encounter, and an opportunity to see the familiar anew.
I work with blur, colour, light, and movement. By deliberately reducing visual information, I create photographic images that exist between the visible and the invisible, between reality and personal imagination.
My work emerges from encounters with people and places. Historical spaces, cultural memory, and the traces of time shape my bodies of work. Travelling internationally continually opens up new perspectives on the world and on the photographic image.
In search of what is essential and what endures beyond time, I gradually reduded the visible information in my images. This process gave rise to the bodies of work AIR MEETS WATER - SURFACES IN MOTION and ODYSSEE - photographic explorations of perception, movement and time.
In my long-term photographic study MARCO - VENICE | In the Footsteps of Marco Polo, I encounter people an places where history and the present intertwine. From these encounters emerges a personal photographic exloration of perception, memory and time.
Viewers are invited to become part of this journey.
Academic Background and Artistic Development
2015–2019 | Studies in Photography / Media
HBK University of Fine Arts Essen
Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.)
Classes: Professor Thomas Wrede, Professor Carsten Gliese, Professor Anja Kempe
Further studies in sculpture with Professor Yevgeniya Safranova, painting with Professor Nicola Stäglich, and art theory with Professor Dr Sabine Bartelsheim and Professor Dr Raimund Stecker.
2012–2014 | Guest Studies
Advanced studies in contemporary painting and artistic perception.
2000–2014 | Further Photographic Training
Workshops and masterclasses in photography, light, colour and composition, including sessions with Harald Mante, Paul Leclaire and Jürgen Denter.
Exhibitions
(SE) Solo Exhibition | (GE) Group Exhibition
2026
- Inspiration Week – Kreative Köpfe im Dialog: MARCO – Venedig auf den Spuren Marco Polos (Teil 2) | Haus Marck, Tecklenburg
- Eclisse | MONAT Gallery, Madrid, Spanien (GE)
2025
- Inspiration Week – Kreative Köpfe im Dialog: MARCO – Venedig auf den Spuren Marco Polos (Teil 1) | Haus Marck, Tecklenburg
- Scilla | Venezia 2.0 (im Rahmen der 60. Biennale d’Arte di Venezia), Venedig, Italien
2024
- Slow Seeing – Odyssee | Haus Marck, Tecklenburg (GE)
- Ithaka | ARTBOXEXPO, Basel, Schweiz
- Odyssee | ARTe, Konstanz
2023
- Finance meets Art | Taunus Investments GmbH, Bad Homburg (SE)
- Non Fungible | Gehry-Bauten, MedienHafen Düsseldorf / Helbling Business Advisors (SE)
- Surfaces in Motion | HTW Berlin (Internationale Blockchain-Konferenz) (SE)
- Surfaces in Motion | ARTe, Osnabrück
- Odysseus | Metaverse (Tree-of-Life) (GE)
- Sunset | Manhattan, New York, USA
- Kunst meets Waltrop | KunstVest e.V. (GE)
2022
- Nice Trash | Art Basel Miami Art Weeks, Miami, USA
- Blurred People | Palma 1.0, Palma de Mallorca, Spanien
- Surfaces in Motion | Venezia 1.0 (im Rahmen der 59. Biennale d’Arte di Venezia), Venedig, Italien
- Unterwegs · Bilderwald | Haus Marck, Tecklenburg (SE)
2021
- ART meets Finance · Kunst kann mehr | Haus Marck, Tecklenburg (SE)
- SwissArtExpo (Werkgruppe Unterwegs) | Zürich, Schweiz
- 21 – Die Rückschau | KunstVerein Ahlen e.V. (GE)
- Grenzenlos · Faszination Unschärfe | KunstVerein Ahlen e.V. (GE)
2020
- Verborgene Räume – Sehen können / sehen wollen | Haus Assen (GE)
- Subway | kunst.raum, Recklinghausen (GE)
- Follow Up | Freundeskreis Photographie, Hamburg
2019
- Ausstellung Taylor Wessing (kuratiert von der Galerie von fraunberg art) | Düsseldorf (GE)
- Blurred | Galerie von fraunberg art, Düsseldorf (GE)
- ART in the Hallways | Schloss Münster (GE)
- Grenzenlos | Galerie Gublia, Essen (GE)
- Degree Show | HBK Essen (GE)
2018
- Meiderich EINS | Kulturwerkstatt Meiderich, Duisburg (SE)
- Lost in ART | kunst.raum, Recklinghausen (GE)
- ART & CARS | HBK Essen (GE)
In 2021, I founded emotional return GmbH as an independent business framework for my artistic practice.