DOK NEULAND
26. Oktober - 01. November 2020

MdBK Leipzig
26. Oktober - 01. November 2020 im Rahmen von DOK NEULAND

European Month of Photography EMOP 2020 Berlin
01. - 31. Oktober 2020

Gabriele Stötzer und Paula Gehrmann
GALERIE EIGENHEIM Berlin
01. - 31. Oktober 2020

Ausstellung WERK UND FORTSETZUNG mit Gabriele Stötzer
im Rahmen des European Month of Photography EMOP 2020

Buchpräsentation OKW ARCHIV ( Offene Kunstwerkstatt Lebenshilfe Leipzig e.V. )
Sprengel Museum Hannover
26. - 29. September 2020

Ausstellung und Buchpräsentation OKW ARCHIV ( Offene Kunstwerkstatt Lebenshilfe Leipzig e.V. )
Konzept und Kuration
HALLE 14 e.V. Spinnerei Leipzig
18. September - 08. Oktober 2020

15 Rollbretter mit Griff (MDF 22mm)
Barrierefreie permanente Installation für die Kunstvermittlung HALLE14 e.V.

GfZK Leipzig
07. Dezember 2019 - 15. März 2020

Kuration und Installation Jubiläumsausstellung PLATFORM München
2019

Szenographie für DOK Neuland
MdBK Leipzig
2019

"Conscious Inability at GfZK LEIPZIG" by ARTMargins Online;
27. September 2019

Kunstraum D21 Leipzig
05. Oktober - 11. Novmeber 2019

Gruppenausstellung; Konzept und Kuration
Kunstraum D21 Leipzig

GfZK Leipzig
09. März - 17. November 2019

GfZK Leipzig
09. März 2019 - 05. Juli 2020

Based on her artistic practice, Paula Gehrmann develops spatial installations for the Gabriele Stötzer Archive that comment and expand upon both Stötzer’s work and the conception of the archive. The archive undergoes transformations, opening up continually new perspectives on the design of social and artistic spaces for action in the recent past and present. The title Conscious Inability – a quotation from Stötzer – refers to the strategic infiltration of social and artistic norms.

Dokumentation
Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin–Leipzig zu Gast im MdBK Leipzig
2019

Katalog Beitrag MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig
Gestaltung Andrej Loll & Simone Vollenweider
2019

"Die Offene Kunstwerkstatt praktiziert durch ein selbstverständliches und gemeinschaftliches Schaffen als Künstlergruppe Inklusion. Speziell für diesen Ort entstehen Malereien der Gruppe und werden in einer Installation der Leipziger Künstlerin Paula Gehrmann gefasst."

Re*Creation; Group show at Fotograf Gallery Prag;
Part of Fotograf Festival 2018 "Non-Work: Occupied by Leisure Time”;
Curated by Elisabeth Pichler and Lena von Geyso
2018

Against the background of a constant demand for steady growth, innovation and originality, "Re*creation" addresses the double meaning of “re-creation” as “recovery” and “create anew”; reflecting on the relationship between production and leisure.
From June to July 2018 Paula Gehrmann has been part of MeetFactory’s residency program in Prague. For this exhibition we find a selection from the artist's photographic journals of her 28 days in this city embedded into architectural interventions - an invitation for recreation.

20 Photobooks from C-Prints;
Detail 20180624

Site specific installation for "Based on these new dependencies, we define five normal forms" at Moscow Museum of Modern Art and part of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2018;
Curated by Lena Brüggemann

The project aims to reflect on the evolution of social relationships, articulate unarticulated desires towards new relations and foster propositions on how we can live together. The exhibition and an education program accompanying it take as their starting point ideas of the socio-cultural and artistic movement Proletkult which, in particular, focused on the problem of the incompatibility of prescriptive management with the principles of self-organization. Drawing on the functions of the Soviet workers‘ club the artist Paula Gehrmann creates  a place to experience art, a library, a training ground and an oracle — changing its function according to the activities taking place. Gehrmann uses the variable architectures of her longterm project DISPLAY and the accompanying photographic series WEWILLNEVERMAKEIT to engage the visitor and make them complicit.

Fine Art Print various size

Bistro 21 Leipzig
2017
Fixtures from Mdf and Plexiglas, Fine Art Print in varoius size;
Paintings: Benjamin Dittrich

The photographic work „Herbst“ was specifically developed in and around the exhibition space Bistro 21. Located in a neighbourhood in Leipzig east, an area that is historically shaped by a primarily working-class population. Through gentrification art spaces as the Bistro 21 emerged in the last years, but still feel like aliens in this urban landscape. Gehrmann's installation of documentary style photographs and transmissible sculptures meander between a promenade on a nice afternoon and an observation of this transition. Transferred into the exhibition space with its big shopfront windows one is enticed to loose the division of here and there, inside and outside.

Fine Art Print various size

supported by OKW Lebenshilfe Leipzig e.V. and Stadt Leipzig;
2017

The exhibition Legitimate Rehearsals declares the art space a test site, analyzing the potential of artistic approaches to reflect and question social processes through formal and aesthetic means. Which rules and laws are we following and how do we form social processes through them? How far can different or alternative social configurations be thought about and presented or practiced in an artistic space? In two exchanging exhibition-cycles – with seperate openings – the relations between law, power and social reproduction are renegotiated.
The work Display by Paula Gehrmann is reassembled by the artist spefically for each of these cycles. The architectural sculpture framing the artistic contributions and documentary photography of the participating artists and the changing constellations redefine and propose hidden social and spatial relations. Further, carrying customised surfaces from D21's depot, the art exhibtion as a medium and its performing elements, including the spectator, are revealed as fragmentary and transitory.

Kunstraum D21 e.V. Leipzig;
2017

Fine Art Print various size

Artist Residency;
Site Specific Installation;
Claviers, France;
2016

Fine Art Print 19.5x26cm mounted

Sitespecific Installation for Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig;
2015

For the diploma project the actual building of the Academy of Fine Arts becomes the focal point. In form of a site-specific installation it addresses the ending to my studies at this place. Eponymous of the work is a particular graffiti tacked on a toilet window at the academy: Immer wenn Du hier bist, bin ich woanders. (Whenever you are here, I am elsewhere.). It is an appropriate allegory that shows the attempt of addressing someone who like author and reader will unlikely come together simultaneously. Photography is similar, as it is also a conversation characterized by a kind of displacement and absence of what is captured in the image. Immersed in a certain melancholy, it is a visualization of a present that is never quite attainable to us. The idea of the academy as a transitory space of temporary collective is emphasizing these thoughts.

Fine Art Print various size mounted

Cooperation with University Collections Leipzig, Ancient Museum & Egyptian Museum Leipzig;
2013 / 14
Exhibition Architecture, Baryt and Fine Art Photography various size;

The extensive display questions the representation of ancient material and takes the focus away from its pure scientific or social and cultural value. Instead, it opens up to the sheer history that lies in its appearance/surface. Through materiality of the more than a hundred-year old wooden beams and the introduction of movement to the exhibition space, the display guides the visitor to the archaeological objects without barrier. In the Museum of Ancient Art and the Egyptian Museum Leipzig photographs of the draped artifacts and the sculptural display come together. By opening the possibility of reciprocal viewing they pursue yet a new past.

Baryt 13x18 cm framed