Mona Breede

1968 Born in Kiel, Germany

1988–1989 Internship at the Museum of Arts and Krafts, Department of Photography, Hamburg, Germany

1989–1991 Training as photographer at the State School of Photography in Munich, Germany

1992–1998 Study of Photography and Design at the State Higher School of Design in Karlsruhe, Germany, in the classes of Rolf Sachsse and Thomas Struth

1999 Solo exhibition at the Goethe-Institut London, parallel to the group exhibition „Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography”, Architectural Association, London, Great Britain; “Perspectives (Views) of women´99 – Dreams, Visions, Utopias”, Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany

2001–2002 „starshots_01″ Prize at competition of dit (Investment company of Dresdner Bank group); Special issue in „Photography now”, Journal for photography and Video Art, Nr. 4/2001; „Positions of contemporary architectural photography” (with Klaus Kinold, Barbara Klemm, Horst Schäfer and Ulrich Schwarz), Gallery Dittmar, Berlin, Germany; Teaching activity at the Merkurakademie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003 „People and Spaces” (catalogue), solo exhibition, Gallery Dittmar, Berlin, Germany; „Children Portraits” (among others with Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Bernhard Prinz and August Sander), by Elke Droescher, Kunstraum Falkenstein, Hamburg, Germany

2004 „People and Spaces”, solo exhibition parallel to the 11th International Month of photography, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece (catalogue); „New Photoworks”, solo exhibition, Gallery Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen, Germany

2005 „Out of the series [3]”, group exhibition, K4 Galerie, Werner Deller, Saarbrücken, Germany; „Choreographies and Portraits”, solo exhibition, New Stock Exchange, Frankfurt, Germany; „Summer Show”, group exhibition, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece; Förderkoje Art Cologne (Gallery Heinz-Martin Weigand), Cologne, Germany

2006 „L‘Arrière-Plan de l’Existence”, solo exhibition, Goethe-Institut Lyon, France (catalogue); „The Background of Existence”, solo exhibition, Gallery Dittmar, Berlin, Germany

2007 „The Shadows of Light”, Goethe-Institut Riga, Latvia; „Living Spaces”, solo exhibition, Gallery Heinz-Martin Weigand, Ettlingen, Germany; „The Undergone Space”, solo exhibition, Kunstverein Plauen-Vogtland e.V., Plauen, Germany; „Industrial world of images – Austria Tyrol’s industry in contemporary photography” (among others with Miklos Gaál & Otto Karvonen, Walter Niedermayr and Timm Rautert), Tyrol, Austria (catalogue)

2008 „Industrial world of images – Austria Tyrol´s industry in contemporary photography”, group exhibition, German Industrial Safety Exhibition (DASA), Düsseldorf, Germany; Solo exhibition, CM ART Gallery, Paris, France; Solo exhibition, McBRIDE Fine Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium; „Day in, Day out”, solo exhibition, Gallery Dittmar, Berlin, Germany; Special Issue in zoom_book magazine, „Young Photography of the Presence”, Hamburg, Germany