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Artist and photographer Tasja Keetman is recognized and appreciated for the fierce visual force, supreme technical agility and vigorous physical energy with which she shapes images and forms of people and things. She harnesses her subjects with her seeing - at once, compelling the static into orbit while inviting equilibrium to the discordant. Either way, Keetman commands stuff into visual being with artful skill, authority and grace.

Keetman’s projects have been published and exhibited in Europe and the USA, including: the Martin E. Segal Center at The City University of New York; Ernst Hilger Gallery at the Contemporary Art Fair in Palm Beach; the International Graphic Art Biennial in Split; the Börse München in Munich; the Börse Central in Stuttgart; the Inetrnationale Foto Tage in Heidelberg; and Gigantic Art Space in New York; among others. Her series Longitude was published by Felix Schoeller and awarded the prestigious Kodak Prize. Her work is included in private and public collections, including the renowned Fotomuseum in Munich.

Keetman’s dynamic photographic style and exuberant personal energy have also made her a sought after photographer in New York City’s avant-garde performance arena. There, she has worked on dozens of projects as both collaborator and documentor with acclaimed experimental music, theater and dance performance companies, including WaxFactory and XØ Projects Inc.

Combining her passion of photography with her love for the three dimensional, she has been expanding her artistic practice to include paper sculptures and installations, which then become subject of her photography again. These intimate as well as large scale pieces have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. She created a large land art project for the International Land Art Symposium in Germany, which was honored as an Outstanding Achievement. Her recent installation Greater Good shown at the Site and Architecture Workshop, Philadelphia was graced with the Excellence Award. Her work has been shown amongst others at the Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles; at the Rhonda Shaller Gallery in New York; on Roosevelt Island, New York.

Keetman was raised to shape her world through a camera’s viewfinder by her father, Herr Jan Keetman, one of Germany’s most recognized editorial and advertising photographers. As a young adult, she spent much of her time in the darkroom of her uncle, Peter Keetman, the eminent German art photographer, whose images can be found in museums and notable collections worldwide. Ms Keetman considers her uncle as a strong influence amongst others that helped develop her individual style of concept, composition and technique.

Tasja Keetman was born and raised in Munich, and currently lives and works in New York City.

-- Nathan F. Elbogen

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BIOGRAPHIE

Tasja Keetman ist geballte Dynamik. Sie überzeugt durch die visuelle Kraft, technische Flexibilität und unermüdliche Energie, mit denen sie sich Zugang zu Menschen und Dingen verschafft. Ihr fesselnder Blick zähmt ungeordnete Bewegungen in die Statik und erweckt Statisches zum Leben. Tasja Keetman befehlt in bildhafte Existenzen, künstlerisch, autoritär und anmutig zugleich.

Frau Keetman hat in den vergangenen drei Jahren mehrere Fotoprojekte realisiert. Besonders ambitioniert sind ihre Arbeiten Hymns (hektische New Yorker Straßenlandschaften im Großformat) und Longitude (Hunderte von Füssen, die sie überall auf der Welt fotografiert hat). Für ihr Projekt Tantrum hat sie Menschen an Flughäfen im Stil einer Überwachungskamera abgelichtet; diese Schnappschüsse wurden unlängst für die öffentliche Kunstsammlung des neuen US-Heimatschutzministeriums in Washington angekauft.

Mit ihren dynamischen Bildern ist die gefragte Fotografin ein wichtiger Bestandteil der avantgardistischen New Yorker Kunstszene. Vergangenes Jahr hat sie mehr als ein Dutzend Projekte international bekannter, experimenteller Tanz-, Theater- und Musikensembles dokumentiert, u.a. J Mandle Performance, SensProductions, WaxFactory, Yanira Castro + Company und XØ Projects Inc.

Parallel zu ihren persönlichen Projekten arbeitet Tasja Keetman für den legendären New Yorker Star- und Modefotografen Albert Watson. Watson entdeckte Keetman 1997, als sie ihm bei einem Foto-Shooting in Deutschland assistierte. Seit 1999 sind die beiden ein ständiges Team. Kofi Annan, Hillary Clinton, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman und Paul Simon sind nur einige der vielen Persönlichkeiten, die Keetman in Watsons New Yorker Studio fotografiert hat. Als Watsons first-assistant photographer  leitet sie internationale Fotokampagnen für Unternehmen wie DeBeers, JP Morgan, Mercedes-Benz, Armani und Estee Lauder; als seine seconddirector of photography macht sie Kurzfilme und Werbesports für Levis, Showtime und andere.

Keetman hat von klein auf gelernt, in der Linse ihre eigene Welt zu entdecken: Ihr Vater Jan Keetman ist ein bekannter deutscher Presse- und Werbefotograf. Als Jugendliche verbrachte sie viel Zeit in den Studios und Dunkelkammern ihres Onkels Peter Keetman, dessen Kunstfotografien in  Museen und angesehenen Sammlungen auf der ganzen Welt vertreten sind. Dem starken künstlerischen Einfluss des Onkels ist es zu verdanken, dass Tasja Keetman einen fotografischen Stil entwickelt hat, der in Konzeption, Gestaltung und Technik einzigartig ist.

Tasja Keetman lebt und arbeitet in New York City 

-- Beatrice Uerlings

 

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curriculum vitae

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 

 

2007

Lorem Ipsum | Earlville Opera House, Earlville NY

 

2007

Flora | Baden-Wuert.Kunstverein, Stuttgart

 

2006

Haus 4f | Roosevelt Island, New York

 

2006

Perform | Martin E Segal Theatre, New York

 

2005

Object of Desire |  The (OA) Can Factory, Brooklyn

 

2005

Uberance | CUNY Graduate Center, New York

 

2005

Hymns | International PhotoTage, Heidelberg

 

2005

Hymns | International FotoSommer, Stuttgart

 

2005

Wax Montage | Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana

 

2005

Hymns | International Graphic Art Biennial, Split

 

2004

Hymns | Munich Stock Exchange, Munich

     

 

 

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

 

 

 

2007

Desiderata | DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn

 

2007

Corporeance |  Jaskey Tower Gallery, Philadelphia

 

2007

Crysalis | Viridian Gallery, New York

 

2007

Crysalis | SAAW, Philadelphia

 

2007

Haus 4f | Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles

 

2007

Shutters+Blinds | Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles

 

2007

Shutters+Blinds | Rhonda Schaller Gallery, NY

 

2006

Tantrum 6 | Ernst Hilger Gallery, Vienna

 

2006

Haeute | Lake Chiemsee LandArt, Germany

 

2006

Mirror | 404 Gallery, New York

 

2005

Tantrum 2 | Ernst Hilger Gallery, Palm Beach

 

2004

Exchange Routes | Indonesia, all major cities

 

2004

Longitude | Gigantic Art Space, New York

 

2003-04

Future Tense | Royal Park, Copenhagen

 

 

Anthology Film Archives, New York

 

 

Galeria de Poste at Museu Arte Contemporanea, Sao Paolo

 

 

Kunstfoeringen Gallery, Copenhagen

 

1997-98

Deutsche FotoTage, Frankfurt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES 

 

 

 

 

2007

NEA Studio Grant | Women’s Studio Workshop

 

2007

Excellence Award | SAAW, Philadelphia

 

2007-02

Residency | Th (OA) Can Factory, Brooklyn

 

2007-08

Residency + Partial Grant | Taliesin

 

2007-08

Residency + Grant | Vermont Studio Center

 

2007

Residency  | Anderson Center

 

2007

Residency | i-Park Artist

 

2007

Residency | Jentel Artist

 

2006

Outstanding Achievement | Int'l Landart Symposium, Germany

 

2006

Weingarten Manor Fellowship, Germany

 

2004

Gold Prize | International Kodak Photo Prize

 

2004

Gold Prize - International Calendar Prize

 

1993

Residency | BMW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Museum, Munich

 

 

Federal Agency,  Washington DC

 

 

Bursar München | Munich Stock Exchange, Munich

 

 

Museum Traunstein

 

 

Private Collections

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS 

 

 

 

 

2007

Flora | Designer’s Digest, Germany

 

2006

Chiemsee Landart  | Catalog

 

2005

Tasja Keetman : Longitude, at Home  Abroad  | Catalog

 

2005+07

Flora | FotoSommer Catalog

 

2004

Tasja Keetman : Hymns  40.45n  74.00w | Book

 

1998-97

Deutsche FotoTage Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION 

 

 

 

 

1990

International Summer Academy, Salzburg | With Jiri Schalamoun,

 

1990-93

Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich | Philosophy

 

1994-97

Akademy for Photography & Design, Munich

 

1995-98

University Augsburg | Photography and Design

  2000-06

Albert Watson Photographer/Director, New York | First Assistant Photographer

 

 

 

 

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