Katja STUKE & Oliver SIEBER

Biography

Katja Stuke (1968) and Oliver Sieber (1966) live and work in Düsseldorf./Germany. They cover a broad spectrum of identities: photographer and artist, curator and initiator of exhibitions, designer and publisher of artists‘ books.
Since 2005, they have regularly worked abroad, including artist residencies in Osaka, Tokyo, Cité International des Arts Paris, Chicago, Rotterdam, Chongqing, Sarajevo and Toronto.

In 2017, they won the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award at the Rencontres d‘Arles.
In 2014, Oliver Sieber‘s Imagainary Club was named Book of the Year by the jury of the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Several books of Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber where shortlisted at the Book of the Year Award in Arles. In 2023 they where »Lauréates des Regards du Grand Paris«
In 2024 they where awarded the MO_Kunstpreis Museum Ostwald, Dortmund

In 2021 ans 2022 they won grants from the public foundations like: Stiftung Kunstfonds, Kunststiftung NRW, VG-Bildkunst and NRW Kultursekretariat.

Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been on the board of the DGPh (German Society of Photography) from 2019 – 2021 and been – together with Stefanie Diekmann – head of the »History and Archive« section. Works by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber are in public and private collections.

They have been teaching at FH-Dortmund and Folkwang University of the Arts. Currently they are teaching »International Perspectives« at HSD Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf and CEPV Vevey.