Petra Gerwers

"Already at the age of 9 Petra Gerwers had her first camera and since then she has felt that the medium of photography can offer her something quite extraordinary: a direct dialogue with the world around her without having to subordinate what she sees to a conceptual logic. Trusting in an intuitive perception, she develops a very personal, subjective visual language in various photographic projects.

Thus, her 2019 series Applause to Life is a hymn to life. Changing perspectives and formats combine in a dynamic image sequence on coloured backgrounds to create a psychedelic-looking road trip. Myth and reality, grounding and elevation are constantly wrestle with each other in a visual maelstrom. The result is an exuberant perception of the world, which also makes a reflexive view possible at a second glance. The often seemingly bizarre of curious insights into contemporary life evoke curious questioning. The happy fusion of pathos and irony celebrates life without succumbing to an uncritical idealization.

Photography also played an important role for Petra Gerwers in her previous work as a specialist teacher for mentally and physically handicapped children. For her, this medium is the best way to go satisfy her passion to connect wi...

2011: Start Full-time photography
2014: Appointment to the DGPh
2019: Until today Online Editor of the magazine "ProfiFoto”

2013 Exhibition "Classic Days Schloss Dyck
2014: Exhibition bild.sprachen, Gelsenkirchen
2017/`20/`22: Photo Popup Fair, Düsseldorf
2021 Arles Exposition
2022 Large solo exhibition at Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne
Exhibition Off Festival Arles
2023 Exhibition Leica Gallery Konstanz
Exhibition Off Festival Arles