Paula Muhr
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Paula Muhr, born as Paula Miklosevic in 1977 in Subotica (Serbia), is a Serbo-Austrian art photographer, specialized in social and family context photography.
The content of her work centres on terms of perception and their preconditioning by cultural stereotypes. It deals with the banality of everyday experience, relationship between memory and private photographs, questions common notions and general attitudes, as well as various models of behaviour which shape our reactions and communication. The importance of photography is the fact that it seems to be a reproductive media, objective and dispassionate. As a frozen fragment of time it is often viewed as a testament of reality. But photographs not only present us with a visual content, they also construct our perception and understanding of reality and influence the way we see things, depending on their context and usage.
Paula Muhr's work plays on this uncertain distinction between objectivity and constructedness of images. She is combining photographs made in a documentary manner with other semiotic codes (mostly texts) in order to destabilise their seemingly obvious meaning. The combination of images does not become self-explanatory or clear in meaning, but it forms a juxtaposition of sign systems, operating separately on two different levels.
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[edit] Education
1988 - 2002 BA in photography at the Academy of Arts BK in Belgrade.
1999 - 2004 studied General Literature and Theory of Literature at the Philological Faculty in Belgrade.
2006 MA in Fine Arts
[edit] Selected solo exhibitions
"Ideal Place", Baodo im Nil, Graz, Austria
"Balkan Fest", Totalkunst, The Forest, Edinburgh, UK
"Oasis", Bunker, Students Cultural Centre, Novi Sad, Serbia
"Fetish", Gallery of Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade and Vector Gallery, Iaşi, Romania
"Intimate Album", Artget Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade
"One Possible Portrait", Museum of Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade
"Transience", Gallery of Open University, Subotica
"Unbereaved", Centre for Cultural Decontamination, Veljkovic Pavillion, Belgrade
[edit] Selected group exhibitions
"Yugoline", ESC im Labor, Graz, Austria
"38th Winter Salon", Herceg Novi, Montenegro
"7 Days Make a Week", Culture Club, Gent, Belgium
"Continental Breakfast", 45th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre, Belgrade
"Family and Society", International Meetings of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
"(Re)Visited", Basement, Vienna, Austria
"Family Album", National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
"Danube Streaming Show", quartier21/ Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna
"BELEF", Belgrade Summer Festival, open air gallery
"Photography", Duplex Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
"Balkanize it!", Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria and Media Nox, Maribor, Slovenia
"New Year's Exhibition", Remont Gallery, Belgrade
"Identity and Difference", Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
"Positive/Negative", 44th October Salon, Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavillion, Belgrade
"Civilians in Uniform", Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade
"Carbonart 2003", Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kishinev, Moldova
"Art-Reality-Action", City Museum, Subotica
"New Taste 2", 063 Gallery, Belgrade
"Time Codes", 5th International Biennial of Young Artists, Vrsac, Serbia
"Progress", Artget Gallery, Belgrade Cultural Centre
"Real Presence", Museum 25th May, Belgrade
"Model of Life", Month of Photography, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Belgrade
"Yugoslavia Two Thousand", Fiera di Roma, Rome, Italy
"New Serbian Photography", Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade
"New F", Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
