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AboutA young woman is dreamily looking into the future. Or is she looking into the past? Maria Semmer’s photographs are connected by one common topic: The characters in the photographs all look - lost in thought - into a world that is unknown to the observer. With a hidden smile, they sit in deteriorated ruins or self-absorbedly stand in the middle of idyllic and untouched nature. The artist’s central motif is transcendence: the mystic moment between consciousness and sleeping, the submersion into an invisible world between observer and character. Each of her characters finds themselves on a dreamful journey.
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Maria Semmer, like her art, is constantly on a journey. Born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, she has been involved in photography and painting from an early age. During her studies of graphic design at the Georg Simon Ohm University in Nuremberg, she discovered performing art and street photography. During this period, she developed a fascination for the variety of expressions in human faces. In 2003, she worked as an assistant of the artist Younis Al Azzawy in Berlin. The following year, she continued her studies at the Academy of Art and Design in St. Petersburg. From 2007 until 2011, she lived in Rome. Amongst other pieces of art, she created her photo-series „”Dreamers“ I and II and „”The House of Tomorrow“. During these years, Maria Semmer consistently travelled to Germany and continued her involvement with the motif of transcendence in nature where the photo series „”Secret Garden“ was born. Her journey led her back to her hometown Rothenburg o.d.T. in 2012. Inside of an abandoned house, she created the photo-series „”The Transition“. Her current project „”Dream Ballads“ is also connected by the location: all photographs originated in a secluded place inside of a lake.
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2024
"Museo della pace", MU.SP.A.C. Museum of contemporary Art, L'Aquila, Italy "Habitat", Momart Gallery, Matera, Italy "Roots", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome (Solo) Members Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Kunstmesse Schwäbisch Gmünd, Museum im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 2023 "Feat 2023", Edicola 51, Turin, Italy "Verflechtungen", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Heimkommen", Kreativlabor Erlangen, Germany (Solo) "NatAlea 2023", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy Members Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany 2022 "Homecoming", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (Solo) "La via del sangue", MU.SP.A.C. Museum of contemporary Art, L'Aquila, Italy "NatAlea 2022", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany 2021 "NatAlea 2021", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Changes/Chances", Stamperia Ripa69, Rome, Italy 2020 "Le ballate dei sogni", Galleria Gallerati, Rome, Italy (Solo) "Silence", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber; Germany (Solo) "NatAlea 2020", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy "Costellazioni grafiche", Stamperia Ripa69, Rome, Italy 2019 "NatAlea 2019", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy "14 Köstlichkeiten auf einer Spiegelplatte", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Blut und Wasser", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "...und hätte der Liebe nicht... 1.13", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Periferie a confronto", Galleria Il Mitreo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany 2018 "NatAlea 2019", Alea Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy "Presente", Stamperia Ripa69, Rome, Italy "So fern, so nah", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany 2017 "Castelnuovo Fotografia 2017", Rocca Colonna, Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy "Particolari dal vero", Ex Chiesa di San Leonardo, Fano, Italy "Tiber ob der Tauber", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "I AM / WE ARE behind the dreams", Stamperia del Tevere, Rome Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Secret Garden", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (Solo) "5 Ways Beyond", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany 2016 "'Na Favola" Stamperia del Tevere, Rome "Nature Diverse" Visionarea Art Space, Rome "Il sogno verde" Real Orto Botanico, Naples / Anywhere Art Company, Naples, Italy "I AM / WE ARE behind the dreams", Ex Chiesa di S. Leonardo, Fano, Italy "I AM / WE ARE behind the dreams", Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Il sogno verde" Villa Gregoriana, Tivoli, Italy 2015 „Tradition trifft Tradition“ Kunst Kultur Korn, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany „Der grüne Traum“, Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany "Kopfsache" Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany „Fusion“ Vetrina di BRECCE, Rome (Solo) "Il sogno verde" Villa Gregoriana, Tivoli, Italy 2014 „Rom in Rothenburg“ Johanniterscheune des Kriminalmuseums Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany „I riflessi della materia“ Art Chalet, Courmayeur, Italy Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg o.d.T., Germany "Ritratti di donna" MUSPAC Museo Sperimentale d'Arte contemporanea, L'Aquila, Italy "Il sogno verde" Villa Gregoriana, Tivoli, Italy 2012 "Crepuscular" MUSPAC Museo Sperimentale d'Arte contemporanea, L'Aquila, Italy (Solo) „Affordable Art Fair“ with Marie Claire and Oxfam, Macro Testaccio, Rome "Fuori 5" Galleria Gallerati, Rome "Crepuscular" Studio Abate, Rome (Solo) Collective Exhibition of Rothenburger Künstlerbund, Rothenburg o.d.T., Germany "Lontano" Ex Confraternita dei Battuti Neri, Vicoforte, Italy "Sanctuary" Galleria Gallerati, Rome (Solo) "Dentro di te cosa tua" Torre bruciata, Teramo, Italy "Il sogno verde" Cooperativa Agricoltura Nuova, Rome "Para_dies_noia" Rathausgewoelbe Rothenburg ob der Tauber „ Alexander Fabi & Maria Semmer“ Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg o.d.T., Germany 2010 "Naturae" Galleria Miralli, Viterbo, Italy "L'Arte Grafica - dalla tradizione all'innovazione" Castel dell'Ovo, Naples, Italy "Photosensibilité" Hybrida contemporanea gallery, Rome „Mondo vergine“ Stamperia del Tevere, Rome (Solo) "venus in eco furs" Esposta gallery, Verona, Italy 2009 "Dreamers" Hybrida contemporanea gallery, Rome (Solo) "Occhi Rossi" Festival indipendente di fotografia, Forte Prenestino, Rome „Che palle“ artists for Smile Train Italia Onlus, Il Margutta Ristorante, Rome "venus in eco furs" cell63 gallery, Berlin "Mater Terra" Stamperia del Tevere, Rome 2008 "Beata Remix" Palazzo d'Avalos, Vasto, Italy "Refugium 2.2" Refugium 2 gallery, Berlin „La decouverte de la gravure“ rgb gallery, Rome 2007 "heimelig" Villa Mirafiori, Rome (Solo) „heimelig“ Isola Tiberina, Rome (Solo) „Artigianato in Calabria“ Vecchia sala della ferrovia, Cosenza, Italy "photosession" Stamperia del Tevere, Rome (Solo) 2006 "heimelig" Kulturbrauerei Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany (Solo) Photokina Cologne with Georg Simon Ohm FH, Cologne, Germany |