With this major survey exhibition, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen honors the artistic work and critical voice of Katharina Sieverding (b. 1941 in Prague), an internationally recognized pioneer of photography. Since the late 1960s, the award-winning artist has used her work to raise fundamental questions about identity, gender, and race, as well as the power of images and the social responsibility they entail.

Her monumental works, which can be categorized as performance, body art, and experimental film, have added a new dimension to the medium of photography. She understands photography as a sculpturally malleable and transformable material that must be expanded into an interdisciplinary way of thinking and working and that is ultimately always linked to a political statement.