January 29 – February 15, 2009

In her early works, Mona Breede often chose public spaces that were artworks in their own right. She watched how human beings moved, how they reacted to each other and to the surrounding space. Today she is mostly interested in people and places. As a photographer, Mona Breede has a keen and sensitive eye. Her works, being so expressive, interpret the reality and put their mark on it.

Mona Breede was born in Kiel (Germany) in 1968. In 1988-1989, she was intern at the photography department of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg. Then she studied photography in Munich, at the Bayeriche Staatslehranstalt für Photographie, and at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Gestaltung de Karlsruhe, under Rolf Sachsse and Thomas Struth. In 2001-2002, Mona Breede was teacher for photography and design at the Merkur Akademie in Karlsruhe.

In 2007, after photographing in Chicago, Mona Breede went to Asia and Russia and returned with new marvelous photographic series representing Shanghai, Moscow, and St Petersburg. These works of latest years will be on view in Russia for the first time: at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (from January 28 till February 15, 2009) and at the State Center of Photography in St Petersburg (from April 3 till May 31, 2009).