Andrea Wilmsen is a visual artist working with photography. Her work is exhibited internationally, including Haus am Kleistpark Berlin 2023/24, Sprengel Museum Hannover 2022/23, Goethe Institut Chicago 2021, European Month of Photography (EMOP) 2020, Le Festival Voies Off des Rencontres d'Arles 2019 (Fotohaus Paris-Berlin), Goethe Institut Los Angeles, and Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades. Her work has been featured in art and architecture magazines, a.o. Domus, der Greif, Museumsjournal, PhotoNews and Perlentaucher. Wilmsens work can be found in private and institutional collections. Her works B.ODE and Alice in the Field have been published by Kerber Verlag (2021) and Distanz Verlag (2024), Wilmsen lives and works in Berlin and Catalonia, Spain..
Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP), Midwest Photographers Project
Chicago
Catalogue of Catalan photography, initiated by the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Barcelona
Berlin
Fotografische Sammlung Stadtmuseum Berlin
Berlin
Exhibitions
2025 (Oct,) Urban Photo Awards (spaces), group exhibition @ Trieste Photo Days, Italy
2024 Festival Encontros da Imagem, Alice in the Field, exhibition + book award, Braga, Portugal
2024 Fotografiska + Fotografiska Berlin, feature of "Alice in the Field" @fotografiska_berlin
2024 Haus am Kleistpark, Alice in the Field, book presentation + artist talk
2024 Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Alice in the Field, book release
2024 Galerie Karlshorst, B.ODE, solo exhibition, Berlin
2024 Artist talk with Dr. Enno Kaufhold, Galerie Karlshorst, Berlin
23-24 Haus am Kleistpark | Tempelhof Museum, Berlin, Dimensionen, group exhibition,
curated by Diana Thun (a.o. with Sinta Werner, Daniel Hölzl, Andreas von Ow)
2023 Museum Ephraim Palais, Kontraste/Berlin Jetzt, 3pm, group exhibition, Berlin
2023 Städtische Galerie Lehrte, B.ODE | In my Castle, solo exhibition
2023 The Alice Wilds Gallery, "These Walls are a Stage", duo exhibition, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
22/23 year-long artist residency, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
22/23 Sprengel Museum Hanover, In my Castle, group exhibition, curated by Dr. Reinhard Spieler
2022 Royal Photography Society, In my Castle, shortlisted for International Photography Exhibition, IPE164
2022 BBA Gallery, B.ODE shortlisted for BBA Photography Prize ´22
2022 galerie für junge künstler- und designerinnen, Schein und Wirklichkeit, solo exhibition, Berlin
2021 ,Goethe Institut Chicago, in cooperation with Architecture Biennial, B.ODE
2021 Paris Photo, B.ODE, book signing with Kerber Verlag, Paris
2021 Filter Foto Festival, B.ODE, book signing, Chicago
2021 Kunsthalle Brennabor, works from the publication Herzattacke volume 107, Brandenburg
2020 European Month of Photographie (EMOP), Floating Identities, group exhibition,
curated by Wolfgang Zurborn, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Berlin-Potsdam
2020 Perspective Gallery, 3pm, curated group exhibition by Jennifer Murray, Chicago-Evanston
2020 48 Stunden Neukölln, Fragile Realities, curated art festival, featured artist, Berlin
2020 Galerie Neue Schule für Fotografie, B.ODE, group exhibition, Berlin
2020 Blumberg Fotokunst, Schein und Wirklichkeit, solo exhibition, Potsdam
2020 Gallerie G37, Schein und Wirklichkeit, solo exhibition, Berlin
2019 Le Festival Voies Off des Recontres d´Arles, Fotohaus Berlin/Paris, Department of Justice,
group exhibition, Arles, France
2019 aff Galerie, Raum und Identität, duo exhibition, ArtistTalk w Julia Rosenbaum, Berlin
2019 transformart festival, Sonntag, by invitation of the collective CameraD, Berlin
2019 48 Stunden Neukölln, Shades of White, curated art festival, Berlin
2019 Gallery Weekend, Keep your Eyes peeled, aff Galerie, group exhibition with Michael Danner, Jessica Backhaus, Göran Gnaudschun u.a., Berlin
2018-2019 member of aff gallery, Berlin
2018 Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, curated group exhibition by Freundeskreises des Hauses der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2018 Monat der Fotografie OFF, Interrelations, curated Photo Festival,Berlin
2018 48 Stunden Neukölln, This very moment, curated Art Festival, Berlin
2018 Espronceda, Kreatur, Center for Art and Culture, Barcelona
2017 YIA Art Fair, Kunsthalle Kleinbasel, Paris
2017 YIA Art Fair, Kunsthalle Kleinbasel, Basel
2017 ICAA, Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin meets Los Angeles, solo exhibition, Berlin
2016 Espronceda, Borderlands, Center for Ars and Culture, solo exhibition, Barcelona
2016 Kommunale Galerie Steglitz, What remains, curated group exhibition, Berlin
2016 WTArtspace Barcelona, Haikus or Poems of Broken Things
2013 Villa Aurora, Berlin meets Los Angeles, Pacific Palisades
2013 Goethe Institut, Berlin meets Los Angeles, with Corina Gamma, Los Angeles
Grants and Awards
2025 Urban Photo Awards (spaces), Finalist+exhibition, Crossing Stairs @ Trieste Photo Days ´25
2025 Stiftung Buchkunst, the most beautiful German books 2025, Alice in the Field, longlist
2024 Encontros da Imagem, Alice in the Field, Book Award + Exhibition, Braga
2022/23 Artist Residency, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
2022 Vonovia Photography Award No.6, In my Castle, shortlisted for best photo series
2022 BBA Gallery, B.ODE, longlist, selected for BBA Photography Prize
2022 Royal Photography Society, In my Castle, shortlisted for IPE 164
2021 Research Grant, Stiftung Kulturwerk, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2021 Editor´s Pick, Fragile Realities, LensCulture HOME´21 Intern. Photo Prize Award + Street Award
2020 Special Grant, Senat für Europa und Kultur, German Ministry for Culture, Berlin
2020 Selected Finalist, B.ODE, Verzasca Foto Festival, Switzerland
2020 Landskrona Foto Festival & Breadfield Dummy Award, B.ODE, Landskrona, Sweden
2020 Granted artist residency, Arteles Creative Center, Finland
2018 Editor´s Pick, photo series, This very moment, LensCulture Emerging Talent Award
2017 Grant of the Academy of Fine Arts (summer academy), Salzburg
2017 Editor´s Pick, 3pm, LensCulture Portrait Award and Street Photography Award
Publications
2025 (March) Rethinking Photography, Podcast S09, e211, by invitation of Andy Scholz
2024 Perlentaucher, Das Kulturmagazin, Fotolot v. 25.7.24, Review "Alice in the Field"
2024 PhotoNews 6/2024, Review "Alice in the Field", Hamburg
2024 Alice in the Field, Distanz Verlag, Berlin
2024 Haus am Kleistpark | Tempelhof Museum, Dimensionen, exhibition catalogue,
2022 Sprengel Museum, In my Castle, Vonovia Award for Photography, exhibition catalogue
2022 Profi Photo, B.ODE, Edition 1/22, magazine for photo culture
2021 Photo weekly, B.ODE, Edition #196, photo magazine
2021 Book Publication B.ODE, Kerber Verlag, Berlin-Bielefeld
2021 PhotoNews, Zeitung für Fotografie, Forum, online feature, Verlag Brudna/Gripp GbR
2021 Catalogue for literature and art, Herzattacke, participation in volume 106-107, Berlin-Potsdam
2020 Museumsjournal, B.ODE, Edition 2/2020, Kulturprojekte Berlin-Potsdam
2020 Der Tagesspiegel, review of EMOP exhibition, Floating Identities, Berlin
2020 Der Greif, guest room, B.ODE, curated by Holly Hay
2020 EMOP catalogue, European Month of Photography, Berlin
2020 48 Stunden Neukölln, art festival catalogue, featured artist Fragile Realities
2020 PhotoNews, Zeitung für Fotografie, Forum, online feature, Verlag Brudna/Gripp GbR
2020 Herzattacke, Volume 105, catalogue for literature and art, Berlin-Potsdam
2018 Der Tagesspiegel, Checkpoint, Berlin meets Los Angeles, Berlin
2013 Domus, magazine for art and architecture, review of Berlin meets Los Angeles