Ute Schendel
The photographer Ute Schendel, born in Berlin in 1948, lives and works in Basel. She studied Photography in Berlin and Hamburg. For forty years, Ute Schendel has preferred to use black and white photography. She started as a theater and portrait photographer in the 1970s at the Schiller Theater in Berlin, at Städtische Bühnen Essen, at Theater am Turm in Frankfurt/Main and accompanied productions by theater directors such as Einar Schleef, Heiner Müller, George Tabori, Samuel Beckett, Patrice Chéreau und Jan Fabre. From 2000 to 2003 Ute Schendel has been visiting professor in the field of visual communications at Fachhochschule Mainz/ University of Applied Sciences. Her extensive image archive contains portraits of actors, directors, photographers, painters, musicians, writers and other cultural workers.
Ute Schendel has also created a large oeuvre in the field of landscape photography over the past decades.
Her photographic work has been shown in numerous exhibitions in art institutions and galleries.
