Barbara Trommer
Born in 1981 in Dachau, Germany
2001-2007 studied conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, class of Prof. Res Ingold
Lives and works in Genoa (Italy)
"My artistic work spans a wide range from sculptural and installation works to drawing, printing and photography. What all works have in common is the creation of their own worlds and metaphors: places, rooms and beings are alienated, reinterpreted, ambiguous, hyperreal. They question the viewer’s “certainties”. The key and access to these worlds lies in the viewer‘s own consciousness."
Models of intense perception of time
[Dr. Till Julian Huss, published in "Trommeter-Szabó 2004-2015", adapted/abridged excerpt]
Things have their own time, an aesthetic inherent time. (...) If every thing possesses its own measure of time as inherent, then a special inherent time may correspond to a certain place in the specific relation of its compounds, of the objects assembled and particularly all the events that have taken place there.
Barbara Trommeter works on the unveiling of these inherent times of places – in their aesthetic tangibility. (...)
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The image we have created of an object or of a place and which we can recall in our mind’s eye as memory, does never originate from one single glance. (...) Our perception and our memory work differently. Our memory of the appearance of an object is simultaneistic: It comes from a variety of particular impressions, so called Momentaufnahmen (snap shots). Only by combination, by the overlay of all these impressions our Erinnerungsbild (image as memory) is formed. Nevertheless, this abundance of particular impressions is only possible through an aesthetic perception, says philosopher Martin Seel. (...)
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That is, because only in the dialectics of hyperreal virtuality and artificial reality it is up to the beholder to assure themselves of their relation to reality. "If you give someone hyper-reality, then they have more of a perspective on what's really real," says artist Janet Cardiff. (...) It seems to be absurd that we need an elevated reproduction of reality before we get closer to an intense experience of the real. (...)
(...) [Barbara Trommeter] very emphatically points out how at the interface of perception, time and memory our access to reality may be experienced in a mediative world.
ABOUT
Awards
2015 Catalog funding from the Bavarian State Ministry (debutants)
2014+2015 Catalog promotion of the LfA Förderbank
2014/17 Studio grant from the LH Munich
2013 nominated for the LH Munich sponsorship award in the field of: photography
2011/12 Studio grant from the Bavarian State Ministry
2011 Residency & project funding of Burgenl. State government & Enercon
2010/11 Studio grant from the LH Munich
2011 Promotion "The first years of professionalism" BBK Munich
2010 SZ Tassilo Prize (LanDistrict of Dachau)
2009+2010 Hasselblad Masters Finalists, 10 best worldwide
Exhibition selection
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2026 Refacing | Reclaiming | Recoding, Einzelausstellung, GaGalerie (Ecco Meineke), München
2022 Pictures for Films, solo exhibition, Dankeskirche, Munich
2020 Lady feline presents: Future Ghosts, solo exhibition, Gallery of the KVD, Dachau (Press SZ) (youtube) (television)
2016 Into the Blue - Floating Landscapes, art in architecture, Sparkasse Dachau (Press SZ) (Press SZ)
2015 Transmission, solo exhibition, Gallery of the KVD, Dachau (Press SZ) (Press SZ)
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2025 NoWeapon.world, Amsterdam
2024 NoWeapon.world, Genoa
2021 ALIENPOLKA, Dachau Castle (Archive)
2018 Recycled, KVD Gallery, Dachau
2017 Objects of desire, KVD Gallery, Dachau
2014 TwinTownArt I, Alpen Adria Gallery, Klagenfurt (Austria) (pdf-Katalog)
2014 Tag80, Goetheinstitute, Munich
2014 Kaltes klares Wasser, Hartmannsberg Castle, Bad Endorf
2014 Licht & Schatten, Egyptian Museum, Munich
2013 City of Munich Grants for Fine Arts, Lothringer 13, Munich
2012 Ad ACTA, Kunstpavillon, Munich
2012 Third Floor, Galerie Henninger, Munich
2012 Schablone, Kunstverein Warendorf
2012 Olympia & Kunst München 1972-2012, TAG, Munich, Patronage: Dr. Hans-Jochen Vogel (Archiv)
2012 Sir Pomp Deluxe presents, Dachau Castl
2012 Faszination des Untergangs, Zewe Gallery, Munich
2012 EROS II, Halle 50, Munich
2011 Transit I, Artfinger Gallery, Hongkong (China)
2011 Waldeslust, WhiteBox, Munich
2011 The First Years of Professionalism, BBK, Galerie der Künstler, Munich
2010 Hasselblad Masters, Congreso de fotografia, Bogota (Kolumbien), Photokina Köln, LaVenue NY (USA)
2009 Licht und Schatten des Alltags - Bundesverband Arbeiterfotografie, Frankfurt/Main
2009 Hasselblad Masters, C-House Hongkong (China), Milk Gallery NY (USA), Dask Gallery Copenhagen (Denmark)
2009 Vorgarten, Neue Galerie, Dachau
Represented in the collections
2017 District Office Dachau
2016 Collection SpallArt for Photography (Austria)
2015/16 Sparkasse Dachau (art in construction) (Press SZ) (Press SZ)
2015 District Office Dachau
Publications
Solo Publications
2026 Refacing, Reclaiming, Recoding; ISBN: 978-3-00-086364-6, Pub.: Great Mistake Productions, edition of 50
2025 Vanishing and Becoming; ISBN: 978-3-00-081511-9, Pub.: Great Mistake Productions, edition of 50
2024 Visions from the basement; Pub.: Great Mistake Productions, edition of 25
2023 Future Ghosts; Poster book, Pub.: Great Mistake Productions, edition of 50
2021 Polaroid I, first edition (second edition 2022); exhibition catalogue
2020 Lady Feline presents: Future Ghosts; exhibition catalogue
2016 Bochum; ISBN: 978-3-00-053072-2, Trommeter-Szabo GBR, limited edition of 100
2015 Trommeter-Szabó 2004-2015; ISBN-10: 3000508368, Trommeter-Szabo GBR, edition of 500
2014 Cuxhaven-Saipan; ISBN: 978-3-00-047073-8, Trommeter-Szabo GBR, edition of 400
Group Publications (Selected)
2015 Domagk; Editor: Department of Arts and Culture of the City of Munich, edition of 2000
2013 20 Years of Domagkateliers; ISBN: 978-3-00-042326-0, Publisher: gGmbH Domagkateliers, edition of 1000
2011 The First Years of Professionalism no. 30; ISBN: 978-3-93812516-5-4, Publisher: BBK Munich and OB e.V.
2009 Vorgarten; ISBN: 978-3-930941-64-3, Publisher: Association of Dachau Galleries and Museums
2005 Logisches und weniger Logisches; ISBN: 3-00-016382-4, Publisher: BMW Group, edition of 2000
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REFACING
RECLAIMING
RECODING
Drawings between 2025 and 2026 Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at GaGalerie, Munich, (April 30 – May 10, 2026);
Numbered edition, print run of 50 copies.
Publisher: Great Mistake Productions, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-00-086364-6
Format: A4, 152 pages, softcover with individually designed covers, printed in Italy, English
FUTURE GHOSTS
Drawings 2020-2023
Poster book, 40 pages, unbound
Publisher: Great Mistake Productions
Format 30 x 42 cm
Trommeter Szabó 2004-2015
Retrospective, photography and installation art.
The book "Trommeter-Szabó 2004-2015" gives an overviewck about the artistic work of the former Munich artist duo Trommeter-Szabó (Barbara Trommeter & Georg Szabó) from this period. workn from the fields of photography (new German photography) and spatial installation, plus work index.
Edition: 500 pieces, foreword: Till Julian Huss "Models of intensive time perception", German & English
Hardcover : 168 pages
ISBN-10: 3000508368
ISBN-13: 978-3000508363
Publisher : Trommeter-Szabo;
1st edition (2015)
VANISHING AND BECOMING
Icarus and Phoenix drawings
A book about failure, dissolution and transformation.
Publisher: Great Mistake Productions, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-00-081511-9
Format: 16.8 × 23.6 cm, 100 pages, softcover,
printed in Italy
Polaroid I
Polaroid I
First edition 2021, new edition 2022
Polaroid photographs 2018-2021
Format 21 x 21 cm, hard cover
Cuxhaven Saipan
The book "Cuxhaven-Saipan" shows photographs from the photo series of the same name. The series Cuxhaven and Saipan is a photographic analysis of the factors "time" and "reality" in photography.
Edition. 400 pieces, hardcover, foreword: Dr. Irene Mertens "Thoughts on temporality and reality in Trommeter-Szabó's photographs."
Format 21 x 21 cm
ISBN 978-3-00-047073-8
VISIONS FROM
THE BASEMENT
Photographs
By engaging with spaces, we explore not only physical environments but also our inner spaces, our identity: our history, the landscape of our memory, and the myriad desires and choices that shape our lives.
Publisher: Great Mistake Productions, 2024
Format: 17 × 24 cm, 52 pages, Fedrigoni Sirio Blue softcover, printed in Italy
Lady Feline presents:
Future Ghosts
Drawings 2018-2020
Published as part of the 2020 solo exhibition of the same name.
Format DinA5 soft cover
Bochum
The photographic series "Bochum" presents, in 80 images, a conceptual collection of details from a private apartment in Bochum, occupied since the 1960s. The concept of consciously chosen photographic decisions and equally selected sections follows a strict shooting rule: "at the very top, in the middle, at the very bottom." As a whole, the work "Bochum" is a study of the functioning of perception, memory, and the visualization of these processes through the medium of photography. (Dr. Anne Friedland)
Limited edition fine art illustrated book: 6/100 (May 2016) Collector's Edition: Giclee fine art print on 250g fomanu selection™, signed and numbered. The book features a foreword by Dr. phil. Anne Friedland. Format: 30 x 40 cm
ISBN: 978-3-00-053072-2
