Muhr, Paula
zu Foto 19, 24-26:
Having your hair cut in the Balkans is more a social event then anything else. In smaller towns it envolves meeting with you friend, staying there over hours, chatting, fervently discussing latest political events (there is hardly a more important topic), exchanging gossip (even among men), finding out the latest local news, sometimes drinking a coffee. This is especially practiced in sommer months, as a form of siesta.
zu Foto 21-23:
In the Balkan countries, old people are rather excluded from the social life. Their children, if they have any, have left in order to lead their own lives and most of the old people live alone and feel rather useless. Often they sit at their windows or on balconies, spend time in their gardens in fornt of their houses, just hanging around, not knowing what to do with their time. From their windows and balconies they observe what is happening on the streets, sometimes engaging in conversation with passer-bys. It is their way of trying to re-enter the social sphere and gein contact to younger people
PAULA MUHR
Born in 1977 in Subotica (Serbia). Lives in Germany.
EDUCATION
1998-2002 BA in photography, Academy of Arts BK, Belgrade
1999-2004 Studied General Literature and Theory of Literature, Philological Faculty, Belgrade
2003-6 MA in photography, Academy od Applied Arts, Belgrade
2006- Post-master studies, Academy of Visual Arts (Hochschule fuer Grafik und Buchkunst), Leipzig, Germany
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002-2005 Curator at the Circus Gallery, Students Cultural Centre, Belgrade
since 2002 Writes reviews for IMAGO Magazine for Photography in Central Europe (published twice a year in English in Bratislava, Slovakia)
since 2004 Member of the Editorial Board of the magazine IMAGO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS (since 2003)
2007 Tata, Lumen Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2006 Absence, MXEspai, Barcelona, Spain
Fetish, Gallery of Icons, City Museum, Prilep, Macedonia
2005 Casanova, Remont Gallery, Belgrade
Kevin, DOB Gallery, Belgrade
Oasis, Cultural Centre Tocak, Skopje, Macedonia
2004 Ideal Place, Baodo im Nil, Graz, Austria
Balkan Fest, Totalkunst, The Forest, Edinburgh, UK
2003 Fetish, Student Cultural Centre, Belgrade & Vector Gallery, Iasi, Romania
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 2003)
2007 Photophobia, Kaliningard Art Gallery, Russia
Red Daws Festival, Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 Eine Frage (nach) der Geste, Opera, Leipzig, Germany
Eye2Eye, V Art Gallery, Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
The Great Takeover, Atelier Dolce Vita, Brussels, Belgium
Erosion, Klaipeda Cultural Communication Centre, Klaipeda, Lithuania
2005 Aktuelle Fotografie aus Serbian, Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
NE(A)T, Kogart House, Budapest, Hungary
Yugoline, Esc im Labor, Graz, Austria
Photonic Moments, Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
12th International Month of Photography, Fournos Centre, Athens, Greece
2004 Continental Breakfast, 45th October Salon, Belgrade Cultural Centre
International Meetings of Photography, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
International Photography Exhibition, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
Danube Streaming Show, quartier21/ Freiraum, Museumsquartier, Vienna
2003 Photography, Duplex Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Balkanize it!, Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria & Media Nox, Maribor, Slovenia
44th October Salon, Cvijeta Zuzoric Pavillion, Belgrade, Serbia
Identity and Difference, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia
