Bio

After completing teacher training in Switzerland, Anna Katharina Scheidegger (born 1976) studied at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. She has taken part in numerous artist residencies in France and abroad and was an artist member at the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. She has received many awards and grants, including the Swiss Art-Air Prize, support from the FNAGP fund in France, and the Bern Photography Prize, as well as residencies such as the Swiss National Studio at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris and the PICTO LAB – Experimenting with the Image residency in Paris. In her work, Anna Katharina Scheidegger frequently addresses issues related to the fragility of nature and uses her technical expertise to provoke reflection while exploring the limits of the image. In addition to mastering printing techniques to achieve the desired emotional effect as closely as possible, her use of erasure, disappearance, and degradation reflects her belief that photography is as much—if not more—a tool for thought as it is for representation.