Background
Christa Frieda Vogel was born in 1960 in Meppen, Emsland in Germany, and studied graphic design from 1982 to 1988 at what is now the Berlin University of the Arts.
Christa Frieda Vogel was born in 1960 in Meppen, Emsland in Germany, and studied graphic design from 1982 to 1988 at what is now the Berlin University of the Arts.
She has published several photo books and presented her work in national and international exhibitions. While working as a make-up artist she acquired a private pilot license (PPLA, CVFR, KFB). Travels have led her to Venice, Croatia and Macedonia, as well as to Georgia and Turkey.
In Turkey she lived and worked as a photographer and curator from 2009 to 2013.
In 2013 she moved back to Berlin. 2006 National Gallery Tbilisi, Georgia: virtual art, land art project
2007 Caravansary Museum Tbilisi, Georgia: portraits, group exhibition
2007 Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin: Portraits und Landschaften (Portraits and Landscapes), group exhibition
2008 Art Fair Cologne: Georgienfotos (Photos of Georgia) and book presentation
2008 Foundation Sergej Mawritzki, Berlin, book presentation and exhibition: Georgien, Begegnung mit Ursprung und Zeit (Georgia: An Encounter with Origin and Time)
2009 Gallery Brockstedt, Berlin: Figur in der Landschaft (Figure in a Landscape), with Ernst Baumeister
2010 Gallery Tammen, Berlin: Nudes, polaroid photos, group exhibition
2011 Gallery Arte, Istanbul: Ara Güler Portrait, group exhibition
2011 Galata House of Art in Beyoğlu, Istanbul, Artistanbul, book presentation and exhibition
2011 Galeriartist, Berlin: Artistanbul, book presentation and exhibition.
In 2000 she became a founding member of the Fotoschule am Schiffbauerdamm and worked as a curator and exhibition manager at the Postfuhramt Berlin.