Monika Baumgartl

Monika Baumgartl (born 1942) is a German photographer, performance artist and representative of concrete photography [de].

Born in Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) Baumgartl trained as a photographer in Hofheim am Taunus from 1966 to 1968.^[1] She then moved to Düsseldorf, worked as an actress (among others a member of Die Bühne [de]) and was assistant to the German filmmaker and video galerist Gerry Schum. Since 1970, she has been active as a photographic artist. From 1970 to 1976, she organised performances and joint exhibitions together with Klaus Rinke.^[2][3]

Baumgartl had her first solo exhibition in 1974. Her photographs are almost exclusively night shots.^[4] She participated in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the section Individuelle Mythologie [de]n: Self-Representation - Performances - Activities - Changes and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 in 1977. Since the 1980s, she has worked as a trainer for tapdance and taiko.

• Exhibition catalogue: documenta 5. Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten heute; Catalogue (as Aktenordner) vol. 1: (Material); vol. 2: (Exponatliste); Kassel 1972
• documenta Archiv (ed.); Wiedervorlage d5 – Eine Befragung des Archivs zur documenta 1972; Kassel/Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
• Katalog zur documenta 6: Vol. 1: Malerei, Plastik/Environment, Performance; Vol. 2: Fotografie, Film, Video; Vol. 3: Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bücher; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X
• Renate Buschmann, Stephan von Wiese (ed.): Fotos schreiben Kunstgeschichte, DuMont, Köln 2007 (Ausstellungskatalog zur Ausstellung Fotos schreiben Kunstgeschichte, 8 December 2007 until 2 March 2008, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf); ISBN 978-3-8321-9058-3

• Beispiele ihrer Werke
• Literature by and about Monika Baumgartl in the German National Library catalogue
• Monika Baumgartl on Documenta Archiv
• Official website