ARTISTS / Contemporary art
Vera Mercer

1936	born in Berlin as daughter of the stage designer Franz Mertz
	trained as a dancer
1958	trained as a photographer; moved to Paris
1960s	portraits of artists (Marcel Duchamp, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely and others); reportages (Samuel Beckett, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and others); assistant to the "Vogue" photographer
1973	after divorce move to Omaha with her second husband Mark Mercer
2006	started still life photography with 4x5 camera, also with 8x10 camera
	lives in Omaha, Nebraska/USA and in Paris
	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020	Vera Mercer - Still Life and Portrait Photography, Museum der Fotografie Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany
2019	Aufgetischt! - (with Daniel Spoerri), Künstlerhaus Marktoberdorf, Germany
2017	Still Life, Bayer/Culture in the Erholungshaus, Leverkusen
2016	Vera Mercer - Sensual Lust for Life and Vanitas, Bikini Berlin, Berlin
2015-2016	Vera Mercer - Still Life, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern
2013	Sherry Leedy, Kansas City
	Flower Show, Bernis
2012-2013	Rheingalerie Bonn
2012	Nature Morte, Centro de las Artes de Nuevo León, Mexico
	Gallery Jordanow, Munich
2011	Nature Morte - Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
2011	H2Openspace, Trieste, I, Bernis Centre for contemporary arts, Omaha
	Nature Morte, Centro Regional de las Artes de Michoacán, Zamora, Mexico
2010	Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA), Omaha, USA
	Joie de Vivre and Vanitas / Portraits and Still Life - Kommunale Galerie Berlin
	Flowers - Hotel Bogota, Berlin
2008	Still Morte - Galería Manolo Rivero, Merida, Mexico
1998	Flores - Galería Rosano, Mexico City, Mexico
	Flores - Fototeca de Veracruz "Juan Malpica Mimendi", Veracruz, Mexico
	Group exhibitions (selection)
2020	PIN. Auction, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
	The illusion of reality / Photography positions, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart
	Like blossoms thoughts arise, Gallery Schlichtenmaier, Grafenau
	Still life and garden pieces, Gallery Jordanow, Munich
2019	MAGIC OF SILENCE / MAGIE DER STILLE, Johanna Brede Photokunst, Berlin
2018	abBild, Graf & Schelble Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016-2017	Blütenpracht, New Gallery Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
2016	Month of Photography in Minsk 2016, Minsk, Belarus
	WHITE WORKS, Gallery Jordanow, Munich, Germany
2014	WILD - Animals in Contemporary Photography, Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation, Berlin
2013	1st Biennial of Artists in the House of Art, Biennial of Artists in the House of Art, Munich
2012	Lost Paradise - Images of Flowers in Contemporary Photography, Mönchehaus-Museum for Modern Art, Goslar
	Beauty - Flowers in Contemporary Photography, Tokyo Art Museum, Tôkyô
2011	Flowers - Flowers in Contemporary Photography, FO.KU.S Foto Kunst Stadtforum,Innsbruck
	Flowers - Contemporary Photography, Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation,Berlin
2010	BEAUTY | Flowers in Photography, Alexander Ochs Galleries,Beijing
	BEAUTY The Flower Show, Artists' Cooperative Gallery,Omaha
	Public Collections
	SpallArt Collection, Salzburg

 

Crab, 2009
55,9 × 77,7 cm   →

Lotus 2, 2013
145,6 × 109,2 cm   →

Night blooming Cereus, 2020
63,5 × 80 cm   →

Sardine in sauceboat, 2012
55,8 × 77,9 cm   →

The Bread, 2016
43,1 × 72,3 cm   →

The Table, 2014
53,3 × 74,7 cm   →

Tree stump, 2020
60 × 80 cm   →

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