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Sylvia Ballhause was born in 1977 in Halle (Saale), Germany. After an apprenticeship as graphic-designer she graduated in communications design with a focus on photography in Darmstadt, Germany, in 2002. From 2007 to 2011 she studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst – the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany, with Christopher Muller and Beate Gütschow (class of artistic photography). Sylvia Ballhause has taken part in several group exhibitions and international photofestivals. From 2013 to 2017 she was working at Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie in Mannheim. She managed the Darmstadt Days of Photography in 2018. Since 2018 Sylvia Ballhause has been working as project manager at Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg.
Education and professional career
Since 2018
Project Manager, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
2017–2018
Project Manager, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie (Darmstadt Days of Photography)
2015–2017
Curatorial Assistent, Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
2013–2015
Research Volunteer, Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim
2007–2011
Studies at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst – Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
2000–2002
Studies at Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Department of Communication Design
1997–1999
Studies at Fachhochschule Anhalt, Dessau, Department of Design
1995–1997
Vocational School for Graphics, Halle (Saale)
Teaching assignments
2018
FH Dortmund, Modul Branding & Profiling, Department of Design, Photography and New Media
2017
HfG Offenbach, Department of Fine Arts and Photography
2004–2009
Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg (University of Education), Department of Arts
Curatorial and voluntary work
Since 2015
Co-Initiator, OFF//FOTO – Festival for Artistic and Documentary Photography, www.off-foto.info
2015
Co-Initiator and Curator of the exhibition PAGE IMPRESSIONS, together with Markus Weckesser, www.photomagazines.org
2012–2014
Co-Initiator, Showroom Fotografie Leipzig
2012–2014
voluntary work, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Fotografie Leipzig e.V.