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Gundula Schulze Eldowy

Biography

1954born as Gundula Schulze in Erfurt
1970-1972Apprenticeship as an industrial clerk
1972-1975Technical College for Advertising and Design, East-Berlin
1979-1984Distance Studies of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, with Horst Thorau
1984Member of the Association of Visual Artist of the GDR, Berlin
Working as a freelance photographer in Berlin
1985Encounter with the photographer Robert Frank in East Berlin
1990-1993Working stay in New York City
1993-2000Travels to Egypt, Japan, Moscow and Turkey
2000-2020Travels to Peru and Bolivia
since 2010Member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, Dresden
since 2019Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin

Gundula Schulze Eldowy lives and works in Berlin and Peru.

Awards and grants

2004Scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2001Artist grant from the Else-Heiliger-Fonds of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bonn
2000New Zealand Photography Award “M.I.L.K.”
199612th Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Award (Japan)
1990Scholarship from the Kunstring Folkwang, Essen