Simone Demandt

Grants and Awards

1987 Scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and project funding

from the Italian Cultural Institute in Stuttgart

1994 Art Award from the Heinrich Böll Comprehensive School in Dortmund

1999 Art Prize of the City of Baden-Baden

1999 Mathilde Planck Program, teaching fellowship, Pforzheim University

2003/2004 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2008 Kunstfonds Foundation, project grant

2013 Nomination for Villa Aurora, Los Angeles

2013 Karin Abt-Straubinger Foundation, project grant

2015 Hanna Nagel Prize

2021 Project grant from the State of Baden-Württemberg

2024 Project grant from the Volkart Foundation, Winterthur

Works are held in numerous public collections in Germany and abroad. (List available upon request)

Academic career, support for emerging artists

1996–1999 Lecturer in Photography and Drawing at the Free University of Graphic Design and Fine Art, Freiburg

1999–2003: Taught photography at the Pforzheim University of Design

2009–2010: Acting Professor of Artistic Photography at the Saarbrücken University of Fine Arts (HBKSaar)

2011–2013 / 2023–2025: Mentor in the Rhineland-Palatinate state mentoring programme for female artists.

2022–2023 Acting Professor of Photography at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design

Numerous lectures and workshops (list available on request)

Exhibition Initiatives and Curation

1994–1995 Concept for the exhibition “Begreifungskräfte – Künstlerinnen Heute” for the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and the Stadthaus Ulm:

Organised in collaboration with Andreas Vowinckel, Elisabeth Schraut, Karin Widmann and Susanne Meier-Faust at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe, and at the Stadthaus Ulm/Ulmer Museum with Brigitte Reinhard,

under the patronage of Brigitte Unger-Soyka, Minister for Family, Women, Further Education and the Arts in Baden-Württemberg.

Participating artists: Ulrike Flaig, Sabine Groß, Simone Westerwinter, Patricia Waller, Margret Eicher, Petra Lemmerz, Andrea Zaumseil, Katharina Büche, Viola Kiefer, Gabriele Heidegger, Agnes Märkel, Agnes Lörincz, Barbara Steppe, Ulrike Sautner, Sinje Dillenkofer. Catalogue.

10/1995: Script for S2-Forum (SWF/SWR radio): “Between Hipness and Resignation” for the exhibition “Begreifungskräfte – Künstlerinnen Heute” at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.

1996–1998 Exhibition coordination and catalogue contributions for “Skulptur Südwest” and “Vorsicht Farbe” at the Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe.

1998–2005 Exhibition organisation at the Gesellschaft der Freunde Junger Kunst, Baden-Baden:

•2000 Ulrike Flaig, ‘Sound-Check’

•2000 Alexander Braun, Stefan Krass

•2001 Katharina Büche, ‘Objekte’

•2002 Barbara Denzler and Sabine K. Braun

•2003 Kurt Grunow and Mark Steffen Bremer, ‘Lichtprobe’ (catalogue)

•2004 “Scatto” with Thaddäus Hüppi: Eleven photographic positions, Arnold Odermatt, Berthold Steinhilber, Petra Warrass, Marc Räder, Jürgen Schwämmle, Klaus Richter, Ursula Kraft (F), Susanne Gammauf (A), Wolfgang Breyer, Caspar Eltner.

•2005 Sven Drühl and Stefan Wissel “Poplieferanten” (catalogue)

2016 Co-curator of the 2nd Trinational “Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse”, exhibition: Petra Warrass “ideal”. T66, Freiburg (catalogue)

2016 Founder of the initiative to preserve the villa in Baden-Baden of the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, who died in 2016, as an international residency centre for sound artists, composers and researchers. International collaboration and initiatives until the villa’s final sale in 2020.

Since 2013, a member of the board and, from 2018 to 2026, chair of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg: exhibitions, symposia, publications. 2025: 70th anniversary of the Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.