Professor for Photography
Visual Communication
Marienstraße 1a, room 203
99423 Weimar
phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 32 39
e-mail: birgit.wudtke[at]uni-weimar.de
Office hours: by appointment via e-mail
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Curriculum Vitae
Prof. Dr. phil. in art. Birgit Wudtke’s work operates at the intersection of photographic practice, photographic theory, and experimental design. Her research investigates the transformation of photographic images from analogue and digital forms to generated images.
In her teaching and research, she examines the impact of digital and post-digital media on photographic practices, image production, and visual culture. Particular areas of focus include multiperspectivity, the decolonization of photography, feminist image archives, and questions of visual representation. At Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, she develops interdisciplinary and hybrid teaching formats that combine analogue, digital, and collaborative modes of working. Digital technologies are understood as an integral part of experimental teaching practice and are critically reflected upon and applied in relation to current developments, modes of production, and professional fields within the photographic industry. Central to her work are the development of independent photographic positions and the critical examination of processes of media transformation.
Her research and teaching projects have received support through both internal university funding schemes and external funding programs and have been presented in exhibitions, publications, and public presentations, including at the Bauhaus Museum Weimar (Bauhaus 100) and in public space in Weimar-West (Demokratie stärken). Bachelor projects and doctoral research developed within her teaching have been presented at the House of Photography Hamburg, including as part of Gute Aussichten – Junge Deutsche Fotografie (2025) and the exhibition Expanded Horizons (2026).
Birgit Wudtke studied Photography at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences under Ute Mahler and Hans Hansen and completed her Master’s degree at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Norway), where she studied with Doris Frohnapfel and Claudia Reinhardt. She received her doctorate from the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (HFBK Hamburg) under the supervision of Dr. Michaela Ott and Silke Grossmann, with Dr. Verena Kuni serving as external examiner. Alongside her artistic and academic work, she worked in editorial, fashion, and advertising photography as well as digital image post-production.
She has taught, conducted workshops, and given guest lectures at institutions including HFBK Hamburg, the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Goethe University Frankfurt (Institute for Visual Culture), the Hong Kong Academy of Visual Arts, and the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin. She has presented lectures at international festivals and professional conferences, including Düsseldorf Photo Weekend and the lAbiRynT Festival of New Art.
Her publications include the monograph Fotokunst in Zeiten der Digitalisierung. Künstlerische Strategien in der digitalen und postdigitalen Phase (transcript Verlag), the artist books untouched touched retouched (Materialverlag) and hier geboren. née ici. (Marian Arnd Verlag), as well as Portrait Settings (Lucia Verlag), a collaborative research and teaching project on contemporary portraiture featuring contributions by doctoral researchers on multiperspectivity, the decolonization of photography, and feminist approaches to image archiving (Kreativfonds).
Expertise
Post-digital photography, photographic image cultures, digital and generated images, multiperspectivity, decolonization of photography, feminist image archives, artistic research, photographic theory, platform cultures, experimental image-making processes, cooperative and collaborative image practices, hybrid teaching formats, and interdisciplinary design practice.