Mexico / England, 1986
Photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Mexico City. Master of Arts from the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (2012). Since 1993, she has taken various workshops in institutions such as the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, Morelense Center of the Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts, the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, and Complutense University of Madrid.
Germán's work explores fantastic worlds from various disciplines such as animation, drawing, and photography, where she alludes to dream metaphors that arise from a literary influence (“El viento del sol”, 2010-2013). In her series "Metamorfosis de una nube" (2013-2014), light, landscape, and meteorological phenomena began to acquire a greater presence, focusing on cloud formations and their characteristics such as the duration of a cloud, recorded in a series of snapshots ("Diez minutos de vida"), its movement from one point to another from a series of GIFs ("Estudios de precipitación"), and finally without missing an essential part; the contemplation of the sky from a collection of pictorial and literary clouds ("Variantes"), where more than a photographer Germán becomes an observer, seeking a poetic approach to the sky through the study of clouds.
Exhibitions · Some of her exhibitions are "Tres varaciones sobre un mismo tema" in Salón ACME No. 6 (CDMX, 2018), "Reflexiones en torno al cielo" at the Ciudad Juárez Art Museum (Ciudad Juárez, 2017) and in No-Automático (Monterrey, 2017) as part of a short-stay program supported by the PAC (Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo), “Espacios de Reflexión y Fantasía”, curated by Emma Cecilia García Krinsky and “Approaches to abstraction // ·· Construction of a landscape ” at Patricia Conde Galería (CDMX, 2019),“ Todo por ver ” at the Cuatro Caminos Photo Museum (CDMX, 2015) and “Fotografío, luego existo ”at the Museum of the City of Cuernavaca (Cuernavaca, 2014 ).
Awards · Germán's work has been selected to participate in various festivals and competitions in Mexico such as the “Third Contemporary Photography Contest of Mexico” (Nuevo León, Monterrey, 2017), the “II Oaxaca Photography Biennial” (Oaxaca, 2016), "XXXVI National Meeting of Young Art" (Aguascalientes, 2016), "1st Catalog of Morelense Photography" (Cuernavaca, 2015), "Fifth international Biennial of University Visual Art" (Toluca, 2012), "First festival of technologies MOD digital "(Guadalajara, 2008)," FotoFest Morelos "(Cuernavaca, 2011), and "Local Code"(Cuernavaca, 2007).
Germán has obtained various supports for her artistic production such as the FONCA Artistic Residency Program scholarship to carry out a residency at Banff Center (2019), the FONCA Young Creators Program (2012-2013), the PECDA Artistic Development Stimulus Program of the state of Morelos (2009-2010), The second Foto Ensayo Photographic Training Program (Pachuca, Hidalgo, 2009-2010), as well as the scholarship for master's studies and studies abroad CONACyT (2010-2012).
Collections · Her photographs are part of the BanRegio Collection, the Banff Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives Center Collection, and private collections.
Germán has collaborated in various projects and artistic collectives such as the Real Estate Art Collective (Mexico), Art by Mail (Mexico), Cambio Cuentos por Cigarrillos (Spain), and the Animatitlán animation collective (Mexico). Her work has been published in the magazine Vogue, Capitel, Mexicanismo, an article written by Dr. Jose Antonio Rodríguez, and in MirArte, a supplement to the newspaper "La Crónica Jalisco" by photographer Luis / Caballo.
