KATJA STUKE (*1968) and OLIVER SIEBER (*1966) live and work in Düsseldorf/Germany. They cover a broad spectrum of identities: Photographer and artist, curator and initiator of exhibitions, designer and publisher of artists‘ books. through their work and their mediation activities, they have long since become moderators of a certain photographic culture and they reveal the many faces as well as the more and more migrating image forms and modes of presentation of the medium of photography. Since 2005, they have regularly worked abroad, including artist residencies in Osaka, Tokyo, Cite International des Arts Paris, Chicago, Rotterdam, Chongqing, Sarajevo or Toronto.

They received project grants by the Stiftung Kunstfonds, VG Bild-Kunst, Kunststiftung NRW, NRW Kultursekretariat, Emschergenossenschaft, Kunst-/Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf, the Goethe-institut in Chicago and Sarajevo or the Museum MoCP in Chicago. In 2017, they won the LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award at the Rencontres d‘Arles. In 2014, Oliver Sieber‘s Imaginary Club was named Book of The Year by the Jury of the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards. Several books of Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber where shortlisted at the Book of The Year Award in Arles.

Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been on the board of the DGPh (German Society of Photography) from 2019–2021 and been – together with Stefanie Diekmann – head of the »History and Archive« section. Works by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber are in public and private collections. In 2023 they were selected to be part of the National Photographic Commission, regards du Grand Paris, awarded by the French Ministry of Culture to the Ateliers Médicis, in partnership with the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

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