projections of multi-layered androgynous portraits. A later large-scale multi-media installation, Untitled (Ultramarine) (1993), is a series of eight self-portraits, each having three parts, united by a vertical band of electric blue pigment. Since 1975, Sieverding, along with Mettig, has also made political statements through her photography using both German and American history as the basis. During 1976–78, the artist traveled to China and America, accumulating visual propaganda to further explore the symbolic communications at play in mass-marketed imagery and text. One example is the monumental four-part photograph IX, taken on a New York City rooftop during Sieverding's one-year stay in the city in 1977. In this photo, Sieverding is enveloped in a sea of black, one hand grasping a glass, and the other placed atop her head. Referencing the notorious blackout in New York on the summer night of July 13, 1977, the words "THE GREAT WHITE WAY GOES BLACK" are printed across her face. Her work has frequently triggered debates on contemporary society, politics, social and cultural issues, one example being her poster installations Deutschland wird Deutscher of 1993, which she did in collaboration with Klaus Biesenbach, and Die Pleite of 2005 in Greater Berlin. In 1992, Sieverding was commissioned to design the memorial to the parliamentarians persecuted in the Weimar Republic. It is on display at the Reichstag in Berlin. In 1995, she organized the lecture series "Never mind the nineties" together with Klaus Biesenbach, who studied freie Kunst at the HDK (Berlin University of the Arts) with Katharina Sieverding from 1993 to 1998. While a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou/Shanghai, Sieverding produced the film Shanghai (2002–2003). The film, consisting of two five-minute loops, documents the street life in and around the city. Notable photographs “The Great White Way Goes Black” ”Stauffenberg-Block” ”Motorkamera” ”XVII” ”Die Sonne um Mitternacht schauen” ”Untitled (Ultramarine)” ”Maton” Films ”Life-Death” ”Beijing, Yanan, Xian, Luoyang” ”Shanghai” Major exhibitions Sieverding took part in documenta 5 in 1972, documenta 6 in 1977 and documenta 7 in 1982, Kassel, and in 1997 she exhibited in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Her solo exhibitions include: Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (1998); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1998); Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf (1997–98); Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (1993); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1992). Collective exhibition: "Objectivités – La photographie à Düsseldorf" – Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2008) C Les Rencontres d'Arles, France (2010).