Patricia Kühfuss works with images to explore the bigger picture of health, care and capitalism.

Photography’s logic made her investigate the relationship between the visible and assigned value in complex systems. In her work, she invites stakeholders to map the social consequences of a mechanistic worldview in order to create breathing room for organic thinking and to advocate for that which can’t be known.

She served as a staff photographer for both very small and very big newspapers and continues to work with editorial outlets around the globe.

She holds a BA in photojournalism from HS Hannover, Germany, and spent an exchange year studying photojournalism at dmjx Aarhus, Denmark.

Reflecting her shift towards a more artistic practice, she graduated from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague, Netherlands with an MA in Photography & Society in July 2022.

In May 2024, she has been selected to be a part of one out of four scienceXmedia tandems funded by Stiftung Charité, to develop constructive science communication with the Institute of Nursing Sciences at Charité Berlin.

Patricia Kühfuss speaks German, English and Norwegian fluently and is currently based between The Hague, NL and Cologne, GER.

She is a member of Women Photograph, the Fotobus Society and ver.di. In 2023, she became an appointed member of the DGPH. Her archive is represented by laif, and she’s a member of the laif cooperative.

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brand eins • bureau bordeaux • Chrismon • De Correspondent (NL) • Corriere della Sera (IT)• Courrier International (FR)• Engagement Global • Finstral • Focus • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • GEO • GEOSpecial • GEOlino • JWD • Landeshauptstadt Hannover • The Hechinger Report (US) • Le Temps (CH) • manager magazin • National Geographic (US)• Neue Zürcher Zeitung (CH) • Schäche&Schmitz • Science Notes • Der SPIEGEL • SPIEGELWissen • Stern • Süddeutsche Zeitung • TECHNOSEUM Mannheim • Tages-Anzeiger (CH) • Topos • ver.diPUBLIK • VWStiftung • The Wall Street Journal (US)• Die ZEIT • ZEITWissen • ZEITMagazin

NURSING SCIENCE GOES VISUAL, scienceXmedia tandem, Stiftung Charité

IN/VISIBLE CARE with HS Hannover, GLS Treuhand

IN/VISIBLE CARE with HS Hannover, Stiftung MundA

WHAT COUNTS Stiftung Kulturwerk Research Grant

DAAD MA study grant

BREAD AND POWER Sir Greene Foundation International Research Grant

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN Lumix Festival HAZ People’s Choice Award

HOW TO GET HOME Stiftung Kulturwerk Grant, Publication

MY FATHER IS IN THESE TREES, PIC Selected 2019

HOW TO GET HOME Sony World Photo Award in ”Professional/Creative“ (2nd)

MY FATHER IS IN THESE TREES, Punkt Acatech Journalist Award (shortlist)

Photo of the Year, Norwegian Local Newspaper Union

INTIME OUTTIME German Youth Photo Award (shortlist)

IN/VISIBLE CARE Frankfurt University for Applied Sciences, Frankfurt (solo)

IN/VISIBLE CARE aufhof Hannover, Hannover (solo)

IN/VISIBLE CARE aufhof Hannover, Hannover (solo)

THE TIRED INSTITUTION Work Show Grow, ASC Courthouse Projects, London (group)

WHAT COUNTS Open Day, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (group)

WHAT COUNTS Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (group)

CLOSE YET SO FAR, Photo Canopy, Burton on Trent, UK, (group)

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN, Technoseum Mannheim, permanent exhibition, Mannheim, DE (group)

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN, Freiraum für Fotografie, Berlin, DE (group)

TRACHTWERK SCHAU, RAW Photofestival, Worpswede, DE (group)

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN Lumix Festival for young photojournalism, Hannover, DE (group)

HOW TO GET HOME Schömberger Fotoherbst, DE (group)

TRACHTWERK SCHAU, Frankenberg, DE (group)

HOW TO GET HOME Sony World Photo Awards, Somerset House, London, GB (group)

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN KuK Monschau, Aachen, DE (group)

HOW TO GET HOME, MINTxGoethe Exil (screening)

HOW TO GET HOME Obscura Festival 2018, Georgetown Penang, MYS (screening)

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN Galerie für Fotografie, Hannover, DE (group)

HOW TO GET HOME, Block88, Soweto/Johannesburg, SA (solo)

NACH NEUEM TRACHTEN, Castle Bückeburg, DE

NACH NEUEM TRACHTEN, Berlin Fashion Week, Lower Saxony State Chancellery, Berlin, DE (group)

INTIME OUTTIME Photokina, Cologne, DE

MOSAIK ISTANBUL Galerie Kulturreich, Hamburg, DE (group)

NURSING SCIENCE GOES VISUAL, ISFAM Congress, Charité Berlin, GER, speaker

CARE & MEDIA, Fachtag Pflege in den Medien/Medien in der Pflege, HS Hannover, Hannover, speaker

CARE & MIGRATION, Fachtag Pflege lernen ist politisch, online, speaker

PICTURE PERFECT?, b°future festival for constructive journalism, Bonn, speaker

PICTURES OF CARE, UK Essen, Essen, speaker

BLICKWECHSEL PFLEGE, TU Dresden, online, workshop

INVISIBLE CARE, TU Dresden, Dresden, artist talk and workshop

PHOTOJOURNALISM & A.I. , NewZee Workshop, online, artist talk

Alumnitalk, HS Hannover, Hannover, artist talk

BR24 Medien Macht der Bilder, podcast

PICTURES OF CARE Tagung „Bildermächtig“, Journalistinnenbund e.V., Frankfurt, speaker

PICTURES OF CARE Knowember, Hannover, speaker

PICTURES OF CARE b°future festival for constructive journalism, Bonn, speaker

WHAT COUNTS DGPh photosessions, online, artist talk

WHAT COUNTS Die Geschichte hinter dem Bild, photonews 11/22, essay

WHAT COUNTS laif agency annual meeting, Cologne, artist talk

MY FATHER IS IN THESE TREES, Ecónica Vol.1, Universitat de València, essay

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN Lumix Festival Podcast #4 Stereotypes, podcast

NICHT MÜDE WERDEN freiraum für fotografie, Berlin, artist talk

Master of Fine Arts and Design, Photography & Society, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL

Bachelor of Arts, Photojournalism & Documentary Photography, HS Hannover, DE

International Photojournalism, Danish School of Media and Journalism, DK

Internship Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (6 months), DE

Internship Hallingdølen Avis (2 months), NO

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