Karin Rehn-Kaufmann

Art Director and General Representative Leica Galleries International (Austria) 

Karin Rehn-Kaufmann studied German and Philosophy at the University of Freiburg. She also obtained her diploma at the Eurythmischen Hochschule in Stuttgart, where she subsequently worked as a lecturer from 1982 to 1986. After the Salzburg-based, Austrian Capital Management Project Development GmbH joined Leica Camera AG in 2005, her long-standing passion for photography manifested itself in 2008 with the opening of the Leica Gallery Salzburg. Today, Karin Rehn-Kaufmann acts as Art Director and General Representative Leica Galleries International and manages the 28 Leica Galleries worldwide. She has successfully curated numerous important photo exhibitions, such as the China Flight project with spectacular aerial photographs from the 1930s, exhibition concepts for the Leica Gallery as part of Photokina 2012, 2014 and 2016, and the exhibition 10×10 on the occasion of the 100 years of Leica Photography anniversary. She is responsible for the Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar and curated the exhibitions of photographers such as Bryan Adams, Werner Bischof, Joseph Koudelka, Thomas Hoepker, Steve McCurry, Rankin and Andy Summers.

Karin Rehn-Kaufmann has been a Leica Oskar Barnack Award jury member since 2008 and has played a key role in shaping and developing the prestigious photography prize. She is the publisher of the 40 Years of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award catalogue, as well as curator of the exhibition of the same name and the annual LOBA presentations at the Ernst Leitz Museum.