[1][2][3] She has had solo exhibitions at The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK[3] and at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany.
Between 1986 and 2012, Nieweg explored "the German tradition of "Grabeland," a unique community gardening system practiced on the outskirts of urban centers.
"[7] She "photographed the agricultural landscape found on the outskirts of towns and industrial areas in the Rühr and Lower Rhine.
Plots of unused land, leased out for one year, are transformed into richly planted allotments, after which they are ploughed and left unseeded.
All show individuality, reflecting the personality of their owners: sheds held together with wire and corrugated iron tacked haphazardly to wooden frames; rickety structures, that, despite their impermanence, have been carefully built.