Short information on all bodies of work
Landschaften / Landscapes ¦ 2007-, ongoing
"Landschaften" is an ongoing work about the relationship of reality and its image. Digitally altered or constructed photographs of implausible landscapes.For the project I take photos and detailled photographic studies from which I later create images that range from slightly altered to complete digitally composed photographic images. Through retouchting, digital lighting and/or montage I create interpretations of beautiful yet disturbing landscapes. It is important that viewers cannot point their finger on the manipulations but at the same time feel arising doubts whether the world shown on the images can be trusted.
Multiplex ¦ 2007
The series is a documentary work about a new kind of cinemas.
In 1988 the world´s first multiscreen entertainment complex opened in Belgium. Today there are more than 130 multiplexes in germany alone and this new kind of movie theatres is steadily replacing the older living-room-style cinemas. Geared towards a new generation of consumers multiplexes are constructed around food-courts and concession areas.
Carports ¦ 2006
'Carports' is a documentary work about how people (germans?) relate to their cars as a very special form of private property.
During the last 15 years Carports have squeezed the classic garage as 'car-shelters' out of the face of modern german neighborhoods. As cheap and pragmatic buildings they allow owners to protect their vehicles and at the same time to show them as status symbols.
In north-german Oldenburg where building land is still rather cheap and many people fullfil their dream to become homeowners instead of renters, a mass of carports can be found. In my images i pick up the already very present order and tidyness of the subject in front of the camera and further aggravate this impression by choice of angle, clipping and retouching.
The resulting series presents the vision of a sunny, clean and strange world where everything is 'in order'. But is it?
Fischer von Erlach ¦ 2006
A documentary work about all still exisiting buildings by the austrian baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach. The pictures are featured in the monograph "Regie der Realtion" about the architect that art historian Andreas Kreul, curator at the Bremen Kunsthalle, has written. The book was published in 2006 by Verlag Anton Pustet in Salzburg, Austria. Solo exhibition, catalogue, edition.
Beaugrenelle ¦ 2004
Series about the Paris` quarter Beaugrenelle that was envisioned as a "Manhattan at the Seine" by former french president Georges Pompidou in the 1970s.
