Ali Eckert

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Ali Eckert

Ali Eckert (born Ralph Arthur Eckert ) is a German-American visual artist. Eckert is also a film director, film producer and screenwriter. He made several music videos in the 2000s . He lives in Berlin .

Life

Eckert attended the Upper Rhine High School in Wiesbaden . He then studied design at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences . After training as a photographer and studying communication design, Eckert worked as a video clip and advertising film director and as a producer.

The short film Wonderful! Swans are also coming ... from 1996 is one of Eckert's first publications. In 1998 Eckert worked as a co-producer on the short film Killer by Bernhard Landen with Heike Makatsch in the leading role. The short film Cable Unincorporated , which is set in the American Midwest, was made in 1999. In 2000, Eckert produced the music video for the band Die Toten Hosen's single Bayern with Peter Thorwarth . In 2001 Eckert produced the music video again with Peter Thorwarth for the single, Summer of Beatsteaks, from their album Living Targets . Together with Daniel Acht , he was involved in the 2002 short film Dark Ages as producer, director and screenwriter , which received international awards. For his first movie Video Kings , which was released in 2004 and despite a low budget, numerous well-known actors could be cast (including Fabian Busch , Wotan Wilke Möhring , Bela B. , Badesalz , Til Schweiger ), Eckert wrote the screenplay again together with Daniel Acht, with whom he also directed together. In 2011 Eckert began producing the US documentary Following the Ninth: In the Footsteps of Beethoven's Final Symphony in Chile , which was completed in 2013. Together with Monica Nancy Wick , he has meanwhile produced the documentary Brett vor'm Kopp , which shows the life of the skateboard pioneer Titus Dittmann in 2012 , with Eckert both directing and writing the screenplay.

Also in 2012, Eckert's “Photo Paintings”, large-format nudes on silk, were presented for the first time. a. with Esther Schweins , Eva Habermann , Julia Dietze , Lauren Lee Smith and Ursula Karven . In the following year Eckert presented his staged photograph “Foto-Noir” with Bettina Zimmermann and Antje Traue for the first time . In 2014, the exhibition "Foto Noir - Crime Scene" followed the Berlin Gallery Weekend with Florentine Lahme and Annabelle Mandeng . In the same year the exhibition "Midnight Art" followed at Jenny Falckenberg-Blunck in Hamburg.

At the international fair 'Art Market Budapest' in 2016 Eckert's triptych from his series 'Silent Silhouettes' was accepted into the 'German Art Fund Hungary'. In 2017 the group exhibition 'Mona Lisa Show' in the Hotel Mond Berlin followed (with, among others, Andy Warhol , Robert Doisneau , Thomas Ruff , SEO ), in 2018 the group exhibition 'Provoke' in St. Urban, Switzerland (with, among others, Elmar Batters , Pierre Molinier , Daido Moriyama , Pentagon Group )

Eckert's works can be found in international collections with the Zagoras Collection, Sander Collection, Neumann-Hug Collection and German Art Fund Hungary.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2009: FOTOBILD, Photo Art Fair, Berlin
  • 2010: ART FAIR21 / BLOOM, International Art Fair Cologne
  • 2011: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE BEAUTY, Galerie Fasanen37, Berlin
  • 2012: Stars In Disguise, Berlin
  • 2013: Art floor, Wolfenbüttel
  • 2014: Foto Noir - Crime Scene, Berlin
  • 2014: Midnight Art - Jenny Falckenberg, Hamburg
  • 2015: Lost In Color - Jenny Falckenberg, Hamburg
  • 2016: SILENT SILHOUETTES, Uterstaedt Gallery, Berlin
  • 2016: ART MARKET BUDAPEST, Budapest
  • 2017: THE MONA LISA SHOW, Hotel Mond Fine Art, Berlin
  • 2018: PROVOKE, Neumann-Hug, St. Urban

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1996: The Silver Award , Philafilms, Philadelphia International Film Festival, Wondrous ! Swans are also coming ...
  • 1996: Bavarian Film Prize , Children Film Category, The Story of Monty Spinnerratz
  • 1997: Outstanding Award by the National German Film Board, Netsurfer
  • 1999: Golden Film Prize , International Houston Film Fest, Killer
  • 2000: Golden Icarus Award for Advertising Film in London, L&M Cigarettes
  • 2001: World Bronze Medal , The New York Festivals, Manfred the Sheep
  • 2002: Comet Best National Music Video, Die Toten Hosen - Bavaria
  • 2003: Outstanding Award by the National German Film Board, Dark Ages
  • 2003: Outstanding Director Citation, Flensburger Film Festival, Dark Ages
  • 2004: Friederich-Wilhelm Murnau Prize , German Film Award, Dark Ages
  • 2004: Best Director , DKF Multimedia Group, Dark Ages
  • 2008: Best Movie , Lichter Filmtage Frankfurt, Video Kings
  • 2016: German Art Fund, Hungary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b alieckert.de: Bio ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ redcarpetreports.de: Ali Eckert and his "Stars In Disguise" ( Memento from May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c alieckert.de: Film ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ alieckert.de: Photo Paintings ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ foto-noir.com: Ali Eckert's label for his unique staged photography , accessed on February 16, 2014
  6. ↑ Vimeo : FOTO NOIR Vernissage Gallery Weekend Berlin 2014 , accessed on June 21, 2014
  7. ↑ foto-noir.com: All Artwork , accessed on June 21, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Eckert, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckert, Ralph Arthur (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century