Andreas effort

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Andreas Mühe (born November 26, 1979 in Karl-Marx-Stadt ) is a German photographer and artist . His center of life is in Berlin .

Life

Andreas Mühe is the eldest son of the artistic director Annegret Hahn and the actor Ulrich Mühe . His brother Konrad (* 1982) studied fine arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and received an honorable mention from the jury at the 2011 Berlinale for his short film Questions to My Father . The actress Anna Maria Mühe is his half-sister. The actresses Jenny Gröllmann and Susanne Lothar were his stepmothers .

From the age of four, Andreas Mühe grew up in East Berlin . At the age of sixteen, he initially trained as a photo laboratory assistant in the PPS photo laboratory in Berlin, and then worked as an assistant for the Berlin / London photographer Ali Kepenek and later for Anatol Kotte in Hamburg for the next three years . Since 2001 he has been working as a freelance photographer; At the beginning, numerous portraits of celebrities, musicians, actors and artists were created for the then flourishing German magazine landscape. Through his work for magazines and newspapers, Andreas Mühe found the figure of the politician as a subject. He repeatedly portrayed Angela Merkel on her travels, but Mühe denied his reputation as a “Chancellor photographer” in interviews.

Andreas Mühe's interest in contemporary history and political issues is evident in the independent series on which he has been working alongside commissioned photography since 2004. His work Desks , which he began in 2009, is an example of his exploration of the subject of power. In this, the photographer shows the deserted work spaces of influential political figures such as Helmut Schmidt , Konrad Adenauer and Angela Merkel . For Mühe, the recording of the room - through the selected section and the lighting used - equates to a portrait of the person who lives in this room. In desks , from the architecture of the rooms down to the individual details, the influence and status of the resident becomes clear, and thus a representative function can be ascribed to these rooms, as it were a portrait.

Mühle's latest group of works, Obersalzberg , on which he has been working since 2010, can also be understood as a continuation of the theme of power and its visual representation . In a staged manner, the work deals with the aesthetics of megalomania that was inherent in all dictatorships of the past century, but which brought the Berchtesgadener Land in particular forever into connection with National Socialism.

In recent years, Andreas Mühle's photographs have been shown at a large number of exhibitions. Among other things, the well-known photographer and collector F. C. Gundlach curated the exhibition Werkschau 2 in Berlin's Camera Work in 2010. In 2011, the Rostock Kunsthalle dedicated the photographer's first solo exhibition in a museum. The exhibition was curated by Ingo Taubhorn , who also contributed a text for the extensive accompanying monograph. Furthermore, Mühe was selected to be part of the group exhibition State of the Art Photography in the Düsseldorf NRW Forum in 2012 , which, according to its own statement, presents the photo artists of the future. Andreas Mühe has been represented by the Carlier Gebauer Gallery since 2012.

Work and reception

FC Gundlach , who has been a staunch supporter of Mühes from the very beginning, once described his work as one of extraordinary consistency and thus points to the unmistakable handwriting that characterizes all of his photographic recordings. In addition to their technical quality, the motifs recorded exclusively with the large format camera often have an exciting relationship between negative empty space and actual image content. The picture surface is composed with the inclusion of spatial and architectural contexts, so that the figures that appear in it often appear small and impotent when compared in size. The impression is created that the protagonists are occupied by the space. In order to make them clearly appear, effort makes use of the targeted lighting. Like a theater spot, this gives the scenery a stage character and, although what is shown has been composed and staged by the photographer down to the smallest detail, the viewer has the voyeuristic impression of having just witnessed an intimate scene.

Because of their cool, blue colors and the resulting mood, his pictures have been compared many times with the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich . In his Obersalzberg series , Mühe repeatedly makes use of this aesthetic, but at the same time, by charging it historically and politically, to question it. With his pictures of wild peeing Nazis in front of an idyllic backdrop, Mühe confronts the viewer with the visual myth of this landscape, which was strongly influenced by National Socialist propaganda. Only at second glance is this construct symbolically broken by the act of urinating and the complexity of these motifs becomes apparent. Analogies to other works in recent art history, such as Warhol's Pissing Portraits and Wolfgang Tillman's urinating punks, have been written several times.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Andreas effort. Mischpoche , 2019, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart , Berlin
  • Subversive Practices , June to August 2018, Galerie König, Berlin
  • 2017 Pathos as Distance , House of Photography , Hamburg
  • A trip to Germany ... , November 2013, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • AM - A trip to Germany , August 2013, Former Jewish girls' school , Berlin
  • The Obersalzberg by Andreas Mühe , June 2013, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
  • Obersalzberg - An Essence , April 2013, Schlechtriem, Berlin
  • Andreas Mühe , August - October 2011, Kunsthalle Rostock
  • Werkschau II , November 2010, Rheingalerie Bonn
  • Werkschau 2 , July 2010, Patek Philippe Munich
  • Werkschau 2 , January 2010, Gallery Camera Work Berlin
  • Andreas Mühe , February 2009, Salon Anke Degenhard Hamburg
  • Palestinian Students of Ramallah , November 2008, Goethe-Institut Ramallah , Palestinian Territories.
  • Work exhibition , March 2007, Galerie Henselmann Tower, Berlin
  • 8 supermarkets , December 2001, Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • Photo Beijing 2015 , 2015, China Millennium Monument, Beijing (upcoming October 2015)
  • The third look , 2015, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
  • Far Beyond , 2015, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam
  • PORN PORN PORN , 2015, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin
  • Opening on the foam , 2015, Schloss Sacrow, Sacrow, Germany
  • Mijn Vlakke Land. Over fotografie en landschap , 2015, FotoMuseum, Antwerp
  • World views , 400 years of landscape in art, 2015, Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock
  • Memory Lab - Photography Challenges History , 2015, Benaki Museum, Athens
  • NGORONGORO , 2015, Artist weekend, Off-space Weißensee, Berlin
  • Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History , 2015, Musée national d'histoire et d'art, Luxembourg
  • About | Meister , 2014, pavlo's dog, space for photography, Berlin
  • Memory Lab - Photography Challenges History , 2014, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
  • Memory Lab - Photography Challenges History , 2014, MUSA - Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Vienna
  • Memory Lab: The Sentimental Turn , 2014, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • Traces of Power , 2014, Art Foyer DZ Bank, Frankfurt
  • Visualleader 2014 , Deichtorhallen / House of Photography, Hamburg
  • Sixes go through the whole world , 2014, Stephan Schrör, Berlin, A group exhibition with Ena Swansea, Rosa Loy, Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen, Edgar Leciejewski, Johannes Rochhausen, Ruby Anemic
  • Heimat , 2014, DZ BANK art collection, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
  • Beyond the postcard. The Alps in Photography , 2014, vorarlberg museum, Bregenz
  • Reflection - Aesthetic References , 2014, Darmstadt Days of Photography, Darmstadt
  • Insights into the Wemhöner Collection , 2014, Osram-Höfen, Berlin
  • The new portrait gallery of the Bavarian State Opera , 2013, Bavarian State Opera, Munich
  • Beyond the postcard. The Alps in Photography , October 2013 - January 2014, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen
  • Obersalzberg - an essence , June 2012, The Solo-Project Art Fair, Basel
  • State of the Art Contemporary Photography , February 2012, NRW - Forum, Düsseldorf
  • 2012 , January 2012, Schlechtriem, Berlin
  • Obersalzberg , September 2011, Art Platform Los Angeles, USA
  • NADA Art Fair , December 2010, pool gallery, Miami Florida, USA
  • Photo book days 2010 , June 2010, House of Photography / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • LeadAwards 10 , March 2010, House of Photography / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  • FASHION Photographs from Nine Decades , September 2008, Gallery Camera Work, Berlin
  • LeadAwards 08 , March 2008, House of Photography / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Awards

  • German Designer Club 2017: Gold for the book Pathos as Distance
  • LeadAward 2015: Nomination for Portrait Photography of the Year
  • LeadAward 2014: Portrait Photography of the Year
  • German Designer Club 2014: Bronze for the Obersalzberg book
  • Red Dot Award: Award for the Obersalzberg book
  • ADC 2014: Bronze for the Obersalzberg book
  • Art Directors Club 2013: Photography - Photojournalism , USA, 20:56 / Rammstein , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
  • LeadAward 2013: Award for Germany, pale mother , ART magazine and Who is good on earth during your lifetime , SZ-Magazin
  • German Reporter Award 2012: USA, 20:56 in the Grand Prix category, which was awarded for the first time, together with author Alexander Gorkow
  • Hansel Mieth Prize 2010: The German Queen , Spiegel
  • LeadAward 2010: Portrait Photography of the Year
  • LeadAward 2008: Photo of the Year
  • LeadAward 2008: Portrait Photography of the Year
  • Music video award Sehnsuchten 2008 of the HFF Potsdam in the category director

Publications

  • Andreas Mühe - Obersalzberg . With texts by Luc Tuymans, Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen, Matthias Struch, Karsten Ehlert. Distance Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-95476-036-7 .
  • Im Blick, photography from the Wemhöner collection . Text by Ulrike Münter, edited by Philipp Bollmann. Kerber Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86678-658-5 .
  • State of the Art Photography . Text by Ossian Ward. Richter & Fey, published by Feymedia Verlagsgesellschaft, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941459-38-0 .
  • Andreas Mühe - ABC . With texts by Jana Hensel , Kito Nedo and Ingo Taubhorn, edited by Ingo Taubhorn. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942405-43-0 .
  • 1997-2010 Andreas Mühe . With texts by FC Gundlach and Christof Kaldonek. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-778-2 .
  • LeadAwards Visual Leader 2009, The Best of Magazines and the Internet . Press Fachverlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-923165-03-2 .
  • Berlin Now . Text by Imre Kertész , edited by Dagmar von Taube. Kempen, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8327-9353-1 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arranger of the moment . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 20, 2010
  2. ^ University of the Arts Berlin
  3. ↑ Awards for the International Short Film Jury. Berlinale
  4. ↑ Life alongside the other . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2007 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Kito Nedo: The Photographer of Silence. In: Andreas Mühe. ABC. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 127.
  6. ^ With the Chancellor at Obama. In: Free Press Chemnitz. June 15, 2011; Interview.
  7. ↑ Kito Nedo: The Photographer of Silence. In: Andreas Mühe. ABC. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 128.
  8. ↑ a b In the end, everything has to do with power. In: The European. 3rd February 2012.
  9. ↑ Exhibitions Andreas Mühe
  10. ↑ Andreas Mühe, photo exhibition
  11. ↑ a b Sleight of hand with pocket mirrors . In: FAZ , February 12, 2012.
  12. ↑ The man with the frozen eyes. In: Berliner Zeitung. January 19, 2010.
  13. ↑ Andreas Mühe: Overwhelming portraits . Focused.com, January 29, 2010
  14. ↑ FC Grundlach: Werkschau 2. In: Andreas Mühe 1997–2010. König, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-86560-778-2 .
  15. ↑ Jana Hensel: Awakened from a dream. In: Andreas Mühe. ABC. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2011, p. 10.
  16. ↑ Andreas Mühe provokes with pictures of Obersalzberg . In: BILD , February 3, 2012.
  17. ^ Neue Gestaltung GmbH: Gold: Andreas Mühe - Pathos as distance. Task: Catalog accompanying the exhibition for Andreas Mühle's solo show “Pathos as Distance” (May 19-20, 2017) in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. In: German Designer Club: Competition - Andreas Mühe - Pathos as distance. 2018. From DDC.de, accessed on February 7, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Trouble, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Karl Marx City