Andreas Müller-Pohle

Andreas Müller-Pohle (born July 19, 1951 in Braunschweig ) is a German photographer , media artist and publisher . Since the mid-1970s, his photographic work has been characterized by an intensive theoretical examination of questions of mediality and perceptibility. He is considered an important representative of experimental photography and the founder of visualism .

As a publisher, Müller-Pohle has accompanied and significantly shaped the development of artistic photography since the early 1980s through his magazine European Photography . In addition, he is committed to the distribution of Vilém Flusser's writings, whose work he made known primarily in the German-speaking world.

biography

Andreas Müller-Pohle studied economics and communication science from 1973 to 1974 in Hanover and from 1974 to 1979 in Göttingen . He initially worked with the medium of film and from the mid-1970s onwards he devoted himself to the practical and theoretical examination of photography. In 1979 Müller-Pohle founded the magazine “ European Photography ” and has been its editor ever since. At his suggestion, his friend, philosopher Vilém Flusser , wrote the essay “For a Philosophy of Photography” in 1981, which was followed by other media and cultural philosophical texts in the following years. Since then, Müller-Pohle has dealt intensively with Flusser's oeuvre . In 1986, together with Volker Rapsch, he published Flusser's essay “Die Schrift” as the first electronic book on diskette - as an early forerunner of the e- book . In 1996 he founded the “Edition Flusser”, which was made up of ten volumes.

In 2001 Müller-Pohle was awarded the “European Photography Prize” of the Reind M. De Vries Foundation, a one-time award for special services to European photography. Since the early 1980s he has been teaching as a visiting professor and lecturer at teaching institutes in Europe, Asia and North and South America, and in 2005 he founded Eye-Mind, an individual workshop initiative in Berlin.

Müller-Pohle has a daughter, he lives and works in Berlin .

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Andreas Müller-Pohle's work is characterized by a wide variety of topics and concepts and the reflexive examination of the medium of photography: While his first projects from the mid-1970s dealt with questions of image aesthetics and photographic perception, he then turned to - now also with the medium of video - photo recycling and the materiality and immateriality of photography. Müller-Pohle's interest in “interfaces” in their double function as alienation and translation leads him in several of his works to completely renounce the classic photographic image and to transform it into other code systems (such as alphanumeric or genetic codes).

His work The Danube River Project , created in 2005/06, takes up this longstanding preoccupation with interfaces: A “picture atlas” of the Danube is supplemented and commented on by its “blood picture”, which the artist determined from water samples and inscribed in the photographs. Müller-Pohle's subsequent project, "Hong Kong Waters", is also concerned with the subject of water. It is dedicated to the diverse water landscapes of the Asian metropolis in a photo, video and sound installation. Another work on the topic of water, Kaunas upon the Rivers , was created in 2017 as part of an artist in residence. Since 2013 Müller-Pohle has been working on an extensive cycle on aspects of urban traffic ( Studies on Traffic ), for which he uses the media of photography, sound and video [Vimeo-Link].

Müller-Pohle's work has received international attention since the mid-1980s. His work has been widely published and exhibited in more than 200 exhibitions at home and abroad and is represented in numerous public and private collections.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2014 Prague City Gallery, House of Photography, Prague
• 2013 Lianzhou Photo, The Granary, Lianzhou, China
• 2013 Ida Illuster Gallery, Pavilion at Milchhof Ateliers, Berlin
• 2013 Asia One Vertical Art Space, Hong Kong
• 2012 The Brno House of Arts, Brno
• 2011 Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin
• 2011 Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2011 Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
• 2011 Gesshin-in Temple, Kyoto
• 2010 Nessim Galéria, Budapest
• 2009 Esplanade Building, Faliron Olympic Complex, Athens Photo Festival, Athens
• 2009 Naturama - Modern Natural History, Photo Triennale.dk, Svendborg, Denmark
• 2008 Uferhallen, European Month of Photography, Berlin
• 2007 European Danube Museum, City Museum, Ingolstadt
• 2007 Municipal Gallery, Palais Stutterheim, Erlangen
• 2006 Belgrade Cultural Center, Art Gallery, Belgrade
• 2006 Central European House of Photography, Bratislava
• 2006 Danube Swabian Central Museum, Ulm
• 2005 Galeria Stary Browar, Poznan
• 2005 Aura Gallery, Shanghai
• 2004 Dom umenia, Month of Photography, Bratislava
• 2004 Muzeul Literaturii Române / Romanian Literature Museum, Bucharest
• 2003 Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
• 2002 Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
• 2002 Topek Building, FotoFest, Houston
• 2000 The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
• 2000 Esther Woerdehoff Gallery, Paris
• 2000 Tschumipavillon, Groningen
• 1999 Václava Spály Gallery, Prague
• 1999 Old Town Hall, Göttingen
• 1998 Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
• 1998 Mücsarnok / Art Gallery, Budapest
• 1997 The Print Center, Philadelphia
• 1997 Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
• 1997 Art Association Rüsselsheim
• 1997 Vu - Center de la Photographie, Québec
• 1997 Galerie Condé, Paris
• 1997 Mantoux-Gignac Gallery, Paris
• 1995 Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels
• 1995 Art Association Hildesheim, Hildesheim
• 1994 The House of Balabanov, Plovdiv
• 1993 Center de la Photographie, Geneva
• 1993 Galeria Documenta, São Paulo
• 1992 Photo Gallery Vienna, Vienna
• 1991 Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus
• 1988 Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra
• 1987 Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
• 1986 Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo
• 1986 Funarte, Rio de Janeiro
• 1986 Galeria Foto-Medium-Art, Wrocław
• 1986 Hasselblad Gallery, Gothenburg
• 1986 Galeria Agorà, Turin
• 1985 Photo Gallery 52, Luxembourg
• 1984 Casa do Infante, Porto
• 1983 Gallery Studio 666, Paris
• 1983 Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm
• 1983 Perspektief Gallery, Rotterdam
• 1982 Benteler Galleries, Houston
• 1981 Forum Stadtpark, Graz
• 1979 Work Gallery, Zurich
• 1979 Art Studio, Cologne
• 1978 Krebaum Gallery, Weinheim

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 2018 Land_Scope, Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich
• 2018 Runes: Photography and Decipherment, Center for Contemporary Photography , Melbourne
• 2017 Open Codes. Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM , Karlsruhe
• 2015 Photo and data image - traces of concrete photography, Museum im Kulturspeicher , Würzburg
• 2014 (Mis) Understanding Photography. Works and manifestos, Folkwang Museum , Essen
• 2013 Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
• 2012 Sense of Place. European Landscape Photography, Bozar, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels
• 2012 What is a Photograph ?, New Orleans Museum of Art , New Orleans
• 2011 Metropolis - City Life in the Urban Age, Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen
• 2011 L'objet photographique, une invention permanente, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
• 2009 cosmos. New photographs from space, Stadthaus Ulm , Germany
• 2006 true sign. Photography and science, Technical Collections Dresden / Museums of the City of Dresden
• 2006 Alterazioni. Le materie della fotografia tra analogico e digital, Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan
• 2006 Troubled Water, De Veemvloer, Amsterdam
• 2004 Metamorfoses do Real, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal
• 2004 p0es1s. Digital Poetry, Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
• 2003 Hiroshima Art Document 2003, The Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima
• 2003 In Out, International Festival of the Digital Image, Karolinum Gallery & Old Town Square, Prague
• 2002 Situated Realities. Where Technology and Imagination intersect, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Art Center College of Design , Pasadena; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
• 2001 Los límites del territorio. Fronteras, Bienal de Lanzarote
• 2001 ex machina: On the decomposition of photography, New Society for Fine Arts / Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin; Gallery Schüppenhauer, Cologne
• 2001 Schupmann Collection, Museum of Photography , Braunschweig
• 2000 landscapes in contemporary photography. From the collection of DG Bank, State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg
• 2000 Watch Me (Watch You), Photosynkyria 2000, Thessaloniki
• 1999 Aires: Luz y Sombra de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno , Las Palmas
• 1999 The XX. Century. A Century of Art in Germany, National Museums in Berlin , New National Gallery , Berlin
• 1999 Flous et modernités, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie , Arles
• 1999 attack! Photography on the Edge, Holland Festival , Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
• 1997 Analog - Digital, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
• 1997 Allemagne, années 80, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
• 1997 Photography After Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki
• 1996 Vidéo Art Plastique, Center d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair
• 1996 Photography After Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur ; Museet for Photo Art, Odense; Brandenburg Art Collections, Cottbus; City Gallery Erlangen ; Kunsthalle Krems
• 1996 14th World Wide Video Festival, The Hague
• 1995 Photography After Photography, Action Forum Praterinsel, Munich
• 1994 Paysage de l'apparence, Mai de la Photo, Reims
• 1994 Photogramme - une pratique contemporaine, Espace Photographique Contretype , Brussels; Centrum Elzenveld, Antwerp
• 1993 German Art with Photography: The 1990s, German Architecture Museum , Frankfurt; Rheinisches Landesmuseum , Bonn
• 1992 L'Échappée européenne, Mois de la Photo, Pavillon des Arts, Paris
• 1992 Première Photo, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris
• 1991 The Persistence of Memory, Third Israeli Biennale of Photography, Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
• 1991 Européens, Festival Photographique du Trégor, Center Jean Savidan, Lannion
• 1991 O Coraçao da Ciência, Centro de Estudos de Fotografia, Coimbra; Espace Photographique Contretype , Brussels
• 1989 internal - external, gallery forum, professional association of visual artists, Düsseldorf
• 1989 Vision - Aspects of an Art with Photography, University Museum for Art and Cultural History, Marburg
• 1989 The Photo as an Autonomous Image - Experimental Design 1839–1989, Kunsthalle Bielefeld ; Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , Munich
• 1989 What is Photography ?, Mánes Gallery, Prague
• 1989 Document and Invention - Photographs from the Federal Republic of Germany 1945 to the present day, Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin; Augustinermuseum , Freiburg; Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
• 1988 Fotovision - photography project after 150 years, Sprengel Museum , Hanover; Art space in the Messepalast, Vienna; Museum of Design , Zurich
• 1987 Photographic images, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Forum Böttcherstrasse, Bremen
• 1987 Le temps d'un mouvement, Center National de la Photographie, Paris
• 1986 Himmelsschreiber, Kunstverein Kassel
• 1986 Fotografia Elementarna, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Szczecin
• 1986 Photography: Figure? Imagination ?, Museum am Ostwall , Dortmund
• 1985 New Photographic Trends from Europe, Malmö Konsthall , Malmö
• 1985 The European Edge - New Photographic Trends from Europe, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
• 1985 The nude photo, Münchner Stadtmuseum , Munich
• 1985 Contemporary German photographer, Museum for Photography, Braunschweig
• 1984 La Photographie créative, Bibliothèque Nationale / Pavillon des Arts, Paris
• 1984 Contemporary European Photography, Benteler Galleries, Houston
• 1984 Contemporary German Photographers, Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 1983 Bugünün Avrupa Fotografi / European Photography Today, Dost Sanat Ortami, Ankara
• 1983 Contemporary European Photography, Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen
• 1983 57 Fotografi Contemporanei Europei, Palazzo Novellucci, Prato
• 1983 Photography '83, Stadthalle Wien, Vienna
• 1983 Photography in Germany today, Koninklijke Akademie voor Schone Kunsten , Ghent; Cultureel Center, Hasselt; Musée de la Photographie , Charleroi; Het coat of arms shield, Antwerp
• 1982 International Photographers, Eaton / Shoen Gallery, San Francisco
• 1981 Eight Contemporary European Photographers, Rice Media Center, Houston
• 1981 Extended photography, 5th International Biennale, Vienna Secession , Vienna
• 1981 Three photographers: Larry Fink, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Michael Schmidt, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf
• 1981 New German Photography, Photographers' Gallery, London; The Photographic Gallery, Cardiff; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; The Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale; Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Royal Photographic Society, Bath
• 1980 Ideas and Reality - 7 Aspects of Subjective Photography, Leverkusen City Museum; Künstlerhaus Vienna ; Fundació Miró, Barcelona; Instituto Alemán, Madrid; Galeria JN, Porto; Instituto Alemao, Lisbon

Quotes

• “I take photos of what I don't see. What I don't photograph, I see. "(Müller-Pohle)
• “The examination of visibility, perceptibility and photographic mediality forms, so to speak, the Ariadne thread in the photographic oeuvre of Andreas Müller-Pohle. He always reflected on his work theoretically (especially in the concept of 'visualism', which he published in 1980) without his artistic work being reduced to it or even becoming mere examples of his theoretical discourse. "(Carl Aigner)
• “Müller-Pohle (has) consistently created an experimental oeuvre that has moved from depicting things to conveying their unrepresentability. The works can be called interfaces , the faces are out of sight, and Andreas Müller-Pohle lets the images communicate on the move towards eternal contemporaneity. "( Hubertus von Amelunxen )
• “He is a purist and one of the pioneers in the field of media art. You are doing Andreas Müller-Pohle right when you realize that there is no other representative of digital art in Germany who has dealt with the medium of photography so early, so intensively and successfully - theoretically and using digital image processes. "(Christoph Tannert)

Literature (selection)

Individual publications, catalogs

• Hong Kong Waters. Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag / Hong Kong: Asia One Books, 2013
• The Danube River Project. Berlin: Peperoni Books, 2008
• codeZone. Digital Works 1995-2005. Shanghai: Aura Gallery, 2005
• Yumiko. Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2003
• Interfaces. Photo + video 1977–1999. Göttingen: European Photography, 1999
• Digitális Partitúrák III. Budapest: Mücsarnok, 1998
• Synopsis. Atlanta / Houston: Goethe Institutes, 1997
• Partitions digital I (d'après Niépce). Paris: Galerie Condé, 1997
• Perlasca Pictures. Hildesheim: Kunstverein Hildesheim, 1995
• Signa. Vienna: Photo Gallery Vienna, 1992
• I photograph what I don't see. What I don't photograph, I see. Works 1976-1991. Cottbus: Brandenburg Art Collections, 1991
• Transformance. Göttingen: European Photography, 1983

Editing

• Main typefaces from the 1980s and works from Vilém Flusser's legacy in Edition Flusser . Göttingen / Berlin: European Photography, 1996–2006.
• European Photography Award - Göttingen: European Photography 1991, 1992, 1993
• (Ed.) Dumont foto IV. Photography in Europe today , Cologne: DuMont, 1982

Web links

• Literature by and about Andreas Müller-Pohle in the catalog of the German National Library
• [1] Videos on Vimeo
• [2] Videos on YouTube
• [3] Biography of Andreas Müller-Pohle
• Danube River Project and Hong Kong Waters website