Daniel Blaufuks

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Daniel Blaufuks (* 1963 in Lisbon , Portugal ) is a Portuguese artist of German - Polish - Jewish descent. He works primarily as an art photographer and video artist.

In his work he deals with the symbiosis between photography and literature . Another focus of his work is the artistic processing and archiving of the past, especially the Shoa and the Holocaust .

Live and act

Blaufuks comes from an Ashkenazi- Jewish family of German-Polish origin who fled from the Nazis to Portugal in the 1930s . He was born there in 1963 and studied philosophy in Wales .

The first works were created in the mid-1980s. From 1976 to 1983 he lived in Germany. He later worked as a photographer for the music magazine Blitz in Portugal, as well as for the newspaper O Independente and the Portuguese edition of Marie-Claire .

Blaufuks is a lecturer at the University of Lisbon and the Catholic University of Lisbon .

Artistic creation

His artistic role models are WG Sebald and Georges Perec . He has published around 20 illustrated books. He worked with Paul Bowles on a book about Tangier .

Video art, art photography and installations are the three main focuses of his work.

The Under Strange Skies exhibition was shown at Lincoln Center in New York , as well as in Lisbon, Siena and Madrid . In the film Under Strange Skies , he tells the real story of a German-Jewish family who fled the Nazis to Portugal and tried to get to the USA and ultimately decided in favor of Portugal. The film is supported by texts by Alfred Döblin or Heinrich Mann and other German exiles who fled to Lisbon.

He had other exhibitions and demonstrations in Mannheim , Rio de Janeiro and in the Deutsches Haus in New York. Blaufuks' film Judenrein was shown at the Jewish Film Festival in Berlin in 2019 .

He also brought out an illustrated book about the Theresienstadt concentration camp .

In his oeuvre , Blaufuks also connects the culture of remembrance, especially of the Shoah, and the mediation through art, in order to withdraw it from oblivion and also to make it accessible on another level above all to future generations and to create new ways of remembrance culture, which above all appeals to young people.

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Books (selection)

  • London Diaries, 1994.
  • One day in Mostar, 1995.
  • Uma viagem a st. Petersburgo, 1998.
  • O archivo / the archive, 2008 (book with texts by important authors, accompanied by photographs by D. Blaufuks).
  • Teresin, (illustrated book about Theresienstadt), 2010, Steidl-Verlag.
  • My Tangier, (illustrated book about Tangier, together with Paul Bowles).
  • Fabrica, (factories), 2012.
  • All the memory of the world, part one (book that records the memory of the Holocaust on a photographic level). 2014.
  • The business of living, 2015.
  • Attempting Exhausion, 2017.
  • 1 + 1 = 1, illustrated book, 2019.

Filmography (selection)

  • Life is not a picnic, 1998.
  • Black and White, 2000 (documentary about a color blind girl)
  • Reversed Landscapes, 2002 (on Portuguese architecture)
  • Under strange skies, 2002 (57 minutes), documentary film.
  • Eden, 2011, documentary film.
  • Slightly smaller than Indiana (2006, documentary about contemporary Portugal).
  • Judenrein, 2019. (10 min), short documentary film.

Awards (selection)

  • Kodak Prize, 1989.
  • European Photography Award, 1996.
  • Best Photography Book of the year award, 2007.
  • Bes Photo Award, 2007.
  • Aica Mc Award, 2017.

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personal data
SURNAME Blaufuks, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisbon , Portugal