Gisela Floto

Gisela Margarethe Wiebke Floto (born September 8, 1946 in Travemünde-Teutendorf ) (artist name: Paula von Pückler ) is a German photographer and artist .

Life

Gisela Floto grew up in Schleswig-Holstein as the youngest daughter with four siblings on the Augustenhof near Gettorf near the Baltic Sea. The great estate in the Danish Wohld , a landscape whose face is still characterized by large and formerly noble estates and by its special sky. This landscape with its special light is still decisive for the artistic career of the photographer, who now lives in Hamburg , who began her career as a photojournalist after studying photography in Berlin. Stays abroad in London and Paris followed. From 1971 to 1987 he devoted himself to advertising photography with a focus on fashion, children, people. Between 1989 and 1991 she worked in the field of editorial photography for the magazines ZEIT-Magazin, Feinschmecker, Country, ART and Architektur & Wohnen. For Brigitte she made trips to Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Fiji and Tonga. From 1991 projects in the field of conceptual photography followed; Garden themes in Spain, Austria and Germany, a report about a German biologist in Vietnam (savior of the golden monkeys), a social project in Mali and a calendar that resulted from it, mine clearer Vera Bohle in Bosnia, aerial photos in Pakistan, Syria and Germany. From 1993 to 1995 Gisela Floto was exhibition director for the Museum of Photography in the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg. Then she was a lecturer for photo journalism at the University of Hamburg , Institute for Journalism, until 2005 . She has been working as a freelance photographer since 2005 and lives in Hamburg.

Central themes in Gisela Floto's work are people, nature and the environment and, again and again, portraits of the worlds of women.

Quote

“Seeing and recording, idea and execution - has become one for me - it goes incredibly quickly and my picture is over. From this (bird's) perspective, a completely new section is created, which I breathe in air and life and thus make it my picture. At this height I believe I am very close to Heaven - I become a tiny part of the cosmos. Gisela Floto "

“The clearly structured pictures are of great aesthetic quality and are enjoyable to look at. Although the topic does not seem close to the audience at first, the film never gets boring. On the contrary, it makes you want to see more and deal with the topic more intensively and thus arouses a necessary interest. With this film, »Rosi, you did that well«, you have realized a wonderful opportunity to give a selected group a visual mirror by documenting their creative possibilities, their imaginative potential. We are pleased to show this film Abaton-Kino because it is enriching for everyone in an aging society. Werner Grassmann on the film Rosi, you did well "

Memberships

• BBK Association of Visual Artists Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein
• BFF Bund Freelance Photo Designer
• Freelens

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1993–1995 "Traces in Schleswig-Holstein", Olympus Gallery Hamburg; Hamburger Kammerspiele
• 1995-2005 "HarborToSee, with Elise on the River Elbe", Chicago; Osaka; Hamburg
• 1995 »Women I Meet«, Gruner + Jahr Foyer; Olympus Gallery Hamburg
• 1998–2002 »Castles in the Air«, in 17 museums in Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg, and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 2001 »Trees for the Hafencity«, Kunsthaus Hamburg
• 2001 »Filled Shadows«, Hamburg University of Music
• 2002 "Strandbad Dangast", Dresdner Bank Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein; Radziwill Museum Dangst
• 2002 »Findings / Lust for Light«, Literaturhaus in Kiel
• 2003 »Kirchenlust«, in the monastery Kiel and in the church St. Johannis Hamburg-Harvestehude
• 2006 »Chicago-Hamburg«, Foyer Abaton Kino, Hamburg
• 2006 »Making of: Rosi«, Architecture Summer, Hamburg
• 2007 "Head to Head in Willitown", Elbfestival, Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
• 2008 »Talmud Torah School between Yesterday and Tomorrow«, Café Leonar, Hamburg
• 2009 »Departure«, BBK Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
• 2010 "Woman for Woman", Goethe-Institut Hamburg
• 2011 »HafenCityHafen«, Galerie Hotel Leiber, Dersau
• 2013–2014 “Talmud Torah School, Between Yesterday and Today”, Jewish Museum Rendsburg

. 2015–2016 Talmud Torah School today, State and University Library, Hamburg

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 1990 Bonn Ministry of Family Affairs, "Children" - Federal Prize
• 1991 Hamburger Kunstverein, "Hamburg Women Photographers"
• 1992 Gedok Hamburg, "Earth-Sign-Earth"
• 1992 traveling exhibition "From all women's countries", Brigitte
• 1993 Gedok Hamburg, "Top-heavy self-portraits"
• 1998 Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle "From the best the most"
• 1999 BBK Hamburg, "Currently"
• 2002 Burda Verlag, Munich "World of Archeology"
• 2003 Haus der Künste Hamburg, "Lichtlust-Schatten"
• 2003 BBK Hamburg, "Hafencity 2003"
• 2003 Kunsthaus Dannenberg, "Traces of Water"

Filmography

• 2003–2004 "Between Yesterday and Tomorrow", anniversary film Talmud Tora School, Hamburg
• 2004–2006 "HafenCity Hafen Hamburg", Goethe Institute Chicago and Osaka
• 2006 »Leap across the Elbe - A Journey to the South« Opening event for the IBA 2013 Architecture Symposium Hamburg
• 2006 »Rosi, you did that well«, performance in the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and in the KörberForum
• 2007 "Head to Head in Willitown", IBA Art & Culture Summer in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg
• 2006–2011 “Football Moves”, “Moves Children”, “Moves Music”, “Moves Theater”, “Moves Art”, “Moves Moving Pictures-Pictures”
• Short films of the winning projects of the »National Sponsorship Prize« of the ERGO Foundation »Youth & Future«, Hamburg

Publications

• Traces in Schleswig-Holstein (preface: Thomas Gädeke, Schloss Gottorf), own edition, 1992 Hamburg
• Historical gardens in Schleswig-Holstein, Adrian von Buttlar, Margitta Meyer (ed.), Gisela Floto (photos), Verlag Boyens & Co, 1996 Heide
• Landgang, Kulturlandschaft Ost-Friesland, Verlag Rautenberg, 1996 Leer
• Time to Live, photographic contributions, Gisela Floto, WWF Documentations, 1997 Munich
• Castles in the air - landscape dreams in Schleswig-Holstein, Gisela Floto (preface: A. v. Buttlar, H. v. Amelunxen), Nieswand Verlag, 1997 Kiel
• May 7, 2010 "A day in Germany" Lütjenburg early in the morning, freelens at dpunkt Verlag
• Talmud Torah School Hamburg, in the Jewish Museum Rendsburg, greetings from Dr. hc. Charlotte Knobloch, Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel, November 3, 2013 Exhibition catalog

Purchases

• Museum of Applied Arts, Munich
• Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg
• Schleswig-Holstein State Museum, Gottorf Castle
• Sparkassenstiftung Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
• Savings Bank Foundation Stormarn

Private collections

• Hamburg-Eppendorf
• New Wendorf, Mecklenburg;
• Gelsenkirchen
• Eckhof near Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein
• Mannheim
• Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein
• Dusseldorf

Appreciation

“Gisela Floto creates“ light images ”according to her own characterization, the camera is only a technical aid to represent the relationship between the observing person and what happened by chance on the beach and tide, the never-ending interplay of light and wind. Only superficially, the choice of motif seems to be random, only the subject is found. However, the impressionistic character of many photographs is only created through the implementation of the inner image under the decisive impression of light and shadow. Reality is no longer of interest in its objective existence, but rather becomes a perceptual phenomenon that is constantly changing when taking pictures of the discoveries. Gisela Floto is a photographer who follows an internal dialogue that precedes implementation through to the finished image. The image expression is also determined by an understanding of aesthetic categories. Her pictures encourage contemplative viewing because the relationship between static and moving picture elements is constantly changing. ( Exhibition catalog »Lichtlust«, Lauenburgischer Kunstverein ) "

Web links

• Everything about Gisela Floto on flotofoto.com