Gosbert Adler

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Gosbert Adler (* 1956 in Essen ) is a German photographer and professor at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Gosbert Adler studied industrial design at Faculty 4 (Design) at the University of Essen from 1976 , and from 1977 to 1984 photo design with Otto Steinert and Angela Neuke-Widmann. From 1982 to 1986, through Michael Schmidt's mediation, Adler was a lecturer in photography at the ' Werkstatt für Photographie' at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Kreuzberg, and from 1984 to 1986 he also ran the workshop's gallery. In this context, in addition to numerous monographic exhibitions, he worked on the exhibition "DDR FOTO" (together with Wilmar Koenig). Since 1988 Adler has been teaching photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences , the Zurich University of Art and Design , the Berlin University of the Arts , the Merz Academy Stuttgart and the Wismar University . From 2002 to 2007 he was professor of photography in the fine arts department at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences . Adler has been a professor of photography at the Braunschweig University of Art since 2007. Gosbert Adler lives in Berlin.

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Adler belongs to a generation of German photographers who, since the late 1970s, have been taking a critical position vis-à-vis the usual commercial practice and have discovered the medium of photography beyond its function-related tasks as an “artistically reflective instrument” for dealing with reality. In the tension between an emancipating artistic photography, which is shaped by the terms “documentary style” ( Walker Evans ) and “author photography ” ( Klaus Honnef ), Adler finds suggestions for self-determined work in the discussion with Michael Schmidt . The reception of contemporary American photography in a new documentary tradition such as the New Topographics movement also provides important impulses.

Adler's early works are autobiographical. The first series such as the untitled diploma thesis (1982) - reinterpreted in 2011 under the title “Bread” -, “Nadja” (1986) and the work “The word becomes meat and eats me” (1988–89 ) show subjective everyday observation as deliberately artless, fragmentary and hermetic color images that undermine photographic rules, often combined with text.

In the 1990s, Adler dealt with the changes in urban space: stages of construction and deconstruction (“Sog” (1990)) and the juxtaposition of public outdoor space and private indoor space (“The Cell”, 1994) are in the mode of “questioning observation “Visualized. Images of people gain in importance with the series "Return to reason" (2018). Here Gosbert Adler explores the diversity of human relationships in the image of their various actions and attitudes as contemporary pathos formulas.

Awards / scholarships (selection)

  • 1982: Scholarship for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation , Essen
  • 1989: Kodak Color Photo Award '89 as part of the First German Photo Award of the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart
  • 1990: Working grant from the Senate Administration for Cultural Affairs, Berlin
  • 1993: Working grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation
  • 1996: Working grant from the Foundation for Art and Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • 1998: Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral , Bad Ems
  • 2001: Werner Mantz prijs voor fotografie, Stichting Werner Mantz , Maastricht, Netherlands

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1984: Grants for contemporary German photography from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation , Museum Folkwang Essen
  • 1984: Photography from Berlin , Castelli Graphics, New York (further stations until 1985): Jones / Troyer Gallery, Washington DC, California Museum of Photography, Riverside (1985)
  • 1985: Europe - America , Styrian Autumn , Forum Stadtpark , Graz, Austria
  • 1986: Remnants of the authentic. German photo pictures from the 80s , Museum Folkwang Essen , further stations: Impressions Gallery, York / GB, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh / GB, International Center of Photography, New York (USA) (1987)
  • 1988: Photo-Boogaloo , Perspektief, Rotterdam , Netherlands
  • 1989: First German Photo Prize , gallery of the Landesgirokasse Stuttgart
    • 1st International Photo Triennial , Villa Merkel, Esslingen
  • 1990: Photography for the City , New Society for Fine Arts Berlin
  • 1991: Surgence , Musée de Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, further stations: Musée de Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Old Town Hall, Potsdam (1992)
  • 1992: annual laboratory. A report . Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 1993: Siemens photo projects 1987-92 , Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
  • 1994: Another Continent, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    • vis à vis. Photographs from Lorraine and the Ruhr area , Ruhrland Museum Essen, Robert Doisneau Gallery, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy
    • Aspects of German photography after 45 , river. Lower Austria Photo Initiative, Wolkersdorf, Austria, Dum Umeni Mesta Brna, Brno, Czech Republic, Nederlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • 1995: The act of seeing (urban space) - taking a distance , Fondation pour L'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium, further stations: Graphic Collection of the ETH Zurich & Institut GTA, De Paviljoens, Almere, Amsterdam (1996), Fondazione Galleria Gottardo (1996)
  • 1996: Origin , Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
    • The class , Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 1998: Exhibition of the scholarship holders , Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems
  • 1999: Reconstructing Space: Architecture in recent German photography , Architectural Association, London
  • 2001: Vierde Werner Mantz prijs voor Fotografie / Stedelijkheid en de strategie van de fotograaf. Urbanity and the photographer's strategy / Fourth Werner Mantz Photography Prize , Marres - Centrum Beeldende Kunst. Maastricht, the Netherlands
    • Waar / schijn / lijk. Moments which I intend to remember , Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands
  • 2002: Gosbert Adler, Robin Collyer : Photoworks , Goethe Institut Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • 2003: Contemporary German Photography / Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation scholarship holders , Museum Folkwang Essen
  • 2006: Storie urbane , Settimana della Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 2015: n_7 - ort und errtum , Galerie Bohai project space, Hanover
  • 2016: the rebellious picture. Workshop for Photography 1976–1986 , Museum Folkwang Essen
    • Kreuzberg America. Workshop for Photography 1976–1986 , C / O Berlin 2016

Publications (selection)

Single publications

  • with Wilmar Koenig (Ed.): GDR FOTO. Association of Friends of the Workshop for Photography, Berlin 1985.
  • So-called. Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen 1990.
  • The black box. (Frankfurt). with a text by Herbert Jochmann. Siemens AG cultural program, Munich 1992.
  • The cell. with a text by Thomas Weski. Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover 1994, ISBN 3-89169-077-0 .
  • Places where I intend to have been. Klaus Gallwitz (Ed.). Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems 1998.

Publications in catalogs

  • Remnants of the authentic. German photo images from the 1980s. Folkwang Museum, Essen 1985
  • Dealing with change. Contemporary photography. New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-926796-37-5 .
  • Origin? Gosbert Adler, Tina Barney, Richard Billingham, Anthony Hernandez, Fazal Sheikh, Carrie Mae Weems. with an essay by Vilém Flusser and texts by Nadine Olonetzky, Brita Polzer and Urs Stahel, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 1996.
  • First German Photo Prize '89. edition cantz, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-139-5 .
  • Photography as photography. Ten years of the photographic collection 1979–1989. Berlinische Galerie e. V. (Ed.), Berlin 1989.
  • Surgence. La Création photographique contemporaine en Allemagne. Éditions Musée de la Ville de Poitiers, 1991, ISBN 2-903015-19-8 .
  • Reconstructing Space: Architecture in Recent German Photography. Michael Mack (Ed.), Architectural Association, London 1999, ISBN 1-870890-98-1 .
  • Stedelijkheid en de strategie van de fotograaf / Urbanity and the photographer's strategy, Vierde Werner Mantz prijs voor fotografie / Fourth Werner Mantz Photography Prize. Stichting Werner Mantz, Marres, Maastricht 2001, ISBN 90-806292-2-7 .
  • Every photograph is an image. Siemens photo collection. Ulrich Bischoff, Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Thomas Weski (eds.). Pinakothek-Dumont, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-8321-7346-3 .
  • Blink. 100 Photographers, 10 Curators, 10 Writers. Phaidon Press, London 2004, ISBN 0-7148-4199-4 .
  • Photography workshop 1976–1986. Florian Ebner, Felix Hoffmann, Inka Schube, Thomas Weski (eds.). Koenig Books, London 2016, ISBN 978-3-96098-042-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Angela Neuke - Photographers Wiki. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Leuner: Conversation with Gosbert Adler about the catalog "DDR Photography" (1985) from a current perspective. In: fotokritik. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Weski: To old to rock'n roll: too young to die. A subjective view of German photography over the past two decades . In: Timm Rautert (Ed.): Kray . Edition of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig published by Plitt Verlag, Oberhausen 1995, ISBN 3-9802395-6-0 .
  5. ↑ Christoph Schaden: Of course it is also an expression of a certain attitude towards life. At the Stephen Shore reception in Germany from 1972 to 1995 . In: Werner Lippert, Christoph Schaden (Ed.): The red Bulli. Stephen Shore and the new Düsseldorf photography . NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf 2010, OCLC 961290007 , p. 48 .
  6. ^ Daniel Huber: Another Walker Evans. Center national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, April 26-August 14, 2017 . In: Miranda. Revue pluridisciplinaire du monde anglophone / Multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal on the English-speaking world . No. September 15 , 2017, ISSN  2108-6559 ( openedition.org [accessed August 26, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Klaus Honnef: The author photographer comes . In: In Germany. Aspects of contemporary documentary photography (=  Guide of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 95 ). Rheinland-Verlag Cologne on commission from Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7927-0486-2 .
  8. ↑ Britt Salvesen et al. a .: New Topographics . Ed .: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. Steidl, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86521-827-8 .
  9. ↑ Gosbert Adler: bread. HBK University of Fine Arts Braunschweig, accessed on August 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Kolja Reichert: Workshop for Photography: When the pictures rehearsed the uprising . ( faz.net [accessed September 2, 2019]).
  11. ^ Landesgirokasse Stuttgart (ed.): First German Photo Prize '89. Competition to promote artistic photography in Germany . Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-89322-139-5 , pp. 136 .
  12. ↑ Carolin Förster: "Remains of the Authentic". Key words on photographic perspectives in Germany in the 1980s . In: Gisela Parak (ed.): The wild variety. On the German photo scene of the 1970s and 1980s (=  photo history . Volume 35 ). No. 137 . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2015.
  13. ↑ Thomas Weski, text on the back cover. In: The cell. Gosbert Adler. Sprengel Museum Hannover, 1994, ISBN 3-89169-077-0 .
  14. ^ Laura Mars Gallery - Exhibitions, Artfairs. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  15. ^ Previous recipients of the “Contemporary German Photography” grant program. (PDF) Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, accessed on August 31, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Archive. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  17. ^ Gosbert Adler at Jacky Strenz (Contemporary Art Daily). Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  18. ^ Goethe Institut Gallery Invitation. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Gosbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH eat