Jurgen Ostarhild

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Jurgen Ostarhild

Jurgen Ostarhild (* 1956 in Überlingen ) is a German artist and photographer who photographed style-defining portraits of Martin Kippenberger and Kate Moss in the 1990s . He lives in Berlin.

Life

Jurgen Ostarhild began his career as a photographer as an assistant to Oliviero Toscani and Richard Ballarian in Paris in the late 1970s. In the summer of 1979 he went to New York, where he worked as a studio assistant at Albert Watson for a year . After returning to Germany and a brief stint at auto motor sport magazine , he founded his own studio in Stuttgart in 1982. In 1986 he spent some time in Los Angeles, where he bought a Cadillac and lived in the vehicle.

He has been working for the British fashion magazines iD , Sky Magazine , Paper Magazine, Jalouse and Sunday Times since the early 1990s , as well as campaigns for international brands such as Adidas , Levi's , Uvex , Sephora , Givenchy and L'Oreal . During this decade, style-defining portraits of models like Kate Moss and musicians like Moby and Jamiroquai were created .

Ostarhild had an early influence on action fashion photography: A shoot on the Glacier de la Grande Motte in Tigne, where he photographed Jean-Paul Gaultier 's men's fashion on snowboards for the Parisian magazine Citzen-K, set the genre.

His first solo exhibition was in 2002 under the title “Überbabes”, showing transgender pre-avatars at the Jerome de Noirmont gallery in Paris.

Ostarhild also developed the first project for the online sale of digital works of art for this gallery.

Since 2010 Ostarhild has been working on a series of code images that show the hexadecimal code of his digital photos. In 2019, his last exhibition was curated by Eugen Gomringer at the institute for constructive art and concrete poetry in Rehau: works were presented in letters that contain the hexadecimal code for color photography.

Ostarhild is the inventor of the so-called "machine portraits". With this method he got rid of himself as a photographer: any artistic intervention in the production of the images is superfluous. This implies a further alienation of the artist from the image production. Algorithms enable the camera to be triggered, correct exposure, worldwide, immediate publication and archiving of the images produced.

"Jurgen Ostarhild has been interested for decades in what the photographic is, which organizes and governs everything present-day imagery like a photographic device like a film, like an underlying element," Thomas Locher , artist and rector of the Leipzig University of Graphics and Book Art .

Work

  • 2012: 144.berlin (2012) Installation made of 144 spruces, an arrangement for visual data acquisition as well as their digital storage and publication
  • 2014: NonDigitColors
  • 2015: nanosculptures (lead casted sculptures)

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2002: Überbabes, Jerome de Noirmont Gallery
  • 2008 Car crash, Berlin
  • 2010 Shopping addicts, Paris
  • 2013 SOMMERLOCH II, KWADRAT, Berlin
  • 2014 Sothebys, Milano
  • 2015 SECONDS MACHINE (COLOR MODE I), KW institut of contemporary art, Berlin
  • 2016 Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
  • 2016 exhibition, Metzingen
  • 2017 Barbabette, Berlin
  • 2019 PHENOMENOS OF LANGUAGE ART in word images from letters and as code: Jürgen Forster, Franz Mon, Jürgen Ostarhild, Kunsthaus Rehau, Institute for Constructive Art and Concrete Poetry

Publications

  • La beauté . Collectif sous la direction de Jean de Loisy (Auteur) Flammarion 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ • 2001 jalouse jurgen ostarhild ss01 TATSU YAMANAKA keiko seiya louis best y2kb2k • . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ SUPERMODEL SHRINE . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ tigne: Jurgen Ostarhild . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b [ http://www.noirmontartproduction.com/1994-2013/exhibition-expo45.html Galerie J r me de Noirmont - Galeries d art France Paris - BERBABES] . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  5. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: The quadrature of poetry . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ machineportaits (@machineportraits) • Instagram photos and videos . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  7. ↑ • http://www.144.berlin/
  8. ↑ http://www.flusserstudies.net/person/jurgen-ostarhild
  9. ↑ Jurgen Ostarhild . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  10. ↑ Silke Helfrich: "When the sky is on strike": Art for commons . April 22, 2008. Accessed July 6, 2020.
  11. ↑ so : Jurgen Ostarhild: zoom sur les shopping addicts . March 5, 2010. Accessed July 6, 2020.
  12. ↑ KWADRAT Berlin - Give me the summer hole II . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  13. ↑ http://www.vitapicta.com/2014/03/kate-mosss-jurgen-ostarhild-at-sothebys.html?m=1
  14. ↑ One Night Stand # 4 . February 26, 2015. Accessed July 6, 2020.
  15. ↑ http://www.rosa-luxemburg-platz.net/160116/
  16. ↑ Art needs a bit of mystery - Neckar + Erms - Reutlinger General-Anzeiger . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  17. ↑ Character Strings - Babette Beauty Salon . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
  18. ↑ https://jurgenostarhild.eu/data/index.php/ikkp/v
  19. ↑ La beauté . Retrieved July 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Ostarhild, Jurgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Überlingen