Michael Kerstgens

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Michael Kerstgens (* 1960 in Llanelli , South Wales , Great Britain ) is a documentarist, artist and portrait photographer.

Life

Kerstgens has lived in Germany since 1965 and went to school in Mülheim an der Ruhr . Until 1993 he studied photography with Professor Angela Neuke at the University of Essen in Essen . However, he has been working as a photographer since 1987.

In 2004 he received the Imke Folkerts Prize for Fine Art as one of two winners. From 2005 to 2007 Kerstgens was a lecturer in photography in the design department at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau. Michael Kerstgens has been Professor of Photography in the Photography Department of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences since 2007. In 2014 he was awarded the Ruhr Prize for Art and Science .

Works and exhibitions (selection)

  • "Dig deep for the miners". Since 1995 permanent exhibition on "Contemporary Jewish Life in Berlin" in the Centrum Judaicum "New Synagogue", Berlin also called "David's German Stars", published in Geo-Magazin 5/1995
  • "The legacy of loneliness" - Documentation at a mountain farmer in Ahrntal / South Tyrol in 2002
  • An exhibition on movable walls in the public spaces in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 2003
  • "... outside is still there" - portraits of mentally handicapped people, exhibition at the Mülheim an der Ruhr Art Museum, 2004
  • "Ostfriesland" - exhibition a. Book presentation in the Johannes a Lasco Library Emden, February 2006
  • "Jewish Museum Berlin, Long Night of Museums" Russian-Jewish Migrants "image projection, February 2006
  • "De Grens voorbij" - photographs of the border region between the Dutch province of Groningen and Germany, 2010
  • "Russians Jews Germans" - photographs by Michael Kerstgens since 1992. Jewish Museum Berlin, April 20 - July 15, 2012
  • 2013 in the small castle of the Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen : Russians Jews Germans. Photographs by Michael Kerstgens since 1992 (in cooperation with the Oberhausen Memorial Hall and the Jewish Museum Berlin ), then in the Neu-Isenburg Town Hall .

literature

  • New life. Russians Jews Germans , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-86828-277-1 .
  • Coal not Dole 30 years on. The UK Miners' Strike 1984/1985 . Peperoni Books, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-941825-61-1 .
  • The Final Winter . Photographs and Texts by Michael Kerstgens, Peperoni Books, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-941249-19-6 .
  • Hard life on the heights . Athesia Verlag, Bozen, South Tyrol 2015, ISBN 978-88-6839-112-6 .
  • In the Ruhr area = Uproar Area . With texts by Stefan Berger, Christoph Fasel and Theo Steegmann, German / English, Peperoni Books, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-941249-02-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kerstgens, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kerstgens-Wirth, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh documentarist, artist and portrait photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Llanelli , South Wales , UK