Nina Pohl

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Nina Pohl (* 1968 in Berlin ) is a German artist and curator .

Life

From 1987 to 1992 Pohl studied photography and film at the Folkwang University in Essen. She is one of the most important representatives of current photographic art . She has been running the Schinkel Pavilion in Berlin since 2002 , where she also curates regular exhibitions.

From 1995 to 2007 she was married to the photographer Andreas Gursky . Pohl lives and works in Berlin.

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The confrontation of classical painting with the medium of photography is characteristic of Pohl's artistic practice . At the center of Pohl's interest is the visual “touch” of the physical quality of paintings and an aesthetic reinterpretation through their photographic reproduction. In her large-format photographs, the artist pursues the strategy of subversive beauty: photographs that exaggerate nature and art history in the sense of a seemingly romantic inwardness and at the same time describe them as a place of alienated staging. In her work groups, Nina Pohl regularly questions perspectives on traditional photographic subjects, addresses the competitive relationship between painting and photography, and in this way expands the concept of photographic art. The subject of wild nature originally staged in the paintings, Pohl resocializes with her photographs through the mere surface fragmentation as a man-made view of the original, as a separate cultural landscape of the color pigments. The surreal effect of these imagery is fetishized and heightened by the apparent objectivity of the camera view of the subject. With her staging, Nina Pohl declines the old questions of reality and reality, fantasy and illusion, sublimity and banality in a new way.

Nina Pohl often photographs landscape images "which exaggerate nature in the sense of an apparently romantic inwardness and at the same time describe it as a place of alienated staging."

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions
  • 2005: Nina Pohl , Sprüth Magers Projects
  • 2006: Nina Pohl , Heilbronn Art Association
  • 2007: Nina Pohl , Oldenburger Kunstverein
  • 2008: Nina Pohl , Sprüth Magers Cologne
  • 2008: Photographs by Nina Pohl , Münster City Museum
  • 2013: "Nina Pohl, New Paintings", Sprüth Magers Berlin
Group exhibitions
  • 2000: The fifth element , Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  • 2001: today until now. Contemporary photography from Düsseldorf , Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
  • 2002: The last taboo , Expo 02, Swiss National Exhibition, Neuchatel
  • 2004: The gray chamber , Gallery Kerstin Engholm, Vienna
  • 2006: Heile Welt , Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden
  • 2007: Photo.Art - Contemporary Photography from the ESSL Collection , ESSL Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna
  • 2008: Looking Back , Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York
  • 2009: Animal Kingdom , Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
  • 2009: Show , Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
  • 2011: Melanchotopia , Witte de With, Rotterdam

literature

  • On the back of a horse , Vanessa Joan Müller about Nina Pohl at Sprüth Magers Berlin, Texts on Art, Edition 90, June 2013, pp. 222–224.
  • Elke Buhr: Portfolio - Nina Pohl , Monopol, Issue 11, November 2012, pp. 86–98.
  • Melanchotopia. Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam 2011.
  • Listen to your eyes: works from the Schmidt-Drenhaus collection. Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2009, ISBN 3-8656-0698-9 .
  • Under the stars - From the Willy Michel collection. Photography. Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf 2007.
  • Heile Welt - Works from the Schmidt-Drenhaus Collection, Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Dresden State Art Collection. Verlag Kerber, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-938025-71-0 .
  • Nina Pohl. Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-936859-58-4 .
  • Harald Szeemann: Money and Value - The Last Taboo. Edition Oehrli, Luegete 2002, ISBN 978-3905597-33-2 .
  • today until now - contemporary photography from Düsseldorf , part II. Schirmer Mosel, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 978-3829600-52-1 .
  • The fifth element - money or art. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Ostfildern 2000, ISBN 978-3770150-43-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "My life, my style: Nina Pohl" , Marie-Sophie Müller in Harper's Bazaar Germany
  2. ↑ Who do you sleep with, Nina Pohl? , monopol-magazin.de
  3. ↑ »My house is a mixture of designer garage and gazebo« , sueddeutsche.de
  4. ^ Photographs by Nina Pohl , muenster.de
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Nina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin