Oliver Mark
Oliver Mark (born February 20, 1963 in Gelsenkirchen ) is a German photographer and artist who is best known for his portraits of international personalities.
Life
He discovered his enthusiasm for photography at the age of nine when he won first prize in a painting competition, while traveling to the Olympic Games in Munich. On this occasion, his father gave him his first camera. He was fascinated by his own pictures, which looked so different from the magazines he had known before. After training as a photographer, he first worked in fashion photography. a. in the Burda photo studios in Offenburg. He has been working as a freelance photographer since 1991. As a guest student, he attended Katharina Sieverding's (Visual Culture) seminars at the Berlin University of the Arts , which is particularly known for its large-format photographs.
Oliver Mark is the father of two sons and currently lives in Berlin .
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Since the 1990s he has been photographing celebrities more often, he became known for portraits of Anthony Hopkins and Jerry Lewis . Other people he portrayed include publicly significant figures such as Angela Merkel , Pope Benedict XVI. and Joachim Gauck , but also stars like Ben Kingsley , Cate Blanchett and Tom Hanks . His personal interest is in contemporary artists and their creative world. He has close contact with established, but also with many young artists, whom he portrays in their work environment.
In addition to the single-lens reflex camera, he often uses his old 680 Polaroid camera. In these instant shots, the familiarity and closeness to the sitter is particularly evident.
“His portraits tell stories of alienation, overlapping, fragmentation, splitting, duplication, tying, packaging, acting - and often reveal more than intended, both about the sitter and the photographer. The carefully staged snapshots point beyond themselves as “social stills”: They analyze people, they locate their role in society, they are mirror images.
Concentrated closeness alternates with almost meaningful staging and intentionally casual images.
The picture frame runs through his entire photographic work as a motif, as a stylistic device, as a source of tension, as a boundary and message. Be it the artistic still life of the empty frames, which with their black surfaces refer to the eponymous “non-appearance” or the arrangement of his works in lavishly gilded baroque or antique oval frames: the associative proximity to old master painting - reinforced by the recurring The motif of the hands or vanitas quotes in the picture - does not miss its ennobling effect, especially when it is again ironically broken.
Oliver Mark is a character seeker. Wherever he finds what he is looking for, where he is most at home, strongest, closest, a face becomes a face in which our time is reflected. The viewer is hit hard by the intimacy of the moment and one is happy to be able to share this moment. This is the case with Louise Bourgeois, whom Oliver Mark photographed in New York in 1996 at the age of 85. "
He worked u. a. for the magazines Architectural Digest , Rolling Stone , Der Spiegel , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , Stern , Time , Vanity Fair , Vogue and Die Zeit .
In 2013 one of his photographs was awarded a prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In 2014 Oliver Mark brought out his own magazine called Oliver - Hooker Artist Photographer - The Whole Truth About Oliver Mark .
Collections
Oliver Mark's pictures can be found in the collections of the Liechtenstein National Museum , the Chemnitz Art Collections , the Bukowina Museum in Suceava , the Goethe Institute Dublin , the Würth Collection and in private collections.
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Collaborations
Oliver Mark has been working with the artist Christian Hoischen in a collaboration Hoischen / Mark since 2017 . According to Chiara Thies, the collaboration is characterized by “criticism and correction” “until all certainty is shattered. Only jokes offer salvation. "
Exhibitions
In the exhibition Natura Morta , which was presented in two parts in the Gemäldegalerie of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and in the Natural History Museum Vienna 2017, he addresses the question of how humans deal with nature and the environment, especially the animal world, but also the Aesthetics and beauty of death. Oliver Mark's still life photographs were taken in the evidence chamber of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation in Bonn in 2015. His idea was to photograph ivory carvings, protected animal and plant parts, hunting trophies etc., which were confiscated by customs, in such a way that the products are first illuminated by lighting (old-master daylight, only illuminated through a gap) and the selection of the backgrounds Generate a desire to look at the viewer. In the Natural History Museum Vienna these were put in three groups next to different animal preparations, whereby the question of species protection is discussed. Oliver Mark presented his photographs in historical painting frames, which he selects at auctions and in antique shops. In the picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this resulted in exciting correspondences between the genres of painting and photography, but also between photographic and painted still lifes. Still lifes and animal pieces by Dutch painters such as Willem van Aelst , Jan Weenix or those who succeeded Peter Paul Rubens were shown from the collection of the Gemäldegalerie .
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2020: The hands of Jenny Holzer in St. Peter and Paul Church , Potsdam
- 2019/20: Bukowina Monasteries Life , St. Thomas Aquinas Church in the Catholic Academy in Berlin
- 2019/20: Golden Shoes - Photographs from the collection of the Liechtenstein National Museum by Oliver Mark
- 2019: No Show , Villa Dessauer - Museums of the City of Bamberg
- 2019: Bukowina Monastery Life , Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
- 2018: Bukowina Monasteries Life , Bukowina Museum , Suceava
- 2017: Natura Morta - photographs by Oliver Mark in correspondence with still life paintings in the collection , Gemäldegalerie of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- 2017: Natura Morta - Photographs by Oliver Mark , Natural History Museum Vienna
- 2016/17: Natura Morta , Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
- 2014: Oliver Mark - still ... read , Goethe-Institut Ireland, Dublin
- 2014: Life creeps out of the rubble - portraits by Karl Otto Götz , Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
- 2014: Märkische noblemen - a balance sheet of the new beginning , Fürst-Pückler-Museum , Cottbus
- 2013/14: Outsider and initiated , Uno Art Space, Stuttgart
- 2013: Outsider and initiated , pavlov's dog, Berlin
- 2013: Oliver Mark's view of Liechtenstein's national holiday on August 15 , 2012 , Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
- 2013: Homeland committed , law firm in the Lübbenau castle district, Lübbenau
- 2012/13: Home Commitment , Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , Potsdam
- 2012: Shuteye , ° CLAIR Gallery, Munich
- 2011: Portraits , Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen ad Ilm
- 2011: 7 Artists and 1 Nude , Galerie Gloria, Berlin
- 2006: Portraits & Stills , Anna Augstein Fine Arts, Berlin
- 2002/03: Portraits , Musée de la photographie, Mougins
- 2001: Photographs , Imago Gallery, Berlin
- 2000: Portraits and memorabilia , Galerie Grauwert, Hamburg
- 1999: Portraits , Galerie 48, Saarbrücken
Participation in group exhibitions
| year | exhibition | place |
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| 2018 | Artist Complex - Photographic Portraits from Baselitz to Warhol | Museum of Photography , Berlin |
| 2018 | Where have all the flowers gone | Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin |
| 2018 | Made in Berlin | Camera Work , Berlin |
| 2018 | People - photo art from the Braus collection | Museum of the Electoral Palatinate of Heidelberg |
| 2018 | ART FAIR | KWADRAT, Berlin |
| 2018 | A tower of impossibilities | König Galerie, Berlin |
| 2017 | ART.PLACE.CINEMA | Kunsthalle Erfurt |
| 2017 | Impressions from Liechtenstein | Vologda Kremlin Museum, Vologda |
| 2017 | ELEVATION - in the depths of the surface (with Christian Hoischen ) | Art in the castle, Untergröningen |
| 2017 | Phenomena from Liechtenstein: Music and the arts | Glinka National Museum & Chaliapin Museum, Moscow |
| 2017 | Between skies and earth: Alvin Langdon Coburn / Oliver Mark | ° CLAIR Gallery, Munich |
| 2016 | Views of Liechtenstein (with Alex Doll) | Town hall Zerbst |
| 2016/17 | Winter salon | DEAR Photography Art Room, Hamburg |
| 2016 | Black - Works by 25 BFF photographers | photokina 2016, Cologne |
| 2016 | Views of Liechtenstein (with Alex Doll) | Orenburg Museum of Fine Arts |
| 2016 | Struction | Cold store Berlin |
| 2016 | 90 years of FC Gundlach - 90 BFF photographers congratulate | Leipzig cotton mill |
| 2016 | Berlin is for lovers | Impossible Project Laboratory, Berlin |
| 2016 | The story has a mistake / too many storytellers | Art Association Gütersloh |
| 2016 | Sweet | Show window space for art, Berlin |
| 2016 | Between image and reality | Zulauf Gallery, Freinsheim |
| 2015/16 | Staged. Portraits become dresses | Lindenau Museum , Altenburg |
| 2015 | Liechtenstein - pictures and postage stamps | Sofia History Museum |
| 2015 | On the move | VDA Berlin |
| 2015 | Courage! Love for free | Kreuzberg Pavilion, Berlin |
| 2014 | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize | The Wilson, Cheltenham |
| 2014 | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize | The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury |
| 2014 | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize | Scottish National Portrait Gallery , Edinburgh |
| 2013/14 | Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize | National Portrait Gallery , London |
| 2013 | Super real | Erfurt Art Association |
| 2012 |
The artistic portrait in the age of virtual self-presentation 5th European Month of Photography Berlin |
UF6 Projects Gallery, Berlin |
| 2012 | 18 hours a day | Kreuzberg Pavilion, Kassel |
| 2011 | Slippy Floor | pavlov's dog , Berlin |
| 2010 | 40 years of ZEITmagazin | Alsterhaus , Hamburg |
| 2009 | Berlin Now | Camera Work, Berlin |
| 2009 | Trash & Press | Photo space in Bogota , Berlin |
| 2008 | Beautiful new world | photokina 2008: Visual Gallery , Berlin |
| 2008 | ZEITmagazin: I have a dream | Goethe Institute, Paris |
| 2007 | ZEITmagazin: I have a dream | Gallery in Café Einstein Unter den Linden , Berlin |
| 2007 | Elsewhere - A Topography of Desires | Monacensia , Munich |
| 2007 | Photographic Portrait Prize | National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 2006 | BFF in China | International Photo Festival, Xining |
| 2005 | Born in the 60ies. Positions in contemporary photography | C / O Berlin |
| 2003 | ZEITmagazin: I have a dream | Gallery in Café Einstein Unter den Linden, Berlin |
| 2002 | ZEITmagazin: I have a dream | Gallery in Café Einstein Unter den Linden, Berlin |
| 2002 | Images of silence | photokina 2002, Cologne |
| 2000 | From face to face - photo portraits by Oliver Mark & Olaf Martens | Artothek Wiesbaden |
| 1995 | The color red. Compositions | Chapel Art Center, Cologne |
| 1995 | Contemporary German fashion photography | Women's Museum Bonn |
Curated exhibitions
- 2019: small, Schau Fenster, Berlin: Andreas Blank, Benedikt Richert, Olivia Berckemeyer, Birgit Dieker, Ross Chisholm, Gudny Gudmundsdottir, Sabine Gross, Christian Hoischen , Alicja Kwade , Ruprecht von Kaufmann , Daniel Kannenberg, Timo Klöppel, Via Lewandowsky , Isa Melsheimer, Ulrik Moeller, Philipp Pusch, Sophia Schama, Johanna Silbermann, Peter Stauss, Filip Zorzor
- 2018: Room XVII , Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin: Olivia Berckemeyer, Maria Brunner , Sabine Groß, Florin Kompatscher , Isa Melsheimer, Sonja Ofen, Hannah Regenberg, Sophia Schama, Sibylle Springer , Aaiko Tezuka and Michaela Zimmer
- 2017: Everything or Always , Schau Fenster, Berlin: Alessandro Allori / circle, Achim Bertenburg, Axel Geis, Andreas Golder / David Nicholson, Gregor Hildebrandt , Benedikt Hipp, Christian Hoischen , Heine / Lenz / Zizka , Michael Kunze , Wolfgang Lugmair, Via Lewandowsky , Ernie Luley Superstar, Christian Macketanz , Ulrik Möller, Daniel Mohr, Hannu Prinz, Sara Rahbar, Alexander von Schlieffen, Sibylle Springer , Sador Weinsčlucker, Marlon Wobst
- 2012: The arge path of knowledge , Gloria Berlin: Stefania Batoeva, Axel Geis, Michal Heiman , Gregor Hildebrandt , Benedikt Hipp, Christian Hoischen , Michael Kunze , Sara Rahbar, Norbert Schwontkowski , Philip Topolovac
Publications
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No show . Distance Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95476-281-1 .
(with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll, Christoph Peters , Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper) -
Bukovina monasteries life . Edited by Rainer Vollkommer . Editura Karl A. Romstorfer, Suceava 2018, ISBN 978-606-8698-29-8 .
(with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu) -
Natura Morta. Edited by Rainer Vollkommer. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86828-759-2 .
(with texts by Lorenz Becker, Philipp Demandt , Aurelia Frick , Barbara Hendricks , Christian Koberl , Julia M. Nauhaus , Michael Schipper, Rainer Vollkommer) - Oliver - hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark. Grauel Publishing, Berlin 2014.
- Life creeps out of the rubble. b.frank books, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-906217-00-0 . (with poems by Karl Otto Götz )
- Outsider and initiate. Edited by Achim Heine . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3756-2 .
- Oliver Mark's view of Liechtenstein's national holiday. Edited by Rainer Vollkommer . Alpenland Verlag, Schaan 2013, ISBN 978-3-905437-34-8 .
- with Martina Schellhorn: Committed to home. Märkische noblemen - a balance sheet after 20 years. Edited by the Brandenburg State Center for Political Education, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-932502-60-6 .
- Portraits. Edited by Achim Heine . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2484-5 .
- 20 years of the Kulturstiftung der Länder. Founders, fellow campaigners, companions . In: Arsprototo , Berlin 2008. (Photographs by Oliver Mark)
Web links
- official website
- Oliver Mark on artitious.com
- Andreas Öhler: Monastery in Romania. Not from this world. In: The time. No. 14/2019. 29th March 2019
- Peter Lindhorst: Oliver Mark - Natura Morta In: peterlindhorst.com . May 31, 2017.
- Photographs by Oliver Mark in correspondence with still life paintings in the collection In: akademiegalerie.at
- Nadja Sayej: Behind the Lens: Oliver Mark's Astounding Portraits of Your Favorite Artists In: noisey.vice.com . February 15, 2014 (en)
- Up close from a distance. In: welt.de. 4th October 2009.
- Literature by and about Oliver Mark in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Mark - kunstgebiet.ruhr. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Michael Omori Kirchner: Oliver Mark Portraits. In: fotografr.de. November 24, 2009. Retrieved September 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Photographer Oliver Mark: Celebrities on Polaroid. In: zeit.de. August 8, 2013, accessed September 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Christa Klubert GmbH: Oliver - hooker, artist, photographer, Oliver Mark - Christa Klubert. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz -, INFORMATION ON THE EXHIBITION . Retrieved October 14, 2018.
- ↑ Expoziţia de photography “Celebrităţi” la adus, la Suceava, pe artistul photographer German Oliver Mark. El a donat Muzeului Bucovinei una dintre lucrările sale (ro-RO) . In: NewsBucovina , October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2018.
- ↑ a b Spiritualitatea profundă surprinsă în expoziţia “Bucovina - Mănăstirile trăiesc” a artistului photographer Oliver Mark, vernisată la Muzeul de Istorie din Suceava în prezența autorului (ro-RO) . In: NewsBucovina , November 11, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ^ Art Faces - Artist Portraits in the Würth Collection. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
- ↑ References - Oliver Mark Studio . Retrieved October 15, 2018.
- ↑ Oliver Mark | Little death and full life | Event . In: artitious .
- ↑ a b Natura Morta - Picture gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ The photo book Natura Morta was created in the evidence chamber of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and reminds us of the importance of biodiversity - Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Exhibition details . Retrieved June 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Oliver Hartmann: Special exhibition: Bukowina - live monasteries - Oliver Mark. In: lie: time. March 15, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Natural History Museum Vienna - special exhibitions. Retrieved September 18, 2018 .
- ^ Liechtenstein National Museum: Liechtenstein National Museum:. Retrieved September 18, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz -, INFORMATION ON THE EXHIBITION. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ UNO ART SPACE | CULTURAL PLANETS. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Mark. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ^ Liechtenstein National Museum: Liechtenstein National Museum:. Retrieved October 14, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Committed to home. Märkische noblemen - a balance sheet after 20 years. from Schellhorn, Martina u. Oliver Mark .: Potsdam Brandenburg State Center for Civic Education 9783932502606 - Antiquariat Maralt. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Exhibition shuteye - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Photographs by Oliver Mark: In dreams raptures on rumpled sheets . In: Kulturvollzug . ( Kultur-vollzug.de [accessed on September 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Oliver Mark - Portraits . In: Kunstverein . ( kunstverein-pfaffenhofen.de [accessed on September 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Pictures from the exhibition "7 Artist And 1 Nude" by Oliver Mark . In: Rolling Stone . September 8, 2011 ( rollingstone.de [accessed October 14, 2018]).
- ^ Institution Anna Augstein Fine Arts Berlin - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Mark | Artist Complex Photographic Portraits from Frida Kahlo to Pablo Picasso | Event . In: artitious . ( artitious.com [accessed October 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Made in Berlin. Retrieved September 22, 2018 .
- ↑ Exhibition Kunst.Ort.Kino. - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ^ Between Skies and Earth | CLAIR Gallery . In: CLAIR Gallery . June 12, 2017 ( clair.me [accessed October 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Philipp Fritz: "Berlin is for Lovers": (Half) naked Berliners on Polaroids . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed on October 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Oliver Mark at the Lindenau Museum | CLAIR Gallery . In: CLAIR Gallery . April 13, 2016 ( clair.me [accessed September 22, 2018]).
- ↑ Taylor Wessing 2013 . In: Just add pictures . November 28, 2013 ( justaddpictures.com [accessed October 14, 2018]).
- ↑ Erfurter-Kunstverein Archive. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ^ Photographic Portrait Prize 2007 - Exhibitor 44 - National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .
- ↑ The photo book Natura Morta was created in the evidence chamber of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and reminds us of the importance of biodiversity - Kehrer Verlag. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Oliver Mark - Life creeps out of the rubble by b.frank books. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ^ Hatje Cantz Publisher: Oliver Mark | Photography | Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ^ Liechtenstein National Museum: Liechtenstein National Museum:. Retrieved September 17, 2018 (American English).
- ↑ Books | Brandenburg State Center for Political Education - Committed to home. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
- ^ Hatje Cantz Publisher: Oliver Mark | Photography | Hatje Cantz Publishing House. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mark, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th February 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |