Sascha Weidner

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sascha Weidner in 2009

Sascha Weidner (born August 1, 1974 in Georgsmarienhütte ; † April 9, 2015 in Norden ) was a German photographer and artist who lived and worked in Belm and Berlin . Weidner's oeuvre deals with the creation of a radically subjective world of images. His photographs are shaped by perceptions, longings and a visual language of the subconscious and have been exhibited and published internationally.

Life

As a teenager, Sascha Weidner was interested in the arts and actively painting herself. After a stay abroad from 1992 to 1993 in Solon , Ohio , USA and the high school diploma in 1995 at the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium in Osnabrück, Sascha Weidner studied fine arts and visual communication at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts from 1996 to 2004 and completed his studies with an honorary diploma. Subsequently, in 2004, he was a master class student in the fine arts in photography at Dörte Eißfeldt. After completing his studies, Sascha Weidner worked as a freelance artist in Belm and Berlin.

Saschas Weidner's pictures are shaped by journeys made possible by various work grants, among other things. In 2004 and 2006 he traveled to Los Angeles for several months with the German Academic Exchange Service . In 2013 he received a scholarship from the Goethe Institute at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, Japan and in 2014 at the Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing, China.

From 2010 to 2012 Sascha Weidner was a lecturer in artistic photography at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart . In 2012 he was appointed a member of the German Photographic Academy .

In 2015, Sascha Weidner surprisingly succumbed to the consequences of heart failure.

For his work, he received, among other things, the 2011 award for photo art from the Alison & Peter Klein Foundation and the 2010 Young Art Award for Film and Media Art Berlin from the Akademie der Künste .

Sascha Weidner's work has been presented nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions.

plant

Sascha Weidner described himself as a “romantically moved traveler” and his pictures as highly subjective. The medium of photography was for him the artistic means of expression to interweave real worlds with his own inner images. From his mostly biographical photo expeditions, picture essays arose on essential questions of human existence.

In his creative phase, which lasted more than a decade, a constantly rearranging image archive came together in which, as the photographer said, "everything is important: cultural, catastrophic, cliché, banal, political". Sascha Weidner drew from a fund that was made up of family photos, his own work and images he found or borrowed from the mass media and art history. The boundaries between staging and authenticity are blurred in order to emphasize the often unreal, sometimes suggestive atmosphere of reality.

His motifs as well as the titles of his works and exhibitions refer to biographical references and metaphors of his own experiences. For example: “Until it hurts”, “What remains”, “The presence of absence”, “There is nowhere to stay”, “Beauty remains” or “Built on the water”.

Sascha Weidner's canon of images sprang from the attitude towards life of young people and tells of the “perceptions, longings and dream images of those generations who experienced their youth in the 80s, 90s and 2000s.” That is why Sascha Weidner's approach is current for these periods and at the same time testifies to an artistic view actual and imaginary spaces.

At its core, Sascha Weidner's conception was shaped by an archaic and seemingly melancholy view of the world. The basic patterns of his pictorial schemes lead back to very own relationships of being and opposites such as life and death, beauty and transience as well as questions about origin, identity and self-determination. In this sense, Sascha Weidner did not limit himself to his own living environment, but talked about life itself.

The presentations of Sascha Weidner's temporary art installations resembled themselves again and again opening adventure spaces, which were often based on an interactive interplay of medium and viewer. The coexistence of image and text also opened up the possibility of a mental continuation of his image offerings, which were rearranged and constituted in changing combinations.

In terms of methodology and motivation, Sascha Weidner's direct, authentic and honest claim is anchored in the tradition of photographers such as Nan Goldin , Larry Clark and Juergen Teller . In his understanding of the image, the composition and the nuanced coloring, his series of images also recall the lightness and permeability of the elementary and symbolic implementation by the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi .

In 2016 the Sprengel Museum Hannover received an extensive donation from the estate of the photo artist. The museum presented a first selection from these in a solo exhibition from July to November 2017.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 "To, co pozostaje / What remains", Galeria Fotografii pf, Posen, Poland
  • 2017 “Sascha Weidner and Japan”, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
  • 2017 "It's all connected somehow - Nachlasssichtung I", Sprengel Museum Hannover , Hannover
  • 2017 "(Narratives)", Le jardin de Lélise, Clervaux - Cité de l'image, Luxembourg
  • 2016 “What remains”, Photography Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt
  • 2016 “There is nowhere to stay”, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar , Goslar
  • 2015 “Sascha Weidner. Photography “, RAY Photography Triennale, Marta Hoepffner-Gesellschaft für Fotografie e. V., Hofheim
  • 2014 “The Absence of Presence”, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
  • 2014 “Aokigahara”, gallery pavlov's dog , Berlin
  • 2013 “A part of it”, VGH Gallery, Hanover
  • 2013 “Do not alight here”, Hellenic Center for Photography, Athens
  • 2013 "Sascha Weidner - Selected Works", Circuito Aperto, Centro Culturale Altinate San Gaeta, Padova, Italy
  • 2012 “The Sorrows of Young W.”, Goethe-Institut, Prague
  • 2012 “The Pictures of Others”, Goethe-Institut, Prague
  • 2012 “Just let go”, fo.ku.s, Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2012 "Unveiled: The Sydney Project", Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia
  • 2011 “Foundation Prize for Photo Art 2011”, artwork, Nussdorf
  • 2011 “Revolve”, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
  • 2011 "Since Tomorrow / Since Tomorrow / Depuis Demain", C / O Berlin , Berlin
  • 2009 “What remains”, Museum for Photography , Braunschweig
  • 2009 "To be handled carefully", Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
  • 2009 “Built on the water”, Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums , Mannheim
  • 2008 "Until it hurts", Wolfenbüttel Art Association, Wolfenbüttel
  • 2008 “Enduring Beauty”, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
  • 2007 “Let there be Light”, Europacenter , Berlin
  • 2007 “Enduring Beauty”, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
  • 2007 “There is nowhere to stay”, FOAM Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • 2006 "Beauty Remains", Art Foyer DZ BANK Art Collection , Frankfurt (Main)
  • 2005 "Untold", Junge Kunst e. V., Wolfsburg

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2017 "Dream women - dream men", Mönchehaus Museum Goslar , Goslar
  • 2017 "ABC Photography", Victoria and Albert Museum , London, Great Britain
  • 2016 “Unterwegs / Hit the road”, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
  • 2016 “Month of Photography in Minsk 2016”, Minsk, Belarus
  • 2015 "Quiet Moments", Fremantle Arts Center, Fremantle, Australia
  • 2015 "Thinking. Acting. Reflecting. ”, SAP , Walldorf
  • 2014 "Urban Spirit" ", Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich
  • 2014 “Hanging # 12 - World Dreams”, Klein Collection, Nussdorf
  • 2014 “Portraying Visions”, Wittenstein AG , Igersheim
  • 2014 "WILD - Animals in Contemporary Photography / Animals in Contemporary Photography", Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation, Berlin
  • 2014 “The Youth Code”, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zurich
  • 2014 "With the eyes of Düsseldorf gallery owners - contemporary photography", E.ON gallery, Düsseldorf
  • 2013 “Murakami & Weidner”, APP Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2013 “World, Travel, Self, Search”, German Photographic Academy, Gallery Altes Rathaus Musberg, Musberg
  • 2013 “Today no plenum - 20 years of the Eißfeldt class”, 267 quarters for contemporary art and photography, Braunschweig
  • 2012 "Hijacked 2 - Australian and German Photography", Zephyr, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen , Mannheim
  • 2012 "Fame", Art Foyer DZ BANK Art Collection , Frankfurt (Main)
  • 2012 "Dark Sights", Art Foyer DZ BANK Art Collection , Frankfurt (Main)
  • 2011 “Dream men - star photographers show their vision of the ideal”, Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
  • 2011 "International Welde Art Prize 2011 Photography", Leimen Art Association, Leimen
  • 2011 “Salon Salder 2011 - New Art from Lower Saxony”, Salder Castle , Salzgitter
  • 2010 “Photography Group Show”, Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp
  • 2010 "Hijacked 2 - Australian and German Photography", Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, Australia
  • 2009 “Ease and Enthusiasm - Young Art and Modernism”, Wolfsburg Art Museum , Wolfsburg
  • 2009 “Pioneering Color Photography meets Contemporary”, Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich
  • 2009 “Los Angeles - Berlin”, Arthaus, Venice, United States
  • 2008 “Land / Scaped”, Berlin branch, Berlin
  • 2007 "Sublime", Römer 9, Frankfurt (Main)
  • 2007 “Concept: Photography - Dialogues & Attitudes”, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
  • 2006 "Eißfeldts Meister", APEX Kunstverein pro art, Göttingen

Awards & grants

  • 2014 artist residency at the Goethe-Institut, Three Shadows Photography Art Center , Beijing, China
  • 2014 Entrepreneur 4.0 Award for Photography
  • 2013 Otto Steinert Prize 2013 (finalist)
  • 2013 artist residency, Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa , Kyoto, Japan
  • 2012 artist residency, COFA, Sydney, Australia
  • 2011 Foundation Prize for Photography 2011, Alison & Peter W. Klein Foundation, Artwork, Nussdorf
  • 2011 International World Art Prize for Photography (shortlist)
  • 2010 Berlin Art Prize , Film and Media Art Promotion Prize, Academy of the Arts (Berlin) , Berlin
  • 2009 Prix BMW Paris Photo (shortlist)
  • 2007 Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
  • 2006 DAAD scholarship (visual arts), Los Angeles, United States
  • 2005 Photography Prize, NBank, Hanover
  • 2004 Otto Steinert Prize 2004 (honorary award)
  • 2004 DAAD scholarship (visual arts), Los Angeles, United States
  • 2003 artist residency at Villa Vigoni , Loveno di Menaggio, Italy
  • 2003 Phenography Award
  • 2001 International Polaroid Award (first place)
  • 2000 Elite 2000, Nord-LB

Literature (selection)

  • The Far Flowered Shore. Koenig Books, London 2017, ISBN 978-3960981985 .
  • Intermission II. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4191-0 .
  • Sascha Weidner's and Jan Böttcher's only true experiences on water and on land, on horseback and on foot, in war and in peace, in the air as well as in the Lower Saxony states and Bremen this year completely rewritten and photographed by themselves . Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Hanover 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049834-3 .
  • Class.Book - 64 items from the Eißfeldt class. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86828-583-3 .
  • Entrepreneur 4.0. Exhibition cat., Seltmann + sons, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944721-19-4 .
  • Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 1 - Last song, C / O Berlin. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-928224-07-9 .
  • Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 2 - The sorrows of young W., Goethe Institute Prague. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-928224-08-6 .
  • Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 3 - The Pictures of Others, Goethe Institute Prague. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-928224-09-3 .
  • Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 4 - Unveiled, The Sydney Project, Australian Center for Photography. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-1-922091-03-1 .
  • Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 5 - Lay down close by, Australian Center for Photography. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-1-922091-03-1 .
  • Dream men - star photographers show their vision of the ideal. Exhibition cat., Dumont, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-8321-9362-1 .
  • Salder Castle, New Art from Lower Saxony. Exhibition cat., Salzgitter 2011, ISBN 978-3-941737-58-7 .
  • Hijacked 2 - Australian and German Photography. Exhibition catalog, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-126-2 .
  • What remains. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-15-0 .
  • Future Images. Ore Motta, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-6413-017-0 , 24
  • Ease and Eagerness. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2433-3 .
  • Built on the water. Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums, Mannheim 2009.
  • Until it hurts. Appelhans-Verlag, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-937664-79-8 .
  • Dialogues & Attitudes. Exhibition catalog, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1987-2 .
  • The love of light - photography in the 20th and 21st centuries. Kunstmuseum Celle, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst & Museum Bochum 2007, ISBN 978-3-8093-0236-0 .
  • Enduring Beauty. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2007, ISBN 978-3-937664-70-5 .
  • Beauty remains. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-44-0 .
  • Promotion Prize for Photography 2005. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006.
  • Eißfeldt's master. Exhibition cat., APEX Kunstverein pro art, Göttingen 2006.
  • Writing the pictures. Salon Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89770-225-8 .
  • strange.locations. Museum for Photography, Braunschweig 2003.
  • According to Cindy exhibition catalog, Mönchehaus for Modern Art, Goslar 2000.
  • Health. Exhibition catalog, Kunsthaus Essen, Petrikirche Dortmund & HBK Braunschweig 1999.
  • Guest performance. Exhibition catalog, Kunstverein Hannover, Richter Verlag 1998.
  • Contemporary history of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HBK master class student Sascha Weidner has died , obituary on the HBK Braunschweig website, accessed on June 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c Sascha Weidner's estate
  3. ↑ a b Inka Schube: Karambolage / Hautnah. (PDF) In: Award for Documentary Photography 2005. Wüstenrot Foundation
  4. ↑ a b saschaweidner.de biography on the artist's website
  5. ↑ goethe.de website of the Goethe Institute Japan, 2012.
  6. ↑ goethe.de ( Memento from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Message on the website of the Goethe Institute China, April 2015.
  7. ↑ deutsche-fotografische-akademie.com Bulletin of the German Photographic Academy, issue 29, April 2013.
  8. ↑ sammlung-klein.de ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Alison & Peter Klein Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sammlung-klein.de
  9. ↑ adk.de website of the Berlin Academy of the Arts
  10. ↑ Alix Landgrebe, Sascha Weidner: About beauty, transience, melancholy. In: Sascha Weidner Catalogs, No. 4 - Unveiled, The Sydney Project, Australian Center for Photography. Berlin 2013, p. 29 f.
  11. ↑ vgh.de VGH Gallery, Hanover 2013.
  12. ↑ btv-fokus.at (PDF) Press text on the exhibition “Just let go”, fo.ku.s, Innsbruck 2012.
  13. ↑ Dorothea Schöne: Enduring Beauty. In: Sascha Weidner: Enduring Beauty. Braunschweig 2007, no p.
  14. ↑ priskapasquer.com about Rinko Kawauchi
  15. ↑ Fascinating, disturbing: the photographer Sascha Weidner in Hanover ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Conclusion review in Deutschlandfunk Kultur from July 27, 2017, accessed July 28, 2017 (mp3 audio) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ondemand-mp3.dradio.de
  16. ↑ Exhibitions | The Estate of Artist Sascha Weidner. Retrieved January 24, 2018 (American English).
  17. ^ ArtFacts.net: Sascha Weidner. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weidner, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st August 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Georgsmarienhütte
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2015
Place of death north