Stefan Koppelkamm

Stefan Koppelkamm (* 1952 in Saarbrücken ) is a German graphic designer, exhibition designer, photographer, author and university professor.

Koppelkamm studied graphic design, photography and art education at the Kassel Art College with Hans Hillmann , Heinz Nickel and Floris M. Neusüß . From 1978 onwards, he worked on photographs of 19th century greenhouses in France, Belgium and Great Britain. This resulted in a book and an exhibition "Greenhouses and Winter Gardens in the 19th Century" in 1981. From 1981 Koppelkamm worked as a photographer and author for magazines such as Bauwelt , Art, FAZ-Magazin and for the international building exhibition in Berlin. In 1987 he opened an office for exhibition design and graphic design in Berlin. From 1993 to 2017, Koppelkamm was professor for visual communication at the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee . Koppelkamm has written numerous publications on topics from the history of architecture and gardens, including the phenomenon of exoticism in European architecture.

Since the publication of his book "Local Time Local Time" (Stuttgart / London 2006), Koppelkamm has increasingly shifted his focus to the field of artistic photography. His photographic projects almost always relate to urban space. They make social and historical changes visible, as in the project "Local Time Local Time", which confronts houses and urban spaces in eastern Germany and Berlin that were photographed shortly after the fall of the Wall with photographs of the same places that were taken a good decade later, or they address the interrelationship between Exhibitionism and voyeurism on the stage of urban life: photographs from the series "Eye Contact" (exhibition "Back to Kassel", Kasseler Kunstverein, 2004) and "Schnitte" ( Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf , "Stadt / Fotografie", 2006). An exhibition of photographs from the local time project initiated by the Goethe-Institut was shown in 2009/10 in Kemerovo , Naples , Rome , Lyon and Paris .

Publications (selection)

• Greenhouses and winter gardens in the 19th century . Stuttgart 1981.
• Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century . London / New York 1981.
• The imaginary orient. Exotic buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe . Berlin 1987 and Tokyo 1991.
• Artificial paradises. 19th century greenhouses and winter gardens . Berlin 1988 and Tokyo 1991.
• with Michael Seiler: Pfaueninsel . Berlin, Tübingen / Berlin, 1993.
• Local time . 100 photographs with a text by Ludger Derenthal, Stuttgart / London 2006.

Web links

• Literature by and about Stefan Koppelkamm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website for the book Ortszeit / Local Time
• Website by S. Koppelkamm