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Tilmann Krieg (born May 29, 1954 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist , photographer , author and designer .

Life

Tilmann Krieg was born in 1954 in Stuttgart as the son of the psychoanalyst Dieter Krieg and Maria-Elisabeth Krieg- von Spiegel zum Desenberg . He is the great-nephew of the doctor, ethnologist and zoologist Hans Krieg .

After training as a photographer, Tilmann Krieg studied visual communication at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences with a focus on illustration, book design and photography with Klaus Kammerichs and Rudi Assmann. Graduated in 1981 as a designer (visual communication, focus on illustration) with Hans Georg Lenzen and Klaus E. Neelen. He then took up a second degree with Sarkis at the Haute école des arts du Rhin , Strasbourg (1981–1984). From 1979 exhibitions, initially as a painter, etcher and draftsman.

In 1999 he turned away from classical painting and developed an independent world of expression in painterly photography, which at times goes to the limits of abstraction. The basic concept of his work is the representation of the dimension "time" in the picture, i. H. the traces of movement of the passing moment that emerge in the recording. The pictures created in this way have a strong painterly impression. The works of Krieg are therefore more likely to be assigned to the border area between painting and photography, as they are actually more frozen film sequences than sharp photographic time slices. The aesthetics of his works are repeatedly compared with those of Gerhard Richter in reviews , especially figurative works such as Krieg's “upstairs” show parallels to Richter's “Ema”, even if the technical approach of both artists is almost diametrically opposed.

The first photographs of the war, which already show this way of dealing with light and time, were published in 1999, at the beginning of digital photography. War subsequently worked in North America, Brazil, Ethiopia, Morocco, Korea and China. The main themes are people and urban life, which appear in theme cycles. The “Metro” series is outstanding, with the subways of various megapoles symbolizing the journey of life and the “blood circulation” of modern urban life.

Simultaneously with his visual language, he developed his subjects and an unusual technique of his mostly large-format photography. Most of the time he develops his photos directly on steel, copper or aluminum. The photographic templates are often expanded through painterly intervention. Occasionally, Krieg deforms his works into spatial objects and assemblages that sculpturally reach into the space. He also experiments with new materials and techniques, for example silvering steel or copper plates as carrier material for his photographic motifs.

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War's work - although it uses photographic means - is more likely to be assigned to painting. In terms of its artistic concept, it also goes far beyond classic photography. What is significant is the idiosyncratic use of materials such as steel, aluminum or silver, but also of large-format prints on transparent films that hang freely in the room. In 2015, Krieg created the visual symphony “Metropolis”, which premiered on November 1, 2015 in the Church of St. Johannes Nepomuk in Kehl: a work in twelve movements that broadcasts music, sound collages and image projections from eight projectors across the entire space into the architecture (duration : 54 minutes).

Since around 2007, photographic installations and projection work have come to the fore in wartime work, in works such as "Cores", "Sua vida", "Metro - east-west line", "Imagery", some of which are performed within concert events. There have been solo and group exhibitions in many countries in the Old and New World, and war is represented in many public collections. Several projects were realized at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut in Paris, Los Angeles, Salvador Bahia, Addis Ababa, Frankfurt am Main.

There are large sculptures of war in public spaces that use light and the means of photography.

In 2008, Tilmann Krieg won the Photo Art Prize at the Seoul International Art Fair (KIAF) with “shooting hidden spot”. In summer 2010 he was one of the international artists invited by the city and the Suwon Art Association (South Korea) to set up an installation in the context of the world cultural heritage (project: "Haengungdong People").

Exhibitions

• 1981: Galerie Hermannstr. 8, Brühl
• 1984: The Black Staircase Gallery, Haigerloch
• 1985: Städtische Galerie, Kehl
• 1986: Doris Hölder Gallery, Ravensburg
• 2000: tomorrow I'll be better , Stadtmuseum am Markt, Schiltach
• 2000: Pictures from America , Städtische Galerie im Friedrichsbau, Bühl
• 2003: pura luz, um olhar objetivo , Goethe-Institut, Salvador Bahia, Brazil
• 2004: Seeing the world through the eyes of the other , photo sculpture in public space, Kehl am Rhein
• 2005: Portraits from Bahia , Grimmelshausen Museum, Renchen
• 2005: moro num pais tropical , State Museum on Friedrichsplatz, Karlsruhe
• 2005: Doris Hölder Gallery, Ravensburg
• 2005: Signum Gallery, Heidelberg
• 2007: Walter Bischoff Gallery, Berlin
• 2007: Ethiopian Experiences , Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
• 2008: Ethiopia with different eyes , Goethe-Institut, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
• 2009: Passages , Villa Haiss - Museum for Contemporary Art, Zell aH
• 2009: Uo-Ri , Museum for contemporary art - PakYoung Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
• 2009: Ethiopia with different eyes , Goethe-Institut, Frankfurt am Main
• 2010: Gallery Gala, Seoul, South Korea
• 2010: spacenoon gallery, Suwon, South Korea
• 2011: Journey to the unknown , Kunstverein Speyer
• 2012: Artists from Germany , Gallery of Soka University, Aliso Veijo, California, USA
• 2013: Passages , Galerie François Mansart, Paris, France
• 2013: Shades of Light Galerie Raphael Rigassi, Bern, Switzerland
• 2014: Life drawing gallery Cascade Artspace, Kehl , with Jürgen Brodwolf, Xhou Brothers
• 2014: New works from the series 'Passages', Galerie Doris Hölder , Ravensburg
• 2015: Metropolis - visual symphony , photo, video and sound installation. First performance November 1, 2015, St.Johannes Nepomuk Church in Kehl, 24 performances
• 2016: Animal Farm , multi-part landscape culture, Rheinhafen Kehl
• 2016: Sky-Plane-Girl , Exhibition in three chapters, curated by Azad Asifovich, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France
• 2016: Sky-Plane-Girl , Museum Villa Haiss, Zell aH
• 2017: My Australian Sketchbook , Gallery Cascade ArtSpace, Merimbula, Australia
• 2017: Metropolis - visual symphony , photo, video and sound installation, Jesuit Church, Heidelberg
• 2017: Tre giorni veneziani , interactive sound and video installation, as part of the exhibition “Venice in Art”, Fruchtkasten Gallery, Ochsenhausen Monastery
• 2017: Center des lumières , exhibition Galerie Signum, Heidelberg
• 2017: A brother named Martin , play about Martin Luther for the BaalNovo theater (text author and audio-visual stage scenario)
• 2018: Primavera , sculpture steel and aluminum with photographic elements, city of Lahr, public space
• 2018: La Serenissima cantat photo and video installation in the church, with the Ortenau Bach Choir, conducted by Thomas Strauss in the St. Pierre le Jeune church, Strasbourg
• 2019: Rhine symphony , authorship and stage design projections for the binational theater Eurodistrict BAAL, for the opening of the new theater in Neuried "European Forum on the Rhine"
• 2019: Tre giorni veneziani , solo exhibition pictures and interactive sound and video installation, Museum Villa Haiss, Zell a. H.
• 2020: Venice in art , pictures and interactive sound and video installation, as part of the exhibition "Venice in art", Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (curator Winfried Heid)
• Selected Artist: shooting hidden Spot , Art Prize of the Seoul KIAF International Art Fair 2008.

Memberships

• Appointed member of the German Society for Photography DGPh.
• Appointed member of the Artists Association of Baden-Württemberg.
• Alliance of German Designers AGD
• Freelens - Association of Professional Photographers
• Lions Club Strasbourg-Métropole Europe

Books

• Photography from Bahia , Bonfin ed., Salvador Bahia 2003, ISBN 3-00-016579-7 .
• Ethiopian Experiences , exhibition catalog. 2005.
• Ethiopia with different eyes. Photography of everyday life in Ethiopia , Goethe-Institut, Addis Abeba, Frankfurt am Main 2008, OCLC 612537021 .
• Tilmann Krieg, photographic work , Villa Haiss, Museum for Contemporary Art, 2009.
• Buhl. Das Stadt-Bilderbuch , Stadt Bühl, Bühl 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034560-9 .
• Passages, catalog for the exhibition Galerie François Mansart , Paris, 2013.
• "BAALnovo, 10 years of cross-border theater work, ISBN 978-3-946192-00-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Tilmann Krieg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tilmann Krieg at the Braunbehrens Gallery. Retrieved November 10, 2009 . 
• Fishermen of men. Retrieved November 10, 2009 . 
• journey to the unknown - Tilmann Krieg at the Kunstverein Speyer. 2011 [1] (PDF; 4.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Biographical data of Tilmann Krieg at artfacts