Tobias Buddensieg

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Tobias Buddensieg (* 1955 in Hamburg ; † 2010 in Berlin ) was a German freelance and artistic photographer.

Life

Tobias Buddensieg spent some childhood years in Italy. At the age of seven his family - his father was the art historian Tilmann Buddensieg - moved to Berlin, where he has lived since then, interrupted by a few stays in the USA.

Socially and artistically committed, he studied communication design at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin from 1979 and worked as a freelance photographer from 1981. In addition to commissioned work at the International Building Exhibition in Berlin and his own projects, including film projects, from 1987–1994 he headed the photography department at the Kulturzentrum Schlesische 27, Berlin, and from 2002–2004 the digital photography department at the computing center of the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In 1993, Buddensieg was awarded a scholarship by the Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs for his oversized work with a furniture van as a camera obscura . In 2007 he opened a shop atelier in Berlin-Kreuzberg, the “Office for Internal and External Affairs”.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1990 "Camera Obscura - furniture case as a camera", Galerie Kulturhaus Treptow, Berlin
  • 1991 "Budapest in Blue", at Nashua Kft., Budapest
  • 1992 “Orphanages after 1st aid” (film and photographs), Romania
  • 1999–2000 “claravista”, projections in public space, Berlin-Kreuzberg
  • 2003 “InMotion”, portraits, Gallery EyeLoveYou, Berlin
  • 2004 "The Brothers Grimm in Berlin", foyer of the Humboldt University in Berlin (traveling exhibition)
  • 2004 “Portraits”, gallery in the border area, Engelbecken, Berlin
  • 2006 “Elective Affinities”, arte regional IV, Kunsthalle Osnabrück
  • 2006 "Flower Pictures", exhibition in the "Snack bar from 11 am to 11 am", Berlin-Tiergarten
  • 2018 “Retrospective”, REDSdeli, Berlin-Kreuzberg

Publications

  • 1998 “Imagination & Illustration”, portrait series of actors and dancers
  • 1999–2001 Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, print, video and screen, catalog
  • 2000 exhibition catalog "Sieben Hügel", Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2001 Exhibition catalog “Theatrum naturae et artis”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
  • 2007 Exhibition Guide Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
  • 2008 "Moments of Evolution", Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover

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