Ute Mahler

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Ute Mahler (born October 29, 1949 in Berka near Sondershausen , Thuringia ) is a German photographer and as such a university professor.

biography

Ute Mahler's father was a trained master miller, but later initially worked as a sideline and then full-time as an advertising photographer. After graduating from high school and doing a traineeship at DEWAG , Ute Mahler studied photography at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig . She has been working as a freelance photographer since 1975. She worked u. a. for the Sibylle , after the fall of the wall also for the star . In 1990 she was one of the founders of the Ostkreuz agency . She had a teaching position at the Burg Giebichenstein Art College in Halle . Since 2000 she has been professor of photography at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences .

Photographs by Ute Mahler are represented in renowned collections, including a. in the Berlinische Galerie , collection FC Gundlach , in the German Historical Museum Berlin , in the photography collection of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg and the Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus .

Ute Mahler has been married to photographer Werner Mahler for over 40 years , the couple lives in Lehnitz .

style

“Coming from the great and rich tradition of so-called live photography, Ute Mahler's formal language is definitely shaped by photo reportage. Their very own way of seeing, however, in which their personality and their concerns are revealed, points well beyond the usual, quickly created photo report. In deciding on those moments in which a situation is indefinite and open, perhaps surprisingly, sometimes even puzzlingly affects us, Ute Mahler crosses the boundaries of photography, which are often assumed to be insurmountable. In her pictures, the visible is just a thin shell, which immediately evaporates as soon as the interest in the real is awakened - in the invisible, for which even our language only knows vague terms, perhaps sadness and joy, love and loneliness, emptiness and arrogance , as is often the case with something of all this. "

- Wolfgang Kil : Catalog sheet for the exhibition in the Burg-Galerie Halle / Saale, 1984

Prices

Mahler was also a member of the jury for the Vonovia Award for Photography 2018.

Publications

  • Monalises of the suburbs: photographs by Ute and Werner Mahler. Meier and Müller Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-035371-0 . (German English)
  • Living together. Text by Sibylle Berg. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7757-3822-4 .
  • Small town photographs by Ute and Werner Mahler, Hartmann Projects Verlag, Stuttgart 2018, ISBN 978-3-96070-029-6

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Living together, portraits of women workers in the GDR, 1984.
  • Searching for traces, Ulrich Kneise Gallery, Eisenach, 2008
  • The secret remains, fashion photography by Ute Mahler and students, Burg Giebichenstein 2011
  • Monalises of the suburbs - photographs by Ute and Wener Mahler. Gallery in the monastery, Obermarchtal 2013.
  • Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler - Werkschau, Deichtorhallen , Haus der Photographie, Hamburg 2014, catalog.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Ute Mahler on the Goethe Institute website, accessed on January 18, 2014
  2. ↑ Eva Munz: galeriefuermodernefotografie.com, accessed on January 15, 2014
  3. ^ Lotto Brandenburg: Art Prize for Literature Photography from LAND BRANDENBURG LOTTO GmbH. Retrieved December 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Jury 2018. In: Vonovia Award for Photography. Accessed July 31, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Exhibition information on www.studio5555.de, accessed on January 15, 2014
  6. ↑ Press release from Burg Giebichenstein, accessed on January 15, 2014 ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.burg-halle.de
  7. ↑ Mona Lisa in the suburbs. In: FAZ . November 21, 2013, p. R4.
  8. ↑ Announcement on www.deichtorhallen.de, accessed on January 16, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Mahler, Ute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Berka near Sondershausen, Thuringia