Vuk D. Karadžić
Vuk D. Karadžić (born February 12, 1948 in Berlin as Wolf-Dieter Karadžić) is a German photo artist.
Life
Karadžić grew up in Berlin . The father came from Belgrade , his mother from Wroclaw . In 1962 he began to take photos as an autodidact. In 1973 he had his first solo exhibition in Berlin. From 1975 to 1979 he ran the “Trockenpresse” gallery with Max Werner Kattner and Günter Binkel, which was one of the first two galleries for artistic photography in Berlin. For the first time in Berlin, works by Robert Doisneau , Edouard Boubat , Jill Freedman and Arthur Tress and others were shown. From 1995 Karadžić had his own exhibitions at home and abroad. Karadžić lives and works in Berlin.
Work and style
Karadžić has been photographing landscapes since 1993. His landscapes show complex references to paintings from the German Romantic period, which they rub themselves against, or to films by Andrei Tarkowski and David Lynch with their sometimes oppressive and eerie mood. “With banal elements, Karadžić created compositions that were puzzlingly attractive.” ( Stuart Pigott , text accompanying the exhibition “Brandenburg”, Galerie Waschhaus Potsdam, 2001).
Karadžić devoted himself to portrait photography from 2001. He only made his portraits outside and went to inhospitable places. They are portraits “that are characterizing and ambivalent at the same time in a very idiosyncratic way.” (Andreas Krase, introductory text to the exhibition “The Other View” in Hinterglauchau Castle, 2009). In the “Persona” series, Karadžić portrayed mannequins in the same way as people, and with his work blurs the boundaries between people and dolls.
For the “live” cycle, Karadžić took snapshots on the TV screen during live broadcasts (talk shows, sports and news programs). In doing so, "Karadžić exposes the realism that is attributed to TV events as an illusion ... What appears on television are no longer people, but their doubles, monstrously deformed by the medium." For the series "Second Hand News", Karadžić extracted irritating news programs from past news programs Stills.
With the "Food" series, Karadžić created analogies to the human body through unusual perspectives and lighting. At the same time, the works leave room for many other associations.
In the cycles "architectura 1-3" and "Sacred Spaces", as in earlier groups of works, Karadžić repeatedly attacks the rigidity of our viewing habits with his targeted detail shots.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1998 “Health and Safety”, with Augosto Alvez da Silva, Gallery Annexed, London
- 2004 "Holy Art 2004. Traces of Life", Künstlerhaus Ulm and Diözesanmuseum, Rottenburg-Stuttgart
- 2008 "Photographs by Vuk D. Karadžić and sculptures by Birgit Knappe", Galerie der Moderne Berlin [1]
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 1973 Art Office Berlin-Kreuzberg
- 1976 "Landscapes", Galerie Trockenpresse, Berlin
- 2001 "Brandenburg", wash house , Potsdam
- 2004 Installation "Tabula Rasa", Petruskirche, Berlin
- 2005 Retrospective "Home", National Museum Wroclaw , Poland
- 2009 “The Other Look”, Museum and Art Collection Schloss Hinterglauchau
- 2011 “live”, Galerie Petra Rietz, Berlin
- 2018 "Portrait photos of Vuk D. Karadžić", Panitzsch Church , Borsdorf near Leipzig, February 18 to May 21, 2018
Literature by and about Vuk D. Karadžić,
- Heilige Kunst, Schwabenverlag AG, Ostfildern 2004, 84-85, ISBN 3-7966-1184-2
- Vuk D. Karadžić, Home, National Museum of Wroclaw, November 18, 2005 - December 26, 2005, Neisse Verlag, Dresden, ISBN 3-934038-43-3
- Ursula Heinzelmann , Essen experience. Photos by Vuk D. Karadžić, Scherz-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 9783502150138
- Persona, Edition 13, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Vuk D. Karadžić in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Kube: Exhibition in Panitzsch “Where am I going?” Portraits by Vuk Dieter Karadžic can be seen in a new exhibition in the Panitzsch Church. With his work, the Berliner tries to look behind the facade of his models. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online edition. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ^ "The face as landscape", Rainer Kollmer, Südwestpresse Ulm, September 12, 2007
- ^ "On being a stranger in the world", Matthias Zwarg, Freie Presse Chemnitz, March 12, 2009
- ↑ Edition 13: Michelangelo Antonioni , “Two Telegrams” (1983), Vuk D. Karadžić, “Persona” (2013), Berliner Festspiele, Berlin 2014
- ^ David Assmann on the exhibition "live", Tagesspiegel, February 25, 2011
- ↑ Newsbox: Portrait photos of Vuk D. Karadžić. Online portal www.kirche-leipzig.de . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 17, 2018 ; accessed on February 17, 2018 . 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.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Karadžić, Vuk D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karadžić, Wolf-Dieter (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photo artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |