Wolfgang Zurborn
Wolfgang Zurborn (* 1956 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German photographer .
life and work
Wolfgang Zurborn, born in 1956 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , studied from 1977 to 1979 at the Bavarian State College for Photography in Munich, then from 1979 to 1984 at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences for photography and film design with Professor Hans Meyer-Veden.
He is a freelance photographer who teaches photography with lectureships and visiting professorships at the following colleges and universities: Universität der Künste Berlin , at the Technical University of Braunschweig ; at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen , the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe , the Fachhochschule Dortmund or in Liptovský Mikuláš (Slovakia).
Together with Tina Schelhorn, he has been running the Lichtblick photo gallery in Cologne for more than twenty years and has been promoting artistic photography on the Executive Committee of the German Photographic Academy since 1998. Zurborn is represented internationally with numerous exhibitions, often with the works shows ›Drift‹, ›Terra Incognita‹ or ›dressur real‹ in the USA , Japan , Brazil , Australia , New Zealand , Belgium , Poland , Italy , Lithuania or Sweden .
In 2009 the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, presented a retrospective of his work since 1980 with a focus on his two book projects China! Which China? and drift. In 2008 he received the German Photo Book Prize for this publication .
Wolfgang Zurborn lives and works in Cologne .
Awards
- 1985: Otto Steinert Prize of the German Society for Photography for his work "People Images - Image People"
- 2008: German Photo Book Prize
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2011: Wolfgang Zurborn - Exhibition - ›Drift‹ from November 12 to December 4, 2011, GALLERY contemporary photography, Bruges, Belgium
- 2010: Wolfgang Zurborn - Exhibition - ›so far, so near‹, from June 19 to August 1, 2010, Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam
- 2010: Wolfgang Zurborn - Exhibition - ›Terra Incognita‹ from April 16 to May 10, 2010, Art NEW media Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- 2006: Wolfgang Zurborn - Exhibition - ›China! Which China? ‹- Photographs from Beijing and Shanghai 2006, from September 5 to October 10, 2006, V8 Gallery, Cologne
- 2006: Wolfgang Zurborn - exhibition - ›dressur real‹ from April 12 to July 1, 2006, Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Pforzheim
- 2005: Wolfgang Zurborn - exhibition - ›Kapitel2 und Wolfgang Zurborn‹ - painting, objects, photography, graphics from November 26th to November 27th 2005, Alte Feuerwache Köln, Cologne
- 1992–1993: Wolfgang Zurborn - exhibition -> In the labyrinth of signs <- 1992–1993
The publication of the same name was published by Dölling und Galitz Verlag, Hamburg, to accompany the 1995/96 exhibition at Forum Fotografie. Wolfgang Zurborn (born 1956) From the series> In the Labyrinth of Signs <- # 13, # 19, # 24 1992–1993.
Books
- 2015: Wolfgang Zurborn "Catch", Verlag Kettler, 2015, 100 pages, ISBN 978-3-86206-475-5
- 2014: Frederic Lezmi, Matthias Jung, Thekla Ehling, Dirk Gebhardt , Wolfgang Zurborn, David Klammer, Theodor Barth, Nadine Preiß, Ute Behrend "eleven o'clock", Verlag Kettler, 2014, 144 pages, ISBN 978-3-86206-337 -6
- Drift, a new art of photographic navigation . Kehrer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-53-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
- 2001: Wolfgang Zurborn "Dressur real", Ed .: Klaus Honnef, Strauss Verlag, Potsdam 2001, 80 pages, ISBN 3-929748-21-5
literature
- Wolfgang Zurborn in: "Between past and future: new German photography", Aperture Foundation, 1991, page 93
- Wolfgang Zurborn in: "Children in photography: 150 years", by Gary Michael Dault, Jane Corkin, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1990, p. 309
- Wolfgang Zurborn in: "Fotomagazin", Heering-Verlag, 2009
- Wolfgang Zurborn in: "Du", issues 665-667, 1996, page 208
- Wolfgang Zurborn in: "Theater der Zeit", Association of Theater Professionals in the GDR, Theater der Zeit, 2005, page 99
- Wolfgang Zurborn in "Of bodies and other things: German photography in the 20th century", by Klaus Honnef, Gabriele Honnef-Harling, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Ed. Braus, 2003, page 1
Web links
- Website of Wolfgang Zurborn
- Wolfgang Zurborn in Lichtblick-School
- Wolfgang Zurborn in kulturserver-nrw
- Photo series by Wolfgang Zurborn in the Ruhr area pixel project
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Zurborn in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Wolfgang Zurborn ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Exhibitions by Wolfgang Zurborn
- ^ Exhibitions by Wolfgang Zurborn
- ^ Exhibition by Wolfgang Zurborn in the Deichtorhallen Hamburg
- ↑ 1985 Otto Steinert Prize of the German Society for Photography for Wolfgang Zurborn for his work "Menschenbilder - Bildermenschen"
- ↑ Wolfgang Zurborn in "Yearbook of the Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg": Volumes 17-19, Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg, Das Museum, 1998
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zurborn, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |