André Wagner
André Wagner deals with his camera virtuously and investigates the possibilities of lighting situations. Staging photographs in great detail the young artist creates authentic images that are not digitally manipulated. He succeeds in a remarkable way in perceiving internal and external phenomena of a situation. Standing in the tradition of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, André Wagner sees photography as an ideal means of expression, within he can transfer attitudes and beliefs.
His painterly, poetic photos can be seen as a reinvention of the traditional genres. This is mainly caused by the light-interpretation because Wagner photographs usually by means of long-time exposure and the use of various light sources, causing an interaction of associative thought patterns. Each and every moment seems loaded with content, rising above the purely aesthetic message.
Numerous exhibitions have already taken André Wagner throughout Europe, China, New Zealand, and the United States. He has won several awards for his work and is represented in public collections.
The artists was born in 1980 in Burgstädt (Saxony, East-Germany) and ended his apprenticeship as a photographer in 2001. Since 2004 he has been living in Berlin.
Artist Info
Biography
Born in 1980 in Burgstädt (Saxony, East-Germany)
Lives and works in Berlin/DE
Grants and Awards
2017
Art Foundation Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
2016
Prix de la Photographie Paris, France
2013
6th Annual Photography Masters Cup
2008
Trierenberg Austrian Super Circuit
2007
1st Prize for photography about Kaunas/LT
2004
Hasselblad Austrian Super Circuit
2000
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
Collection
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Cologne/DE
Rothschild Bank Kunstsammlung, Zurich/CH
Vattenfall AG Kunstsammlung, Berlin/DE
Solo exhibitions
2019
Zeitspuren, Galerie94, Baden/CH
Under The Underground,Galerie Franzkowiak, Berlin/DE
2018
Photo Basel, Basel/CH
e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz/DE
Pigment & Water, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz/DE
Black & White, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz/DE
2017
The Big Wave, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz/DE
Reflections of India, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle/DE
Movement in a Circle, Museum Modern Art, Hünfeld/DE
Art Wynwood, Miami/USA
2015
Eizeit, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf/DE
2014
Visions of Time, Photokina, Cologne/DE
2013
Visions ot Time, WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
Visions ot Time, vhs photogalerie, Stuttgart/DE
kunst zurich 13 art fair, presented by Galerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Basel/CH
2012
Art Market Budapest, presented by WHITECONCEPTS, Budapest/HU
fotofever art fair, presented by WHITECONCEPTS, Brussels/BE
the solo project art fair, presented by WHITECONCEPTS, Basel/CH
2011
Romance of Elements, Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld/DE
The Beauty of Time, RT&W Galerie, Berlin/DE
Eastman Gallery, Ootmarsum/NL
One Artist Show, art Karlsruhe, presented by WHITECONCEPTS, Karlsruhe/DE
2010
Television, 4th Europea Month of Photography, WHITECONCEPTS & Galerie Horst Dietrich, Berlin/DE
NEOROMANTIK, with Marian Kretschmer, Galerie Weise, Chemnitz/DE
2009
Galerie Photan, Leipzig/DE
2008
Artville International Art Fair for Artists, Copenhagen/DK
2007
Slope Point, Galerie Lecoq, Berlin/DE
Kaunas castle Kaunas – A Town of Light, Kaunas/LT
2005
Cosmic Snake, Galerie Peveling, Cologne/DE
Langzeitbelichtungen, Galerie Berlin am Meer, Berlin/DE
Selected group exhibitions
2019
OSTRALE Biennale, Dresden/DE
Kunstraum Potsdam, Schönheit für Alle, Potsdam/DE
The X – Part II, WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Berlin/DE
2018
PULSE Miami, represented by WHITECONCEPTS gallery, Miami/USA
Sanskrit, Prince House Gallery, Mannheim/DE
2016
Position Berlin/DE
Cologne Fine Art, Cologne/DE
Party pooper, European Month of Photography, Berlin/DE
Fotografie Festival, Fotohaus Arles, Arles/F
2013
Personal Structures, Palazzo Bembo Exhibition, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice/IT
Art Market Budapest, Budapest/HU
2012
art Karlsruhe, with WHITECONCEPTS and Galerie Samuelis Baumgarte, Karlsruhe/DE
Perspectives 2012, Matthias Kueper Galleries, Stuttgart/DE
The universe is built on a plan, SAVVY Contemporary in cooperation with WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
2011
Hallenkunst, Chemnitz/DE
Berlin am Meer, RT&W Gallery, Berlin/DE
The End of the Dream, MicaMoca in cooperation WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin/DE
LUXX Gallery, Eindhoven/NL
Emotional Landscape, Carrie Haddad Photographs, Hudson/USA
Out of Chemnitz, Gallery Weise, Chemnitz/DE
2010
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin/DE
Mianki Galerie, Berlin/DE
Galerie Weise, Chemnitz/DE
Galerie Photo Edition, Berlin/DE
Galeria Flohr, Santanyi/ES
FROM NATURE TO URBAN FURNITURE, FIT Galerie, Copenhagen/DK
2009
Tianjin Museum, Tianjin/CN
Berliner Liste, Berlin/DE
798 ART BRIDGE GALERIE, Pekin/CN
2008
Die schönsten Fotos der Welt, Linz/A
2007
Galerie Agitatto, Paris/F
Galerie Agitatto, Geneva/CH
2006
Art Cologne, Galerie Peveling, Cologne/DE
Through Eye of the Artist, Expression Galerie, Berkeley/USA
Kaunas Photo Days, Kaunas/LT
Galerie Weise, Chemnitz/DE
2005
Donarte Galerie Versatile, Madrid/ES
Helden, Ikonen und Dämonen, Galerie pgal, Berlin/DE