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Drift
44 Gallery, Bruges, Belgium
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled., Maastricht, 2002
Wolfgang Zurborn - Drift
November 12th - Dezember 4th 2011
Opening: Friday November 11th, 7 p.m.
Introduction: Sofie Crabbé, Art Historian, Critic
Dezember 2nd - 6th 44 GALLERY at LINEART ART FAIR GENT
44 GALLERY
Genthof 44 - 8000 Bruges, Belgium
opening hours: Sat, Sun 2 - 6 p.m.
www.44 gallery.com
contact: Luc Rabaey
+32 489 552663
info@44gallery.com
More images and texts about Drift,
the book, the editions, the exhibitions,
you find in this Portfolio
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You will find a detailed description of Wolfgang Zurborn's photographic
work under "Portfolio".
Biographical information, publications and exhibitions can be found under "Info".
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Deutsche Fotografische
Akademie
Street Photography Now
London Street Photography Festival 2011
Wolfgang Zurborn, Drift, o.T., Wolfsburg, 2001
Street Photography Now
Christophe Agou • Arif Asci • Narelle Autio • Polly Braden
Bang Byoung-Sang • Maciej Dakowicz • Carolyn Drake • Melanie Einzig George Georgiou • David Gibson • Bruce Gilden • Thierry Girard
Andrew Glickman • Siegfried Hansen • Markus Hartel • Nils Jorgensen
Richard Kalvar • Martin Kollar • Jens Olof Lasthein • Frederic Lezmi
Jesse Marlow • Jeff Mermelstein • Joel Meyerowitz • Mimi Mollica
Trent Parke • Martin Parr • Gus Powell • Mark Alor Powell
Bruno Quinquet • Paul Russell • Otto Snoek • Matt Stuart
Ying Tang • Alexey Titarenko • Nick Turpin • Munem Wasif
Alex Webb • Amani Willett • Michael Wolf • Artem Zhitenev
Wolfgang Zurborn
7. - 17. Juli 2011
18 Exmouth Market
London, EC1R 4QE
täglich 11.00 - 19.00 Uhr
Street Photography Now
Exhibition accompanying the same-named publication
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, London
Authors: Sophie Howarth, Stephen McLaren
The first substantial survey of international street photography since the late 1980s. For the last twenty years the candid photography of life in public has been mostly underground but secretly flourishing.
Street Photography Now showcases the work of forty-six image-makers who are notable for their candid depictions of life on the streets and in the subway, in shopping malls and movie theaters, on beaches and in parks. Four thought-provoking essays put the work into the wider context of what has gone before, while quotes from the photographers expand and illuminate their work and draw attention to their influences and ways of working.
Included are luminaries such as Magnum grandmasters Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, as well as an international group of emerging photographers whose views of New York or Tokyo, Mumbai or Bournemouth, Istanbul or Dakar, all record moments in time that will never be repeated.
200 color and 60 black-and-white photographs.
Buchcover Street Photography Now
Nils Jorgensen
Bruce Gilden
The London Street Photography Festival
Athens Photo Festival 2010
China Stories
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled Beijing, 2006
China Stories curated by Tina Schelhorn
19.10 - 19.11.2010
Harvey Benge - Auckland/ New Zealand - China Story
Steven Benson - Daytona Beach, Florida/ USA - The Cost of Power in China
Luis Delgado - San Francisco, California/ USA – Cuentos Chinos
Øyvind Hjelmen - Stord/ Norway - Journey Elsewhere
Ferit Kuyas - Wädenswill/ Switzerland - City of Ambition
Pok Chi Lau - Lawrence, Kansas/ USA - Flow China
Elaine Ling - Toronto/ Canada – Mongolia, Land of the Deer Stone
Chris Rauschenberg – Portland, Oregon/ USA - China 1985
Frank Rothe - Berlin/ Germany - China Naked
Matthew Sleeth - Melbourne/ Australia - Red China
Wolfgang Zurborn - Cologne, Germany - China? Which China?
Exhibition Space: The Esplanade building, where the main program of Athens Photo Festival is hosted, is located at the end of the pedestrian walkway in Delta of Paleo Faliro, at Faliro Olympic Pole, between the Tae Kwo Do building and the Water Plaza
China Stories – A group exhibition exploring modern China
This exhibition seeks to uncover resonances between the China of today and that of ist deep and ancient past. Through this collection China emerges as a complex country of many contrasts, a place of wild natural beauty and manmade environments, increasingly modern yet steeped in history and tradition and of a diverse and varied population with a multitude of customs and beliefs. These compelling images offer not just a visual picture of China, but present China’s stories suggesting a presentiment for its future.
Athens Photo Festival 2010
The Athens Photo Festival 10 forms since 2008 an event with a twenty-year history that was the major and oldest Greek institution with large-scale events focusing on the art of photography
This is a cultural event whose impact is worldwide, transforming Athens into the centre of the international photography stage. The aim of the festival is to broaden the existing platform for presenting the annual Greek photography output and making contacts with artists from various countries.
Festival Organisation:
Hellenic Centre for Photography
15 Tsami Karatasou Str.
117 42 Athens
Greece
T: +30 210 9210545
F: +30 210 9210546
E: contact@hcp.gr
Frank Rothe, Naked China
Harvey Benge, China Story
Pimp the Timp
Kunst im Etabissement
Wolfgang Zurborn, Frederic Lezmi
T.I.M.P. – Kunst im Etablissement
September 18th – 26th, 2010
Opening reception: Friday, September 17th – doors open at 8 p.m.
With... Mariette Pathy Allen, J. Jackie Baier, Ilse Bing, Luis Delgado, Ben Fernandez, Larry Fink, Michael Grecco, David Jäger, Birgit Kahle, Les Krims, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Ann Simmons-Myers, Wolfgang Schulz, Jürgen Wassmuth, Miron Zownir, Wolfgang Zurborn...
Pictures of the exhibition by Philipp Gebhardt
TIMP Hotel - a cult (ure) site - a complex nested vacant hotel - 15 rooms with running water, 3 suites (red, pink, cream) with private bath, a dance hall with a sprung floor and the "TIMP – Artists Bar".
Cologne and its international guests loved this temple of muses and subculture that was running late – night drag shows for over 30 years.
We will shake "the TIMP“ for 10 days out of its deep sleep - we will catch the melancholy atmosphere of 30 years of art hotel - we will fill the morbid rooms with new" Hotel Stories" - we will show international photographic art - images of love, lust and passion - from divas + goddesses – from Tina Modotti's nude by Weston to portraits of porn stars - from queens, queers and gender-benders – from dreams, triumph and loneliness - from sex, drugs and rock 'n roll.
A joint project by:
Galerie Lichtblick – Tina Schelhorn, Wolfgang Zurborn
Kunstwerk Nippes – Ingrid, Nina und Viviane Koppelmann
FENZKunstraum – Jörg Elsche und Ralph Marquass
Exhibition Space: former Hotel TIMP, Heumarkt 25, 50667 Cologne
Opening hours/ daily: 3 p.m. – midnight
www.pimpthetimp.com
J.Jackie Baier, Will McBride
Matthew Yates
Choreography of the Urban
Workshop by Wolfgang Zurborn at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Cologne 2006
Workshop by Wolfgang Zurborn
Saturday + Sunday, September 18th-19th, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Number of Participants: Min. 8 / Max. 15
Price: FFF-members: € 200,-- not members: € 300,--
Application deadline: September 5th, 2010
contact@fffrankfurt.org
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Büro: Weißfrauenstr. 1
60311 Frankfurt
phone: 069 29 17 26
So far, so close
Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam
Wolfgang Zurborn, Sankt Augustin, 2009
Birgit Knappe
Sculptures
Wolfgang Zurborn
Photographs from the series China! Which China?, 2006
and Mitten im Westen, 2009
In addition:
Photographs by participants of the seminar Die Erfindung des Realen by Wolfgang Zurborn at Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin:
Marina d’Oro, Oliver Gerhartz, Beate Hoerkens, Christian Kosfeld,
Xavier Ribes, Dieter Seitz, Ruth Stoltenberg, Lena Treugut,
Martina Zschocke
Opening: June 19th 2010, 4 p.m.
Exhibition until August 1st, 2010
Galerie Ruhnke
Charlottenstr. 122
14467 Potsdam
phone 0331.5058086 and 01577.2958104
Thu–Sun 2 p.m. - 6 p.m. and by appointment
Exhibition of the sculpters at Findlingsgarten, Seddiner See
galerie-ruhnke@potsdam.de
www.galerie-ruhnke.de
Workshop So far, so close
by Wolfgang Zurborn at Galerie Ruhnke August 31st, 2010
untitled, Beijing 2006
The 6th Warsaw Festival of Art Photography 2010
Wolfgang Zurborn Terra Incognita
Wolfgang Zurborn, Terra Incognita #2, Bielefeld 2002
Wolfgang Zurborn Terra Incognita
April 16th – May 10th, 2010
Opening: April 16th, 2010, 6 p.m.
Galeria Art NEW Media
ul. Krakowskie Przedmiescie 41
Poland - 00-071 Warsaw
phone.: +48 22 828 82 22
fax: +48 22 828 82 21
opening hours:
Mon - Fri 11 a.m.- 7 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Festival program
Dojczland … mit freundlichen Grüßen
Curators: Inga Schneider and Sebastian Hau
The theme which cements the series of events (six exhibitions and a seminar are about German photography), prepared by German curators, Inga Schneider and Sebastian Hau, is the sentimentality of German photography and the challenge that is the articulation of feelings in the photographic recording. The goal of the exhibitions is also the depiction of a different, more ‘humane’ image of Germany as well as trying to change the stereotypical view of the country held by Poles. The German presentations will take place under a joint title: “Dojczland ... mit freundlichen Grüßen,” [Germany…with regards], which refers to the title of Andrzej Stasiuk’s book “Dojczland“.
Representatives of various generations, schools of thought and genres can be found among the German artists. These include Arno Fischer and Chargesheimer, the authors of photographs from the fifties and sixties depicting cities in the process of being rebuilt after the war and which stood at the threshold of constant political divisions, such as Cologne or Berlin. Wolfgang Zurborn shows unique images of the industrial metropolis Bielefeld, which he registers in the shape of an individualized and extremely suggestive photographic note, almost akin to the art of painting, full of unconventional shots, views and perspectives. Oliver Kern tries to define national identity through the registration symbols and signs present in everyday Germany as well as daily human existence in distant, forgotten corners of the country. Thekla Ehling concentrates on her immediate surroundings and depicts moving stories of those closest to her using simple narratives. Peter Piller works with ‘ready’ material, photographs from local newspaper supplements, arranged into a few dozen thematic groups, which reflect on the way in which the viewer is manipulated through ever-present images in the mass media.
As part of the seminars on German photography, we would like to present a series of lectures and meetings, speakers will include: Inga Schneider (“New tendencies in German photography”), Markus Schaden (“German photographic publishing houses“), Sebastian Hau (“The Problem of identity and registering of emotion in German photography“), Oliver Kern, (“The german view, about one‘s own photography“) and Thomas Martin and Hannes Gieseler (a film and lecture onWolfgang Zurborn.
Wolfgang Zurborn,
Terra Incognita #17, Bielefeld 2002
Wolfgang Zurborn, Terra Incognita #10, Bielefeld 2002
Die Erfindung des Realen
Exhibition with results of a seminar by Wolfgang Zurborn
Die Erfindung des Realen, Cover of the catalogue
Die Erfindung des Realen
Marina d’Oro, Oliver Gerhartz, Beate Hoerkens, Christian Kosfeld,
Xavier Ribes, Dieter Seitz, Ruth Stoltenberg, Lena Treugut,
Martina Zschocke
May 18th - June 12th 2010
Opening: Sat, May 15th 2010, 6 p.m.
Forum der Neuen Schule für Fotografie Berlin
Brunnenstr. 188-190
10119 Berlin
phone +49.(0)30.28 04 68 62
fax +49.(0)30.28 04 68 72
info@neue-schule-berlin.com
www.neue-schule-berlin.com
opening hours: Tue-Sat 2 p.m.-6 p.m.
Slideshow with results of the seminar
Back of the catalogue Die Erfindung des Realen
Wolfgang Zurborn – Drift
UNO ART SPACE, Stuttgart
Wolfgang Zurborn Drift, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart
Wolfgang Zurborn - Drift
March 6th – July 4th 2010
Opening: March 6th 2010, 7 - 10 p.m.
Finissage: July 3rd 2010, 8 - 10 p.m.
Uno Art Space - Ute Noll
On Photography & Illustration
Liststrasse 27
70180 Stuttgart
0711 66 48 72 85
www.on-photography.com
Slideshow Drift
Change of display case
Frederic Lezmi - From Vienna to Beirut
Searching for the border between Europe and the Orient.
May 7th 2010, 8 p.m.
Talk between Frederic Lezmi and Wolfgang Zurborn
From August to December 2008 I was „en route” between Vienna and Beirut. During my travel, I encountered people in versatile worlds, inside or in front of architectural places, both real and artificial, public and private. In my photographs, people emerge either as just passers-by or while waiting, as subjects and objects of the viewer’s eye, moving about in their urban or rural environment. These are distanced views in which locals and tourists are on their paths, randomly congregating and forming elusive compositions. These pictures represent neither precise documents nor do they create artistic worlds. They rather mean to be constructions of multicolored, fragmented impressions, like looking through a kaleidoscope. I often show architectural monuments, including the social life taking place within, in various superimposed layers and conditions. Through reflections and fragmentations within the images, the viewer’s eye is being multiplied, inverted and divided in order to put on trial and call in question the perception of cultural differences and their importance for the “present” and the “past” of our society.
Frederic Lezmi, Beyond Borders - From Vienna to Beirut White Press, 2009
come home 11
Touring exhibition in flats curated by Steff Adams
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled. Cologne 2005
come home 11
March 19th - 21st, 2010
opening: Friday, March 19th, 7 p.m.
with a concert by The Great Park and Fee Rega
Saturday, March 20th, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Sunday, March 21st, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.
by Steff Adams
Gereonswall 27a
50668 Cologne
phone: 0221 / 5 10 31 51
Fax: 0221 / 7 10 59 15
steff@kommensienachhause.de
www.kommensienachhause.de
come home – a traveling exhibition
Ideas, second thoughts, sketches, and the remains of abandoned projects
in the form of objects, books and photographs, culled from the depth of
the proverbial drawer, are for the first time made accessible to an interested
public. The work, ranging from the ephemeral to the mundane to the bold,
will be shown in the domestic setting of an authentic apartment.
participating artists:
Achim Mohné • Agii Gosse • André Falck • Andreas M. Wiese • Angelika Stienecke • Anja Lenze • Anja Schreiber • Anja Z Gna • Annette Reichardt •Antoine Carvalho • Armin Künstler • Barbara Deblitz • Benita Thisbe von Eiag Benno Schlicht • Bettina Bormann • Bettina Bouchon • Birgit Szepanski • Brigitta Anna Schumacher • Britta Schopf • Britta Wandaogo • Christa Niestrath • Christine Peters • Claudia Immig • Dorothee Schäfer • Dorthe Goeden • Elena Pinci Schneider • Elisabeth Höller • Ellen, Marlon, Nelson Altegoer • Eric Mayen • Esther Kusche • Eva Jaskolski • Fee Rieger • Florian Scholz • Frank Frick • Frank Göldner • Frederic Lezmi • Friederike Huft • Gabriele Vorbrodt • Gerhard Glimm • Gudrun F. Widlok • Harald Busch • Harvey Benge • Heiko Diekmeier • Ina Holitzka • Ina Vermehr • Julia Seidensticker • Juliane Wenzl • Jürgen Paas • Kaddi Wandaogo • Karin Meiner • Karl-Heinz Mauermann • Kathrin Bergmann • Katja Struif • Kawarasaki Takamitu • Kirsten Klöckner • Laas Abendroth • Lennart Gätjen • Linda Weiss • Manfred Hammes • Manuela Krekeler-Marx • Marc Volk • Maria Jauregui • Ponte Martina Kobernuß • Meinolf Koessmeier • Merel Mirage • Midori Mitamura • Natascha Sonnenschein • Odine Lang • Philipp Schlickum • Pit Goertz • Rainer Kiel • Ralf Hennerici • Ralf Witthaus • Ramin Khadjaviha • Regine Strehlow-Lorenz • Robert Küppers • Ruth Knecht • Sabine Knappe • Sabine Weber • Simone Neveling • Sonja Kuprat • Stefanie C. Zürn • Steff Adams • Stephan Brenn • Stephen Burch • Stevens Ragone • Suria Kassimi • Susan Feind Sylvia Reuße • Thomas Schneider • Thomas Zika • Tilman Lothspeich • Tina Schelhorn • Triloff • Ulrike Waltemathe • Ulli Rödder • Uwe Ahlgrimm • Verena Loevenhaupt • Volker Fischer • Wolfgang Vollmer • Wolfgang Zurborn
Slideshow
with my contributions
to the exhibitions:
come home 1-9
(1999-2007)
come home 4, 2002
Calender Galleries in Frankfurt
photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn
photograph by Wolfgang Zurborn from the calender Galleries in Frankfurt
Claudia Wieser, Gallery Eva Winkeler
Slideshow Gallery-Calender
Galerien in Frankfurt
Calender of Stritzinger GmbH Druck + Daten
13 photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn
Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Sabine Seitz, Managing Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
participating galleries:
Galerie Maurer • Japan Art, Galerie Friedrich Müller • Galerie F.A.C. Prestel
Galerie Anita Beckers • L.A. Galerie • galerie martina detterer
Bernhard Knaus Fine Art GmbH • Kai Middendorf Galerie • Galerie Greulich
Galerie Braubachfive • galerie leuenroth gmbh • Galerie Eva Winkeler
galerie wagner + marks
13 on 11/12
The Frankfurt gallery scene along the city Tram 11/12,
which stretches from the Bahnhofsviertel across town to the Hanauer Landstraße, is an essential lifeline for Frankfurt’s importance as an art centre. This is an exponential »art« calendar in that it documents the wanderlust of one artist’s eyes throughout a week’s journey to the individual galleries.
The acceptance of Wolfgang Zurborn to make this special tour for us gives credence to the original idea of revealing the concentration and diversity of contemporary art, the inner-city allure and the relaxed, non-polluting ride with the Bahnhof-Braubach-Hanau »art express«.
Zurborn’s picture language is rooted in the uncanny details of life’s dynamics. His photographs disclose the clashing fraction of a second when and where objects, gestures, or scenery appear to drift back and forth. Our eyes may wander, as if we are walking on all fours or have started listening to the artwork instead of viewing it. None of his works are digitally composed even though they characteristically appear as a generated collage.
One artist that has long been a source of inspiration to Wolfgang Zurborn is Jacques
Tati, the French comedian and filmmaker.
Like Tati, Zurborn revels in the surprises of
everyday satire. Zurborn’s approach can be liked to a common English underground...»Step lively«.
If there were only more months in the year, we could have shown more of his curious trip. »With a surrealist sense of humour I am creating a collision montage of juxtaposed, multi-layered images combined on a single picture plane. Disconnected from the purely functional sense our every-day surrounding appears in a much more sensual way.«
Celina Lunsford, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Japan Art, Galerie Friedrich Müller
Galerie Greulich
Workshop Elegance and Experiment
at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
January 23rd and 24th 2010
Wolfgang Zurborn, Spiel_Orte #1, 2004
Elegance and Experiment
Photo Workshop by Wolfgang Zurborn
accompanying to the exhibtion by Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel
at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg,
January 23rd - 24th 2010, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.
Workshop Application:
eckardt@deichtorhallen.de
Linda Eckardt-S.
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Haus der Photographie
Deichtorstrasse 1+2 - D-20095 Hamburg
Pone: 040-32103-240 - Fax: 040-32103-230
http://www.deichtorhallen.de/
China Stories
Ruskin Gallery - Cambridge School of Art (CSA)
at Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Exhibition curated by Tina Schelhorn
Wolfgang Zurborn - untitled, Shanghai 2006
Harvey Benge - Auckland, New Zealand
Oyvind Hjelmen - Stord, Norway
Ferit Kuyas - Zürich, Switzerland
Pok Chi Lau - Kansas City, USA
Elaine Ling - Toronto, Canada
Christopher Rauschenberg - Portland, USA
Gerard Saitner - Paris, France
Wolfgang Zurborn - Cologne, Germany
April 3rd - April 18th, 2009
Opening: April 2nd, 2009
Ruskin
Gallery - Cambridge School of Art (CSA)
at Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Cambridge Campus
East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT
Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Harvey Benge - China Story My pictures explore the strange
anthropology of cities. The unusual and overlooked in the human landscape.
The democracy of non-places fascinates me, in the knowledge that inevitably
nothing is as it seems. These are series I made in 2006 and 2007 when
I was a guest at the Pingyao Festival in Shanxi Province China.
Øyvind Hjelmen - Journey Elsewhere When I travelled
through China In December 2007.I tried to note my impressions of little
bits of grace and surprise that I discover day by day. One may ask, is
such a journey really a journey elsewhere, or is it just a journey going
deeper within oneself? To be honest, I think both ideas are true…
Ferit Kuyas - City of Ambition This is a visit to one of
the largest cities in the world, Chongqing, populated by roughly 32 million
people. I am mainly interested in the outskirts of Chongqing, where the
city can’t be really seen but sensed, like a tiger moving through
the jungle – invisible, yet there.
Pok Chi Lau – China 1979 -1982 - Post Chairman Mao Period
When Lau was 19 and living in Hong Kong, his parents borrowed enough money
to pay for two cameras, a plane ticket and college tuition. He studied
at the Brooks Institute of Photography and the California Institute of
the Arts. Beginning in the late 1970s, Lau traveled from one Chinatown
to the next documenting the lives of Chinese immigrants working at mines,
railroads, laundries and restaurants and often living in cramped conditions.
Wolfgang Zurborn - China! Which China? In June 2006 I visited
Beijing and Shanghai. The challenge of the encounter with the unfamiliar
world was to transform the personal experience of the highly complex and
interlaced parallel worlds of these "Megacities" into an individual
picture language which should not keep the unknown in the realm of the
exotic but which discovers the nearness in the strange.
Elaine Ling – China Stones is a journey (1995) down
the Spirit Road, a long avenue flanked on either side by pairs of stone
sculptures of animals and figures, This road leads up to an earth tumulus
beneath which lies the underground palace in which the emperor's body
rested surrounded by treasures and other objects placed for use in the
afterlife.
Chris Rauschenberg was travelling in China in 1985. He is looking
at the urban spaces in China in a very fragmentary view. Objects of everyday
life are developing an absurd own life. His panoramic photographs are
forcing the very subjective construction of space.
Ferit Kuyas- City of Ambition
Pok Chi Lau - China 1979 -1982
Harvey Benge - China Story
Oyvind Hjelmen - Journey Elsewhere
Les Paysage en Mutation
Mission Photographique Transmanche
Wolfgang Zurborn At the Centre of the Speed #8, 1996
Ralph Hinterkeuser
Martin Parr
Wolfgang Zurborn
November 29th - December 14th 2008
Opening: November 29th 2008, 11 a.m.
Galerie d’Exposition Pablo Picasso
Rue Roger Salengro
Denain, France
phone 03 27 43 33 26
The photographic series by Ralph Hinterkeuser, Martin Parr and Wolfgang Zurborn are part of the project La Mission Photographique Transmanche (1987-2005), organised by Centre Régionale de la Photographie, Nord Pas-de-Calais (CRP). They are reflecting the different influences on this region in the North of France forced by the new construction of Europe.
The construction of the tunnel under the channel is the symbol of European construction and its territorial development. This development favours communications networks and high-speed exchanges. Those in power decided on just-in-time distribution for the communications logistics. Speed and just-in-time, to the point of saturation, have become the very attributes of the powers-that-be. Pierre Devin, former director of the CRP.
Wolfgang Zurborn At the Centre of the Speed #22, 1996
China! Which China?
Exhibition in V8 Gallery, Cologne
Publication by Schaden.com
in collaboration with Heine/Lenz/Zizka
Wolfgang Zurborn, "China! Which China?"
Photographs from Beijing and Shanghai 2006
4x4 section, 42x31.5cm leporello
A project by Heine/Lenz/Zizka and Schaden.com
Design: Heine/Lenz/Zizka, Frankfurt, Berlin
Publisher: Schaden.com, Cologne
ISBN: 3-932187-12-1
Price: 48.- Euro
Slideshow presenting the publication
Exhibition in V8 Gallery, Cologne
Opening: September 5th 2008, 7 p.m.
exhibition dates: September 5th – November 21st 2008
Opening hours: Mon – Fri, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
V8 Gallery
Mohrenstraße 2
50670 Cologne
phone:: +49 221-9985994
fax: +49 221-9985990
www.v8-galerie.de
contact: Inga Schneider
Booksigning and Cooking
in collaboration with schaden.com at V8 Gallery.
September 25th 2008, 7 p.m.
Wolfgang Zurborn and Markus Schaden will be cooking chinese food in the
inner courtyard.
Workshop
September 28th 2008, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. at V8 Gallery
within the frame of the exhibition „China! Which China?“
Zurborn will explain his photographic strategies and will review the portfolios
of the participants. Max. 12 participants, workshop fee: 100 Euro.
For more information please contact: Inga
Schneider.
China! Which China?
In June 2006 I visited Beijing and Shanghai. The challenge of the encounter
with the unfamiliar world was to transform the personal experience of
the highly complex and interlaced parallel worlds of these "Megacities"
into an individual picture language which should not keep the unknown
in the realm of the exotic but which discovers the nearness in the strange.
I started my trip in Beijing and I was absolutely fascinated by this city,
because I had the feeling, that the past and the future are present at
the same time. In some parts of Beijing you can feel the long history
of this city, in other parts the development and growing of this megacity
is so quick that you could imagine to be in a science fiction film.
The life in the streets of Beijing and Shanghai appears like a dense collage
of signs, people and structures, a kind of semiotic overkill that is hard
to decode at first, but exactly this was the very special challenge for
me to describe the ambivalence and the great vividness of the urban life.
I had the feeling, that the circumstances of life are changing every day,
so it seems to be a very interesting place to be at this time.
Zurborn's work from China resembles his previous efforts. That is to
say, he's captured what appear to be digital montages, composed from the
worlds of advertising, construction, pedestrians and tourists. The images,
extremely well composed and often making use of shop-window reflections,
are, in fact, straight photographs, shot for the most part on film.
Excerpt from the article Western Eyes by Bill Kouwenhoven
in British Journal of Photography, 23.7.2008
Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, Lianzhou, 2007
Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
Contemporary Chinese and international Photography
In the program of the festival:
Wolfgang Zurborn Drift
Dezember 8th - 22nd 2007
Article
in the magazine The Bund, Shaghai about my photography.
The atmosphere of the Third Lianzhou International Photo Festival was
really fantastic, meeting so many Chinese and International photographers
in very interesting exhibition places. I could see a lot of good presentations
of contemporary photography in a wide range of artistic approaches from
documentary to staged photography. This was one of the most positive aspects
of the festival for me, that it gave such an complex view on the possibilities
of this medium without any narrow ideology.
The slideshow shouöd give you an impression of this great event.
Slideshow with images of the festival
untitled, Lianzhou 2007
Drift
Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Exhibition at PDNB Gallery in Dallas, August 2007
PDNB Gallery
1202 Dragon Street, Suite 103
Dallas, TX 75207
phone: 214.969.1852
fax: 214.745.9901
info@pdnbgallery.com
www.pdnbgallery.com
Review in Dallas
Morning News
The German photographer Wolfgang Zurborn, showing at Photographs Do Not
Bend, makes brightly colored photographs of fragmented objects. The images
bring to mind the collage-based paintings of pop artist James Rosenquist...
Mounted on aluminum, the shiny surfaces of Mr. Zurborn's photographs are
tight and resolute. The completeness of each image runs counter to the
topsy-turvy movement he distills. The photographs seem captured on the
go. A photo from Wolfsburg in 2002 shows the shiny black front fender
of an old VW Bug reflecting a sliver of an adjacent billboard. The figure
from the billboard is anamorphic, distorted as though captured in motion.
Charissa N. Terranova
The exhibition was sponsered by Dallas Goethe Center and by Lufthansa.
20 Years Galerie Lichtblick
from the picture story 20 Years Lichtblick
In spring 1986 Tina Schelhorn, Stefan Worring, Norbert Görtz,
Kristian Rüdiger, Ingrid Zeller und Detlef Hansen had the spontaneus
idea to run a photo gallery. Half a year later Wolfgang Zurborn
joined the team of Galerie Lichtblick.
Since the very beginning as a collective the gallery was growing during all the years to a center for contemporary photography by the intensive co-operation with Tina Schelhorn. In more then 150 exhibitions with German and International photographers we were showing a variety of present themes and new visual conceptions from all over the world.
One important aspect for the gallery is to build up an international network with artists, galleries, festivals and other institutions.
The slideshow on this website is not only giving a review on the program
of the last twenty years, it is also a personal document of many meetings
with artists and friends of the gallery.
slideshow
20 Years Gallery Lichtblick
from 20 Years Gallery Lichtblick
Tina Schelhorn,
10 Years Lichtblick, 1996
images against war
An exhibition organised by Gallery Lichtblick
with statements of more than 600 artists from all over the world.
Curated by Tina Schelhorn.
Wolfgang Zurborn, untitled, 1996
The collection images against war was shown at several exhibition spaces
all over Europe and in May it was presented at Fotofestival Lódz
in Poland.
The show is now travelling to America, to Chicago in Illinois and to
Cincinnati in Ohio.
Further information about images against war on:
11th Dom Fotografie Summer Photoschool
Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia
Fiona Rukschcio Lucia
Benicka Ernestine
Ruben
11TH YEAR of the Summer Photoschool has run from 5th till 16th July, 2006
in the city of Liptovsky Mikulas . SUMMER PHOTOSCHOOL is an educational
project organized by the non-profit and private organization - House of
Photography in Slovakia. Its primary mission is education through arts
and photography.
Summer Photoschool 2006 offered 13 INTENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES COVERING
SEVERAL TOPICS AND GENRES by reknowned lecturers from 9 countries: Austria
- Fiona Rukschcio; Bulgaria - Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov;
Czech Republic - Jaroslav Barta, Víta Krejãí,
Jirka Petera; Finland - Kari Holopainen; Great Britain - Ian
Wiblin; Germany - Wofgang Zurborn; Hungary - Ágnes
Eperjesi; Slovakia - Jozef Cesla, Martin Crep, Tomás AGAT
Blonski; USA - Ernestine Ruben).
Workshop "Ordering and Chaos" by Wolfgang Zurborn
with the participants: Adèle Benesová, Peter Burda, Lucie Michnova, Martin Mocik, Petr Nagy, Silvia Sencekova, Peter Sugár
Workshop with Wolfgang Zurborn
The key to the quest for order in photography, involving the interplay of bodies, objects, signs and spaces transforming them to a legible structure, to a comprehensible composition, is not to lose sight of chaos. It is precisely this chaos that gives photography its unlimited liveliness. In this workshop we want to elaborate these kind of visual experiments for discovering personal aspects of our everyday life.
Peter Burda
Lucie Michnova