Artist Statement
The pictures are characterized by an own access to documentary photography. The photographs do not celebrate the misery of the depicted people. These pictures cannot be reduced to messages because they are too open-ended and too multilayered. The viewer is invited to explore the various picture planes and to jump back and forth. Areas of tender color and scenes of intimacy are juxtaposed with brutal reality, often suggested only in the surrounding context, in small details, or in the ambiguity of a gesture.
Wolfgang Müller Travestr.4 10247 Berlin +49 171 7845523 wmueller-photography.de
CV:
Wolfgang Müller found his access to photography whilst travelling. Studying photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in the class of Arno Fischer, he turned to the countries of the former Soviet Union as the focus of his work. For his graduate project, he spent totally ten month, up to the year 2002, photographing Karat. Sky over St. Petersburg. Published as a book, his series of photographs about kids between homelessness, drug use and prostitution was shown in museums and galleries in Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Russia and the US. Supported by several promotion prizes he was able to finish further photography projects. Actually Wolfgang Müller is living in Berlin and the focus of his work has turned to China. His long time project about Chinese migrant workers has been published as a photo book, Mingong. The Pursuit of Happiness.
Awards:
2008 Promotion Prize – Cultural Fund of BILD-Kunst
2004 Documentary Photography Promotion Prize | Wüstenrot-Foundation
2004 Promotion Prize – Cultural Fund of BILD-Kunst
2003 15th Promotion Prize of the German Association of Freelance Photographers
2002 "Memorial Giacomelli" Grazia Neri, Milan, Honourful Recognition
"UNICEF - Picture of the Year" 2nd place
2001 "Aenne-Biemann-Preis" Recognition Prize
2000 "Focus 2000" International Student Competition. 2nd prize
?Common Exhibitions:
House of Photography | Moscow; FotoFest | Houston; Kulturforum | Berlin; Fotomuseum im Münchner Stadtmuseum | München; Ruhrlandmuseum | Essen; International Photofestival | Arles; Noorderlicht | Groningen; Forum of Contemporary Photography | Cologne?; Museum of Art and Trade | Hamburg; Art-Fair | Basel?; Museum of Photography | Braunschweig; PhotoIreland | Dublin; Museum of Arts | Novosibirsk; Hisorisches Museum | Frankfurt a. M.; Tage der Fotografie | Darmstadt; Daegu Photo Biennal; Photography Gathering | Aleppo; 16th Recontres Photographiques | Lorient?; Festival Fotoleggendo, c/o ISA | Rome; Kunsthalle | Tübingen; Photokina | Cologne; 6. Internationale Fototage | Herten; International Festival of Contemporary Photography | Brussels; Fotomarathon Gallery Art-College | St. Petersburg ...
Single Exhibitions:
Mandeep | Rome; Galerie Zoom | St. Petersburg; State- and University Library | Göttingen; Galleria Grazia Neri | Milan; Open Eye Gallery | Liverpool?; Tom Blau Gallery | London; Dominikaner Monastry | Frankfurt/Main; Columned Hall of the Thon-Dittmar-Palais | Regensburg; Future, Home for Disabled Children | Odessa ...
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