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Burkhard von Harder follow German, born 1954

Lives in /on Isle of Sylt, Germany

Projects/Portfolios

FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS III - EAST RED // RED EAST - Old Studio Portraits from Shanghai

Introduction

Series of altered anonymous family photographs found on a street market in Shanghai in 2013 - RED EAST or EAST RED are names of well known period photo studios - concept/idea is to look at the images from their backside, conceiving of them as an unaccessible, sealed off land, that keeps disappearing in the distance with only some brief scribbles remaining.

DECOMPOSITION / Ukraine Crimea Crisis 2014

Introduction

Trying to respond to the current Crimea Crisis this symbolic color series of 12 images is a further elaboration on the black and white silkscreen series, extract of thousands of lost and decayed negatives from the Sowjet Era that I found 2010 in Western Ukraine

FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS II - COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, Ukraine 2010

Introduction

Anonymous found b/w footage (approx. 10 000 negatives) from the Cold War Period in Vinnitsa/Ukraine, that I discovered in 2010 and appropriated in various ways (artist books, slideshow, limited silkscreen series etc.). For books look up http://printedmatter.org/ or www.blurb.com.

PROJ. 1378/1378 - NARBE DEUTSCHLAND TRANSFORMATIONS

Introduction

PROJECT 1378/1378 or 3 SECOND SERIES is a photographic derivative of the film installation NARBE DEUTSCHLAND (967 min, 2008-2014), initially developed to complement the film's world premiere in China in 2014 (Being3 Gallery/Beijing). Reminiscent of the early experiments of decoding time and space by Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), each composition uses approx. 80 individual film frames (24/s), translating the fleeting film format into its static photographic counterpart. Rhythms and patterns become visible that usually go unnoticed, hinting at secret codes and formulas behind the profane surface. The project's title refers to the 1378 km length of the Iron Curtain that was dividing Germany for 28 years (size 110 x 174 cm, Ed. 1/1 + 1 artist proof).

Here we see 30 images of the first 20 minutes of the film, covering 1 km each.

www.die-narbe.de

FOUND PHOTOGRAPHS I - MORTO IN ITALIA, 2006/07

POSITIONINGS IV: UNEARTHING FORT IX, 2005

Introduction

POSITIONINGS IV: UNEARTHING or THE INVENTION OF THE HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust as we know it began in Lithuania with mass shootings. Photographic POSITIONING (AUFSTELLUNG) of the largest successful Jewish mass escape during WW II when about 60 prisoners escaped from Fort IX in Kaunas/Lithuania in the night of December 25, 1943, led by 20 year old Alex Faitelson (Bravery and Heroism in Lithuania 1941-1943). On-site installation since 2008 at Fort IX, 3 meter x 12 meter (www.unearthing-project.org) - incl. the figures of my father, my uncle and myself (variation on Dante's Divine Comedy - going into Hades)

POSITIONINGS III: FATHERPICTURES, Germany, 2002/04

Introduction

Appearances & Observations: the series 'Fatherpictures' re-enacts childhood memories while working through the Uncanny and the topic of German 'Silence' in the upbringing after the war. Figures are silicon/papermachee mock-ups.

BITTER FIELD, East Germany, 1999-2003

Introduction

When the wall fell, the city of Bitterfeld in East-Germany was the negative symbol of polluted and neglected East-German industrial landscape. This series documents the last phase of the deconstruction - and transformation process. Dreamlike glimpses of a past that is disappearing behind the faceless new.

POSITIONINGS II: PORTRAITS, 1986/87

Introduction

8x10 portraits from a series aken in Berlin/Germany and Ireland (girl in red dress) between 1986/87.

POSITIONINGS I: SWIMMERS, 1984/86

Introduction

Portraits from public German Swimming Pools, photographed mainly in the city of Hamburg between 1984 and 1986. This series I see as my first concrete attempt to confront aspects of German 'Silence' and the 'ghosts of our history' - Strangers as Stand-Ins for personal motivated first POSITIONINGS (Aufstellungen), portraying emotions such as fear, ignorance, helplessness, abuse, self-conquest.

Galleries

Being3 Gallery, Beijing, China

Publications

Archive Mirror, Burkhard von Harder, self published, Blurb, 2011
Morto in Italia, Burkhard von Harder, self published, Blurb, 2009
Swimmers, Burkhard von Harder, Goethe Institute, New York, 2000
Images, Burkhard von Harder, Malmoe Konstmuseet, Malmoe, 1997

Statements

Artist Statement
For a substantial number of years I have been absorbed working through conflicted German history - my country's history - drawn to look for and confront my own invisible roots within this context. Federico Fellini once said: "We have to look for our roots, they are the only thing we have." No easy task for any German. Door openers into our wrong psychological make up are books by Arno Gruen - the world we construct is upside down, built on wrong values.

Process Statement
some related projects:

- Fatherpictures, 2001-04: looking at my German roots
- Fort IX or The Invention of the Holocaust, 2004-08: panorama/on site installation in Kaunas / looking at harsh
German WW II realities in Eastern Europe, www.unearthing-project.org
- NARBE I+II/SCAR I+II, 2009-2014
part 1: Narbe Berlin, 78 min, 2009
part 2: Narbe Deutschland, 967 minutes, 2009-2014: retracing the traces of the former inner German demarcation
lines 20 years after reunification
www.die-narbe.de / www.vimeo.com/50156258
- Cold War in a Trash Bag, Ukraine, 2010/2013: looking at (East) European Integration
PoD book: Archive Mirror: http://www.blurb.com/books/2252303
PoD 46 volume book set: UKRAINE COLD WAR NEGATIVES
http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=ukrainian+cold+war+negatives
- work in progress: The Completion of German Unity
- early beginnings: http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/dhm.php?
seite=6&fld_5=Harder,%20Burkhard%20von%20(1954)&exakt_fld_5=4&suchen=Suchen

Biography

Exhibitions (selection - solo):
24 fps - DECONSTRUCTING MOVIES, Being3 Art Gallery, 798 Art Zone, Beijing/China, Dec. 24, 2015 - January 24, 2016Exhibitions (selection - solo):
- NARBE DEUTSCHLAND, Being3 Gallery, Beijing/China, Oct 25-Dec 07, 2014
- VIZII: 1st Int. Festival of Visual Culture and Photos in Kiev/Ukraine, May/June 2013
- DER VERTRAG, Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld, 2005
- SWIMMERS, Goethe Institut, New York/USA, 2000
- IMAGES, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö/Sweden, 1997
Exhibitions (selection - group):
- INFOCUS, Phoenix Art Museum Arizona, Aug 23-Sept 28, 2014
- Ed Ruscha - Books & Co, Gagosian, NYC, March 5 - April 27, 2013
- ABCED book set as hommage to Ed. Ruscha at Contemp. Art Center Ljubjana/Slowenien, Dec. 18, 2012
- with ABC at Off Print Paris, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Nov. 15-18, 2012
- THE EVOLUTION OF THE PHOTO BOOK, FotoFocus Cincinnati/USA, Oct., 2012
- COLOR, CWC Gallery/Camera Work Contemporary, Berlin, Sept. 15 - Dec. 1
- DIY-PHOTOGRAPHERS & BOOKS, Cleveland Museum of Art - first museum survey on PoD phaenomenon
August 11 - December 30, 2012 (bvh: Archive Mirror)
- THE UNSEEN EYE: Photographs from the Unconscious - The W.M.Hunt collection, George Eastman House
Rochester, NY - October 1st 2011 - February 19th, 2012
- Photo Albums of Burkhard von Harder “Vinnytsia. Cold War period”,
Vinnytsa Oblast Art Museum, 2011 (hosted within the framework of the international project “UkraineGermany”)
- Die Foto-Bildnisse von Burkhard von Harder, Galerie Christian Pixis, Munich, 2009, with Rocco Pagel
- PANORAMA FOR LITHUANA, site specific Installation, 300 cm x 1200 cm, Fort IX Memorial, Kaunas, 2008
(www.unearthing-project.org)
- VON HARDER, HILSDORF, HORST P. HORST, Camera Work, Berlin, 2001
- 50 JAHRE MODERNE FARBPHOTOGRAPHIE, Photokina, Köln, 1986
FILMOGRAPHY (selection):
NARBE DEUTSCHLAND (), 1000 min, 2009-14, 1378 km by helicopter in realtime. following the remains of the former inner German demarcation line 20 years later, Musik: Klaus Wiese (1942-2009), Germany
NARBE BERLIN, NARBE, 156 km by helicopter following the invisible former Berlin Wall, Original Soundtrack F.M. Einheit, 76 min, 2009, Germany
KENNZEICHEN KOHL, 2009, Regie Jean Boue, Buch: Jean Boue und Burkhard von Harder based on the project 'Wir wollten Deutschlands Einheit -100x Helmut Kohl' by Burkhard von Harder, produced by Hanfgarn & Ufer, 89 Min, Germany
YOU CAN'T PUSH BACK THE RIVER, 1992-1996, DocuDrama, 90 min, Brasil/Germany (idea/production/realisaton: burkhard von harder)
LETTER TO A STRANGER/Brief an einen Fremden, Documentary, 28 min, 1989/90, Morocco/BRD (book/production/realisation: burkhard von harder)
FILMFESTIVALS (selection):
Int. FilmFestival Rotterdam IFFR, NARBE DEUTSCHLAND, Jan. 22 - Feb. 1, 2015
TOPOGRAPHIES VIRTUELLES: NARBE DEUTSCHLAND (segm), Palais de Tokyo/Paris,
Les Rencontres Intern. Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Nov. 30 - Dec. 8, 2012 (exhibit in time)
Zero Film Festival, New York, 2010: NARBE WESTBERLIN (West), 76 min
Int. Dokumentarfilmfestival Leipzig, 2009: KENNZEICHEN KOHL (German Competition), Idea
Int. Dokumentarfilmfestival Leipzig, 1990, LETTER TO A STRANGER
Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival Muenchen 1990, Honorary Mentioning for LETTER TO A STRANGER
30. Int. Filmwoche Mannheim, 1981, Reihe Deutscher Nachwuchsfilm: REQUIEM - MANIC MONOLOGUES - Vom geistigen Scheitern einer versuchten Entgrenzung, experimental film, 1979/80, 50 min, BRD
NARBE BERLIN, over 2000 screenings at DHM (Dt. Hist. Museum/Berlin-German Historical Museum/Berlin), 2009-2010
Publications (selection):
Everyone is the entire humankind, text on NARBE DEUTSCHLAND for exhibition catalogue by Mianbu, Oct. 2014
The Images they left behind, Int. New York Times, Aug 14, 2014
Black and White Atlantis, text by Oksana Zabushko, 2013
Der Versuch zu verstehen, Text Nicole Graner ueber die Fotoinstallation Panorama Fort IX/Litauen von Burkhard von Harder, SZ vom 19.12.2012
Archive Mirror by Burkhard von Harder, Text by Sarah James, PHOTOWORKS #18 - 5/2012
Cold War in a Trash Bag, Text: Karl E. Johnson, EYEMAZING Magazin 1/2012, by Anonymous/Burkhard von Harder
THE UNSEEN EYE. Photographs from the Unconscious. The WM Hunt Collection. Aperture/Thames & Hudson, London/NY, 2011, included: Burkhard von Harder: Man on the Diving Board, 1985
Fotografie und Erinnerung: Die Foto-Bildnisse von Burkhard von Harder. Text von Christian d’Orville, Artlover 05/2011 Galerie Christian Pixis/Muenchen
Lensculture/Fotofest Paris 2010, Participating photographers, Blurb
Burkhard von Harder: MORTO IN ITALIA, Blurb, selfpublished, 2010
Burkhard von Harder: 100x Helmut Kohl. Blurb, selfpublished 2010
Erinnerungen an Afghanistan, Text F. Adler, Juni/Juli 2009, SCHWARZWEISS 70 (Magazine fuer photography)
Photography and the Art of Digital Printing, Nash Editions, Burkhard von Harder: Frontispiz u. p. 206, Graham Nash (Hg.), Berkeley, CA 2006
Der Vertrag, Kat., Burkhard von Harder. Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld 2005.
Die Schemen des Ursprungs. Zu den fotografischen Bildern von Burkhard von Harder. Text: Bernard Marcade, 2002 (unpublished)
Prof. Joern Merkert: text unfinished (unpublished)
Swimmers, Kat., Burkhard von Harder. Portraits of People in German Bathing Houses, Goethe Institut, New York, 2001 (Text Andy Grundberg).
Images, Kat., Burkhard von Harder, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö 1997
India por Burkhard Philipp Harder, Irisfoto no. 552, April/Mai 1992, p. 16-25.
Roberto Burle Marx: Uma flor de pessoa, Vogue Brasil, Special of the Year, Coverstory + 30 page spread, text Fernando Gabeira, Nr. 139, Februar 1987, p. 76-107
50 Years of Color Photography, Manfred Heiting Hrsg, photokina, 1986
Das Deutsche Lichtbild,Wolf Strache/Otto Steinert (Hg.), DSB,
Stuttgart 1973, S. 147: Drei Phasen eines Zuges

Cross-Reference

2012 Photoworks Magazine

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