Andreas Meichsner
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German, born 1973
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»Alles in Ordnung« (»all sorted«)
Introduction
A silent observer, Andreas Meichsner documents in his photographs how that vacation we’ve been waiting for so long has a way of plunging us into an agonizing tug-of-war between the contradictory need for freedom on the one hand and security on the other. The reassuring words All Sorted (Alles in Ordnung) stand for a fevered »organizing« of the yearned-for and yet also somehow menacing liberation from workaday life – with the paradoxical re- sult that even vacation time ends up being packed full of structured activi- ties. Meichsner explores in a subtle and humorous fashion the question of whether, in a society dominated more and more by job insecurity and – of necessity – flexibility, we might today be witnessing a burgeoning desire for boring, safe predictability.
Ann-Christin Bertrand, 2011
Robert Morat, Hamburg, Germany
Alles in Ordnung, Ann-Christin Bertrand, Prof. Rolf Nobel, Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2011
Andreas Meichsner is a 39-year-old German photographer living and working in Berlin. His work focuses on contemporary aspects of Western European society, in particular dealing with the seemingly increasing need for security and structure and its effect on people.
In 2000, after an apprenticeship as a carpenter and studies in architecture, Meichsner started Photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover. Studying a semester at Hiroshima City University in 2003, he graduated from Hannover University in 2006.
Meichsner’s works are shown in exhibitions worldwide, including the Noorderlicht Festival in the Netherlands, Dubai and Singapore, f-stop Festival in Leipzig, Getxo Photo in Spain, Athens Photo Festival and Robert Morat Gallery Hamburg, as well as the screenings of the Rencontres and the Voies Off Festival in Arles. He has won several prizes and scholarships. His just recently published book »Alles in Ordnung« has won silver in the German Photography Book Award 2012.
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