Artists // Josef Schulz // Vita:
Josef Schulz
*1966, Bischofsburg, Poland
Through his work, Josef Schulz demonstrates the existing tension between reality and manipulation. His training under a famous photographer, Thomas Ruff, introduced him to the traditions of the Becher school, which influenced many of his series, including centre commercial, sachliches, and formen. Schulz digitally manipulated the photos of these series in order to produce architectural clarity. However, the photos of übergang, Schulz’s famed series depicting border stations, explore reality on a different level. Border stations are often set up on a continuous road, marking the invisible division between two nations and manipulating a traveller’s transitional experience from one point of the journey to the next. This is the reality Schulz captures in this series.
www.josefschulz.de
1999 - 2002
Düsseldorf Academy of Art, Meistersschüler of Prof. Thomas Ruff, Germany
2001
Visiting lecturer, Statens Handverks- og Kunstindustrieskole, Oslo, Norway
1996
Visiting lecturer at the School of Fine Art, Umeå, Sweden
1993 - 1999
Düsseldorf Academy of Art, thought by Prof. Bernd Becher, Germany
1987 - 1992
College, Düsseldorf, graduated as business economist.
2011
SIGNS, Double show with Georg Karl Pfahler,
WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin (04.11.2011 - 14.01.2012)
sign out, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2010
Berg och Gränser, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Transit, Fotografien von Josef Schulz, Deutsches Zollhaus, Aachen, Germany
ÜBERBLICK, Kunstverein Emsdetten, Germany
sign out, Galerie Weigand, Ettingen/Karlsruhe, Germany
2009
ü̈bergang, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
ü̈bergang, Dollinger Art Project, Tel Aviv, Israel
übergang, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany
2008
übergang_2, ZF-Kulturstiftung im Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany
terraform, Galerie Weigand, Ettlingen/Karlsruhe, Germany
Formenlehre, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany
sachliches, Goethe-Institut Riga, Latvia
Forms, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Crossings, Galleria Manuela Klerkx, Milan, Italy
Simulacrum, Kunstverein Göppingen, Germany
übergang, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2011
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
Hijacked 2, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
Open Landscape, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Constructed spaces, gist galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany
Point of Entry, SCAD, Lacoste, France
2009
Point of Entry: The Space Between Art and Architecture, SCAD, Savannah, USA
Gemeinsam in Bewegung, Wuhan Art Museum, China
Art City, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark
Topoi, Galerie Weigand, Ettlingen, Germany
Collectors Choice I + II, Museum für neue Kunst, zkm, Karlsruhe, Germany
One Step beyond Reality, WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany
Broken Vision, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Manheim, Germany
Kubaturen, Künsterhaus Dortmund, Germany
Parkheft presentation, Malkasten Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Notes of Space, with Tamara Zahaykevich and Gerwin Luyendijk, Gist, Amsterdam, Netherlands
indoors/outdoors, Gallery Manel Mayoral, Barcelona, Spain
What you see is what you get, Dollinger art Project, Tel Avis, Israel
Building Pictures, MoCP, Chicago, USA
F/Stop, International Photography Festival, Leipzig, Germany
Panoramen und Fragmente, Goethe Institut, Lille, France
Zeitrauschen, former Kongresshalle, Nürnberg, Germany
2011
Public Installation at Pearson International Airport, CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada
2010
Artist exchange: Düsseldorf - Moscow House of Photography
2009
Public Art Project, Oset Water Treatment Plant, Oslo, Norway
2007
Grant of the ZF-Kulturstiftung Friedrichshafen, Germany
2005
Winner of the Festival „Voies Off“ de Recontres d Arles, Arles, France
2002
Grant of the Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW, Germany
2001
European Architectural Photography Prize 2001 (1st Prize)
Winner of the db Architekturbild
2000
Winner of the Kodak und Large Format Inkjet Award
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
UBS Art Collection, Switzerland
FER-Collection, Laupheim, Germany
Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Papadimitriou Collection, Athen, Greece
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athen, Greece
Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt, Germany
Rosetta Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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