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Galerie Conrads,
Düsseldorf / Römerapotheke, Zürich
Brunnenstr. 188-190 (Berlin-Mitte)
10119 Berlin
Di - Sa 12-18 Uhr
info@filiale-berlin.de
www.filiale-berlin.de
aktuelle Ausstellung / current exhibition
13.01. - 17.02. 2007
Sascha Weidner
Beauty remains
Fotografie
Sascha Weidner >Undone II< 2004, Diasec 50 x 50 cm
©artist and Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf-Berlin
Weidner >Aurora II< 2005, Diasec 100 x 100 cm
© artist and Galerie Conrads, Duesseldorf-Berlin
KARAMBOLAGE, HAUTNAH
Sascha Weidner works within a radical subjective pictorial
world.This world is greatly influenced by the perceptions,longings
and dreamed images of a generation whose credo can perhaps be
best described by the slogan NO FUTURE MUCH PRESENT.The
drums batter away in the background,the guitars scrape.It sounds
like punk,but is,in fact,the next,and next-again,and next-next-again
generation:now the rhythms are more melodic,and the melodies
are gentler.Sascha Weidner 's photographs are like songs.
Their poetry soaks up memories and longings and creates real
/unreal images of resonating beauty.Life is a film,and every
image stands for longing.
It is a phenomenon that the punk of the 1970s and 1980s is to
be found in visual form in the paintings of the era.»We
want to be amateurs «,said Johnny Rotten .Fast,wild,anarchic.No
time for aesthetic well-formulated photographic expression,a
medium too static for this confusion.
Then suddenly,people like Nan Goldin came along,then Wolfgang
Tillmans and Jürgen Teller , not punks by any means.However,their
pictures express such an anarchic,untamed and self-destructive
lust for life that it is hard not to believe that something from
the zeitgeist of various scenes had finally been captured in
photographic form.It was thought,and this is still the case,that
these photographers were keeping these images alive,images they
took of themselves and their friends,both real and potential.
Sascha Weidner 's gestus of a seemingly unconditional openness
is what connects him most to artists like Goldin or the early
Tillmans.This emotional close-up view is born of a radical subjectivity;at
first glance,the pictorial cosmos created seems hermetically
sealed.It is an inclusive and exclusive us,articulated in this
cosmos and networked to the world from its edges. Sascha Weidner
looks with the tenderness of a bemused romantic at that which
the presents,be it in Osnabrück where was born and raised,in
Braunschweig where he studied with Dörte Eißfeldt
or in Los Angeles where he will return for a second time this
year having again been rewarded a scholarship.He wrests almost
unbelievable pictures from the alleged tristesse of the provinces
as if it were irrelevant where you are,as long as you look
with hungry eyes,and,above all,remain true to yourself.The cropped
close-up of a hand,in an indecisive gesture that lies between
openness and closure,pausing as if in amazement at the magical
beauty of the moment,where our own body also plays a role.Legs
one-half footballer 's calves,one-half schoolgirl knee-high
socks jumping lightly on a white bed draped in gothic sheets:we
could believe that a soul is about to rise up.A short while later
the bed is empty,the white drapes having reached baroque infinity.A
swarm of water droplets on a journey between the sky and earth.A
dark forest is illuminated by a carnival or birthday garland.The
nocturnal deserted pool seems to have come from the same fairy
tale as the young woman with her eyes closed,or the glittering
city
rising from the darkness.This fairy tale is unusual as here the
ugly and the beautiful collide:they meet by chance,but were still
predictable accidents,illnesses and transience appear as
forces of nature,and they possess exactly that disconcerting
beauty peculiar to forces of nature.
It is the light that seems to be changing into a subtle,beauty,almost
absent from the world.It leads us to objects and people to that
interzone of our dreams and confronts us there with our deepest
fears and hopes.It is the stroke of light,the cast of a shadow
that transforms the hand in front of the camera into a meritorious
something.It is the light that seems to crawl along the floor
until it reaches the towel lying there,with the dusky pink curtain
hanging above the fragmentary representation of the space,
The photographic art of Sascha Weidner / May 2006
INKA SCHUBE, Curator, Sprengel Museum,Hannover,Germany
Sascha Weidner
1976 geboren in osnabrück
2003 diplom freie kunst in fotografie, film und malerei2004 diplom kommunikationsdesign in fotografie 2004 meisterschüler der hochschule für bildende künste braunschweig bei prof. dörte eißfeldt
sascha weidner arbeitet an einer radikal subjektiven bildwelt. sie ist in starkem maßgeprägt von den wahrnehmungen, sehnsüchten und traumbildern einer generation, deren credo sich vielleicht am trefflichsten mit dem slogan NO FUTURE MUCH PRESENT überschreiben ließe.
im hintergrund hämmern die drums, schrappen die gitarren. das klingt nach punk, und meint doch die nächste, übernächste, überübernächste generation: nun sind die rhythmen melodischer, die melodien zärtlicher geworden. sascha weidners fotografien sind wie songs. ihre poesie
saugt erinnerungen und sehnsüchte auf und entwirft wirklich-unwirkliche bilder nachhallender schönheit. das leben ist ein film, und jedes bild meint sehnsucht
auszug aus: inka schube, ðkarambolage, hautnahÐ, in: sascha weidner, förderpreis fotografie 2005, hannover 2006, s. 4
ausstellungen (auswahl)
2007 ðdie liebe zum lichtÐ. fotografie im 20. und 21. jahrhundert, kunstmuseum bochum (g)
2006 ðbeauty remainsÐ, positionen aus der kunstsammlung, art foyer dz bank, frankfurt am main (e)
2006 ðdie liebe zum lichtÐ, kunstmuseum celle / städtische galerie delmenhorst (g)
2006 ðeißfeldts meisterÐ, apex kunstverein pro art e.v., göttingen (g)
2005 ðphænographieÐ, kunstmuseum wolfsburg (g)
2005 ðuntoldÐ, verein für junge kunst e. v., wolfsburg (e)
2004 ðartejovenalemánÐ, mexico-city, mexico (g)
2004 ðder raum. die wand. das buch.Ð, meisterschüler 2004, galerie der hbk, braunschweig (g)
2003 ðfremde.orte.Ð, museum für photographie, braunschweig
2002 ðmy favoritesÐ, galerie der hbk, braunschweig (g)
2000 ðnach cindyÐ, mönchehaus-museum, goslar (g)
1999 ðgesundheitÐ, kunsthaus essen (g)
1998 ðgastspielÐ, kunstverein hannover (g)
preise und stipendien (auswahl)
2007 künstlerhaus lukas
2006 daad-reisestipendium für freie kunst, los angeles
2005 förderpreis fotografie 2005 der nbank hannover
2004 otto-steinert-preis 2004, lobende erwähnung der jury
2004 daad-reisestipendium für freie kunst, los angeles
2004 ðbest awarded worksÐ, input / output
2003 stipendium der villa vigoni, deutsch-italienisches zentrum, menaggio, italien
2003 ðphænographieÐ zaha hadid, auswahl des forums für architektur der stadt wolfsburg
2002 ðbest awarded worksÐ, input / output
2001 1. preis internationaler polaroid-wettbewerb
2000 elite 2000, nord / lb-auswahl
1999 2. preis nationaler kodak-portra-wettbewerb ðportrait on locationÐ
1999 4. preis internationaler polaroid-wettbewerb
1999 1. preis mtv-fotowettbewerb ðnightÐ
öffentliche sammlungen
sammlung der dz bank, frankfurt am main
mönchehaus-museum für zeitgenössische kunst, goslar
sammlung der nbank, hannover
haus der geschichte der bundesrepublik deutschland
publikationen (auswahl)
2006 ðeißfeldts meisterÐ, apex, göttingen
2006 ðbeauty remainsÐ, appelhans verlag, braunschweig
2006 ðförderpreis fotografie 2005Ð, appelhans verlag, braunschweig
2004 ðdas schreiben der bilderÐ, salon verlag, köln
2003 ðfremde.orte.Ð, museum für photographie, braunschweig
2000 ðnach cindyÐ, mönchehaus-museum, goslar
1998 ðgastspielÐ, richter verlag, düsseldorf
