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January 12, 2019
Publication
Gassmann & Wingold – Bis auf den Grund
For the new CD of the Cologne based duo Martina Gassman and Frank Wingold "Bis auf den Grund" the photographs were taken in the south of Cologne. 
Samples of the impressive music can be found on the website of Gassmann & Wingold.
2018
Series
Hambach Forest I – Still
Hambach Forest (German: Hambacher Forst, Buergewald) is a forest rich in biodiversity and home to 142 species regarded as important for conservation. Only ten percent of Hambach Forest still remains and these sections are under threat of being cut down to allow the expansion of the lignite-extracting Hambach surface mine, run by RWE. Aug 25, 2018
Hambach Forest II – Demonstration
Demonstration for Climate Protection and Hambach Forest.
50 000 people participate in the demonstration at the Hambacher Wald near Köln-Buir for a quick coal phase-out and for the rescue of the Hambacher Forest. Oct 6, 2018
The photographs of the two series were commissioned by Greenpeace.
June 9, 2018
Publication
Immigrants
The series "Immigrants – Whitsun people in the new land" was first published in the magazine ZEITmagazin 1989. The photographs are now part of PIXXELCULT. Poster for the new presentation of the project in the Historisches Museum Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany.
New publication and portrait
Bloomberg Businessweek
A photograph from the Wahl Kampf Ritual series was published in the American magazine Bloomberg Businessweek. Feb 19, 2018, p.38-39
Portrait
Danijel Stanic
As part of a commissioned work for the portrait series XI the photograph for Danijel Stanic, was created in Hamburg and Frankfurt, Germany.
Publications
The New Yorker
Complesso Del Vittoriano Rom
Der Spiegel
Taz
In The New Yorker was published an illustration of the series The Anatom part of the cycle Digitalis. Nov 24, 2017
Some photographs of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are exhibitied in the group show "I Grande Maestri" Nov 16, 2017 till Feb 18, 2018 in Complesso Del Vittoriano, Rome, Italy.
A photograph from the series Rituals of Election Campaigns was published in the German magazine Spiegel Chronik in an obituary to Helmut Kohl.
Der Spiegel, Chronik 2017, p.106
Portraiture
Writer Sven Heuchert
In assignment photographed for the German daily newspaper taz a portraiture of Sven Heuchert in Siegburg.
2017
New photographs
Wahl Kampf Ritual – Rituals of election campaigns
The election campaigns for the German Bundestag are an ideal occasion to explore strategies of production and self-production across all political parties. This cycle is a work about the endeavour of shading light on the precisely calculated gestures of the actors of these public orchestration, their success in radiate aspects of power and its fascination. These photographs expose politics as theatre.
The rituals were photographed during the election campaigns of the years 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017.
Exhibition
Con los ojos bien abiertos – Cien años de fotografía Leica
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY at Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, Spain. Curated by Hans-Michael Koetzle. In cooperation with PhotoEspaña.
"The exhibition thus provides a stylistic history of the medium, running the gamut from the classic modern age to the post-modern diversity of the present day, from New Vision via "la photographie humaniste" to fashion photography, from "subjective photography" via author photography to street photography and contemporary art photography."
Some of the photographers are Nobuyoshi Araki, Bernd Arnold, Ellen Auerbach, Ragnar Axelsson, Julia Baier, Bruno Barbey, Ilse Bing, Werner Bischof, Edouard Boubat, John Bulmer, René Burri, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mitch Epstein, Elliott Erwitt, Andreas Feininger, Leonard Freed, Bruce Gilden, René Groebli, F. C. Gundlach, Heinrich Heidersberger, Thomas Hoepker, Barbara Klemm, Robert Lebeck, Saul Leiter, Erich Lessing, Herbert List, Ulrich Mack, Will McBride, Rudi Meisel, Susan Meiselas, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, Inge Morath, Gabriele und Helmut Nothhelfer, Marc Riboud, Alexander Rodtschenko, Sebastião Salgado, Dr. Erich Salomon, Christer Strömholm, Umbo, Walter Vogel, Tom Wood, Kai Wiedenhöfer...
May 11 till September 10, 2017 | Espacio Fundación Telefónica | C/ Fuencarral, 3, Madrid, Spain
Publication
SPIEGEL-Biografie
about Angela Merkel
From the series WAHL KAMPF RITUAL (Rituals of Election Campaigns) some photographs are published from the years 1990, 1994, 1998 and 2013 in a biography of Angela Merkel in a special issue of the German magazine DER SPIEGEL.
Spiegel Biografie 2/2017, p.4, 40-44
Art Fair
Wahl Kampf Ritual at the art KARLSRUHE
At the Art Fair "art Karlsruhe", Germany are shown photo
graphs of the series WAHL KAMPF RITUAL.
In focus galerie, hall 1, stand U04.
The other photographers and artist are Elliott Erwitt, Thomas Hoepker, Marc Riboud, Emmanuelle Bousquet, Gilbert Garcin, René Groebli, Vadim Gushchin, Thomas Kellner, Karin Székessy, Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Esther Hegenmaier, Gottfried Jäger and Floris M. Neusüss.
art Karlsruhe | Messe Allee 1 | Karlsruhe – Germany | Feb 16-19, 2017
Publications
Image brochures and website
New Branding Computacenter
Corporate portraits 
and staging with the employees of the European IT Company.
The Image brochures and website of Computacenter are partial photographed.
Here you will see the German part.
2016
Exhibition
BILDERSTROM – The Flow of Pictures. The Rhine and Photography 2016-1853 in LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, Germany
Some photographs of the series Warum ist es am Rhein so schön? will be shown in LVR LandesMuseum Bonn, Germany.
The exhibition explores the ambivalent mutual effects between the river and the image in the light of photography. The show, curated by Christoph Schaden, brings together more than 60 noteworthy European photographers...
For example Boris Becker, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chargesheimer, Hermann Claasen, Robert Häusser, Heinz Held, Candida Höfer, Barbara Klemm, Herbert List, Ute Mahler, Lee Miller, Max Regenberg, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Gerhard Richter, August Sander, Wilhelm Schürmann, Wolfgang Tillmans, Eusebius Wirdeier, Wolfgang Zurborn and many others.
LVR LandesMuseum Bonn | Colmantstr. 14-16 | 53115 Bonn | Germany
September 9, 2016 to January 22, 2017
A catalogue is published: LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn, Christoph Schaden (Hrsg.), "bilderstrom. Der Rhein und die Fotografie 2016-1853"
The Rhine—sixty photographic positions between testimony and myth.
Since the beginning of pictorial production, the Rhine, Europe's most celebrates river, has been the subject of numerous paintings, drawings, and engravings. By and large, these images of the Rhine create and model collective notions that influence our perception of the river to this very day, alternating between testimony and myth, between cliché and art.
Hatje Cantz Verlag German language, 2016, 252pp., hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7757-4190-3
Exhibition
DAS KÖLNER HEIL in Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij
in Gent, Belgium
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are still up to August 21, 2016 exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY
"This summer St. Peter's Abbey will be the first venue in a European tour of the Eyes Wide Open! exhibition. By way of more than 350 vintage photos visitors will be able to discover the rich history of 100 years of Leica photography."
Historische Huizen Gent | Sint-Pietersplein 9 | 9000 Gent – Belgium
June 17, 2016 – August 14, 2016
New Publications
Portraiture Hans van Bylen and Jörg Thadeusz
The new CEO of Henkel AG Hans van Bylen
photographed for Manager Magazin 7/2016 p. 56-57
Jörg Thadeusz in Süddeutschen Zeitung March 19, 2016, p.46
Inside the archive
Lèse-majesté
Jan Böhmermann and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in conflict about a full dish of various kinds of fruits (satura).
Exhibition
EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS 0F LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY in Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung Munich
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are still up to June 5, 2016 exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung Munich.
"More than 300 photographs from international collections and museums as well as newspapers and significant photobooks document the various aspects of Leica photography from the mid-1920s on. The exhibition thus provides a stylistic history of the medium, running the gamut from the classic modern age to the post-modern diversity of the present day, from New Vision via "la photographie humaniste" to fashion photography, from "subjective photography" via author photography to street photography and contemporary art photography."
Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung | Maximilianstraße 53 | 80538 Munich
March 9, 2016 – June 5, 2016
Exhibition
EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS 0F LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY in Gallery OSTLICHT in Vienna
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are still up to February 13, 2016 exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY at OSTLICHT in Vienna, Austria.
EYES WIDE OPEN! illuminates the history of Leica photography from the very beginnings to the present day. In Vienna the touring exhibition will be jointly presented by WestLicht. Museum for Photography and OstLicht. Gallery for Photography. WestLicht will house the classical sections of the exhibition, with works from Rodchenko to Cartier-Bresson, accompanied by selected camera models, magzines and photobooks. OstLicht will display the more contemporary part, with photographs by Bernd Arnold, Julia Baier, Mark Cohen, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Bruce Gilden, Jing Huang, Rudi Meisel, Susan Meiselas, Jeff Mermelstein, Paulo Nozolino, Paolo Roversi, Tom Wood and many more.
All works presented at OstLicht are available for purchase.
Part II – The Contemporaries
OstLicht . Gallery for Photography | Absberggasse 27 | 1100 Vienna | Austria
11.12.2015 – 13.02.2016
Part I – The Classics
WestLicht. Museum for Photography | Westbahnstrasse 40 | 1070 Vienna | Austria
04.12.2015 – 21.02.2016
Publication
Anchorman Jan Böhmermann in New York Times International
"Getting Germans to laugh" –
A Portrait about Jan Böhmermann was published in the New York Times International.
New York Times International Dec 7, 2015, p.2
2015
Oct. 7, 2015New tearsheets
The anchormen Jörg Thadeusz
and Constantin Schreiber
A portrait about Jörg Thadeusz was published in Das Magazin. In the special about "Men" he wrote about friendship.
Tagesanzeiger Sept. 26, 2015, p.34
A portrait about Constantin Schreiber was published in the magazine GQ.
GQ 9/2015, p.72
Exhibition
EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS 0F LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY
in C/O Berlin
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY at C/O BERLIN, Germany.
"For the first time, this exhibition will highlight from an art and cultural historical perspective how the Leica and the 35 mm format has changed the photographic gaze in the 20th century. More than 300 photographs, as well as magazines and important photo books document the different aspects of the Leica photography, which emerged in the mid 1920s. The exhibition is hence also a history of the style of the medium, from Modernism to the postmodern diversity of the present, from New Vision, through "photographie humaniste" to the fashion photographs, from subjective photography, through Autorenfotografie to street photography and artistic photography. In this exhibition C/O Berlin will present works by internationally renowned Leica photographers such as Alexander Rodtschenko, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Oskar Barnack, Christer Strömholm, Robert Frank, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, F.C. Gundlach, Fred Herzog, Robert Lebeck,William Eggleston, René Burri, Thomas Hoepker, Bruce Gilden and many more."
The exhibition was curated by Hans-Michael Koetzle.
August 22, 2015 – November 1, 2015
C/O Berlin | Hardenbergstraße 22-24 | 10623 Berlin
Documentation
Coal – Garzweiler II
"Coal fired power plants are the biggest source of man made CO2 emissions. This makes coal energy the single greatest threat facing our climate."
A documentation for Greenpeace about the brown coal mining area Garzweiler II near Cologne in Germany. Many villages have to disappear in order to get the brown coal. More Information about the CO2 emissions at Greenpeace International.
Exhibition
EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS 0F LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY
in Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Some photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) are exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY at FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT, Germany.
The exhibition illuminates various aspects of recent small-format photography, from journalistic strategies to documentary approaches and free artistic positions. Among other artists whose work will be shown are Nobuyoshi Araki, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Bruno Barbey, René Burri, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, William Eggleston, Ralph Gibson, F.C. Gundlach, Elisabeth Hase, Fred Herzog, Barbara Klemm, Herbert List, Paula Luttringer, Susan Meiselas, Ulrich Mack, Joel Meyerowitz, Paolo Roversi, Jeanloup Sieff, Christer Strömholm, Kai Wiedenhöfer, Paul Wolff and Tom Wood.
More than 200 photographs, supplemented by documentary material, including journals, magazines, books, advertisements, brochures, and camera prototypes, are recount the history of 35mm photography from its beginnings to the present day. The exhibition, which is curated by Hans-Michael Koetzle, follows the course of technological change and photographic history.
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32
60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Publication
Climate
Some photographs of the German power station Neurath are published in the economic magazine Wirtschaftswoche – titled as THE END OF THE ZOMBIES.
Wirtschaftswoche, 50/2014, p. 48/49
2014
EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY
Five photographs/vintages of DAS KÖLNER HEIL (Cologne Salvation) will be exhibited in EYES WIDE OPEN – 100 YEARS OF LEICA PHOTOGRAPHY at DEICHTORHALLEN in Hamburg, Germany.
The exhibition illuminates across fourteen chapters various aspects of recent small-format photography, from journalistic strategies to documentary approaches and free artistic positions. Among many other artists whose work will be shown are Alexander Rodchenko, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Hermann Claasen, Christer Strömholm, Robert Frank, Ulrich Mack, Bruce Davidson, William Klein, William Eggleston, Rudi Meisel, René Burri, Barbara Klemm, Robert Lebeck, Jeff Mermelstein, Joel Meyerowitz, László Moholy-Nagy, Inge Morath, Sebastiáo Salgado, Eugene Smith, Thomas Höpker, Bruce Gilden, Alex Webb.
Some 500 photographs, supplemented by documentary material, including journals, magazines, books, advertisements, brochures, camera prototypes and films, will recount the history of small-format photography from its beginnings to the present day. The exhibition, which is curated by Hans-Michael Koetzle, follows the course of technological change and photographic history. Trailer
A book will be published at Kehrer Verlag. Edited by Hans-Michael Koetzle.
Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
October 24, 2014 – January 11, 2015 | Tue-Sun: 1pm-6pm
Exhibition
Mensch und Arbeit (Man at Work)
As a part of the international Photoscene Cologne shows the Kunstverein 68elf e.V. in the Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm about 40 photographic positions.
The exhibition examines the relationship of today's people to work in the mirror of photography in documentary as well as in artistic form.
From the series of 
WAHL KAMPF RITUAL four photographs will be shown.
Special event on September 20, 2014: Anke Reitz, curator and Conservator of the family of man in the castle of Clervaux, Luxembourg, speaks about "Edward Steichen's curation – today an option?" followed by a discussion.
Exhibition: September 14 – October 5, 2014
Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm, Hauptstraße 181, 51143 Cologne, Germany
June 10, 2013
Vintage Prints, Licenses, Right Managments and Downloads International are available via photo archive.
Zack, rums, knuff
New publication: 
The Lord – Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Cologne, Germany.
Daily newspaper taz March, 24, 2014, p. 1
Download HiRes
February 15, 2014
New tearsheets
Two photographs about RITUALS in GEO magazine January 2014, p. 119, 123
Portrait of Jörg Thadeusz – anchorman of RBB.
Journalist, Nov. 2013, S. 42-49
Panel discussion and presentations
The power of images
– Dimensions of photography
On Saturday, the 11th of January 2014, the Catholic Academy Schwerte invites of the 40th artists meeting. The program of the day includes a tour of the exhibition with the curator Prof. Stefanie Lieb.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaden will give a lecture
with the theme: „Image, Power, Rituals. Notes on a precarious reception and sphere of activity of the present".
Then, Prof. Stefanie Lieb moderated the Panel discussion with the topic: „The Power of photographic images". The participants are Bernd Arnold (photographer), Joachim Frank (chief correspondent of the DuMont Media Group) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Schaden (Professor of image science, TH Nuremberg).
Christ & Welt / ZEIT about Macht & Ritual
"Unterwerft euch!" October 31, 2013, pages 1-5.
Exhibition: November 3, 2013 – January 12, 2014
Katholische Akademie Schwerte
Bergerhofweg 24, 58239 Schwerte, Germany
2013
WAHL KAMPF RITUAL
This monograph shows the rituals of German election campaigns since 1984. Eight elections of the years 1984 to 2013 are featured in 113 photographs. The chancellors are Willy Brandt, 
Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel and the challengers are Franz Josef Strauss, Hans Jochen Vogel, Johannes Rau, Oskar Lafontaine, Rudolf Scharping, Edmund Stoiber, Frank Walter Steinmeier and Peer Steinbrück.
Text: Christoph Schaden.
Design: Knut Schötteldreier
German Language,
Hardcover, 17x25cm, 192 pages,
113 photographs (Duotone) and 10 illustrations.
Published by Edition Panorama, Mannheim 2013.
ISBN 978-3-89823-473-3
More information?
Rituals of election campaigns
In this year a small part of the serie "Wahlkampfrituale" will be exhibited at the photofestival Wiesbadener Fototage. The election campaigns of the German Bundestag are photographed since 1986. A monograph will be published in Autumn 2013. More information will come up later.
On the left side chancellor Angela Merkel, 2013.
Exhibition September 7-22, 2013
Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Schulberg 10 and at other places in Wiesbaden.
New publications
Mein Boss ist Gott
Cover of the Cologne monthly magazine Stadtrevue with the title "My boss is god". A story about catholic employer. (l.)
Stadtrevue June 2013, p. 1
Portrait Karl Lamers
The portraits of the German politician Larl Lamers (r.) are photographed in assignment for the French magazine L'Express. The topic was the relationship between France and Germany.
L'Express, June 2013, p. 6-10
New Portraits
Reiner Will
Tedros Teclebhran
Portrait of the economic specialist Reiner Will (r.) for the magazine Capital. The topic: Life Insurance
Capital 1/2013, p.5.
Anchorman Tedros Teclebhran 
is a star at YouTube. Now he starting his career as an anchorman in television ZDFneo. A portrait for the German daily newspaper taz.
New Works
Maiwald – Alternate projections to get patience # 1-7 (l.)
Mimesis – Dark mass, bizarre situations,
shadowy portraits and questionable details vary between the real and the fictional.For the outside observer, it could be almost impossible to distinguish between the people of the everyday life and the masked ones. Street Photography of deceptive gamers at carnival in Cologne, Germany. A new part of the cycle "Black East Wild West" (r.)
New Publication
Global Coffee Review
A portrait about the chairman of the 4C association Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa. Photographed for the Australian magazine Global Coffee Review 1/2013 p. 1, 10-14
Himmelfahrtskommando?
Anja Sturm, Wolfgang Heer und Wolfgang Stahl, a heavy Court process expected the lawyers of the alleged right terrorist Beate Zschäpe. A portrait photographed for the German magazine Der Spiegel 6/2013, p. 46-47
2012
Helmut Kohl in L'Europeo
Two images of former German chancellor Helmut Kohl from the "serie Rituals of election campaigns" are published in the italian magazine L'Europeo. 11/2012, p.102,150.
New portraits
Leo Fischer, Jan Böhmermann
Portrait Titanic chief editor Leo Fischer (l.) for magazine Journalist 10/2012, p. 38-44.
Anchorman Jan Böhmermann (b.) for magazine Journalist 11/2012, p. 48-52.
Frank Wingold Clairvoyance – CD Cover for one of best european jazzguitarists – Frank Wingold (r.)
July 7, 2012
New portraits
Helmut Thoma, Thomas D
Portrait of Helmut Thoma (l.), the former manager of the television group RTL for magazine Journalist 6/2012, p. 20-25.
Musician Thomas D. (r.) for the daily newspaper Taz.
May 5, 2012
Digitalis
Illustration about workaholics in journalism. Diagnose Workaholic.
Published in magazine Journalist 5/2012, p. 01, 14-20.
New portraits in Capital
Portraits of Asset Managers Kurt von Storch (r.) and Karsten Tripp in economic magazine Capital
4/2012, p. 6, 114-116.
Portrait of the president of European Court Of Auditors 
Vitor Caldeira (b.) in his office in Luxembourg for the economic magazine Capital
4/2012, p. 52-53.
January 19, 2012
New Portraiture
Portrait of the german comedian Serdar Somuncu in
the daily newspaper taz Jan 12, 2011.
Der Spielverderber. A portrait of the journalist
and doping expert Hajo Seppelt in Journalist 12/2011, p. 30-35.
Portrait of Michel Friedmann in Journalist 1/2012, p. 50-55. 
Portrait of Dr. Manfred Schneider – Bayer AG
in the magazine Capital 2/2012, p. 64-68.
2011
September 20, 2011
On assignment for the French magazine GEO HISTOIRE, 9/2011, p. 24-31.
Portraits of German veterans of worldwar II.
Deutschland im Fotobuch
Steidl Verlag published a book about photographers books about Germany of the years 1915-2009. There are described about 287 books. One of them is Das Kölner Heil.
Grafikdesign Winfried Heininger. Publisher Christoph und Markus Schaden. Schaden Publishing House, Cologne, 1997.
Exhibition
Wahlkampfrituale
in Kunsthaus Rhenania, Cologne, Germany.
The election campaigns for the Bundestag are an ideal occasion to explore strategies of production and self-production across all political parties. The years of 1984-2009 will be exhibited for the first time.
Open: September 9-25, 2011, Wed-Fri 3-7pm and Sat-Sun 1-6pm. Kunsthaus Rhenania, Bayenstrasse 28, 50678 Köln.
Art Festival
Portraitserie XIII
at Kunstfestival STROM
The Art-Festival STROM of Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne (Germany) is a show of contemporary art. STROM is a cooperation with guest artists. The programm included installations, experiemtal music, performance multimedia, film painting and photography.
The part of photography will show the topic "Portraits of artist" Photographs from Dirk Reinartz, Rudi Meisel, Bernd Arnold (Portraitserie XIII – see right: Artist of Kunsthaus Rhenania), Michael Oreal, Attila Kleb, Csaba Peter Racozcy, Dirk Gebhardt und Markus Lokai.
Exhibition September 1-4, 2011 Fri 15-3h, Sat 12-3h, Sun 12-22h
Kunsthaus Rhenania, Bayenstrasse 28, 50678 Cologne, Germany.
VI. Mének-patak International Festival of Photography
The serie Das Kölner Heil and Nacht im Milieu – Night on Demimonde will be exhibited at the International Photofestival in Szécsény in Hungary. Other exhibiting artists are Attila Kleb, G.M.B. Abash, Anna Fabricius, Stan Raucher, Gyula Zarand and others.
June 10 to July 30, 2011, daily open 10am to 6pm except mondays. Hungary, Szécsény, Ady Endre utca 10
April 18, 2011
Two exhibitions in Bremen.
Wahlkampfrituale (Rituals of Election Campaigns) in GIM Galerie im Medienhaven. A catalogue will be published (num/limited 100).
GIM Galerie im Medienhaven, Humboldtstr.
6, 28203 Bremen, Germany. Open: April 26 to June 17, 2011, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
Some photographs of Power and Ritual will be exhibited at the Art Festival Kunstfrühling 2011.
Kunstfrühling 2011, Gleishalle am Güterbahnhof, Beim Handelsmuseum 9, 28195 Bremen.
Open: May 6 to June 5, 2011. Daily 11am-8pm.
New portraits
Nadia Budde (author), Joachim Schoenecker (musician), David Berger (author), Stephen Prina (artist) and Robert Cibis (filmmaker).
More new portraits and vintages
2010
Photofestival
Im Glanze Dieses Glückes II
During the 20th International Photoszene in Cologne again there is an exhibition in the Arthouse Rhenania (Kunsthaus Rhenania). In photographic essays and portraits Cologne artists take a look at their "Heimat" in Im Glanze Dieses Glückes II
The artists are Bernd Arnold, Dirk Gebhardt, David Klammer, Markus Lokai, Michael Oreal, Heiko Specht and Wolfgang Zurborn.
Special: Lounge with live music
Tue Sept 21, 8pm: Thomas Müller (p)
Wed Sep. 22, 8.30pm: Kasabami Jazzett
Fri Sept 24, 8pm: Kristina Brodersen/Tobias Weindorf Quartett with Kristina Brodersen (sax), Tobias Weindorf (p), Christian Ramond (bass) and Hendrik Soll (dr).
Opening: September 21, 2011, 8pm.
Open:Sept. 21-26, 2011, Wed-Sat: 3-9pm, Sun: 11am-3pm. Kunsthaus Rhenania, Bayenstr. 28, 50678 Köln, Germany.
An ordinary day in Germany
On May 7, 2010 travelled 432 photographers throughout Germany. It was an ordinary day withoutany big news.
A politician fought himself through the election campaign rally two days before the regional elections in North Rhine Westphalia. It is one of the last passionate speeches of Oskar Lafontaine as a party leader. In the pouring rain, the respond is not entirely enthusiastic.
April 12, 2010Exhibition
Dunkelfeld – Fotografische Positionen zu Gewalt, Tod und Krieg
with works of Bianca Patricia, Bernd Arnold (photographs of Das Kölner Heil), Patrik Budenz, Ralf Meyer and Frank Rothe.
Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg
Filderstraße 44, 70771 LE-Musberg. 16.4.-30.5.2010.
Take a look at the edition 'Sakrament und Sünde', published by Van der Grinten.
Open studios
in Kunsthaus Rhenania
In the south of Cologne the studios of many artists will open all day long. Bernd Arnold shows some Vintage Prints of the 80'.
Exhibition in Kunsthaus Rhenania,
Bayenstrasse 28, 50678 Köln, Open Sa 1.5 and Su 2.5.2010, 14-18h.
February 10, 2010
New publications:
Stages of the "Way of the Cross" 2010 a series of posters.
The broschure Computacenter Competence Guide is a portrait of one of the biggest IT Companies in Europe. Also just published is a feature about the fashion company "Ernstings Family" for Financial Times Deutschland p. 6-11.
Prints and Vintages
Prints and Vintages are online available. Follow the the link to find baryta fiber/base vintage prints developed by the artist during the years 1983-2006.
2009
The Zone at the Paris Photo 09
Gallery Kudlek van der Grinten at the Paris Photo 09.
Booth B40, Carroussel du Louvre, Paris,
19. – 22.11.2009
November 6, 2009
All Night Long
In the group show "NACHTS" the foto essay Black East will be exhibited for the first time. This story takes a dark view at the east German cityscapes. Work in progress.
Kunsthaus Rhenania Bayenstr. 28, 50678 Cologne /Germany. Saturday All Night Long Open Museums in November 7, 2009.
New on this website
Rituals of Election Campaign 1986-2009
The election campaigns for the Bundestag are an ideal occasion to explore strategies of production and self-production across all political parties.
Christopher Street Day
In 1969 there were the first protests of homosexuals at Christopher Street in New York. The first CSD parade in Cologne took place in 1991 – with an audiance of only 500 people. Today came about 700.000 visitors to watch the biggest Christopher Street Day Parade in Germany.
March 30, 2009
New publication:
Bookcover of "German Lesson" from Siegfried Lenz. Published by Robert Laffont in France.
April 4, 2009
A project talk about
Macht und Ritual (Power and Ritual) is published in The Sonic Blog.
Apokalypse-Window
brochure about the making of the Apokalypse window in Cologne cathedral, sponsored by the bank Sal Oppenheim.
Dialogue
New CD Dialogue of the jazz guitarists Joachim Schoenecker and Peter Bernstein.
2008
Mord ohne Mörder
On assignment for DIE ZEIT.
Scene of a negotiation between the politicians Kurt Beck, Franz Müntefering and Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Two days later Kurt Beck was disposed and the german socialist party drifted into difficult times.
Neulich am Rande der Straße...
is the latest work of the cycle Digitalis. The group exhibition Variety Of Kinds will show the latest works of variuos artist in the hall of the Rhenania Arthouse.
Kunsthaus Rhenania
Bayenstr. 28, 50678 Cologne. The exhibition will open from Nov 22 until Dec 5, 2008. Nov 21, 2008, 7pm Vernissage; Mon-Fri 5-8pm; Sat-Sun 11am – 6pm Finissage Dec 5, 7pm with Christian Saettele Quartett feat. Brigitta Lorenz.
VISUM – In the Glory of this Happiness
New Works exhibition during the Photokina from September 20 until Sept 28: Rhenania, Bayenstr. 28, 50678 Cologne. 14 Visum photographers will present their latest work on 'International Photo scene Cologne' in the hall of the Rhenania Arthouse. 
The new serie The Zone is the second part of a new cycle (first part The Portal). The new essay the zone moves on the courses of glory and happiness. This pictures will be exhibited the first time during the Photokina.
Sept 20, 2008, 8 p.m. Vernissage; Mon-Fri 3 – 8 p.m; Friday Special: 8 p.m. CD Release Concert featuring Frank Wingold (git) and Martina Gassmann (voc); Sat, September 27. Finissage and Special Jazz Jam-Session.
Sigmar Gabriel – minister of environment
during the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, CBD 2008 in Bonn. During the convention Greenpeace demonstrated in the early morning. About 50 activists set ablaze a tree stump from the Amazon rainforest, on the Rhine River. Greenpeace is demanding 2 billion Euro per year from the German government to protect the last remaining ancient rainforests.
Open studios
In the south of Cologne the studios of many artists will open all day long at May 18, 2008.
The photographer (see on the right side) will welcome you in his accustomed friendly manner. More info about the artists house Kunsthaus Rhenania.
January 17, 2008
The cover photography for the new CD "in the backyards of our soul" of Martina Gassmann und Frank Wingold
January 25, 2008
Portrait
Jim Beard
The New York based jazzpianist Jim Beard photographed for his new CD "Revolution".
2007
Power and Ritual
in Sardegna
will be shown at the Museo Su Palatu in Villanova/Sardegna. The exhibition will be open until january 2008. Other artists are Mario Dondero, Attila Kleb, Judith Horváth, György Stalter & Judit Horváth.
24.11.2007-27.1.2008 in SU PALATU Villanova Monteleone, open tue-sun 16-20h.
October 14, 2007
POWER AND RITUAL will be shown at the NoArte Festival in Museo del Crudo in San Sperate/Sardegna. The exhibition will be open till november 2007. Other artists are Attila Kleb and Mamikon Yengibarian.
Annual Report
Sal. Oppenheim
A documentation about daily life and work of Sal. Oppenheim in Prague, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Zurich and Cologne.
Macht und Ritual – Power and ritual
A collection of black and white images captures the most diverse ceremonies and rituals: religious, profane, political and nonsensical. The exhibition will be in Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz in Berlin under patronage of Leica Camera AG.
The exhibition will be open from the 15th of July until the 26th of August 2007. Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz, In den Ministergärten 6, 10117 Berlin. Daily 10-20h.
Is our world a telly?
published in the new online magazine lunatic#1
Macht und Ritual – Power and Ritual
A collection of black and white images captures the most diverse ceremonies and rituals: religious, profane, political and nonsensical. The Catholic church is seen as a system of salvation, politicians as purveyors of rhetoric and the media as a tool to manipulate consumers... The exhibition shows an undistorted reflection of the exploitation human vulnerability.
The exhibition will be open from the 15th of March until the 17th of May 2007.
TüV Rheinland Forum, Shin Yokohama Daini Center Bldg. 1F, 3-19-5 Shin Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 222-0033. Under patronage of Goethe Institut and Curator Gero Furchheim.
"To say that classic, analog photography registers the surface of the visible world with astounding precision is no doubt correct in a physical sense. But it probably does not mark the boundaries of a camera art that claims, as it were, to look "behind the scenes". This is exactly the intent of photographer Bernd Arnold from Cologne, whose particular concerns are those fields where conscious acting, the deliberate donning of a mask, is, in a manner of speaking, a "sine qua non". To begin with, Arnold was interested in the rites and rituals of the Catholic church, but rapidly extended his radius to the fields of politics and media and – using a black-and-white photographic form that is as intelligent as it is atmospherically dense-showed how critical documentary photography might look today."
Michael Koetzle about 'Macht und Ritual' cycle, 1986-2004.
André Rieu and his castle
André Rieu in front of his castle.
Published in Neue Züricher Zeitung.
Katrin Bauerfeind
Moderator Katrin Bauerfeind of web based tv show "Ehrensenf" published in taz.
2006
THE PORTAL
new story on this site. The interface between the secular and the sacral. Since 500 years people at the West Portals of Cologne Cathedral move on the threshold between the worlds..."
September 10, 2006
Pope Benedict XVI.
in Bavaria, Germany. Take a look at the exhibition "Gott in Deutschland" during the Photokina, Cologne.
Dauer 26.9.-1.10.2006.
May 15, 2006
Opus Dei
Opus Dei published in CAPITAL 11/2006, a portrait of two members of Opus Dei.
February 8, 2006
Power and Ritual
in Cologne
This exhibition presents the Cologne based photographer Bernd Arnold. His portfolio of black and white images captures the most diverse ceremonies and rituals: religious, profane, political and nonsensical. The Catholic church is seen as a system of salvation, politicians as purveyors of rhetoric and the media as a tool to manipulate consumers... The exhibition shows an undistorted reflection of the exploitation human vulnerability.
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum Zeughausstr. 1-3, 50667 Köln. In cooperation with van der grinten galerie. The exhibition will be open from the 4th of March until 2nd of April 2006, Tue 10am. to 8pm and Wed-Sun 10am to 5pm.January 20, 2006
Frank Wingold – Clairvoyance
CD Cover and Booklet of the Quartett of jazzguitarist Frank Wingold. Published in 2005.
2005
Rituale der Macht
Portfolio about "Power and Ritual" in fotoMAGAZIN
10/2005, p.124-129
Wahlkampfrituale 05
Election campaign rituals 2005 The german election campaigns for the Bundestag are an ideal occasion to explore strategies of production and self-production across all political parties.
24x36 – 50 Years Leica M
The idea behind the exhibition "24x30" was to mark the 50th anniversary of the Leica rangefinder system. Put together by Hans-Michael Koetzle, editor-in-chief of the Leica World magazine, the photo exhibition will present about 70 works of 19 international photographers. The selected photographers – including Jane Evelyn Atwood, Bruce Gilden, Jeff Mermelstein, Tomasz Tomaszewski, Alex Webb and Tom Wood.
Some photographs from the essay "Power and ritual" will be exhibited in New York.
Leica Gallery New York / 670 Broadway / New York City 10012 / Tel. 212.777.3051 on Thursday, September 8th, 2005 / Reception 6-8 pm. The show is running through October 1, 2005.
June 10, 2005
7. Internationale Fototage Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen
Two reportages will be exhibited from 16.6.-10.7. in Mannheim/Ludwigshafen Germany: "Zone Bismarckstrasse" and 30 photographs of "Power and Ritual".
2004
Local election campaign
of the social democrats in Germany. A reportage about the decline of german socialists for STERN magazine.
Power and Ritual
in Prague
This exhibition presents the German photographer Bernd Arnold. His collection of black and white images captures the most diverse ceremonies and rituals: religious, profane, political and nonsensical. The Catholic church is seen as a system of salvation, politicians as purveyors of rhetoric and the media as a tool to manipulate consumers... The exhibition shows an undistorted reflection of the exploitation human vulnerability.
LGP – Leica Gallery Prague
Nejvyssi purkrabstvi Prazskeho hradu, 11908 Praha Hrad. The exhibition will be open from the 16th of April till the 31th of May 2004, daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance fee 80,- CZK, Fiberbase prints sponsored by kontrastlab
Akribie – Materialien zur Findung des wahren Kanzlers.
A special for the exhibition Power And Ritual, contact sheets will be exhibited in the Goethe-Institut Prag.
Goethe-Institut Prag, Masarykovo nabrezi 32, CZ-11000 Praha 1, Open 1.5.-31.5.2004
Rhein-Rhapsodie in GEO
An assignment for
GEO magazine. A reportage about a musician group, where some of them are homeless people.
GEO 02/2004.
2003
entracte
Exhibition with the artists of the Van der Grinten Galler.
Rebecca Lewis, Gábor Ösz, Pierre Faure, Izima Kaoru, Dirk Königsfeld, Mark Curran, Karin Apollonia Müller, Philippe Durand and Bernd Arnold (Canteen and Benedikt Taschen)
Van der Grinten Gallery Opening Oct 29, 2003, van der grinten gallery, Schaafenstraße 25, Köln, Tue-Fri 13-18h und Sa 11-16h.
August 14, 2003
Leisure Minx – dogs of unknown people
CD-Cover and Booklet of the band Leisure Minx with Frank Wingold(guitars), Martina Gassmann (vocals), Tobi Lessnow (drums) and Konstantin Wienstroer (bass). Coverdesign by BABELgum and Make-up Art by Elke Kim. Published by BOS.REC. CD Presentation: Oct 28, 2003, Stadtgarten, Cologne.
July 19, 2003
Drought
Drought in the Rhineland for magazine STERN.
February 26, 2003
Images against war
The exhibition Images against war at the Gallery Lichtblick with contributions of 423 photographers.
An Iraqi child. The boy was heavily injured by an american bombing raid (golf war I) and taken to a german hospital for rescue. Doctors arewatching his healing progress.
Gallery Lichtblick Exhibition from 2/28 to 6/7/2003. Steinbergerstr. 21, Cologne.
2002
October 2, 2002
Power and Ritual in Tokyo
For years Bernd Arnold has been dealing with Power and Ritual of public events. He started his research about behavioural attitudes in different contexts of society with a documentation of catholic ceremonies in cologne (compiled in the book Das Kölner Heil). Following topics were the politicians' strategies of a medium-effective self-production during the German democratic election campaign in 1998 and the world economic summit in 1999. Further on he examined the defining rituals in the world of pimps and prostitutes as well as the production of television sceneries bringing up the question: Is our world a telly? (Ist die Erde eine Mattscheibe?). What brings these stories together is the metaphysical level of power: the believe. Hierarchy and unity of socially relevant groups are manifested continuously through the existential longing for this believe. In his very specific and individual photography Bernd Arnold lights the precisely calculated gestures of the actors of these public manifestations and succeeds in reflecting the aspects of power and its fascination.
First time in LEICA GALLERY TOKYO will show this work from 10/2 to 11/4/2002 in Matsushima Gankyoten 3 F, 3-5-6 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokio 104-0061.
Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann
published in
Stern magazine 25/2002
Morguemorph
New projections on the occasion of Gefühlskomfort
Filmhaus Köln, Maybachstr. 111 on 1/19/2002
Eternity II – Portraits
The portrait is one of the classic topics of photography. The challenge of catching hold of a part of the nature of the model and displaying it, of documenting reality, of making someone immortal, of keeping a memory – these are ever returning motives to this subject. Among others with Alvarez Bravo, Harold Chapman, Horst P. Horst, Philippe Halsman, George Hurrell, Willy Maywald and Bernd Arnold.
Gallery for Contemporary Art Düsseldorf, Achenbachstr. 141, until Feb 15, 2002. International photographers' vintage-photographs from the 20th and 21th century.
2001
November 26, 2001
UN – Talks on Afghanistan
Press briefing by Ahmad Fawzi, speaker of UN special envoy L. Brahimi. Bonn, Königswinter Nov 26, 2001 for DIE ZEIT.
Panel discussion
International Fototage Herten
By the title "Verkaufte Ideale, Betroffenheitsfotograf oder Werbeknecht?" ("sold ideals, photographer of affection or slave to advertising?") renowned speakers discuss photojournalism between wish and reality. On the podium will be among others: Bernd Arnold, photographer. Lutz Fischmann, manager of FreeLens. Manfred Heiting, collector and curator. Hartmut Nägele, photographer, Prof. Dirk Reinartz, photographer und professor at Muthesius Hochschule Kiel. Bernd Weise, manager of BVPA. Moderation: Christiane Gehner, DER SPIEGEL.
The symposium is divided into two parts: In the first part two lectures shall give an insight into photojournalistic history and the use of journalistic photography in business communications. In a following panel discussion key aspects of photojournalistic work and its publication will be treated.
October 20, 2001, Herten Castle.
October 7, 2001
Liebesgeschichte
(letzte Kapitel)
(love story – final chapters)
Content of the play: Two men, a woman and a reunion. It is the story of three, telling each other the story of their love and their breakup. Memories and fiction are mixing. The "love story" becomes a book, a fairy tale, a play. At times one might think that the characters were still finishing their thoughts as they already talk. Pictures from the past are summoned, corrected and flow away again. Directed by Inka Neubert.
Stage design and photography by Bernd Arnold. Performance by Christian Bergmann, Hanno Dinger and Stefanie Mühle.
Premiere Oct 17, 2001 at the Kölner Filmhaus. Further shows: Nov 14 to Nov 18, Dec 12 to Dec 16, Jan 16 to Jan 20, Feb 27 + Feb 28, Mar 1 + Mar 3, 2002.
September 4, 2001
Photofestival
Internationale Fototage Herten
Opening Sept 27, 2001, Glashaus.
This year the main geographic emphasis lies on Europe.
Curators from all european countries are asked to formulate positions to young photography in their country by the title Visions of Europe – young contemporary european photography. A collective exhibition of young german photography also originated in this cycle titled "Denk ich an Deutschland..." ("Thinking of Germany..."), thoughtfully and critically concerning german realities. Among others there are projects of Bertram Kober, Johannes Backes, Bernd Arnold (Cycle Power and Ritual), Hans-Christian Schink, Thorsten Futh, Bettina Flitner.
Unbezähmbar
Photographs about the "forgotten" topics of HIV and AIDS.
Four renowned Cologne galleries are participating in the Kulturprogramm Lebenshaus. Displaying different artistic positions, the exhibition shows the social relevance and the relationships between the topics love, sexuality, life, survival and death. Involved are Keri Pickett (Minneapolis), Andrej Barov (Munich), Steve Hart (New York), Bernd Arnold (Cologne, Morgue – Franz van der Grinten), David Wojnarowicz (New York), Roger Lips (Cologne) und Vincent Allen W (New York).
Fri, June 29 to Sun, June 15, 2001, exhibition hall Alte Feuerwache, Cologne.
April 17, 2001
Stuck in a moment you can't get out of
Photographic portraits.
An exhibition project with Büro für Fotos. Participants include Franz van der Grinten and Rebecca Lewis.
Gallery Altes Rathaus Musberg
Leinfeld-Echterdingen. Vernissage on April 28, 2001. Duration of the collective exhibition: 4/28 to 6/3/2001.
Art Fair
Büro für Fotos goes Art Brussels
20.4.- 24.4.2001, Stand 4C-06
March 3, 2001
Art Fair
Büro für Fotos goes kunstKöLN
At the international fair (for editions, photography, Art Brut, arts after 1960) the Van der Grinten Gallery (formerly known as Büro für Fotos) shows works from the series "Macht und Ritual" ("power and ritual"), besides works of Rebecca Lewis and Karin Apollonia Müller.
2000
November 20, 2000
Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship
Photoagency Zeitenspiegel awards Gabriel-Grüner-Scholarship. The journalist Guido Eckert and the photographer Bernd Arnold receive10.000 Marks prize for the realization of a promising idea of a report named "Menschen am Rhein" ("people at the Rhine river"). The agency uses the scholarship to remind of their long-term friend Gunter Grüner as well as of "Stern"-photographer Volker Krämer and the translator Senol Alit who were murdered in Kosovo in June 1999. Jury members include leading editors and authors to "Spiegel", "Stern" and "Focus" magazines as well as Gilles Peres.
GE Compunet
Annual Report 1999
was created in cooperation with the advertising agency BOROS.
1st Media Award Cologne
in the category photography was given to Wirtschaftsgipfel (economic summits). The photographic essay was created in 1999 in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the gallery Büro für Fotos. It was exhibited there and updated daily.
April 26, 2000
Symposium of documentary photography
In the course of the 2nd Symposium of documentary photography in Bad Herrenalb the photographic essays Wahlkampfrituale and the serie Das Kölner Heil are exhibit from April 27 to May 17, 2000.
Blicke und Ornament
Portraits from 100 years of photography.
Exhibition at the Büro für Fotos, Cologne, April 8 to May 20, 2000.
The way your opposite looks offers you the intrusion into his interior but it can also reflect your own look like a mirror and turn the one contemplating into the one being contemplated. The most intense encounter takes places via contact of the eyes and what makes good portrait photography is standing up to this intensity: the tension between the luck of the moment and the sovereignty of the expression. The fact that the exemption of the hierarchy between author and model fills all of photographic history is subject of the exhibition.
Part of the exhibition is Portraitserie-II 1985.
Rituals of Election Campaigns (top ten of Oskar-Barnack-Prize) in Leica World
The portfolio "Election Campaign Rituals" was published in the first issue of Leica World on pages 54 to 61 and titled Choreography of Power.
The story entered the final round of the top ten runners-up to the Oskar-Barnack-Preis 1999 and was shown in the evening show in the arena of Arles, France. Other portfolios in Leica World are of Lilian Bassmann, Anton Corbijn, Franz Hubmann, Mike Meiré, Saul Leitner, Martin Parr and Francesco Guisti.
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