Oliver Mark
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Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
Known for | Photography |
Oliver Mark(born 1963)[1]is a German photographer and artist known primarily for hisportraitsof international celebrities.
Work
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In the 1990s, Mark began photographing celebrities. He made portraits of public figures including actors. His personal interest lies in contemporary artists and their creative world.[2]
He works with both a single-lens reflex camera and an old, 680 Polaroid. The instant photos produced by the Polaroid reveal Mark's familiarity and closeness to the subjects he portrays.[3]
Natura Morta
[edit]Mark's exhibitionNatura Morta,which was presented in two parts at the Paintings Gallery of theAcademy of Fine Arts Viennaand theNatural History Museum Viennain 2017, addresses how humans deal with nature and the environment, in particular the animal world, but also the aesthetics and beauty death. Mark's still life photographs were taken in the Asservat Chamber of the Federal Office for Nature Conservation in Bonn in 2015.[4]His idea was to photograph items seized by customs, such as leopard skulls, ivory carvings, crocodile and turtle products, protected animal and plant parts, etc. He photographed these using specific backgrounds and a method of lighting (Old Master-like daylight, lit only through a crack) to generate in the viewer a desire to observe. In the Vienna Natural History Museum, these items are sorted into three categories and exhibited in context with different animal specimens, to address the topic of species protection. The photographs were presented in historical picture frames. This created a dialog in the Paintings Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between the different genres of painting and photography as well as the painted or photographed still lifes.
Personal life
[edit]Mark is the father of two sons and lives in Berlin.[5]
Publications
[edit]- Portraits.Hatje Cantz,Berlin 2009,ISBN978-3-7757-2484-5.[6]
- With Martina Schellhorn:Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren.Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2012,ISBN978-3-932502-60-6.[7]
- Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag.Alpenland, Schaan 2013,ISBN978-3-905437-34-8.[8]
- Außenseiter und Eingeweihter.[Outsider and Insider] Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2013,ISBN978-3-7757-3756-2.[9]
- Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben.[From the rubble crawls life] b.frank books, Zürich 2013,ISBN978-3-906217-00-0.(with poems byK. O. Götz)[10]
- Oliver – Nutte Künstler Fotograf. Die ganze Wahrheit über Oliver Mark.[Oliver – hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark] Grauel, Berlin 2014.
- Natura Morta.Kehrer,Heidelberg 2016,ISBN978-3-86828-759-2.
(with texts byBarbara Hendricks,Rainer Vollkommer, Philipp Demandt, Julia M. Nauhaus, Michael Schipper,Aurelia Frick,Christian Köberl,Lorenz Becker)[11] - Bucovina Monastery Life.Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum, 2018,ISBN978-606-8698-29-8.(with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu)
- No Show.Distanz, Berlin 2019,ISBN978-3-95476-281-1.(with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll,Christoph Peters,Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper)
Solo exhibitions
[edit]- 2002/03:Portraits,Mougins Center of Photography,Mougins[citation needed]
- 2011:7 Artists and 1 Nude,Galerie Gloria, Berlin[12]
- 2011:Portraits,Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm[13]
- 2012/13:Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren,Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung ,Potsdam[citation needed]
- 2013:Heimat verpflichtet,Kanzlei im Lübbenauer Schlossbezirk, Lübbenau[14]
- 2013:Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag am 15 August 2012,Liechtenstein National Museum,Vaduz[15]
- 2014:Oliver Mark – still...lesen,Goethe-Institut Irland, Dublin[citation needed]
- 2014:Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz des Neuanfangs,Fürst-Pückler-Museum, Cottbus[citation needed]
- 2014:Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben – Portraits von Karl Otto Götz,Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz[16]
- 2016/17:Natura Morta,Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz[17]
- 2017:Natura Morta,Natural History Museum Vienna[18]
- 2017:Natura Morta, Fotografien von Oliver Mark in Korrespondenz zu Stillleben-Gemälden der Sammlung,The Paintings Gallery of theAcademy of Fine Arts Vienna[19]
- 2018:Life at the Bukovina Monastery,Bukovina MuseumSuceava, Romania[citation needed]
- 2019:Life at the Bukovina Monastery,Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz[citation needed]
- 2019:No Show,Villa Dessauer– Museen der Stadt Bamberg[20]
- 2019/20:Golden Shoes– Photographs from the Collection of the Liechtenstein National Museum by Oliver Mark[citation needed]
- 2019/20:Life at the Bukovina Monastery,St. Thomas von Aquin Church[citation needed]
- 2020:Jenny Holzer's Handsin thePeter and Paul Church,Potsdam[citation needed]
Collections
[edit]Mark's work is held in the following permanent collections
- Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz[16]
- Würth Collection[21]
- Bukovina Museum,Suceava, Romania[22][23]
Gallery
[edit]-
Balthus,Rossinière 2000
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Beck,Hamburg 2000
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Daniel Brühl,Berlin 2015
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,Paris 2002
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Otto von Habsburg,Pöcking 2006
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Hans Neuenfels,Berlin 2006
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Christian Petzold,Berlin 2002
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George Tabori,Berlin 2003
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George Lucas,Berlin 2005
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Ridley Scott,Berlin 2005
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Oliver Mark".Hatje Cantz.Retrieved3 June2023.
- ^"Oliver Mark Portraits | Portraitfotografie".fotografr.de(in German). 24 November 2009.Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^"Fotograf Oliver Mark: Prominente auf Polaroid".Die Zeit(in German).Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^"Der Fotoband Natura Morta ist in der Asservatenkammer des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz entstanden und erinnert an die Bedeutung der Artenvielfalt – Kehrer Verlag".Kehrer Verlag(in German).Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^"Oliver Mark - kunstgebiet.ruhr".kunstgebiet.ruhr.Archived fromthe originalon 22 September 2018.Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^Hatje Cantz."Oliver Mark | Fotografie | Hatje Cantz Verlag".Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^"Bücher | Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung – Heimat verpflichtet"(in German). Archived fromthe originalon 17 September 2018.Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^Liechtenstein National Museum."Liechtenstein National Museum".Retrieved17 September2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^Hatje Cantz."Oliver Mark | Fotografie | Hatje Cantz Verlag".Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^"Oliver Mark – Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben by b.frank".Archived fromthe originalon 28 August 2018.Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^"Der Fotoband Natura Morta ist in der Asservatenkammer des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz entstanden und erinnert an die Bedeutung der Artenvielfalt – Kehrer Verlag"(in German).Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^"Bilder der Ausstellung '7 Artist And 1 Nude' von Oliver Mark".Rolling Stone(in German). 8 September 2011.Retrieved14 October2018.
- ^"Oliver Mark – Portraits".Kunstverein.Retrieved22 September2018.
- ^"Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. von Schellhorn, Martina u. Oliver Mark.: Potsdam Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung 9783932502606 – Antiquariat Maralt".zvab.Retrieved14 October2018.
- ^Museum, Liechtenstein National."Liechtenstein National Museum".llm.li.Retrieved14 October2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ab"Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz –, INFORMATIONEN ZUR AUSSTELLUNG".kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.de.Retrieved14 October2018.
- ^"Liechtenstein National Museum".Liechtenstein National Museum.Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^"Naturhistorisches Museum Wien – sonderausstellungen".nhm-wien.ac.at.Retrieved13 October2018.
- ^"Natura Morta – Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien"(in German).Retrieved17 September2018.
- ^"Ausstellungsdetail"(in German).
- ^"Art Faces – Artist Portraits in the Würth Collection"(PDF).Retrieved7 February2019.
- ^"Expoziţia de fotografie" Celebrităţi "l-a adus, la Suceava, pe artistul fotograf german Oliver Mark. El a donat Muzeului Bucovinei una dintre lucrările sale".NewsBucovina(in Romanian). 26 October 2017.Retrieved15 October2018.
- ^"Spiritualitatea profundă surprinsă în expoziţia" Bucovina – Mănăstirile trăiesc "a artistului fotograf Oliver Mark, vernisată la Muzeul de Istorie din Suceava în prezența autorului".NewsBucovina(in Romanian). 11 November 2018.Retrieved19 November2018.
External links
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- Official website
- "Oliver Mark at the Lindenau-Museum"In: clairbykahn
- Interview:"Oliver Mark's Astounding Portraits of Your Favorite Artists"In: noisey.vice
- Article about the"Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013"In: justaddpictures
- Literature by and about Oliver Markin theGerman National Librarycatalogue
- 1963 births
- 20th-century German artists
- 20th-century German photographers
- 21st-century German artists
- 21st-century German photographers
- Berlin University of the Arts alumni
- German fashion photographers
- German contemporary artists
- Living people
- People from Gelsenkirchen
- Photographers from Berlin
- German portrait photographers