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Jens Knigge
Born in 1964, Eilenburg, DE | Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
Self-educated
Exhibitions
2022
Around the polar circle | duo exhibition with Witho Worms | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam (NL)
Winter | group exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2021
ParisPhoto | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
Untitled | group exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
Fotografie-Forum der StädteRegion Aachen in Monschau | Monschau (DE)
Photo Basel | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff |Basel (CH)
UNSEEN Photo Fair | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff |Amsterdam (NL)
Fotografie-Festival der StädteRegion Aachen | Aachen (DE)
2020
Matière Primaire | duo exhibition with Didier Goupy | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
2019
ParisPhoto | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
Magic of Silence / Magie der Stille | group exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2018
ParisPhoto | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
Norway Contemporary! | Museum Kunst der Westküste| group exhibition with a.o. Trond Ansten, A K Dolven, Rune Guneriussen, Ingun Alette Mæhlum | Alkersum (DE)
Solo exhibition | Garden of the Zodiac Gallery | Omaha, Nebraska (US)
2017
Paysages Photographiques: réinventer le réel | group exhibition | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
Favorite Images / Lieblingsbilder | group exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2016
ParisPhoto | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
Northern Light | solo exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2015
Glittering Through Eternity | Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts | group exhibition | Hokuto (JP)
The Window / Das Fenster | group exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
ParisPhoto | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
AIPAD | Galerie Esther Woerdehoff | Paris (FR)
2014
Platinum Prints | solo exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2012
Le Thoronet - La Tourette. Synergie der Künste | solo exhibition | Johanna Breede Photokunst | Berlin (DE)
2011
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art | group exhibition | Prague (CZ)
2010
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts | group exhibition | Hokuto (JP)
2009
Tammen-Gallery | Berlin (DE)
2008
OMC - Gallery for Contemporary Art | Huntington Beach, CA (US)
2006
Platinum Prints | Gallery Fotosphere | New York (US)
16th Gmundner Symposion for Contemporary Art | Austria
2005
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts | group exhibition | Hokuto (JP)
General Consulate of Germany | solo exhibition | New York (US)
2004
The Photographers Gallery | Printsales Gallery | London (UK)
2002
Josef-Sudek-Atelier| solo exhibition | Prague (CZ)
2001
Gallery Imago-Fotokunst| solo exhibition | Berlin (DE
Kunstallianz 1 | solo exhibition | Berlin (DE)
2000
Kunsthaus | Ahrenshoop (DE)
1999
Gallery Imago-Fotokunst | solo exhibition | Berlin (DE)
1998
H.J. Meyers Investmentbank | solo exhibition | San Francisco (US)
Publications and Mentions
2020
PRIMA MATERIA | Platinum Prints
2016
Contact Northern Light | Platinum Prints | Distanz Verlag
2007
Photography Concrete / Fotografie konkret | catalogue 16. Gmundner Symposion für aktuelle Kunst
2005
Concrete Photography / Konkrete Fotografie | texts by Gottfried Jäger, Rolf H. Krauss, Beate Reese | Kerber Verlag | Bielefeld (DE)
2001
Werkstufen: Treppen in Industriellen Raum | catalogue Kunstallianz 1 | Berlin (DE)
PHOTONEWS
2000
Josef Sudek Studio | catalogue 2000 – 2002
Wasserzeichen | catalogue edition Hohes Ufer Arenshoop
Work in Collections
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts| Hokuto (JP)
Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Monschau | Monschau (DE)
Canadian Centre for Architecture | Montreal (CA)
Citigroup Art Collection | London (UK)
General Consulate of Germany | New York (US)
Kunstallianz 1 | Berlin (DE)
Collection Jäger | DE
Collection Bettina Horn | DE
Collection Spallart | AU
And various private collections