Dates: | 1968 18 September - | Born: | Russia | Active: | Germany / France / Russia / USA | Website: | www.glusgold.com | Contemporary Russian-born photographer with a rich variety of styles from magazine work through to nudes, portraits and the series Fairy Tales. Artist statement: I don´t believe in artist statements. Instead I propose some quotations:
"For me, the artist is as pure as a saint. I put them on the same level. Their purpose is to sublimate our awareness. I understand creation as a purifying act, a kind of satisfaction. Art aims at self-fulfillment. It is the link between religion, spirituality and esthetics.”
Joel-Peter Witkin
“It could be a step forward to realize that the rational picture of the world is also an imagination; it has the same reality as a myth. It is a product of the mind; it is not more substantial then the mind.”
Francesco Clemente
"I don't believe in these artificial divisions... I just do what I do you know. I don't believe that just because I've written a book I have to write another ten books, or just because I've written a screenplay I have to carry on doing that. Sometimes something is a book; and sometimes a screenplay or... something else. I think that sometimes we are just sort of put into these categories, and we don't think about it, we just keep running on those tracks."
Arundathi Roy Preparing biographies
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1990-96 Academy of Art, Bremen, Germany
Solo exhibitions
2006 “Transfer” Melange, Berlin
2005 “The Antimatter Party” Backfabrik, Berlin
2005 “Fairytales” Galerie Hartmann, Munich (catalog)
2005 "Fairytales“ AV Galerie, Fotosommer Stuttgart 2005
2004 “Andrej Glusgold – Photography” OMC gallery, Düsseldorf
Group exhibitions
2006 “Famous” Grüner und Jahr Pressehaus, Hamburg, Germany
2006 “Famous” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2006 „Glanz und Glamour“, Städtische Galerie Überlingen, Germany
2004 "Zwischenwelten" Oktogon, Academy of Fine Arts Dresden
2003 "Seduction" OMC gallery, Düsseldorf
2002 "4 Jahrzehnte Fotografie an der HfK Bremen" Focke Museum, Bremen
2001 "Plattform für neue Fotografie" Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich
1998 "Bilder vom Menschen", town counsil of Rotenburg
1998 "Begegnungen" Gadewe gallery, Bremen
1997 "Norddreieck" group exhibition at the art schools of Bremen, Hannover and Hamburg
1996 Bremen Artists Prize, Gallery of the City of Bremen
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