Olaf Unverzart

His focus is on things, settling first on their appearances, their visibility, and in consequence also examining their inseparably connected invisible, hidden meaning. An eye-level perspective, the use of a normal lens and a general avoidance of any processing or other self-reflective or fictional possibilities of photography characterize his way of working. Therefore, Unverzart has no need to distance himself from the elementary possibilities of photography too much, either way his intention remains a great endeavour: probing the causes of things, their meanings and also their originators. (Daniela Stöppel)

 

• 1972 born in Waldmünchen
  1992 Graduation from high school in Cham
  1994-2000 Studies of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of Prof. J. Brohm
  1997 Study visit in Barcelona
  2000 Diploma of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in the class of Prof. J. Brohm
  2006-2009 teaching Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts, Nuremberg
  since 2011 teaching Photography at Mozarteum, Salzburg (Austria)
• since 2017 teaching Photography at Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Munich
  lives and works in Munich and the Oberpfalz

Solo shows

• 2018 Basis-Lager, Galerie Jordanow, Munich
• 2017 Landen, Galerie Oechnser, Nuremberg
• 2016 caduta sassi, Oechsner Galerie, Nuremberg
  pace & parking, Galerie Jordanow, Munich
  Letzte Fassung, Kunst-& Gewerbeverein, Regensburg
• 2014 Der will doch nur spielen, Schauraum Nullvierzehn, Wien
• 2012 berührt, geführt, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2010 Ende Gelände, Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg
  Stand, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin
  2009 Koordinaten, Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg
  Road & romance, Galerie Jordanow, Munich
  2008 Leichtes Gepäck, Museum of photography, Munich
  Unter unserem Himmel, Cordonhaus, Cham
  2007 Atem, Galerie Johanssen, Berlin
  Spuren, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2005 Nordschleife, BMW Pavilion, Munich
  Nordschleife, BMW Pavilion, Capetown, South Africa
  Sans moi, im Wartezimmer, Hamburg
  2004 Bergungen, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  Bergungen, Galerie Reygers, Munich
  2000 Ocean, Galerie Goldankauf, Munich

Group shows

• 2018 drive, drove, driven, fo.ku.s, Innsbruck (Austria)
• 2017 Mythos Tour, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf
• 2015 Gesichter des Verschwindens, H2 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg
  Syngenta Photography Award, Somerset House, London
• 2014 la brea matrix, Photobook Museum, Köln
• bb, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  2011 Hijacked, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
  Köpfe, Galerie Oechsner, Nuremberg
  2010 Chiffreschrift Landschaft, Galerie Jordanow, Munich
  Mapping worlds, Triennial of photography, Esslingen
  Hijacked, Australian Center of Photography, Sydney
  Im Verborgenen, F/Stop Festival of photography, Leipzig
  40 years-40 photographers, Alsterhaus, Hamburg
  The La Brea Matrix, Goethe Institute, Lyon
  Jahresgaben, Art association Munich
  2009 Reading the city, City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
  Twist of fate, Rathausgalerie, Munich
  Introducing The La Brea Matrix, Kaune & Sudendorf Gallery, Cologne
  2007 Gebaute Umwelt, Galerie Jordanow, Munich
  Land, hostgallery, London
  2006 Serve and volley, Haeusler Contemporary, Munich
  2005 Neue Heimat, Rathausgalerie, Munich
  2001 Fallen kann ich auch alleine, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig
  1999 Vinyl video, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig

Grants

• 2018 Scholarship by VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn (Germany)
• 2016 Lead Award for HUNDERT
• 2014 Villa Massimo/ Casa Baldi, Rome, Italy
  2012 artist in residence, art lodge, Austria
  
• 2011 Artist in residence, Kunstnetzwerk Vienna
  Artist in residence, Goethe Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania
  2010 The La Brea Matrix, Artist in residence, Los Angeles
  Lead award gold for Deutsche Szenen
  German photo book award for Leichtes Gepäck
  2009 Award of the city of Munich
  2006 German photo book award for sans moi
  2005 Book Scholarship for sans moi
  2002 DAAD Scholarship for Cuba

Bibliography

• 2016 faces of disappearance, Kunstsammlungen, Augsburg
• HUNDERT, fountain books, Berlin
  free solo, 100for10, book on demand
  Walking Distance
• 2014 The Story of Pop, Murmann Verlag, Hamburg
  The Britsih Island, Bloomsbury, London
• ALP, Prestel, München
• 2013 Undisziplinierte Bilder, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
  Fotografie als dialogische Struktur, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
  annual volume07, Bloomsbury, London
  Centenary Tour de France, Bloomsbury, London
  Concrete Poetry, Emscher Fotosammlung, Essen
• 2011 Undisziplinierte Bilder – Fotosymposium Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag
  Atlas der paradoxalen Mobilität, Merve Verlag, Berlin
  Bayrischer Wald, Lichtung Verlag, Viechtach
  Tank, Volume7 Issue3,London
  annual11, rouleur ltd., London
  2010 Hijacked volume 2, contemporary australien-german photography, Big City Press, Australia
  Annual10, rapha ltd., London
  Bestand, Förderpreis der Stadt München, Munich
  Mapping worlds, Foto Triennale, Esslingen
  20 years Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Best of
  40 years Zeit Magazin, Best of
  2009 Open ev+a 2009, Reading the City, Limerick
  Annual09, rapha ltd., London
  2008 Annual08, rapha ltd., London
  2006 Miniatur und Panorama, lars mueller publishers, Baden
  2005 Neue Heimat, Ausstellungskatalog, Munich
  2003 Galerie Goldankauf, Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich
  2001 Forum, Camera Austria, Graz