Artist Statement
In my understanding photography shows the desire to register, control and restructure the visible world. My work I understand in this context as idealized totems of this desire. To photograph an object is an act of appropriation. I digitally isolate the photographed objects from their background. Through this extraction from its original context the motif becomes available, a module that can be placed within the „empty“ image space individually or as collage. Templates for these placements are sujets and forms of depiction derived from art history.
This process can be understood as a step away from traditional photography towards other media and allows for different ways of perception – as graphic, simulation, or icon placed on an empty image space. This way photographic images are created, that still are determined by outside reference but throughout the process of their making become more and more opaque. Not yet mere constructions, nor pure depiction of a real object anymore. Photographic hybrids that are in their believability hard to grasp but nevertheless play with the authority of a historic reference of their motif as much as the authority of the medium photography itself. A melding of visual potential inherent in the sujet and analytical power of the applied system.

 

 

1968 born in Straubing Germany
1994 studies at San Francisco Art Instiute,, USA
1997-2000 studies at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA, Bachelor of Fine Arts (with Honors)
2001-2002 studies at HGB Leipzig,Germany, Diploma Fine Arts (with distinction)
2002-2004 postgraduate studies with Prof. Joachim Brohm, Meisterschüler of Prof. Joachim Brohm, HGB Leipzig,
2005-2006 teaching position, HGB Leipzig, Germany

awards
2008 project grant Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2006 work grant der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
2005 artconneXions, Artist-in-Residence-Program, Goethe Institut,Auckland (New Zealand)
2003 Artist-in-Residence-Program Willingshausen, Germany

collections
Kunstfonds Collection of the Sate of Saxony, Dresden, Germany
Bavarian State Picture Collection, Munich, Germany

exhibitions
2011 - Jahresgaben Kunstverein Munich
2010 - Jahresgaben Kunstverein Munich
2007 - Organische Welten Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Kunstfonds, Festspielhaus Hellerau
2006 - Spot on - artconneXions, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, ifa-Galerie Berlin
- Jardin a la francaise and Substitutes, Dorothee Schmid Art Consulting, London
2005 - Arte Contemporaneo de Dresden y Leipzig: Innovation y tradition, Museo Municipal de Malaga, Espania
- artconneXions, Goethe Institut, The Art Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand
- artconneXions, The Gus Fisher Gallery, University of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, Neuseeland
- artconneXions, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australien
- Leipzig Lens, Contemporary Photography from the HGB Leipzig, German Embassy London, GB
2004 - Emoticons, Guild and Greyshkul Gallery, New York, USA
2003 - Junger Westen 2003, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
- Mitten Drin / Werke im Dialog, Neuerwerbungen des Freistaates Sachsen, Kunstsammlung Chemnitz
- 10te Leipziger Jahresausstellung, Messehofpassage Leipzig
- Juergen Bergbauer - Fotografie (Einzelausstellung), Gerhard-von-Reutern-Haus, Willingshausen

Bibliografie
2011 - Portfolio - Photography Now 2.11
2010 - NEWWORK MAGAZINE Ausgabe Nummer 5
2008 - Studien nach der Natur - Künstlerbuch (Fotohof Edition Salzburg)
2005 - Arte Contemporaneo de Dresden y Leipzig: Innovation y tradition, Ausstellungskatalog
- artconneXions, Katalog zur Ausstellung in der RMIT Gallery, Melbourne,
2003 - Junger Westen 2003, Katalog zur Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Recklinghausen,
- Jürgen Bergbauer - Fotografie, Katalog zur Ausstellung im Gerhard-von-Reutern-Haus, Willingshausen,