Process Statement
The method of plumbing the depths of his personal archive defines his artistic practice. Again and again, he draws anew from his pool of images, changing the arrangements and, in so doing, shifting the point of view. This process of successively adding and taking away themes and temporal layers produces new narratives, associations, and interpretations. Weidner arranges the photographs of various formats to fill entire walls, creating nonlinear and asymmetrical installations in which the autonomous elements—like tracks in an epic DJ set—pick up the rhythm of the images before them, interweaving themselves into a larger whole. The meaning is revealed in the whole. It is here that the photographer’s characteristic style becomes clearly evident.

With his emotional close-up perspective, Sascha Weidner can be associated with photographers like Nan Goldin, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ryan McGinley—in terms of both his subject matter and his methods. He draws no distinction between photography and life; his color pictures are not hastily taken snapshots but carefully constructed compositions. The images blur the line between mise-en-scene and authenticity, between the posed and the natural. Light and shadow, too, are deliberately placed to accentuate the often unreal, sometimes deeply evocative atmosphere of reality.

 

 

1976 Born in Georgsmarienhütte, Osnabrück (Germany)
2003 Diploma Fine Arts (photography and painting) Studies at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweigs
2004 Diploma Communication Design
2004 Honor student under Prof. Dörte Eißfeldt

SCHOLOARSHIPS (selection)
2012 Artist Residency COFA, Sydney, Australien
2011 Stiftungspreis für Fotokunst 2011 Alison & Peter Klein Stiftung, Kunstwerk / Nußdorf
2011 Shortlist - Internationaler Weldekunstpreis für Fotografie
2010 Kunstpreises Berlin – Jubiläumsstiftung, Förderpreis Film- und Medienkunst der Akademie der Künste
2009 Prix BMW Paris Photo, shortlisted
2008 Künstlerhaus Lukas, Ahrenshoop
2006 DAAD-Reisestipendium scholarship, Los Angeles
2005 Förderpreis Fotografie der NBank
2004 DAAD-Reisestipendium scholarship, Los Angeles Otto-Steinert-Preis honor mention
2003 Villa Vigoni
2002 input / output, Best Awarded Works
2001 1. Preis Internationaler Polaroidwettbewerb
2000 Elite 2000, Nord-LB-Auswahl Norddeutschland

SOLO-SHOWS (selection)
2012 Unveiled, the sydney project, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
2012 Lay down close by, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2012 Two sides of the same coin, FO.KU.S, Innsbruck
2011 revolve, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
2011 seit morgen, C/O Berlin
2009 Was übrig bleibt / What remains, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig
2009 bleiben ist nirgends, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2009 to be handled carefully, Galerie zur Stockeregg
2009 Am Wasser gebaut, Zephyr / Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim
2008 Enduring Beauty, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf
2008 bis es wehtut, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel
2007 bleiben ist nirgends, FOAM, Amsterdam
2007 Enduring Beauty, Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
2007 All that could have been, Filiale Berlin
2006 Beauty remains, DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main
2005 Untold, Verein für Junge Kunst e.V., Wolfsburg

GROUP-SHOWS (selection)
2012 Dark sights, dz bank kunstsammlung, frankfurt am main
2012 It’s a magic world, zeithaus, wolfsburg, germany
2012 Hijacked 2, zephyr, mannheim, germany
2011 Fame, dz bank kunstsammlung, frankfurt am main
2011 Traummänner - Starfotografen zeigen ihre Vision vom Ideal, Deichtorhallen, hamburg, Germany
2011 Salon Salder / Neue Kunst aus Niedersachsen, Schloss Salder, Salzgitter
2011 Hijacked 2, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, Adelaide
2011 slippy floor, pavlov’s dog – Raum für Fotografie, Berlin
2010 Hijacked 2, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
2010 Art Regionale V, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, OS
2010 Hijacked 2 The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2010 Photography Group Show, Galerie van Mieden, Antwerpen
2010 Tool, Photofestival Knokke, Belgien
2010 Young Collectors #2, Sign, Groningen
2010 Tapetenwechsel, Neues Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop
2010 Jahresgaben 09/10, Kunstverein Braunschweig
2009 Enthusiasmus & Leichtigkeit, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2009 15 Jahre Sammlung – Gegen den Strich, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2009 Until it hurts, Openeye Gallery, Liverpool
2009 Arthaus 2009 / Groupshow Los Angeles – Berlin, L.A.
2008 Land, Scaped, Galerie Conrads, Filiale, Berlin
2008 10 Jahre Junge Kunst, Verein für Junge Kunst e.V., WOB
2007 Concept: Photography – Dialogues & Attitudes, Museum Ludwig, Budapest
2007 Sublime, Römer 9, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Die Liebe zum Licht – Fotografie im 20. und 21.Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2007 Let there be light, Kunstherbst 2007, Berlin
2007 Ikonen der Moderne, Laveshaus, Hannover
2006 Die Liebe zum Licht, Städt. Galerie Delmenhorst
2006 Eißfeldts Meister, Apex Kunstverein Pro Art, Göttingen
2006 Die Liebe zum Licht, Kunstmuseum Celle
2005 Phænographie, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2004 artejovenalemán, Mexico
2003 fremde.Orte. Klasse Eißfeldt, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig