Boris Andreas Duhm

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About Boris Andreas Duhm

Boris Duhm is born 1971 in Aachen, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin and Budapest. Artist statement While Boris Duhms artist practice has been based on analogue and especially staged photography, he works in different media today: photography, painting, collage, installation and performance. His subject is the examination of "being different" in a society which increasingly builds on conformity of its members and in which marginalisation becomes the normal case. That is why Boris Duhm portrayed himself and others as "beings, not from this world", in a major number of visual, spatial and performative stagings. For these, he often uses wild nature landscapes as stages. In Duhm´s works the face of the artist, or better: his individual personality, gleams from behind the obvious, the visible, thus the visible might sound like an allegory. In Forest-Paintings, the stage itself becomes an allegoric content for the first time: a "wild" inner and outer nature. Boris Duhm has been working as teacher for fine art and photography at various universities and art schools in Europe and Asia. www.borisduhm.com Search "Boris Duhm" on google !

Education:

2002 MFA Master of Fine Arts / Photography (200P).
2000-02 Master-Program at the University for Photography and Film
Göteborg, Sweden.
2000 Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication and Fine Art.
1996-00 University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Germany: Studies Fine Art and
Visual Communication.
1993-96 Education as professional photographer at Fotostudio Grothmann
in Westerstede, Ostfriesland, Germany.
1991-93 Studium Generale ( Fine Art, music, geography, psychology and
pedagogy) at the Karl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany.

Events:

Grants
2010-12 * Two years working grant by Swedish Artist Council, Stockholm.
2006/07 * One year working grant by Swedish Artist Council, Stockholm.
2005 * Project grant by Swedish Artist Council, Stockholm.
2004 * Exhibition grant by Artist Council Gothenborg, Sweden.
* Exhibition grant by Artist Council Österbottens Konstråd, Vaasa,
Finland.
2003 * Artist grant by NIFCA, Helsinki, Finland.
2000 and 01 * Project grant by Adelbertska Stiftelsen, Göteborg, Sweden.

Permanent Works in Public Space
2012 * „Walden V“ installation of a wooden tower Holzturmes (450 x 150 x
150cm) with upside down crucified figure ( 250 x 150 x 70cm) of
wood and scotch tape ( painted) at the beach of Steinbeck (
Boltenhagen, Baltic Sea). Destroyed by vandalism.
2011 * „Walden-Cabin III“, Krossener Str. 28, a wooden cabin for homeless
people on a flower bed. Opening with performance and exhibition in
the cabin.
2008 * „Man Muß Unbedeutender Werden“ (Hommage to Ingeborg
Bachmann). Wall- and ceiling painting with collage on 72 sqm at
Kulturbrauerei, Knaakstraße, Berlin.

Curatorial Activities
2012 * Artist Salon MURID BOSH: „Für Hunde in der Zentralgrube“.
Arthall m3, Mengerzeile 1-3, 12435 Berlin. 98 Berlin artists.
* Artist Salon MURID BOSH: „1000 Meisterwerke & Neue Duelle“.
Krossener Str. 28, 10245 Berlin. 59 Berlin artists.
2010 * Gallery BERBER 1, Berlin: „Höhlengleichnis für Witwen und
Jungfrauen“.
* Gallery BERBER 1, Bergener Str. 1, Berlin: „Golanmausi –
Analogismus“. 12 Berlin positiones in analogue photography.
* Gallery BERBER 1, Berlin: „Neosakral – Saalkrone“. 9 artists.
2004 * Townhall Gallery Nykarleby, Finland: „Traumlage“ ( Dream site).
With students of the department of fine arts of the art school
Nykarleby Politechnika, Finland.

Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibitions ( selection)
2013: * Gallery Rotiro, Skalitzer Strasse 58, 10997 Berlin „DIE BLASE“.
Painting, collage, photography and performance.
* Gallery Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunystrasse. 53, 10999 Berlin:
"Why Performing has to be naked“. Photography and Body-
Photogram-Performance.
* Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Schleiermacherstrasse 31, 10961 Berlin:
„Mehrweg im Dickicht ( Reloaded)". Painting.
2012 * Godot Galeria, Bartók Béla út. 11, 1114 Budapest: „Emotional
Disasters and Masquerades". Photography, collage and performance.
* Kunstverein Lübeck Defacto Art, Balauerfohr 31-33, 23552
Lübeck: „Mehrweg im Dickicht". Painting, photography und space
installation.
2011 * Gallery Kreuzberg Pavillon (Skalitzer 140 Temporary). Pflügerstr.70,
12047 Berlin: „Raft of Medusa (After Sunset)“. Space installation,
photographie and painting / collage.
* Gallerie ZeroZero, Adalbertstrasse, 10999 Berlin: „Jetzt kann nur
noch ein Wunder helfen". Painting, space installation and photo.
2010 * Gallery Berber 1, Bergener Str. 1, Berlin Prenzlauer Berg:
„Höhlengleichnis für Witwen und Jungfrauen". Photograms, painting
and installation.
* Gallery Freispiel Brandshof, Harbour City, Hamburg: „Von Helden
und Narren" Painting and photography on 600 sqm.
2009 * Godot Galeria, Budapest „Greetings from Space“. Painting and
photography.
2004 * Arthall Vaasa, Finland: „Freeze Plates“. Photoinstallation and space
installation.
2004 * Gallery Cosmopolitan, Göteburg, Sweden: „What´s Love Got to Do
With It?“. Space- and video installation, photography.
2002 * Gallery Une Galette dans l´Art, Paris: „The Suspect Island“. Super-8
film installation, photography, objects, drawings.

Art Fairs
2012 * Kassel Documenta XIII. Kreuzberg Pavillon Kassel: „The Humans are
Dead". Staged photography.
2009 * Berliner Liste. Drawings.
2007 * Berliner Kunstsalon. Drawings.

Group Exhibitions ( 2002 – 2013 selection)
2013 * Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunynstr. 53, 10999 Berlin: "The Feedback of
all Times". Body-Photogram, photo collage.
* Ressort Gallery, Invalidenstrasse 51, 10557 Berlin: „Mongolfiere
Libere“. Photo installation on metal.
* Morgenstern Gallery, Budapester Straße 14, 10787 Berlin: „Keep Me
Posted“. Collage of money bills.
2012 * Funkhaus Berlin, Artists´ open studios. Staged photography.
* Defacto Art Gallery, Balauerfohr 31-33, 23552 Lübeck. Night of open
museums Lübeck, Germany. „Women with Money". Collage of
money bills.
* Gallerie Rotiro, Skalitzer Straße 58, Berlin-Kreuzberg: Photo
performance.
* Gallery KH, House of Culture Karlshorst, Berlin: „Ein Ort irgendwo“.
Photography.
2011 * „Swimming Sculpture Park" at lake Weissensee, Berlin.: „Raft of
Medusa". Installation and performance.
* Sziget-Festival in Budapest: „Walden Cabin ( Church version for
Budapest)“. Installation with sculptures.
* Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Schleiermacherstr., Berlin: „Urlaub in Berlin".
Photography.
* Arthall at Hamburger Platz, Berlin "Based in Berlin": Staged
photography.
* Arthall m3 at Künstlerhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin: "800 Meter freier
Fall – Gott würfelt nicht". Wall installation with photography.
2010 * Gallery Im Turm, Mainz: „Mainzer Kunstpreis", Staged photography.
* Gallery Im Regierungsviertel, Boppstraße, Berlin: „Blind Date".
Photography, painting, photogram.
* Villa Elisabeth, Elisabethstr., Berlin: „Everybody learns from
Disaster". Space installation, video installation.
* Gallery BERBER 1, Bergener Str. 1, Berlin: „Neosakral – Saalkrone“.
Staged photography.
2009 * ACUD Gallery, Berlin. Alchemigram / photogram.
* Godot Galeria, Budapest: „Faces of Godot". Staged photography.
* Arthall Darmstadt. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie.
„Greetings from Space“. Staged Photography.
2008 * Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, Berlin. Drawings.
* Gallery In der Stadtscheune, Otterndorf. Drawings.
* Gallery Citycenter, Berlin. Drawings.
2007 * Gallery Fotoshop, Berlin. Super-8 film installation, Staged
photography.
* Gallery MeinBlau, Pfefferberg, Berlin. Drawings.
2006 * Gallery Blütenweiss, Prenzlauer Allee, Berlin. Drawings.
2005 * Hägerstens Kulturcentrum, Stockholm. Photograph