Burkhard Schittny

Award-winning Hamburg-based artist Burkhard Schittny first studied fashion design at the Art Academy in Bremen, then photography. His diploma - a photographic examination of Francis Bacon's work - was followed by an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Fine Art in London.

His conceptual works "LEGACY PROJECTS" revolve around the theme of "power" and make use of the artistic genres of photography, video, performance, sound and typography. Other photo series, such as "UNTITLED", reveal Schittny's special interest in a hybrid visual world: here Schittny crosses photography, film and painting and creates visual flashbacks between image and fantasy.

With the "TUBES", Schittny now enters completely new terrain: the noble wall objects made of rolled filter foils combine ideas of geometric abstraction art of avant-garde art, post-war modernism and Op-Art.

The special charm of these objects lies in their renunciation of representational content. The "TUBES" have a rational-geometric structure, but are also sensual to the same degree and overwhelming in their luminous brilliance. Burkhard Schittny's new works perfectly balance minimalist condensation and dazzling illusionism.

CURRICULUM VITAE

1966
born, Gütersloh, Germany

1997
Diploma of arts and design with focus on photography, University Of The Arts Bremen, Germany

2001
MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

2005-2013
lived in Hamburg and Barcelona

since 2013
lives and works in Hamburg

EXHIBITIONS

2023
Tilt/Shift, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie mit DFA, Darmstadt (DE)
Art Karlsruhe, ATM Gallery, Karlsruhe (DE)
Angst, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden (DE)
Bürokratie-Macht-Tod, Gedenkstätte ‚Unter den Eichen‘, Wiesbaden (DE)

2022
Wiesbadener Fototage, Aktives Museum Spiegelgasse, Wiesbaden (DE)
Missing Stories, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin (DE)

2021
Missing Stories, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg (DE)
Missing Stories, National Historical Museum, Tirana (AL)
Missing Stories, PI Museums and Galleries, Podgorica (ME)
Missing Stories, The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (RS)

2020
Missing Stories, The Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrad (RS)

2019
100 Jahre DFA, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)

2018
(Not) At Home, Kunst Altonale, Hamburg (DE)

2016
Not Here Yet, H2 Glaspalast, Augsburg (DE)
Galerie Bridget Stern, Hamburg (DE)
Atelier Schwab, Wertheim (DE)

2015
Galeria Aurora Vigil-Escalera, Gijon (ES)

2014
Art Miami, Galerie Anita Beckers (US)

2012
Erkenntnis im Unerkennbaren, So What Gallery, Düsseldorf (DE)

2011
Visions & Fashion, Kunstbibliothek, Berlin (DE)
Loop Festival, Galeria Hartmann, Barcelona (ES)
5. Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, Spotlights (DE)
Wallpaper, G...