Frank Uhlig

Balingen, Germany

About Frank Uhlig

German artist Frank Uhlig, based in Balingen in the Stuttgart metropolitan area, has been working as a professional photographer since the 1990s and also as a tutor in photography in recent years. After graduating, he followed his fascination for photography, starting out as an assistant to a fashion photographer. From there he was trained at a classic photography school and worked with various high-profile photography studios. The experience gained during his professional career covers the entire domain of photography, from analogue b/w processing, digital image post processing and graphic design to fully edited photo productions. For the last 15 years he has been dedicating himself to university art education teaching fine-art and applied photography, post processing, analogue darkroom processing and print design. Parallel to this, he pursues his own artistic projects, currently exploring and interweaving perceptions of motion, time and space. The key compositional features of his work are line, plane, texture and colour. Many of his works are reminiscent of classic artistic techniques, like printing, etching and painting without ever attempting to copy them. He is intrigued by the idea of sounding out the uniqueness of photography – sometimes pushing it to its limits. He objects to any kind of dogmatism. In his freelance work Frank Uhlig is not interested in the alleged “objectivity” of photography, he intentionally creates subjective images. His works are meant to interpret rather than document, deliberately defying the classic approach of capturing a single, unique moment. His works span a wide array of topics, often originating in every-day situations and subject to continuous change. Creating sufficient space for “speculation” to awaken within the viewer the fascination of the vague and blurred is one of the artist’s prime objectives. Frank Uhlig’s works have received numerous accolades and awards.

Education:

• since1989 Classic photographic education and qualification, afterwards commercial photography
• since1997 Artistic director/lecturer for photography &
independent artistic work

Exhibitions:

• since 1997 Various exhibitions

• 2001 »Bronzemedaille« - International Calendar-Show Stuttgart

• 2007 Founding the platform for photography »Focus Fotografie«

• 2008 Art-Calender »NoMansLand« - from the series »NoMansLand«

• 2008 First Award at »Keilwerth-Musicvideo-Competition«

• since 2013 Represented by YellowKorner / Paris

• 2013 »Award Of Excellence« - International Calendar-Show Stuttgart

• 2015 Featured in "New Photography Collection" SAATCHI ART; selected by Rebecca Wilson, Chief Curator and VP, Art Advisory, Saatchi Art, Los Angeles

• 2015 Featured in "Limited Edition Photographs" SAATCHI ART; selected by Lisa Woolf, Senior Artist Specialist, Saatchi Art, Los Angeles

• 2017 Published artwork at »L’Œil de la Photographie«, [ nominated by Jean Jacques Naudet / Editorial director ], Paris / France

• 2017 Represented by »ARTY COLOR GALLERY«, Paris / France

• 2017 Published artwork at »SQUARE MAGAZINE«, Issue 802 / UK

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