Gerald Biebersdorf

As a photographer, Gerald Biebersdorf engages in scenarios which have lost their nativeness, observing that which is created seemingly at random by humans.
People leave their traces all around us. They convert and adapt, often removing things from their initial purpose and creating something fresh, even unique.
To Biebersdorf, this seems to confirm Joseph Beuys posit: 'Every human being is an artist!'
The photography of Gerald Biebersdorf captures these traces in that fleeting moment often the very instant before they are lost forever.

1966 Born 4 March in Muenster, Germany

since 1986 Extensive travelling across Europe, America, Asia and Africa

1989 - 1995 Studied history of arts, archaeology and philosophy at Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany

1995 - 2005 Studied photography at the University of Applied Sciences, Dortmund, Germany

1993 'Myth Muenster' (Mythos Münster), a year-long city portrait of Muenster, Germany

2000 Installation 'The future transforms itself via the present to the past' (Die Zukunft wandelt sich über die Gegenwart zur Vergangenheit), a life cycle, Dortmund, Germany

2001 1st International Marianne Brandt Award 2001, 'The poetry of the functional', Villa Arte, Chemnitz, Germany

2002 Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, Germany

2003 Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Museum Kunstpalast, Duesseldorf, Germany

2005 Focus Award, 'The second glance' (Der Zweite Blick), Dortmund, Germany

2010 Joseph Binder Award, 'Wir sind Diakonie', Wien, Austria