Benjamin Borisch

Commendation

1998 Scholarship for selection for the Mercedes Exhibition of the Academy of Visual Arts, Mercedes Headquarters in Leipzig, Germany
2000/01 Diploma presentation (photo installation/diorama) with the title: Way Inwards - the Attempt at Self-Reflection, in the >Limona Brewery<, in Weimar, Germany, with extensive financial support from >Bilfinger und Berger< in Magdeburg
2001 Participant in the final round exhibition at the International Promotion Prize for Young Visual Art, Head Office of the Sparkasse in Magdeburg, Germany
2004 - 2006 Scholarship in an artist’s studio in the Tessenowgarages of the city Magdeburg, Germany
2005 Special support of the exhibition Feeling at home through the Office 12hundred (1200 years Magdeburg), Germany
2006 The series Window Pictures, 2004 is now part of the E.ON-Collection, Germany
a winner and publication in Graphis Photography Annual 2007-competition in New York, USA
Scholarship of BBK and the Gatehouse Gallery at Brunswick - New views of a city, St.-Andreas-Church in Brunswick and then in Hundertwasserhaus, Magdeburg, Germany
06/07 Scholarship (3 month) of the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (Halle) on the topic Flotsam and Jetsam, Germany
2006-2009 Scholars...

Apprenticeship as a book printer, repro photographer and further training as a media designer
until 2001 Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and at the Academy for Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig
2001-2002 Further training at the business start-up course at the >educa private academy< in Magdeburg
2005 Pictures of Humans, preparing and organisation of a learner-exhibition in the Firewarden, Magdeburg
2007 Lecturer in Photography at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg/Department Design/Master Class, preparing a presentation about Urbanity, in the Forum Design, Magdeburg
2012 Election to the Board of Gallery Himmelreich, Magdeburg

since 2011

2010/11 The Idea the Thing the Image the Speech - design, applied art, photography and literature. A field trial, Forum Design in Magdeburg
2011 Art in Buckau - Buckau in Art, Group exhibition at Strube - Center, Magdeburg
(solo) Flotsam, in the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg
Great Art Exhibition, Kunsthalle Villa Kobe in Halle
2012 Collage - Assemblage, 1992-2012, group exhibition in the Art Club Halle, Artist House 188, Halle
2013 (solo) Landscapes and Portraits, Gallery Himmelreich in Magdeburg
2014 Suddenly 10, the Anniversary of the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, self portrait exhibition/ photography, Neuwerk 11 in Halle
Artist Self-portrait, group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (Opera), Radom, Poland
2015 New Sensibility in Contemporary Art, group exhibition of Culture Anchor e.V. in the former Prison (JVA) in Magdeburg
2016 I'm so Dada in the Head, traveling exhibition and workshop for experimentally-dadaistic writing in Berlin, Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg, Cologne, Zurich, Germany, Switzerland
Participation in the art fair Spectrum Miami (The Artbox Project) The Artbox Gallery (Zug, Switzerland), Miami, USA
2016/17 (solo) Views, Painting by Frank Borisch and photography by Benjamin Bo...