Boris Andreas Duhm

Boris Duhm is born 1971 in Aachen, Germany.
He lives and works in Germany

Artist Statement
Boris Duhms works deal with a visualisation of the mental state of our societies, the contemporary conditio humana. When a situation becomes an image it can become symbolic and gain a political and social dimension.
Already in 2007 the philosopher Jean Baudrillard pointed out a change of human perception: reality is percepted as something irrational, vice versa fiction is taken as fact.
Boris Duhm ́s analogue photo-stagings, sculptures, paintings, drawings, performances and collages are a journey into this interspace of reality and perception. The figures, which are represented on images or three-dimensional in the exhibition- or in public-space, reveal their nature primal to a closer look. They seem to merge into the environment they move in. Often the fictional places on Boris´ photographs are located in nature, which change into stages on the purely analogue photographs by the existentialistic artist. Here the human drama is performed. Duhm succeeds in transforming the real place into a collective place of memory, where everybody can find oneself in pictures of memory of his own life.
The disguised figures populating these places ...

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.

Solo Exhibitions ( selection)

2021: * Opening of Sommergalerie Burg 32 für Internationale Kunst. Burgweg 32, D - 17209 Stuer Vorwerk, Germany.
2020 * Art & Me Gallery, Eötvös utca 27, Hu 1067 Budapest, Hungary
2019: * Museumsfabrik Pritzwalk, Meyenburger Tor 4, 16928 Pritzwalk, Germany
* Gallery Burg 32 for International Art. LIMBUS
* Sonderausstellung at Fotografische Sammlung ( Photographic collection) Schloss Kummerow / Mecklenburg, Germany
2018: * Gallery Müritz Sparkasse / main office in Waren, Germany
* Gallery Müritz Sparkasse / agency in Röbel, Germnay
* Gallery Burg 32 for International Art. Zerrbilder für Waldbewohner ( Distortions for Forest-Inhabitants)
2017: * Gallery Burg 32 for International Art. Das Monster
2013: * Gallery Rotiro, Berlin „DIE BLASE“
* Gallery Kreuzberg Pavillon, Naunystrasse. 53, 10999 Berlin
* Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Schleiermacherstrasse 31, 10961 Berlin
2012 * Godot Galeria, Bartók Béla út. 11, 1114 Budapest
* Kunstverein Lübeck Defacto Art, Balauerfohr 31-33, 23552 Lübeck
2011 * Gallery Kreuzberg Pavillon (Skalitzer 140 Temporary). Pflügerstr.70, 12047 Berlin
* Gallerie ZeroZe...