Sven Lorenz

I search for the unreal, the surreal in reality - hence photography as a form of expression of supposed objective reality. "The surprising can be found in the everyday of urban space, in the artificial landscape of cities and industrial landscapes that we ourselves have created. I am fascinated by filigree, undiscovered structures and forms that form a poetic interplay with the ordinary, a paradoxical contrast, a borderland". In order to depict this, to make it visible, not only the point of view becomes the protagonist, but also a special kind of development as well as the digital influence on the actual photography without, however, changing it in its essence and its originality. Border spaces between reality and reality.

Vita: 1978 - 1980: travels to Great Britain | 1979 - 1983; training in graphic design (mentor is the English illustrator and graphic designer Mike Owen), 1980- 1985: travels to Southern France, Catalonia and Andalusia, 1986 establishment of a photo studio for architecture and fashion photography, 1988 - 1985: travels to France, Catalonia and Andalusia. fashion photography, 1988 - 1990: travels to Asia (China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Indonesia), 1995 - 1997: lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim...

Since 2011 Lecturer at the ZAK – Center for Applied Cultural Studies at the University Karlsruhe, Germany.

ART EXHIBITIONS 2012
Photo exhibition at Korea Art Center - Seoul, Korea
First foreign exhibition in Asia. On 14.09.2011 I present my series "Yellow Lines" at the korea art center, taihwa b/d 194-27, insa-dong, jongno-gu, Seoul.


ART EXHIBITIONS 2011

KULTURZEITRÄUME - SUL takes part in UniKAte 2011!
The project KulturZeitRäume (from 26.5. to 11.6.2011) starts into the second round: After various shop windows and shops in downtown Karlsruhe have become exhibition spaces for painting, sculpture, installation and photography parallel to the art fairs art and UND#6, photography is now in unison taking the helm of Eunique.

Sven Lorenz exhibits motifs from the "Trembling Cubes" series of works in the Baden Landesmuseum's "MUSEUM AM MARKT". Museum at the market, Karl-Friedrich-Straße 6. 76133 Karlsruhe


OUT OF THE BOX ARCHITECTURE TODAY - PHOTOGRAPHS
Tuesday, 5 April 2011 at 20:00 - GALLERY PART, 76133 Karlsruhe

Modern architecture is increasingly liberating itself from the confines of the uninspired. Courageous ideas and contemporary designs are increasingly contributing to completely reshaping the urban environment or creatively merging it with the permanent. Sul - Sven Lorenz captures this development with his equally inspired ph...