Ron Kuhwede

Ron Kuhwede is a freelance photographer and artist based in Leipzig. Since 2005, he has been working at the intersection of portrait photography and fine art. At the center of his work is the human being, approached both through deliberate staging and quiet observation.

His photographs move between control and openness. Carefully constructed settings provide a framework in which personality, presence, and the unforeseen can emerge. In both his portraits and his free works, Kuhwede is less concerned with representation than with condensation, making inner states visible through the image.

Thematically, his work engages with beauty, transience, silence, and existential questions. His visual language is reduced, clear, and marked by a high emotional density. Kuhwede understands photography as a dialogue that does not instruct the viewer, but invites personal perception and reflection.

uneducated but tolerant

2023 | Ostrale Bienale, Dresden²
2022 | Competa Photo days, Spanien²
2022 | 1000 und deine Sicht, Wanderausstellung²
2022 | Nacht der Kunst, Leipzig²
2017 | Ostrale Bienale, Dresden
2016 | Ausstellung 25 Jahre WGT, Hauptbahnhof Leipzig
2016 | Leipzig in Schwarz, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig
2014 | 6. Ways of Art, Westwerk Leipzig
2014 | DOCMA Award, Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt
2014 | Geschichten einer Wand, Galerie 7 Leipzig
2012 | RESURRECTION, Oskar Kokoschka Haus, Pöchlarn / Österreich
2012 | Tabus – Aktfotografien zwischen Sarg und Urne, Haus der Begegnung Leipzig
2012 | 100 Bilder des Jahres 2011, Wanderausstellung Deutschland
2012 | 8. Portraitfotoschau, Sächsischer Landtag Dresden
2012 | Brooks Institute Gallery 27, Santa Barbara Californien
2011 | Muldental Fotoschau, Sparkasse Grimma
2010 | Wave Gotik Treffen, Westwerk Leipzig
2009 | Deutschlands bester Fotograf, photokina Köln
2009 | Muldental Fotoschau, Sparkasse Grimma
2008 | Ausstellung “Leipzig verfällt”, Mediacity Leipzig
2008 | Maskerade des Lebens, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig
2008 | Ausstellung zur Leipziger Buchmesse, Galerie Heizhaus
2007 | Muldental Fotoschau, Sparkasse Grimma