| | | | | | | | Robert Voit: Moonlight Mesa Rd., Wickenburg, Arizona, USA, 2018
C-Print, 155 x 125 cm, Ed. 4 + 2 AP | | | | | | hide & seek | | | | 2 March – 13 April, 2019 | | | | Opening: Friday, 1 March, 6-8pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Robert Voit: American Legion Vegas Post 8, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2018
C-Print, 155 x 125 cm, Ed. 4 + 2 AP | | | | | | Robert Voit, former master class student of Thomas Ruff at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, became known to a wider public with his series "New Trees". With this documentary work about mobile phone masts, which are camouflaged with giant coniferous tree, palm or cactus covers or disguised as flagpoles or even church crosses, he dedicates himself to the questions of authenticity and artificiality, nature and culture: What is still real in our world and what is only a backdrop?
In his black-and-white series "The Alphabet of New Plants," based on Karl Blossfeldt's "Art Forms in Nature", Voit continues his photographic analysis of illusions and fakes: only at second glance does the viewer recognize the artificial flowers.
In addition, Robert Voit has been travelling to Japan for decades to work there artistically, and since 2012 also to document the consequences of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima in a long-term project. | | | | | | | | | Robert Voit: Snowflakes, Hokkaido, Japan, 2006
C-Print, 250 x 100 cm, Ed. 6 + 2 AP | | | | | | | Robert Voit, born 1969 in Erlangen, studied with Gerd Winner at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich before becoming Thomas Ruff‘s master class student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2001. From 2011 to 2013 Robert Voit taught as a lecturer and guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. With New Trees (Steidl, 2014) and The Alphabet of New Plants (Hatje Cantz, 2015), he presented two highly acclaimed monographs, each of which was awarded the German Photo Book Prize in silver. Robert Voit has received numerous prizes, including the Sophie Smoliar Award (2000), the European Architecture Photography Prize (2003), the hausderkunst Prize (2004) and the sponsorship of the International Lake Constance Conference. Robert Voit has held the photographer's residence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the artist's residence La Brea Matrix in Los Angeles. His work is part of numerous public and private collections. Robert Voit lives in Munich. | | | | | | | | | Robert Voit: Strand II, Japan, 1998, C-Print
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