ANDRÉAS LANG  -  Biography


1965 born in Zweibrücken/Palatinat, Germany.
1983-85  drummer of the Punkrock band „Nasse Hunde“.
1985-91 assistant to international photographers.
1991-2001 living in Paris, work as a free-lance photographer.
1995 stay of several months in Australia, first works in black&white on nature and landscape.
1996 photo-essay and portrait series on Alexandre Bouglione his family and their gypsie circus
"Romanès" in Paris, published as a book in '98.
1997 first experimental short films in Super-8 and digital video.
1998 dop and camera on a documentary on the surrealist writer Maurice Fourré. documentary-film on the gypsie music group "Titi Robin and Gitans" and their journey to Iraq.
1999 journey to Dharamsala and Northern India, photo-essay and documentary-film on tibetan opera and a buddhist saint (collaboration with TIPA/tibetan institute of performing arts).
1999-2005 works on landscapes in Europe. works in New York (video and photography).
2005 European grant and artist exchange program, work in Poland on historical landscapes.
2006 journey to Mali and the Sahara desert, photography for a documentary film project on the Touareg.
journey to Turkey and Syria for the photography project "Eclipse";
"Memoryscape" project with the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
2007 journey to Israel, Palestine and Egypt to accomplish the series „Eclipse“.
2008 "Signs of the Cities" project in Barcelona. New works in Cairo and Egypt.
2009 journey through central Spain for new works. work on an artist book.
starting to work with video installations
2010 journey in Damascus for new works.


Awards and grants:
Grant for contemporary art projects, awarded by the city of Munich, 2010
DG award for contemporary art - Gebhard Fugel Preis, 2008
Green Leaf Award for Photography, NWM (UN World Environment Days Algiers) 2006
European grant and scholarship for Poland 2005
Prix Agfa Multicontrast/Frankreich 2000
Prix Aidda de la photographie sociale et documentaire, Paris 2000

Collections:
German Historical Museum - Berlin
Museum of Photography – Munich
Allianz Collection for Contemporary Art
Artothek - Bildersaal Munich
Videoteque de Paris
Collection Kunstparterre
private collections


Bibliography and publications (a selection):
"Un Peuple de Promeneurs", book, A.Lang-A.Romanes, Edition Le temps qu’il fait, France 1998
"Andréas Lang .Veronique Boissaq", catalogue, Gallery Le Parvis, France 2001
"Hans Christian Andersen - Märchen" , book, Goehring Editions 2001
"Eine Reise in die Innenwelt", portfolio, Photo International nov/dec.02
"Andréas Lang", portfolio, Pozytyw Magazin, Poland 2005
"Berlin ist für mich...," Vogue 11/05, portfolio, Berlin seen by 8 german photographers
"Under the Skin", portfolio, Leicaworld 1/06
"Geographie des Geheimnisvollen", portfolio, Schwarzweiss Magazin 54, okt/nov 06
„NYC - Das vermessene Paradies“, portfolio, Reader, House of World Cultures – Berlin 07
"Topographien mit Gedächtnis - Andréas Lang", portfolio, Photo-International nr:3/08
"Eclipse - Andréas Lang", catalogue/book, DG – Gallery (dt.Gesellschaft f. christl.Kunst), Munich 08
"FÜNF", catalogue, Kunstarkaden, cultural dept. city of Munich 2009
"Sous les Ogives" , artist book, 9 plates, 3rd chapter Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, Edition Tbe-Barcelona 2009
"Menschen, Orte, Zeiten – Photographie am Deutschen Historischen Museum", catalogue/book, Edition Braus 2010
"Grabado y Edicion", art revue, portfolio and interview, nr.25, Spain 2010