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 scholarship programm, work in Poland on historical landscapes.
2006 journeys to Mali, Turkey and Syria to work on a new series; "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.


Awards, grants and scholarships:
DG Award for Contemporary Art 2008 - Gebhard Fugel Preis
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