About
RUEDIGER
— GLATZ.
Hamburg, 05.06.2023 — Silver gelatin, 35mm
- Born
- *17.11.1975, Heidelberg
- Based
- Hamburg, DE
- Education
- Self-taught
- Practice
- Photography, video, mixed media
- Current Roles
- ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER CEO COLLEKTON DIRECTOR BALDHAUS DIRECTOR BALD BOOK CHAIRMAN DGPh AUTHOR ON STYLEWRITING
Ruediger Glatz (*1975, Heidelberg) is a German artist based in Hamburg, working across photography, video and mixed media. His long-form projects move between documentary observation and cinematic staging, drawing on architecture, subculture, portraiture and the cultural residue of European cities.
His work has been shown at venues including Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Barlach Halle K, Hamburg, the Heidelberger Kunstverein, the Kunstverein Rottweil and Forum Kunst Rottweil, Palazzo Gianfigliazzi, Florence, and the Musée Botanique, Brussels, and has been published in monographs by Rizzoli, Kehrer and Publikat. Collaborations include Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Chanel, Leica and the Royal Court Theatre London.
Recurring collaborators include Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard, with whom he created EMBODYING PASOLINI (Rizzoli, 2022). He is founder of the publishing imprint BALD BOOKS, Chairman of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh), and co-founder and CEO of the art authentication platform COLLEKTON. In 1996 he co-founded MONTANA CANS, serving as managing director until 2011.
My Work
everything i do is a portrait — but rarely of a face. i portray feelings, cities, institutions, subcultures, a tree, my family, my own thoughts. i try to capture the essence of something, and i take my time. my projects run for years, some for decades, and some will simply run as long as i do.
i learned my composition and aesthetics in graffiti writing. my visual language i developed in my first series, which dealt with capturing the feeling of doing illegal graffiti. i am absent from my frames. black and white is my grammar: strong contrasts, often long exposures, sometimes pushed into abstraction.
my work moves between two poles. one is subculture — worlds that are closed until trust opens them. the other is mysticism and mortality: birth, death, belief, memory, what remains. and it is always also about my own life — from the tree planted at my birth to my dna.
Studio
STUDIO RUEDIGER GLATZ
BREITENFELDER STRASSE 50
20251 HAMBURG — GERMANY
MOBILE +49 176 20090100
CONTACT@RUEDIGERGLATZ.COM
Representation
None at the moment