Künstlergespräch mit Ingar Krauss

As part of photographer Ingar Krauss’ solo exhibition at the Stephan Witschi Gallery in Zurich, the artist talk offers an opportunity for a personal encounter with the artist and his unique photographic approach. Ingar Krauss, born in 1965 in East Berlin, came to photography in the mid-1990s. He creates still lifes of extraordinary intensity, as well as expressive and sensitive portraits, intimate interiors and landscapes that bear traces of human intervention. The fragility of all existence is a central theme of his work, to which he constantly returns in his pictorial compositions. Through gentle interventions in what he has found and arrangements in which he isolates his motifs, he lends them individuality and opens up existential and poetic spaces of perception. At the same time, the analogue photographic process emphasises the transience of the precious moment.

Ingar Krauss has been shown at international exhibitions, including the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, the International Centre of Photography, New York, and the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin. Solo exhibitions at the Goethe Institute, Paris, the Velan Centre for Contemporary Art, Turin and the Kunsthalle Erfurt, among others. His work is represented in numerous collections.

Language: German