Experimental - NOMINEE: Eduard Horn

The following images are part of the bigger project called "Family and Frames". It's a visual study about the medium of (analogue) photography within the most familiar framework of mine. Most people take photos of their family members and things they find beautiful or interesting. They try to capture the soul of the subject they are portraying. Photography as a medium is only just that: a medium. It stands between the person capturing the moment and the subject itself. So it's usually avoided to show how the image was made in the final result e.g. the printed image. In this project, although I was also photographing family members and things I like, I actually wanted to capture the essence of photography itself. By re-photographing and manipulating negatives, slide and instant film (among others), explicitly showing sprocket holes and experimenting with the chemical components used for development of the prints the medium is the main subject I am focusing on. I want to remind you that photography with all it's powerful potential to record, document, emphasize and so on is very subjective and it will always only capture a small portion of reality in a frame. I also believe that in contrast to that a soul is always frame-less. It can never be captured completely. Or maybe I just have to experiment even more?

About author:
1985 born in Zelinograd (Kazakhstan)

2005-2006 Art School SBKG, Kassel (Germany)

2006-2010 Study Illustration and Media-Design, MSD/Münster School of Design (Germany)

2009 ERASMUS scholarship in Graphic Design, EASD Valencia (Spain)

2010 Diploma in Illustration and Printmaking (Prof. Wolfgang Troschke), MSD/Münster School of Design (Germany)

2010-2013 Art Director / Graphic Designer for various design and ad agencies and as a freelance designer and photographer for several clients in Germany and abroad

2013-NOW Visual Artist and Photographer based in Münster (Germany)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006 Town Hall, Kassel (Germany)

2007 Münster School of Design, Münster (Germany)

2008 Media facade of the PSD Bank, Münster (Germany)

2009 EASD, Valencia (Spain)

2010 Gallery of the Municipalty, Ithaca (Greece)

2010 EDO Keramikos, Athen (Greece)

2010-2013 International poster competition group exhibitions e.g. in the UK, Italy, Korea, India, Argentina and the USA

2013 Gallery Nolte Schauraum, Münster (Germany)

2013 Creatives Rising, New York (USA)

2014 Media facade psd Bank, Münster (Germany)

2014 B-Side Gallery, Münster (Germany)

2015 Marichen, Münster (Germany)

2016 Milchbar 655321, Münster (Germany)


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013 SpecOps Network, Münster (Germany)

2013 Healthcenter Steinfurt, Burgsteinfurt (Germany)

2013 Fyal central, Münster (Germany)

2013 F24, Münster (Germany)

2014 Lockvogel, Münster (Germany)

2015 Milchbar 655321, Münster (Germany)

2015 H2O, Münster (Germany)

2015 Tante August, Münster (Germany)