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peripher
Andreas Tschersich
The eponymous »peripher« functions in my works as a structural, aesthetic and mental moment. It refers to places of transit and transition that defy unequivocal classification, standardization and demarcation. I portray cityscapes in which people, upkeep, habits and uses always remain hidden. The tenor remains the same regardless of whether the scene is set in Charleroi, Liverpool, New York or Tokyo. The pictures are universal and never seem foreign or forbidding, but ever familiar in their everyday banality, even to those who’ve never been there before.
I’m always on the lookout for motifs, to be sure, but sometimes they just come to me by serendipity. As I roam the city, sometimes it’s simply there all of a sudden: that feeling I seek to convey in my photographs. It is the perception of that touch-and-go moment when everything hangs in the balance, the instant before a fateful decision is to be reached: dereliction or gentrification, danger or safety. Anything can happen. I’m averse to calling my pictures architectural photographs or seeing any direct ties to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, although my work is clearly in line with the photographic tradition of recording man’s relationship to his (built) environment since the second half of the 20th century.
In order to keep as close as possible to the »human gaze«, the experience of an instant, I make use of a method of digital montage invisible to the viewer. Putting together several medium-sized negatives I form one big picture in order to portray larger sections without distorting the perspective, which would be inevitable in a mechanically constructed single-shot exposure using a large format camera. In a word, I make use of technology not to falsify reality, but to »cling to it as closely as possible«.
About author:
1971 born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1990 – 97 School for Visual Arts, Biel
Lives and works in Berlin
Awards/Scholarships/Shortlists
Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Award, Braga 2017
Athens Photo Festival, shortlist, Athens 2018, 2017
Belfast Photo Festival, shortlist Photo-book, Belfast 2017
Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, shortlist, Zurich 2017
Scholarship for Photography, Canton of Berne, 2012, 2005
PhotoIreland Festival, shortlist Portfolio 12, Dublin 2012
26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York City 2011
Photo Prize 2011 Canton of Berne, Canton of Berne, 2011
Travel scholarship, Canton of Berne, 2006
Brussels residency, City of Biel, 2005
Acquisitions
Art collection Migros Aare, Berne, 2016
Art collection Canton of Berne, 2008, 2005, 2004
Art collection City of Biel, 2004
Solo shows
peripher, Fotografien 2005 – 2013, Atelier für Photographie, Berlin 2015
Andreas Tschersich: peripher 2005 – 2008, glossmattfix, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008
Charleroi, 20/11/2005, Marks Blond Project R.f.z.K., Berne 2006; Lokal int., Biel 2006
Fotografien 2004 – 2005, White Space, Space for Contemporary Art, Zurich 2005
This Land is my Land, Alte Krone, Biel 2004
Group shows (Selection)
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2019; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon 2018
6th Singapore International Photography Festival, Photobook Showcase, National Library Building; National Design Centre, Singapore 2018
Month of Photography Los Angeles, Photo Book Exhibition, Venice Arts, Venice 2018
Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Award, Braga 2017
Athens Photo Festival, The PhotoBook Exhibition, Athens 2017
Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, Photobastei, Zurich, 2017
Zeitgenössische regionale Kunst in der Welle7, permanent exhibition, Migros Aare, Berne 2016
Mon art à moi, collection exhibition, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2016
Light Sensitive – Photo Art from the Collection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012
photo12, Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012
26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York City, 2011
Photo Prize Canton of Bern, PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel 2011, 2006; Kornhausforum, Berne 2009
Louise Aeschlimann & Margareta Corti Scholarship, Art Society Berne, Kunsthaus, Langenthal 2010; CentrePasquArt, Biel 2008; Kunstmuseum, Berne 2005
Heimatpäckli für Adam Tellmeister, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008
Xmas exhibition, Art Association Biel, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
Advent unter dem Hammer, Gallery mehrzweck-halle, Zurich 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
...then we take Berlin. Part 2, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008
Selected by... Acquisitions of the Culture department, City of Biel 2003 – 2006, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2007
10th Festival Voies Off, projection evenings, Arles 2005
Regards croisés: Acquisitions récentes des cantons de Berne et du Jura, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier 2005
Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart, Kornhausforum, Berne 2005
Curated show
Scènes secondaires, Versammelte Werke zur Natur des Raumes, Alte Krone, Biel 2007
With Peter McCaughey, Sari Lievonen (Glasgow), Joerg Lohse (New York City), Samuel Buckman (Dunkerque), Gregor Wyder (Zurich), Ric Sonderegger (Thun), Markus Furrer (Biel) and Andreas Tschersich
Bibliography (Selection)
Civilization: The Way We Live Now (Cat.), Thames & Hudson, London 2018
Berner Almanach, Band 7: Fotografie, Edition Atelier, Berne 2018
Landscape Stories, #26 Habitare, 2017
peripher, Andreas Tschersich, Edition Patrick Frey, No. 207, Zurich 2016
Intervalles, Revue culturelle du Jura bernois et de Bienne, No. 96, Prêles 2013
Hochparterre, Architecture and Design Publisher, 10-12, 6/7-12, 5-11, 3-10, Zurich 2012, 2011, 2010
Werner Brück: Peripher. Conversation with Andreas Tschersich, 25.05.2009, recenseo, Berne 2010
photo12 (Cat.), Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012
Charleroi, 20/11/2005, self-published 2006
Fotografien – Andreas Tschersich, self-published, 2006
Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart (Cat.), Swiss Heritage Society, Zurich 2005 (Anthology)
Fotografien 2004 – 2005, self-published, 2005
Lectures/Talks
Book presentation peripher, Book Days, European Month of Photography Berlin, C/O Berlin, 2016
Artist talk with Bianca Dugaro, Thomas Seelig, curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Thomas Schmutz, curator/deputy director, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012
Bern – Berlin. Bern? Berlin?, Tacheles XLV, visarte Berne, Berne 2009
Jonathan Harris in conversation with Andreas Tschersich, University of Liverpool, Liverpool 2008
Andreas Tschersich – peripher, Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow 2007
Andreas Tschersich
The eponymous »peripher« functions in my works as a structural, aesthetic and mental moment. It refers to places of transit and transition that defy unequivocal classification, standardization and demarcation. I portray cityscapes in which people, upkeep, habits and uses always remain hidden. The tenor remains the same regardless of whether the scene is set in Charleroi, Liverpool, New York or Tokyo. The pictures are universal and never seem foreign or forbidding, but ever familiar in their everyday banality, even to those who’ve never been there before.
I’m always on the lookout for motifs, to be sure, but sometimes they just come to me by serendipity. As I roam the city, sometimes it’s simply there all of a sudden: that feeling I seek to convey in my photographs. It is the perception of that touch-and-go moment when everything hangs in the balance, the instant before a fateful decision is to be reached: dereliction or gentrification, danger or safety. Anything can happen. I’m averse to calling my pictures architectural photographs or seeing any direct ties to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s work, although my work is clearly in line with the photographic tradition of recording man’s relationship to his (built) environment since the second half of the 20th century.
In order to keep as close as possible to the »human gaze«, the experience of an instant, I make use of a method of digital montage invisible to the viewer. Putting together several medium-sized negatives I form one big picture in order to portray larger sections without distorting the perspective, which would be inevitable in a mechanically constructed single-shot exposure using a large format camera. In a word, I make use of technology not to falsify reality, but to »cling to it as closely as possible«.
About author:
1971 born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1990 – 97 School for Visual Arts, Biel
Lives and works in Berlin
Awards/Scholarships/Shortlists
Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Award, Braga 2017
Athens Photo Festival, shortlist, Athens 2018, 2017
Belfast Photo Festival, shortlist Photo-book, Belfast 2017
Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, shortlist, Zurich 2017
Scholarship for Photography, Canton of Berne, 2012, 2005
PhotoIreland Festival, shortlist Portfolio 12, Dublin 2012
26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York City 2011
Photo Prize 2011 Canton of Berne, Canton of Berne, 2011
Travel scholarship, Canton of Berne, 2006
Brussels residency, City of Biel, 2005
Acquisitions
Art collection Migros Aare, Berne, 2016
Art collection Canton of Berne, 2008, 2005, 2004
Art collection City of Biel, 2004
Solo shows
peripher, Fotografien 2005 – 2013, Atelier für Photographie, Berlin 2015
Andreas Tschersich: peripher 2005 – 2008, glossmattfix, Independents Liverpool Biennial 2008
Charleroi, 20/11/2005, Marks Blond Project R.f.z.K., Berne 2006; Lokal int., Biel 2006
Fotografien 2004 – 2005, White Space, Space for Contemporary Art, Zurich 2005
This Land is my Land, Alte Krone, Biel 2004
Group shows (Selection)
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2019; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Gwacheon 2018
6th Singapore International Photography Festival, Photobook Showcase, National Library Building; National Design Centre, Singapore 2018
Month of Photography Los Angeles, Photo Book Exhibition, Venice Arts, Venice 2018
Encontros da Imagem, Discovery Award, Braga 2017
Athens Photo Festival, The PhotoBook Exhibition, Athens 2017
Swiss Photo Award – the selection 2016, Photobastei, Zurich, 2017
Zeitgenössische regionale Kunst in der Welle7, permanent exhibition, Migros Aare, Berne 2016
Mon art à moi, collection exhibition, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2016
Light Sensitive – Photo Art from the Collection, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012
photo12, Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012
26th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, Agora Gallery, New York City, 2011
Photo Prize Canton of Bern, PhotoforumPasquArt, Biel 2011, 2006; Kornhausforum, Berne 2009
Louise Aeschlimann & Margareta Corti Scholarship, Art Society Berne, Kunsthaus, Langenthal 2010; CentrePasquArt, Biel 2008; Kunstmuseum, Berne 2005
Heimatpäckli für Adam Tellmeister, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008
Xmas exhibition, Art Association Biel, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004
Advent unter dem Hammer, Gallery mehrzweck-halle, Zurich 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
...then we take Berlin. Part 2, Substitut, Space for Contemporary Swiss Art, Berlin 2008
Selected by... Acquisitions of the Culture department, City of Biel 2003 – 2006, CentrePasquArt, Biel 2007
10th Festival Voies Off, projection evenings, Arles 2005
Regards croisés: Acquisitions récentes des cantons de Berne et du Jura, Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier 2005
Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart, Kornhausforum, Berne 2005
Curated show
Scènes secondaires, Versammelte Werke zur Natur des Raumes, Alte Krone, Biel 2007
With Peter McCaughey, Sari Lievonen (Glasgow), Joerg Lohse (New York City), Samuel Buckman (Dunkerque), Gregor Wyder (Zurich), Ric Sonderegger (Thun), Markus Furrer (Biel) and Andreas Tschersich
Bibliography (Selection)
Civilization: The Way We Live Now (Cat.), Thames & Hudson, London 2018
Berner Almanach, Band 7: Fotografie, Edition Atelier, Berne 2018
Landscape Stories, #26 Habitare, 2017
peripher, Andreas Tschersich, Edition Patrick Frey, No. 207, Zurich 2016
Intervalles, Revue culturelle du Jura bernois et de Bienne, No. 96, Prêles 2013
Hochparterre, Architecture and Design Publisher, 10-12, 6/7-12, 5-11, 3-10, Zurich 2012, 2011, 2010
Werner Brück: Peripher. Conversation with Andreas Tschersich, 25.05.2009, recenseo, Berne 2010
photo12 (Cat.), Showcase for Swiss Photography, Zurich 2012
Charleroi, 20/11/2005, self-published 2006
Fotografien – Andreas Tschersich, self-published, 2006
Edition Heimatschutz: Fotografinnen und Fotografen blicken auf die Schweiz der Gegenwart (Cat.), Swiss Heritage Society, Zurich 2005 (Anthology)
Fotografien 2004 – 2005, self-published, 2005
Lectures/Talks
Book presentation peripher, Book Days, European Month of Photography Berlin, C/O Berlin, 2016
Artist talk with Bianca Dugaro, Thomas Seelig, curator, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Thomas Schmutz, curator/deputy director, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau 2012
Bern – Berlin. Bern? Berlin?, Tacheles XLV, visarte Berne, Berne 2009
Jonathan Harris in conversation with Andreas Tschersich, University of Liverpool, Liverpool 2008
Andreas Tschersich – peripher, Glasgow School of Arts, Glasgow 2007