ECKART BARTNIK
BIOGRAFIE
The photographer and natural scientist Eckart Bartnik, born in Bonn in 1957, lives in Wiesbaden and works in basic research. For almost five decades, analog and digital photography has been his means of artistic expression.
Numerous workshops with renowned photographers such as Wolfgang Zurborn, Markus Schaden, Thekla Ehling, Olaf Otto Becker, Ann Mandelbaum and Göran Gnaudschun have shaped his visual language.
Since the 1980s, his work has been shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions and published in daily newspapers such as the FAZ, magazines and trade journals (e.g. Stern, Wings) as well as online (including Spiegel-Online, The Guardian).
In my work Self-portrait I explored the style of famous photographers. What does my portrait show? Me or the photographer whose style I tried to imitate?
Artist Statement
I am moved by the questions: What insights do abstractions of views of nature give me? How does the conflicting human-nature relationship influence our environment?
As a natural scientist, I capture my research subjects with a rational mind - with a camera in my hand, I experience the freedom to capture my environment subjectively and emotionally. The search for a deeper understanding of the world drives me.
To do this, I photographically immerse myself in landscapes and photograph people in dialogue with their surroundings. I explore the friction between harmonious and repulsive views. And I am fascinated by which moods and myths, which cultural heritage relate to a landscape, an object or a place.
Photography for me means to utilize all the possibilities of image creation. Brightening light helps me to emphasize essentials in the picture and digital image processing gives me the freedom to visually implement my perceptions.
Photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future.
Sally Mann
Publications
2022
Kwerfeldein: "Fotografisches Wachstum in Vielfalt" (April 19) PDF with english translation, see below
2021
Artdoc Magazine: Special Inspiration Page: "FLOOD" (Oct. 18)
2021
LifeForceMagazine: "Flood Remains" (Autumn 2021 issue)
2019
Aint-Bad: What We’ve Found: "Spirituality in Suburbia" (Sept. 2)
2019
FAZ: "Hütet euch vor der Anderswelt" (Beware of the otherworld) - "Alfar Rokk" (March 7)
2018
Wings magazin: "Gummiglück" (Jan.-Feb.)
2017
GUP Magazine online: "Disenchantment" (Nov. 11)
2017
Spiegel online: "Kaugummiautomaten: Indikator für vernachlässigte Orte" (Sept. 21)
2017
The Guardian online: "Gumball-obsession - Balls of fun!" (Sept. 19)
2014
Lichtblick School, Cologne: Theatre of Real Life #6: "Verzahnung"
2013
Lichtblick School, Cologne #5: "WesterWorld"
2013
FAZ: Ein konkurrenzloses Archiv des Lebens - Naturhistorische Sammlung des Museums Wiesbaden (Sept. 4)
Awards - Achievements
2022
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia: "Flood-Sculptures" shortlisted
2022
Athens Photo Festival: "Flood-Sculptures" shortlisted
2022
Portfolio Walk, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie: "Flood-Sculptures"
2021
Appointment to the German Photographic Society (DGPh)
2020
Finalist Portfolio Walk, Deutsche Fotografische Akademie: "Am Fluss"
2019
Minimalist Photography Award: Landscape Photographer of The Year, 1st place winner with "Elven Rocks"
2013
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia: "WesterWorld" shortlisted
2012
Deutsche Fotografische Akademie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg: Portfolio-Walk; "WesterWorld"
1980
British Council: Photo Award 1st place
Group exhibitions
2022
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA, online exhibition of "FLOOD".
2022
Upcoming: Wiesbadener Fototage "Turbulent Times": "Flut" - 13.08.-28.08.2022
2022
Upcoming: Helsinki Photo Festival "Believe": "Relicts" - 07.07-2.10.2022
2019
Galerie Ka:Ost, Frankfurt: Simple Nature: "Im Tal"
2018
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt: FFF Academy: "Am Fluss"
2018
Galerie Ka:Ost, Frankfurt: Leidenschaft: "Disenchantment"
2018
Galerie Ka:Ost, Frankfurt: Luminale: "Who am I really?"
2017
Wiesbadener Fototage "Insight": "Ambivalence - Topography of faith"
2015
Wiesbadener Fototage "Heimat X": "WesterWorld – Heimat aber wie?"
2014
Kolga Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia: "WesterWorld"
2011
Galerie Fotoristisch. Wiesbaden: "Iceland"
1988
Rockefeller University, New York: "City Views"
Solo exhibitions
2021
13.11.21-29.01.2022: Galerie Alles Mögliche, Berlin: "FLUT - Von der Gewalt der Gewässer"
2020
art@hub of Industrie- und Handelskammer (IHK), Darmstadt: "Divergenz"
2016
Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt: "Research – face to face"
2014
Ortho-Zentrum, Karlsruhe: "Grenzflächen"
1982
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, Bonn: Audiovisual: "Australia and New Zealand"
Collections
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt - Sanofi Aventis Deutschland GmbH, Frankfurt - Visiopharm, Horsholm, Denmark