Alexander Gehring

Magazines and Clients

Die Zeit, Zeit Magazin, Zeit Campus, Zeit Wissen, Zeit Verbrechen, SZ Magazin, Capital, TAZ, FuturZwei, brandeins, Neon, Nido, Spiegel Wissen, Stern Crime, Rolling Stone, Intro, Die Welt, Libération, Missy Magazin, 39 Null Magazin, The Forumist, kamano, bureau B, Keep it – Love it – Call it George, Bedroom Community, ideologic, studio stg, Hofer Antikschmuck, buero David Voss, Carpe Diem Records, Tim+Tim

Education

2005 – 2011 University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
2009 London College of Communication

Teaching / Workshops / Talks

From 2016 on Workshop at Libken Sommerakademie
2021 – 2022 Teaching position at University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
2018 – 2019 Teaching position at University of Kassel
2019 Workshop at University of Applied Sciences Europe
2018 Talk at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg
2018 Talk at University of Applied Sciences Europe
2018 Talk at Beyond The Ring Berlin
2017 Talk at University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
2015 Talk at University Siegen
2012 Talk at Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin

Publications / Reviews / Catalogues

Der Greif, Blow Magazine, Bella Triste, Hant Magazine, Photonews, Edit, Still Magazine, Scrievener Magazine, GUM, Hate Magazine, It’s Nice That (Blog), Visual Thoughts (Blog), Analog Total (Catalogue), Rooms (Catalogue), The Space Beyond (Catalogue), Zeitgespenster (Catalogue), Projektion – Fotografische Behauptungen (Catalogue), Der Greif – A Process (Catalogue)

Awards / Residencies

2016 Merck-Preis, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie
2012 Darkroom Residency, Camera Club New York
2009 DAAD Scholarship

About

Alexander Gehring (born 1981 in Bielefeld/Germany) is a photographer and artist based in Berlin. He studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld and the London College of Communication and graduated in 2011. He works on his own projects and for editorial clients.

His commissioned work focuses on portraiture and still life photography. His personal work, primarily analogue, centres around relations between magic and the photographic image. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries, including the Aperture Gallery, New York and the Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen. In 2016, he was awarded the Merck Prize at Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie.

Editions

A special edition of my artistic work is available to buy as classical darkroom hand prints at Visual Thoughts Editions. The photographs can be sold framed or unframed.

For any sale enquiries please contact shop@vtph-editions.com or write to me directly on alexander[at]alexandergehring.com

Contact

Alexander Gehring
Berlin / Bielefeld / Kassel
+49 (o) 176/24720773
alexander[at]alexandergehring.com
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Exhibitions

2023

THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR Coelner Zimmer Düsseldorf

2022

FORGET ME NOT Warte für Kunst Kassel

2021

ANALOG TOTAL Grassi Museum Leipzig

2019

SUPERNATURAL Fotofestiwal Łódź
THE ALCHEMY OF COLOUR Warte für Kunst Kassel
THE ANALOGUE MOMENT Kunstraum Elsa Bielefeld
MESSAGES FROM THE DARKROOM mucho mas! gallery Turin
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE Galerie Vorwerkstift Hamburg

2018

ALCHEMY OF COLOUR pavlo’s dog Berlin
MONSTERS AND GHOSTS p7 gallery Berlin

2017

JENSEITS VON GUT UND BÖSE Galerie der Schlumper Hamburg
KURZES LAUTES OHM Das Gift Berlin
WEG UND DA Brüderkirche Kassel

2016

LA ISLA CHIMERA Lage Galerie Kassel
SCINTILLATIONS exp12 Gallery Berlin
MESSAGES FROM THE DARKROOM 9. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt
DARK CHAMBERS Aff Galerie Berlin

2015

BLACK MIRROR Aperture Gallery New York
I BLINK I WINK I CLOSE MY EYES Arles
KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED aff Galerie Berlin

2014

THE SPACE BEYOND CCNY Gallery New York
A PROCESS Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus Augsburg
AM ABGRUND Quadrat Dornbirn
FIFCV 2014 Festival Internacional de Fotografia de Cabo Verde
VISION Neue Galerie Kassel

2013

THIS IS NOT BERLIN Museum Kevelaer
LES BOUTHOGRAPHIES Montpellier
MESSAGES FROM THE DARKROOM Galerie Tagomago Paris
THE FLOODWALL II Galerie exp12 Berlin

2012

ZEITGESPENSTER Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
MESSAGES FROM THE DARKROOM Warte für Kunst Kassel
MESSAGES FROM THE DARKROOM pavlov’s dog Berlin
EPICENTRE Arles
VOIES OFF Arles
KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO FESTIVAL Tbilisi

2011

PHOTO FRINGE Brighton
EXAMNINA Fachhochschule Bielefeld
UEBER NACHT Kunstwerk Arnsberg

2010

WIR UND DIE ANDEREN Kurt im Hirsch Berlin
ICH SEHE WAS WAS DU NICHT SIEHST Kunsthalle Faust Hannover
ICH SEHE WAS WAS DU NICHT SIEHST Documenta-Halle Kassel

2009

TENDER CONSTRUCTIONS Someones Garden Tokio
TENDER CONSTRUCTIONS Gankagarou Gallery Tokio

2008

CHASING GHOSTS Artists Unlimited Galerie Bielefeld
CHASING GHOSTS Sassoon Gallery London
FRAGMENT.ROMANTIK Monat der Fotografie Bratislava

2007

FRAGMENT.ROMANTIK Forum für Fotografie Köln
FRAGMENT.ROMANTIK Stadtmuseum Halle (Saale)

Texts

Interview with Shirin Friedhoff for Monopol

Der Fotograf Alexander Gehring aus Berlin arbeitet an der Schnittstelle von analoger zu digitaler Fotografie. Gerade sind Bilder von ihm in der Ausstellung “Analog Total” mit über 20 anderen Positionen im Grassi-Museum in Leipzig zu sehen. Seine teils morbiden Werke gehen auf die aufwendige Technik der Laborentwicklung zurück. Wir haben mit ihm über das Geheimnis […]

Interview with Stella Ammar for Cercle Magazin

In the dark room of Alexander Gehring : medium and ghosts All it takes for Alexander Gehring‘s images to topple over into the occult world is a dark room, its red light, and extensive historical research. The German photographer who lives and works in Berlin, revalorizes analog photography. But above all, it renews the history […]

Text by Anna Zika

Nachrichten aus dem Dunkel Die Ursprünge der Fotografie und ihre Funktionsweise sind von Geheimnis und Wundersamkeit, ja vom Hauch des Göttlichen umgeben: so sei „die Sonne selbst zur Künstlerin geworden sei: sie schreibe und zeichne mit dem Licht Bilder, die vollkommener sind, als es die Menschenhand vermöchte“. Ihrem aus dem Griechischen stammenden Wortsinn nach ist […]

Text by Daniel Neugebauer

one lights thee with his flame, another puts in thee — Nature! — all his gloom! what says to this man: lo! the tomb! cries: life and splendour! to his brother. o mage unknown whose powers assist my art, and whom I always fear, thou makest me a Midas — peer of that most piteous […]

Text by Carine Dolek

Full-spectre photography. With ‘Messages from the Darkroom’, Alexander Gehring draws a parallel between the nineteenth-century séance and film photography. Photographing his darkroom as if it were haunted, the German photographer invokes mediums, whether these are the camera or the living who communicate with the dead, on the border between disappearance and apparition. Where belief is […]

Text by Caryn Coleman

The Dark Room: Spectral space of photography and film in Alexander Nicolas Gehring’s “MESSAGES FROM THE DARK ROOM” and Micheal Powell’s “PEEPING TOM” It is profoundly seductive to believe that photography can be an evidentiary medium of a realm beyond our mortal coil. Even more provocative is the idea of photography, and subsequently film, as […]

Interview with Nadine Ethner

Alexander Gehring (*1981 Bielefeld), ausgezeichnet mit dem Merck Preis der Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie 2016, zeigt in der Ausstellung „The Alchemy of Colour“ in der Galerie Pavlov’s Dog, dass sich das Medium Fotografie hervorragend dazu eignet, Grenzen auszuloten und zu verschieben. Der Fotograf ist hier Schöpfer, der die Stofflichkeit zur Feinstofflichkeit hin verschiebt und einen […]