TITLE: Trees are reflected in the Ice

The transformation of matter, or rather of materiality, runs like a red thread through the photos of this exhibition. The seemingly firm trees of the Elbe bank are transformed into ice and water and become an independent picture of drifting lines. Broken ice surfaces indicate waterholes reminiscent of wells. In the wintry black and white of nature there are paths and tracks to follow. Again and again, it is the metamorphoses that the photographer is looking for. One almost thinks he is chasing after them, or lurking on them. Even Siddharta in Hermann Hesse's story sits for a long time by the river, looking at it thoughtfully, its essence and its transformation, to finally realize that there is no time, because the river, which absorbs all images without reputation, is everywhere at the same time. He picks up, transforms, superimposes and finally carries all the pictures in and with himself. There is no distinction between NOW and LATER. There is only ONE picture, ONE experience. It is this synopsis of the different materialities that enables the artist to hold on and make it accessible to the viewer. It is like the river in "Siddharta" nothing too low. A tree shadow, a broken ice floe, a crystalline structure are enough for him to perceive and show the eternal breathing of nature.

AUTHOR: Benjamin Borisch (Germany)

Artistic Vitae - Benjamin Borisch

1993 - 2001 Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and at the Academy for Graphic Art and Book Art in Leipzig, Germany
2005 Pictures of Humans; preparing and organisation of a learner-exhibition in the Firewarden, Magdeburg, Germany
2007 Lecturer in Photography at the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg/Department Design/Master Class, preparing a presentation about Urbanity; in the Forum Design, Magdeburg, Germany
2012 Election to the Board of Gallery Himmelreich, Magdeburg, Germany

Commendation
2001 Participant in the final round exhibition at the International Promotion Prize for Young Visual Art, Head Office of the Sparkasse in Magdeburg, Germany
2004 - 2006 Scholarship in an artist’s studio in the Tessenowgarages of the city Magdeburg, Germany
2005 Special support of the exhibition Feeling at home through the Office 12hundred (1200 years Magdeburg) , Germany
2006 The series Window Pictures, 2004 is now part of the E.ON-Collection, Germany
Winner and publication in Graphis Photography Annual 2007-competition in
New York, USA
Scholarship of BBK and the Gatehouse Gallery at Brunswick - New views of a city; St.-Andreas-Church in Brunswick and then in Hundertwasserhaus, Magdeburg, Germany
06/07 Scholarship (3 month) of the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt (Halle) on the topic Flotsam and Jetsam, Germany
2006-2009 Scholarship in an artist’s studio in the Tessenowgarages of the city Magdeburg, Germany
2007 Project sponsoring by the Art Foundation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
2009 3 works belong now to the collection of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz, Poland
2010/11 Scholarship to The Idea the Thing the Image the Speech - design, applied art, photography and literature. A field trial; Forum Design in Magdeburg, Germany
2011 Red Dot Award: communication design 2011 for >Northsun Identity< for the catalog Idea Thing Image Speech
2016 International Landscape Pleinair in the Artclub Schwedt, Successor
2017 successful application for the XI. International Pleinair and scholarship in the Otto Niemeyer-Holstein studio, in Lüttenort / Koserow on the island of Usedom on the Baltic Sea
2019 Monovisions Photography Awards, Leading Black & White Photography Magazine Award 2019, finalist, London, UK
Promotion bays of the studios of the city of Magdeburg at the KUNST /MITTE, Central German Contemporary Art Fair, AMO Culture House in Magdeburg