Event series
Thursday, 29 February 2024 – Saturday, 20 April 2024
Photo 2024: Ulrich Wüst | Wanderings About History
Exhibition | A journey through German history 1978-2019
I always took form as my starting point, wanted to describe reality quite differently. — Ulrich Wüst, 1997
Ulrich Wüst's photographic work captures his wanderings through German history, portraying the social and urban transformations from the GDR and its disintegration, through the German reunification to the present day. Wüst revives the German history in a new static way, where the past and present clash in a dynamic and ever-changing environment.
The exhibition Wanderings About History – The Photography of Ulrich Wüst shows a selection of nine suites taken between 1978 and 2019. Ulrich Wüst's photographic work can be perceived from different perspectives. The observations he captures in his images may ultimately have their roots in the division of Germany and the processes of overcoming it. But they also always concern universal phenomena of social change and its material manifestations. His succinct and very precisely composed images are the result of long visual wanderings in places that tell of our contemporary history.
Opening
29 February 2024, 6pm, RMIT Gallery
Ulrich Wüst studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and graduated as an engineer for urban planning. From 1972 to 1983, he worked as an urban planner and picture editor in Berlin. He has been a freelance photographer since 1984 and won the Helen Abbott Prize for Visual Arts in 2000, which was established to celebrate the reunification of Germany. He also received the 2021 Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
The exhibition is presented as part of Photo 2024.
Ulrich Wüst's photographic work captures his wanderings through German history, portraying the social and urban transformations from the GDR and its disintegration, through the German reunification to the present day. Wüst revives the German history in a new static way, where the past and present clash in a dynamic and ever-changing environment.
The exhibition Wanderings About History – The Photography of Ulrich Wüst shows a selection of nine suites taken between 1978 and 2019. Ulrich Wüst's photographic work can be perceived from different perspectives. The observations he captures in his images may ultimately have their roots in the division of Germany and the processes of overcoming it. But they also always concern universal phenomena of social change and its material manifestations. His succinct and very precisely composed images are the result of long visual wanderings in places that tell of our contemporary history.
Opening
29 February 2024, 6pm, RMIT Gallery
Ulrich Wüst studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, and graduated as an engineer for urban planning. From 1972 to 1983, he worked as an urban planner and picture editor in Berlin. He has been a freelance photographer since 1984 and won the Helen Abbott Prize for Visual Arts in 2000, which was established to celebrate the reunification of Germany. He also received the 2021 Art Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.
The exhibition is presented as part of Photo 2024.