Oliver Mark

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German photographer (born 1963)

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| name = Oliver Mark | image = Oliver Mark.jpeg | image_size = | caption = Mark in Venice, Italy | birth_date = | birth_place = Gelsenkirchen, West Germany | occupation = Photographer | website = Oliver Mark (born 20 February 1963) is a German photographer, known primarily for his portrait photographs of international celebrities.

Career

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In the 1990s, Mark began photographing celebrities. He made portraits of public figures including actors.

His personal interest lies in contemporary artists and their creative world.

He works with both a single-lens reflex camera and an old 680 Polaroid camera. The instant photographs produced by the Polaroid reveal Mark's familiarity and closeness to the subjects he portrays.

In addition to his portraits, Mark regularly engages in independent projects. In the series Natura Morta (2017), he photographed confiscated objects from the evidence room of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. These items, mostly falling under species protection regulations, were originally intended as souvenirs before being seized by customs authorities. Mark presents these objects in a way that emphasizes their allure, only to evoke stronger repulsion from the viewer. The series was exhibited in 2017 in two parts at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Natural History Museum in Vienna.

Personal life

Mark is the father of two sons and lives in Berlin.

Publications

  • Portraits. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2009, .
  • With Martina Schellhorn: Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2012, .
  • Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag. Alpenland, Schaan 2013, .
  • Außenseiter und Eingeweihter. [Outsider and Insider] Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2013, .
  • Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben. [From the rubble crawls life] b.frank books, Zürich 2013, . (with poems by K. O. Götz)
  • Oliver – Nutte Künstler Fotograf. Die ganze Wahrheit über Oliver Mark. [Oliver – hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark] Grauel, Berlin 2014.
  • Natura Morta. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2016, . (with texts by Barbara Hendricks, Rainer Vollkommer, Philipp Demandt, Julia M. Nauhaus, Michael Schipper, Aurelia Frick, Christian Köberl, Lorenz Becker)
  • Bucovina Monastery Life. Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum, 2018, . (with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu)
  • No Show. Distanz, Berlin 2019, . (with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll, Christoph Peters, Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper)

Solo exhibitions

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  • 2002/03: Portraits, Mougins Center of Photography, Mougins
  • 2011: 7 Artists and 1 Nude, Galerie Gloria, Berlin
  • 2011: Portraits, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm
  • 2012/13: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren, , Potsdam
  • 2013: Heimat verpflichtet, Kanzlei im Lübbenauer Schlossbezirk, Lübbenau
  • 2013: Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag am 15 August 2012, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
  • 2014: Oliver Mark – still...lesen, Goethe-Institut Irland, Dublin
  • 2014: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz des Neuanfangs, Fürst-Pückler-Museum, Cottbus
  • 2014: Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben – Portraits von Karl Otto Götz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
  • 2016/17: Natura Morta, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
  • 2017: Natura Morta, Natural History Museum Vienna
  • 2017: Natura Morta, Fotografien von Oliver Mark in Korrespondenz zu Stillleben-Gemälden der Sammlung, The Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • 2018: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Bukovina Museum Suceava, Romania
  • 2019: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
  • 2019: No Show, Villa Dessauer – Museen der Stadt Bamberg
  • 2019/20: Golden Shoes – Photographs from the Collection of the Liechtenstein National Museum by Oliver Mark
  • 2019/20: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, St. Thomas von Aquin Church
  • 2020: Jenny Holzer's Hands in the Peter and Paul Church, Potsdam

Collections

Mark's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Gallery

File:Oliver Mark - Balthus, Rossinière 2000 (2).jpg|Balthus, Grand Chalet, Rossinière 2000 File:Oliver Mark - Beck, Hamburg 2000.jpg|Beck, Hamburg 2000 File:Oliver Mark - Daniel Brühl, Berlin 2015.jpg|Daniel Brühl, Berlin 2015 File:Oliver Mark - Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paris 2002.jpg|Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Paris 2002 File:Oliver Mark - Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, Pöcking 2006.jpg|Otto von Habsburg, Pöcking 2006 File:Oliver Mark - Hans Neuenfels, Berlin 2006.jpg|Hans Neuenfels, Berlin 2006 File:Oliver Mark - Christian Petzold, Berlin 2002.jpg|Christian Petzold, Berlin 2002 File:Oliver Mark - George Tabori, Berlin 2003.jpg|George Tabori, Berlin 2003 File:Oliver Mark - George Lucas, Berlin 2005.jpg|George Lucas, Berlin 2005 File:Oliver Mark - Ridley Scott, Berlin 2005.jpg|Ridley Scott, Berlin 2005

References

References

  1. "Oliver Mark".
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  3. (24 November 2009). "Oliver Mark Portraits {{!}} Portraitfotografie".
  4. "Fotograf Oliver Mark: Prominente auf Polaroid". Die Zeit.
  5. Lindhorst, Peter. (31 May 2017). "Oliver Mark – Natura Morta".
  6. (27 April 2017). "Natura Morta".
  7. "Oliver Mark - kunstgebiet.ruhr".
  8. Hatje Cantz. "Oliver Mark {{!}} Fotografie {{!}} Hatje Cantz Verlag".
  9. "Bücher {{!}} Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung – Heimat verpflichtet".
  10. Liechtenstein National Museum. (April 2020). "Liechtenstein National Museum".
  11. Hatje Cantz. "Oliver Mark {{!}} Fotografie {{!}} Hatje Cantz Verlag".
  12. "Oliver Mark – Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben by b.frank".
  13. "Der Fotoband Natura Morta ist in der Asservatenkammer des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz entstanden und erinnert an die Bedeutung der Artenvielfalt – Kehrer Verlag".
  14. (8 September 2011). "Bilder der Ausstellung '7 Artist And 1 Nude' von Oliver Mark".
  15. "Oliver Mark – Portraits". Kunstverein.
  16. "Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. von Schellhorn, Martina u. Oliver Mark.: Potsdam Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung 9783932502606 – Antiquariat Maralt".
  17. Museum, Liechtenstein National. (April 2020). "Liechtenstein National Museum".
  18. "Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – , INFORMATIONEN ZUR AUSSTELLUNG".
  19. "Liechtenstein National Museum". Liechtenstein National Museum.
  20. "Naturhistorisches Museum Wien – sonderausstellungen".
  21. "Natura Morta – Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien".
  22. "Ausstellungsdetail".
  23. "Art Faces – Artist Portraits in the Würth Collection".
  24. (26 October 2017). "Expoziţia de fotografie "Celebrităţi" l-a adus, la Suceava, pe artistul fotograf german Oliver Mark. El a donat Muzeului Bucovinei una dintre lucrările sale". NewsBucovina.
  25. (11 November 2018). "Spiritualitatea profundă surprinsă în expoziţia "Bucovina – Mănăstirile trăiesc" a artistului fotograf Oliver Mark, vernisată la Muzeul de Istorie din Suceava în prezența autorului". NewsBucovina.

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