Bernhard FUCHS (*1971 in Haslach a.d. Mühl / Upper Austria)
Bernhard FUCHS grew up in Helfenberg in Upper Austria and studied from 1993 to 1997 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, from 1994 under Bernd BECHER. From 1997 to 1999 he completed postgraduate studies with a master's degree at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig under Timm RAUTERT. In 2017 he received the Austrian Art Prize for Artistic Photography. Bernhard FUCHS lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Photo books by Bernhard FUCHS
- 'Portrait Fotografien' (2003); 'Autos' (2006.); 'Streets and Trails' (2008); 'Strassen und Wege' (2009); 'Höfe/Farms' (2011); 'Waldungen' (2014); 'Lot/Fathom' (2018); 'Mühl' (2020);
Further photo books with the participation of Bernhard FUCHS
- 'How You Look at It: Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts' (2000); 'Der Rote Bulli, Stephen Shore und die neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie' (2010); 'Der Mensch und seine Objekte' (2012); 'Über Leben am Land' (2019); 'Subjekt und Objekt. Photo Rhine Ruhr' (2020);
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 1996: 'Portraits', Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster;
2000: 'Portraits in Color', Museum Folkwang, Essen;
2004: 'Portraitfotografien 1994-2001', Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen;
2006: 'Portraits and Cars', Landesgalerie Linz;
2007: 'Cars and Portraits', Museum Ludwig Cologne;
2009: 'Streets and Paths', Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop;
2010: 'Portraits', Kunsthalle Krems;
2012: 'Portraits/Cars/Roads and Paths', Sprengel Museum Hanover;
2014: 'Waldungen', Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop;
2015: 'Waldungen', Lentos Art Museum Linz;
2020: 'Mühl', Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop
Exhibition participations
- 1996: 'Manifesta 1', Chabot Museum Rotterdam;
2000: 'How you look at it', Sprengel Museum, Hanover;
2002: 'today till now - contemporary photography from Düsseldorf', Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf;
2006: 'Who is the other', Galeria Zachęta, Warsaw;
2003: 'Landscape', Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven;
2008: 'On the human being', Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville;
2010: 'Der Rote Bulli, Stephen Shore und die neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie', NRW Forum, Düsseldorf;
2012: 'Man and his objects', Museum Folkwang, Essen;
2015: 'Landscape in my mind', Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna;
2019: 'About life in the countryside', Kunst Haus Wien;
2020: 'Subject and object. Photo Rhine Ruhr', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;
2022: 'Faces. Avedon to Newton', Albertina modern, Vienna;