Photobooks | ALBRECHT, Kristoffer

About the Finnish photographer, Kristoffer ALBRECHT (b.1961, in Helsinki)

Kristoffer ALBRECHT works as an independent photographer. He has been teaching photography since 1986. In 1987, he made his Master of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki, followed in 2001 by his Doctor of Arts, University of Art and Design Helsinki with the thesis: 'Creative Reproduction. A Practical Study on Ink-printed Photographs, Their History of Production and Aesthetic Identity'. His photographic work has been exhibited in his native Finland and internationally and can be seen in international collections in Helsinki, Stockholm, Moscow, Paris and New York among others. He has published some 30 photo volumes. Kristoffer ALBRECHT lives in Ingå, Finland

Photo volumes by Kristoffer ALBRECHT (a selection)

'Stilleben' (1984); 'Etude' (1985); 'Quelle' (1987); 'The Pernå Church' (1989, with A. Utterström); 'Vis - à - vis' (1989); 'The Japanese Portfolio (1990, with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI); 'Kväll' (1990); 'En Avril' (1990); 'Armor' (1992); 'Fünfundneunzig (group)' (1994); '1998 Paris' (1997, with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI); 'Metropol' (1998, productional part of doctoral thesis); 'Creative Reproduction · A Practical Study on Ink-printed Photographs, their History of Production and Aesthetic Identity' (2001); 'Al-Madina' (2002, with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI & Joakim ESKILDSEN); 'Memorabilia' (2004); 'Palasia, Bitar, Pieces' (2005); 'Corso' (2006); 'Uppehåll. Pysähdyksiä. Ingå' (2008); 'Labor' (2009); 'ZigZag' (2009); 'Beijing' (2010); 'Nya Skäriboken' (2011, with Stefan Lundberg); 'Silmin kosketeltavaa' (2011, with Taneli Eskola); 'Oktober' (2013); 'Trees are Poems' (2013, with Eskola, Rita KOVALAINEN, Pentti SAMMALAHTI); 'Yeats’s Prayer' (2014); 'Higashi' (2014); 'Variations' (2015); 'Memento' (2015); 'Intermezzo' (2016); 'Pastoral, Ingå: Opus, 2017); 'Vak upp, Goya! · Wake up, Goya!' (2018); 'Tysta marker · Quiet grounds' (2018); 'Domestica' (2018); 'Epitaph' (2021); 'Who put me here'(2021); 'Umbra' (2021)

Awards

1987: Kodak European Award (Finland)
1998: The Finland Prize
2009: Photobook.Award 2008+09, Photobook Festival (Kassel, Germany)

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions:

1984, 1987 Photographic Gallery Hippolyte (Helsinki, Finland);
1988 The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum (Turku);
1990 Laterna Magica (with Pentti SAMMALLAHT, Helsinki); WB-centrum (Kuopio);
1992 Laterna Magica (Helsinki); Galleri Viktor (Nykarleby);
1994 Laterna Magica (Helsinki); 'After Eight' (Pietarsaari);
1996 Galerie Web-bar (with J. PURANEN and Pentti SAMMALAHTI, Paris);
1997 Galleri Zebra (Karjaa);
1998 Fotogalleriet Lund (Sweden);
2000 Galleri Mazarin (Söderhamn, SWE);
2001 Galleria AMA (Turku); The Gallén-Kallela Museum Espoo (Finland);
2002 Galerie Albrecht (with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI & Joakim ESKILDSEN, München); Galleria Pictor (Nummela, FIN); St Martin-Vésubie, France (with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI); Galleri Mazarin (Söderhamn); Vanha Kappalaisentalo (Porvoo, Finland); Institut Finlandais (Paris); Nordic Council of Ministers (Copenhagen);
2004 Häme Galleria (Lahti);
2006 '4+' (with Tero Laaksonen, Kuutti Lavonen and Kristina Riska, Luxembourg and Brussels);
2007 Galleri Soboleff (Tammisaari, Finland); Candace Dwan Gallery (Katonah, New York);
2008 Galleri Kronan (Norrköping, Sweden);
2009 Valokuvakeskus Peri (Turku); Galleri Zebra (Karjaa, Finland);
2010 Galleria Harmonia (with Maija Albrecht, Jyväskylä, Finland); Galleria Ibis (Vaasa, Finland);
2011 Galleri G (Helsinki);
2012 Norpas Festival (with Maija Albrecht, Taalintehdas, Finland);
2013 Galerie BU (Lyon); Centro iberoamericano de Finlandia (with Maija Albrecht, Madrid); Söderlångvik (Kemiö, Finland);
2014 Mikkeli Centre of Photography (Finland);
2015 Galleri Norden ljus (Stockholm); Kangasala-talo (Kangasala, Finland);
2016 'Ailleurs' (with Marc RIBOUD, Pentti SAMMALLAHTI and Anita Andrzejewska, Jardin Raymond VI, Toulouse); Fototeca de Cuba (with Timo Kelaranta, Havana);
2017 'Near the Wind' (with Pentti SAMMALLAHTI, The Photographers' Gallery, London); 'Settings', (Foto Art Festival, Bielsko-Biała, Poland);
2018 Domestica, Galleri Ibis (Vaasa, Finland);
2019 Galleria Saskia, (with Maija Albrecht Tampere, Finland); 'Domestica' (Laterna Magica, Helsinki);
2021 Galleri Gamla Kaplansgården (Porvoo, Finland); 'Galleria Uusi Kipinä' (Lahti, Finland); Norpas-festival (Dalsbruk, Finland);

Selected group exhibitions

1987 Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie D'Arles (France);
1988 Photofest Houston (Texas, USA);
1989 'Kaltlicht, 13 Fotografen aus Finnland' (Düsseldorf);
1991 Diplo (Firenze);
1992 'Decennium. Finnish Photographic Art of the 1980's' (Bukarest, Scotland, Istanbul, Ankara, Barcelona, Madrid);
1994 'Fünfundneunzig. Serigraphien' (Lauenburg, Germany);
1995 'Portfolier og artist-books' (Odense, Denmark);
1996 'Fotogravure - proces - eksperiment' (Copenhagen);
1999 Gallery Candace Perich (Katonah, New York);
2003 Galerie Jam Hall (St Petersburg);
2004 Lys over Lolland (Sakskøbing, Denmark);
2005 Gallery Candace Perich (Katonah, New York);
2006 'IndianScope. l’Inde intemporelle dans l’Inde d’aujourd’hui' (Maison de la Photographie du Nord-pas-de-Calais, Lille, France);
2009 'Livres finlandais de photographies' (Institut finlandais, Paris); '[in]visible #3' (Amsterdam); 'Sivukaupalla' (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki);
2010 'Un bestiaire fantastique' (Box galerie, Brussels);
2011 'Under 1000' (Box Galerie, Brussels); 'Water. Sense and Sensation' (The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku);
2013 'Trees are Poems' (Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki); 'Seven Seas' (Galerie der Moderne, Munich); 'Lugares secretos y pequeños detalles' (Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona);
2014 'Nordseite. Künstlerbücher aus Finnland' (Klingspor-Museum, Frankfurt-Offenbach); 'Portraits of the 20th Century' (Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles); '12 Contemporary artists' (Galleria Antares, Sippola, Finland);
2015 'Darkroom' (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki); Galerie der Moderne (Munich); 'La Main' (Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris); 'Trees are Poems' (Finnish embassy, Washington DC);
2016 'Regards d’auteurs' (Rocheservière, France); 'Dogs. A Celebration' (Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles); 'Wild Strawberries' (Wäinö Aaltonen Museum, Turku); 'The Mind’s Eye' (Jules Maeght Gallery, San Francisco); 'Automobiles' (Peter Fetterman Gallery, Los Angeles);
2017 'Visual Art and Literature' (Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf); Landskrona Foto View: Finland (Sweden); 'Artist's Books' (Galleria Katariina, Helsinki);
2018 'Vevringautstillinga' (Vevring , Norway);
2019 'Bristol Artist Book Event' (Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol); 'Frankfurt Bookfair' (Germany); 'Finnish Photography' (Lihulan, Estonia); 'Luonnonjälkiä' (Galleria Linnankatu 13, Savonlinna, Finland); 'Art Fair Suomi' (Helsinki) 'Codex 2019 Book Fair' (Richmond, Kalifornia);
2020 Kristiansand Kunsthall (Norway); 'Inanimate Life and Dead Nature' (The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki); 'Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art' (Konstepidemia, Gothenburg); 'Wiurila Summer' (Wiurilan manor, Salo, Finland); 'Fragments d’un Paradis' (Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris); 'Winter Show' (Park Avenue Armory, New York);
2021 'The Book Fair at CHART Art Fair' (Charlottenborg, Copenhagen); National and University Library of Island (Reykjavik, Iceland); 'Rom for bøker' (Kristiansand Kunsthall, Norway);
2022 'Nuages' (Galerie Camera obscura, Paris)

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