Oliver Mark

Oliver Mark (born 20 February 1963) is a German photographer and artist known primarily for his portraits of international celebrities.

Oliver Mark
Oliver Mark in Venice
Born (1963-02-20) 20 February 1963
Gelsenkirchen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPhotography
Websitewww.oliver-mark.com

Life and education

Mark trained as a photographer, working first in the field of fashion photography at Burda Photo Studios in Offenburg. As a guest student, he attended seminars in Visual Culture at the Berlin University of the Arts by Katharina Sieverding, known for her large format photographs.

Mark is the father of two sons and currently lives in Berlin.[1]

Work
Jenny Holzer, Leipzig 1996. Silver gelatin print on Alu Dibond. 151 × 154 cm (59 × 61")

In the 1990s, Mark began photographing celebrities. He became known for his portraits of Anthony Hopkins and Jerry Lewis, but also of other public figures including Angela Merkel, Pope Benedict XVI, and Joachim Gauck, and actors like Ben Kingsley, Cate Blanchett and Tom Hanks. His personal interest lies in contemporary artists and their creative world. He has close contacts with well-established and emerging artists, who he portrays in their working environment.[2]

He works with both a single-lens reflex camera and an old, 680 Polaroid. The instant photos produced by the Polaroid reveal Mark's familiarity and closeness to the subjects he portrays.[3]

He has worked for magazines such as Architectural Digest, Rolling Stone, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Stern, Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Die Zeit.

In 2013, one of his photographs was honored by a National Portrait Gallery (London) award. In 2014, Mark published his own magazine entitled Oliver – Nutte Künstler Fotograf. Die ganze Wahrheit über Oliver Mark [Oliver – hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark].[4]

Collaborations

Mark began working with the artist Christian Hoischen in 2017 under the name Hoischen / Mark.[5]

Collections

Mark's works can be found in the collections of the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz,[6] the Würth Collection[7] and the Bukovina Museum in Suceava, Romania.[8][9]

Exhibitions

Mark's exhibition Natura Morta, which was presented in two parts at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Natural History Museum Vienna in 2017, addresses how humans deal with nature and the environment, in particular the animal world, but also the aesthetics and beauty death. Mark's still life photographs were taken in the Asservat Chamber of the Federal Office for Nature Conservation in Bonn in 2015.[10] His idea was to photograph items seized by customs, such as leopard skulls, ivory carvings, crocodile and turtle products, protected animal and plant parts, etc. He photographed these using specific backgrounds and a method of lighting (Old Master-like daylight, lit only through a crack) to generate in the viewer a desire to observe. In the Vienna Natural History Museum, these items are sorted into three categories and exhibited in context with different animal specimens, to address the topic of species protection. The photographs were presented in historical picture frames. This created a dialog in the Paintings Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between the different genres of painting and photography as well as the painted or photographed still lifes.

Installation views from the exhibition Natura Morta in the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Natural History Museum, Vienna, 2017

Solo exhibitions
  • 1999: Portraits, Galerie 48, Saarbrücken
  • 2000: Portraits und Memorabilien, Galerie Grauwert, Hamburg
  • 2001: Photographien, Galerie Imago, Berlin
  • 2002/03: Portraits, Musée de la photographie, Mougins
  • 2006: Portraits & Stills, Anna Augstein Fine Arts Berlin
  • 2011: 7 Artists and 1 Nude, Galerie Gloria, Berlin[11]
  • 2011: Portraits, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm[12]
  • 2012: Shuteye, °CLAIR Gallery, Munich[13][14]
  • 2012/13: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren, Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam
  • 2013/14: Außenseiter und Eingeweihter, Uno Art Space, Stuttgart[15]
  • 2013: Heimat verpflichtet, Kanzlei im Lübbenauer Schlossbezirk, Lübbenau[16]
  • 2013: Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag am 15 August 2012, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz[17]
  • 2013: Außenseiter und Eingeweihter, pavlovs dog space for photography, Berlin[18]
  • 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[6]
  • 2016/17: Natura Morta, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz[19]
  • 2017: Natura Morta, Natural History Museum Vienna[20]
  • 2017: Natura Morta, Fotografien von Oliver Mark in Korrespondenz zu Stillleben-Gemälden der Sammlung, The Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna[21]
  • 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[22]
  • 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

Curated exhibitions
  • 2012: Der arge Weg der Erkenntnis, Gloria Berlin
  • 2017: Alles oder Immer, Schau Fenster, Berlin
  • 2018: Raum XVII, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin. The exhibition is based on Room XVII in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin, where works are exhibited by Italian masters from the 16th and 17th centuries (ten male artists and one female artist, Sofonisba Anguissola (* approx. 1531/1532 in Cremona; † 16. November 1625 in Palermo).
  • 2019: small, Schau Fenster, Berlin

Works


Publications
Book cover of No Show (2019)
  • Portraits. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2484-5.[23]
  • With Martina Schellhorn: Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-932502-60-6.[24]
  • Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag. Alpenland, Schaan 2013, ISBN 978-3-905437-34-8.[25]
  • Außenseiter und Eingeweihter. [Outsider and Insider] Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3756-2.[26]
  • Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben. [From the rubble crawls life] b.frank books, Zürich 2013, ISBN 978-3-906217-00-0. (with poems by K. O. Götz)[27]
  • 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, ISBN 978-3-86828-759-2.
    (with texts by Barbara Hendricks, Rainer Vollkommer, Philipp Demandt, Julia M. Nauhaus, Michael Schipper, Aurelia Frick, Christian Köberl, Lorenz Becker)[28]
  • Bucovina Monastery Life. Editura Karl A. Romstorfer, Suceava 2018, ISBN 978-606-8698-29-8. (with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu)
  • No Show. Distanz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95476-281-1. (with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll, Christoph Peters, Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper)

See also

References
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  6. "Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz – , INFORMATIONEN ZUR AUSSTELLUNG". kunstsammlungen-chemnitz.de. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  7. "Art Faces – Artist Portraits in the Würth Collection" (PDF). Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  8. "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 (in Romanian). 26 October 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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  22. "Ausstellungsdetail" (in German).
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  27. "Oliver Mark – Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben by b.frank". Archived from the original on 28 August 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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