Andreas Müller-Pohle is a Berlin-based media artist and publisher. He studied Economics and Communications at the Universities of Hanover and Göttingen and, in 1979, founded European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. His first artistic projects from the late 1970s focused on issues of photographic perception, and later on photo recycling, now also incorporating video. In the mid-1990s, he began exploring the use of digital, genetic and political codes. In his most recent works, he addresses the subject of water with extensive portraits of the Danube River and the megalopolis of Hong Kong. Müller-Pohle’s works have been widely published and exhibited and are included in numerous private and museum collections worldwide. As a publisher, Müller-Pohle has edited the major works of the media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser and including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, which has been translated into over 20 languages. In 2001, Müller-Pohle was awarded the European Photography Prize of the Reind M. De Vries Foundation. He is the author of numerous texts on photo theory, among others on “Visualism”, and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at, among others, the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. His most recent project, Hong Kong Waters, was published by Kehrer Verlag and Asia One Books in spring 2013.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013 Lianzhou Foto, The Granary, Lianzhou, China

2013 Ida Illuster Gallery, Pavilion at Milchhof Ateliers, Berlin

2013 Asia One Vertical Art Space, Hong Kong

2012 The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czech Republic

2012 8th International Directors Lounge, Berlin
2011 Photo Edition Berlin, Berlin

2011 Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong

2011 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong

2011 Gesshin-in Temple, Kyoto

2010 Nessim Galéria, Budapest

2009 Esplanade Building, Faliron Olympic Complex, Athens Photo Festival, Athens

2009 Naturama – Modern Natural History, Fototriennale.dk, Svendborg, Denmark

2008 Uferhallen, European Month of Photography, Berlin

2007 Europäisches Donaumuseum, Stadtmuseum, Ingolstadt

2007 Städtische Galerie, Palais Stutterheim, Erlangen
2006 Donaumarkt, Regensburg

2006 Belgrade Cultural Center, Art Gallery, Belgrade

2006 Central European House of Photography, Bratislava

2006 Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum, Ulm

2005 Stadtgalerie im Elbeforum, Brunsbüttel

2005 Galeria Stary Browar, Poznan

2005 Aura Gallery, Shanghai


2004 Dom umenia, Month of Photography, Bratislava

2004 Muzeul Literaturii Române / Romanian Literature Museum, Bucharest


2003 Museum für Photographie, Brunswick


2002 Gallery Ississ, Kyoto
2002 Gallery Prinz, Kyoto

2002 Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

2002 Topek Building, FotoFest, Houston


2000 The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

2000 Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris

2000 Tschumipavillon, Groningen


1999 Galerie Václava Spály, Prague

1999 Altes Rathaus, Göttingen


1998 Gallery Ississ, Kyoto

1998 Mücsarnok / Kunsthalle, Budapest

1998 Galéria Goethe-Institut, Budapest


1997 The Print Center, Philadelphia

1997 Museum für Photographie & Wasserturm am Giersberg, Brunswick

1997 Goethe-Institut, Houston

1997 Goethe-Institut, Atlanta

1997 Kunstverein Rüsselsheim

1997 Vu – Centre de la Photographie, Québec

1997 Galerie Condé, Paris

1997 Galerie Mantoux-Gignac, Paris


1996 Gallery 111, Thessaloniki


1995 Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels

1995 Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim

1994 The House of Balabanov, Plovdiv

1993 Centre de la Photographie, Geneva

1993 Galeria Documenta, São Paulo

1992 Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna

1991 Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus

1989 Galerie Stará radnice, Brno

1988 Galerie Jutta Rössner, Stuttgart

1988 Círculo de Artes Plásticas, Coimbra

1987 Galeria Fotografii Elementarnej, Ladek Zdrój

1987 Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
1987 Espai F, Granollers/Barcelona

1986 Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo

1986 Funarte, Rio de Janeiro

1986 Galeria Foto-Medium-Art, Wroclaw

1986 Hasselblad Gallery, Göteborg

1986 Galeria Agorà, Turin

1985 Galerie Jutta Rössner, Stuttgart Photo-Galerie 52, Luxemburg

1985 Fotoforum Bremen, Bremen

1984 Casa do Infante, Porto
1983 Galerie Studio 666, Paris

1983 Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm

1983 Galerie Perspektief, Rotterdam

1982 Galerie Pro Photo, Nuremberg

1982 Benteler Galleries, Houston

1982 Galerie Foto Art, Frankfurt

1981 Salzburg College Gallery, Salzburg

1981 SGalerie Renner, Munich

1981 SForum Stadtpark, Graz

1981 SGalerie Novum, Hannover

1981 SGalerie Ruth Remus, Düsseldorf

1979 Work Gallery, Zürich

1979 Art Studio, Cologne

1978 Galerie Krebaum, Weinheim

1978 Galerie Trockenpresse, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 "Something Other Than Photography: Photo & Media." Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg


2012 "Network – C.A.R. The innovative art fair." Zaha Museum, Seoul 

2012 "Sense of Place. European Landscape Photography." Bozar, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels 
Directors Lounge @ Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.), Essen

2012 "What is a Photograph?" New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans


2011 "Metropolis 2.0 – City Life in the Urban Age." The Empty Quarter, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2011 "Metropolis – City Life in the Urban Age." Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands

2011 "L'objet photographique, une invention permanente." Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris


2009 "Kosmos. Neue Fotografien aus dem Weltraum." Stadthaus Ulm, Germany


2006 "Wahr-Zeichen. Fotografie und Wissenschaft." Technische Sammlungen Dresden/Museen der Stadt Dresden

2006 "Alterazioni. Le materie della fotografia tra analogico e digitale." Museo Fotografia Contemporanea, Milan Pulsar Caracas 2006, Centro de Arte Periférico Caracas, Caracas

2006 "Troubled Water." De Veemvloer, Amsterdam


2004 "Metamorfoses do Real." Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal

2004 "p0es1s. Digital Poetry." Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin


2003 Hiroshima Art Document 2003, The Former Bank of Japan, Hiroshima

2003 In Out, International Festival of the Digital Image, Galerie Karolinum & Old Town Square, Prague

2003 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Immanence, Paris; Podewil, Berlin


2002 "Situated Realities. Where Technology and Imagination intersect."
2002 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena; Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis


2001 "Los límites del territorio. Fronteras." Bienal de Lanzarote
"ex machina: Über die Zersetzung der Fotografie." Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst / Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne

2001 "Sammlung Schupmann." Museum für Photographie, Brunswick


2000 "Landschaften in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie. Aus der Sammlung der DG Bank," Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg
2000 "Watch Me (Watch You)", Photosynkyria 2000, Thessaloniki


1999 "Aires: Luz y Sombra de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria", Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas

1999 "Das XX. Jahrhundert. Ein Jahrhundert Kunst in Deutschland", Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1999 "Flous et modernités", Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles

1999 "Attack! Photography on the Edge", Holland Festival, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam

1999 "Veni, Vidi, Vidéo", Ecole supérieure d'art, Cambrai


1997 "Analog – Digital", Museum für Photographie, Brunswick

1997 "Allemagne, années 80", Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

1997 "Photography After Photography", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

1997 "Photography After Photography", Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki


1996 "Vidéo Art Plastique", Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair

1996 "Photography After Photography", Fotomuseum Winterthur; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense; Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus; Städtische Galerie Erlangen; Kunsthalle Krems

1996 "14th World Wide Video Festival", The Hague


1995 "Photography After Photography", Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich


1994 "Paysage de l'apparence", Mai de la Photo, Reims

1994 "Photogramme – une pratique contemporaine", Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels; Centrum Elzenveld, Antwerp


1993 "Wiederbegegnung", Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg

1993 "Deutsche Kunst mit Photographie: Die 90er Jahre", Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn


1992 "L'Échappée européenne", Mois de la Photo, Pavillon des Arts, Paris

1992 "Première Photo", Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris


1991 "The Persistence of Memory", Third Israeli Biennale of Photography, Mishkan Le'Omanut, Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

1991 "Européens", Festival Photographique du Trégor, Centre Jean Savidan, Lannion

1991 "O Coraçao da Ciência", Centro de Estudos de Fotografia, Coimbra; Espace Photographique Contretype, Brussels


1989 "Intern – Extern", Galerieforum, Berufsverband Bildender Künstler, Düsseldorf

1989 "Weitblick – Aspekte einer Kunst mit Fotografie", Universitätsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Marburg

1989 "Das Foto als autonomes Bild – Experimentelle Gestaltung
1839-1989", Kunsthalle Bielefeld; Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich

1989 "What is Photography?", Mánes Gallery, Prague

1989 "Dokument und Erfindung – Fotografien aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
1945 bis heute", Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; Augustinermuseum, Freiburg; Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia


1988 "Fotovision – Projekt Fotografie nach 150 Jahren", Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Kunstraum im Messepalast, Vienna; Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich

1987 "Fotografische Bilder", Deutscher Künstlerbund, Forum Böttcherstrasse, Bremen

1987 "Le temps d'un mouvement", Centre National de la Photographie, Paris


1986 "Polaroid Collection – Selections 3", photokina, Cologne

1986 "Himmelsschreiber", Kunstverein Kassel
1986 "Foco 86", Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid

1986 "Fotografia Elementarna", Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Szczecin

1986 "Fotografie: Abbildung? Einbildung?", Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund


1985 "II Jornades Fotogràfiques a València", Valencia

1985 "New Photographic Trends from Europe", Malmö Konsthall, Malmö

1985 "The European Edge – New Photographic Trends from Europe", Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

1985 "Das Aktfoto", Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich

1985 "Zeitgenössische deutsche Fotografen", Museum für Photographie, Brunswick


1984 "Fünf Fotografen", Kunstverein Langenhagen

1984 "La Photographie créative", Bibliothèque Nationale/Pavillon des Arts, Paris

1984 "Contemporary European Photography", Benteler Galleries, Houston

1984 "Contemporary German Photographers", Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1984 "5.os Encontros de Fotografia de Coimbra", Edificio Chiado, Coimbra


1983 "Bugünün Avrupa Fotografi / European Photography Today", Dost Sanat Ortami, Ankara

1983 "Zeitgenössische europäische Fotografie", Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen

1983 "57 Fotografi Contemporanei Europei", Palazzo Novellucci, Prato

1983 "Fotografie '83", Stadthalle Wien, Vienna

1983 "Photographie in Deutschland heute", Koninklijke Akademie voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent; Cultureel Centrum, Hasselt; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; Het Wapenschild, Antwerp

1983 "La mirada seducida", Galeria Forum, Tarragona


1982 "International Photographers", Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco

1982 "European Photography: Recovering our Face through the Image", 3rd Meeting per l'Amicizia fra i Popoli, Rimini


1981 "Eight Contemporary European Photographers", Rice Media Center, Houston

1981 "Erweiterte Fotografie", 5. Internationale Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna

1981 "Aspekte zeitgenössischer deutscher Fotografie", PPS-Galerie, Hamburg

1981 "Drei Fotografen: Larry Fink, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Michael Schmidt", Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf

1981 "Abstraction and Reality", Galleria Flaviana, Locarno

1981 "New German Photography", Photographers' Gallery, London; The Photographic Gallery, Cardiff; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; The Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale; Gallery of Photography, Dublin; Royal Photographic Society, Bath


1980 "Vorstellungen und Wirklichkeit – 7 Aspekte subjektiver Fotografie", Städtisches Museum Leverkusen; Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna; Fundació Miró, Barcelona; Instituto Alemán, Madrid; Galeria JN, Porto; Instituto Alemao, Lisbon


1978 "Fotografie im Künstlerhaus", Künstlerhaus Göttingen

Collections

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum, Ulm
Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen
Fonds régional d'art contemporain, Corsika (Frac Corse)
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense
DZ Bank Collection, Frankfurt/Main
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Prentenkabinet, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, Leiden
Sammlung Fotografis Länderbank, Vienna
Musée Cantini, Marseille
Polaroid Collection, Paris
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Books from Andreas MÜLLER-POHLE