Andreas Rost | Photo workshop - Thursday 16th

The Professional View with Andreas Rost

Photo Workshop + Portfolio Review

Call for Submissions; No registration fee; Deadline: 10.01.2014
Mail submissions to: andreas.rost.berlin@gmail.com

In collaboration with Tasveer and Toto Funds the Arts in Bangalore and with Pepper House Residency, Goethe-Zentrum Trivandrum and Madhavan Pillai Foundation in Kochi.

You are invited to put together a portfolio of not more than 6 photos on the following theme: CityCentric Urban Issues

Send your portfolio (maximum file size: 2 MB) along with your contact details to: andreas.rost.berlin@gmail.com before January 10, 2014.

Andreas Rost will personally select 10 photographers, who are then invited to participate in a day-long workshop where Rost will examine and discuss the submitted portfolios in the light of his own works, professional expertise and in-depth experience.

Bangalore: Thursday January 16, 2014, 10.00 a.m. onwards at Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan

Born 1966 in Weimar, Andreas Rost is an internationally-reputed German photographer and curator.

Biography: 1984/85 apprenticed in photography in Dresden; 1988–1993 studied photography at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts; since 1994 freelance photographer and curator; since 2006 ifa-Representative for Photography / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; lives and works in Berlin.

Grants and prizes (selection): 2000 nominated for the Dorothea von Stetten-Award, Kunstmuseum Bonn; 1995 Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography, Gera (cat.); 1994 Stiftung Kulturfonds, Berlin.

Solo and group exhibitions (selection): 2013 Niemeyer Revisté MAMA, Algier(cat); 2011 Road Atlas. Street Photography from Helen Levitt to Pieter Hugo, DZ Bank, Rüsselsheim (cat); 2006 Solo für Ramallah, Directors Lounge, Videofilmfestival, Berlin 2005 Hittiste, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Algier, Algerien 2003 Linke Hand | Rechte Hand, 798 Art Space, Peking, China; 2003 Berlin – Moskau/Moskau Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (cat); 2001 Kunstverein Herzattacke, Berlin; 2001 Kunst und Kur, Meran, Italy (cat.); 2001 Das flache Land. Positionen einer unspektakulären Sicht [The Flat Land. Positions from an Unspectacular Perspective], Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus (cat.); 2001 Galerie am Markt, Weimar (solo exhibition); 2001 Dreißig Tage [Thirty Days], Fotogalerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin (solo exhibition, cat.); 2000 Galerie Pankow, Berlin (solo exhibition) 1998 R & R Galerie, Berlin (solo exhibition); 1998 Galerie Tools, Berlin (solo exhibition); 1997 Fotografie als Geste [Photography as Gesture], Staatliches Museum Schwerin (cat.); 1996 and 1997 Galerie für Fotografie GAFF, Rotenburg (solo exhibition); 1996 Von oben herab [from the top down], Gerd Schackenwinkel Collection, Josef-Albers-Museum, Bottrop.