Wolfgang In Der Wiesche's Projects
tired of protecting myself against contiuous rain floods, remembering snowy winters, shot 02/2016
portrait series of Kyongju Park (South Korea), social artist, art director of the Multicultural Artist Group 'salad', Seoul, and various projects on migration related topics, here visiting the border triangle Germany - Netherlands - Belgium with me, planning new collaborative work, shot 01/2016
portrait series of Aicha (Sudan), student of Geosciences in Germany, active in various social projects, one of which is foodsaving, shot 02/2016 during carnival
First series of autobahn photographs shot as part of the preparation work for setting up the installation AUTO IM MO RT AL for an exhibition titled ERFAHRUNGSRAUM AUTOBAHN. The series is the attempt to express a critical view on the automobile culture by giving the composition a surreal twist...
shot Aug 2014, Bodensee-Winterlingen, Germany, the photograph shows a raised hide as a critical reflection on human 'control' and power over nature, it also refers to images of watch towers and raised hides in contemporary German (post war) art...
I shot the photograph while living in India, during a stay in Kolkata in 2009. In it's state of being frozen in time on the one hand, or you could as well say constant decline, life in the city is bursting with vitality on the other hand. The photograph reflects both, the antique but functioning cab driven by the hand of a driver alway ready to push ahead.
I shot "sleeper in maastricht (blue & red)" while shooting a series about grafitti art in Maastricht, Netherlands, while participating in a painting exhibition in the city myself. The series has kind of an intro and an epilogue, "sleeper in maastricht (blue & red)" is the first shot of the epilogue. To view the full series please visit: https://xtendedline.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/maastricht-graffiti-aside-nu-kunsttour-maastricht-netherlands-photography-series-by-wolfgang-in-der-wiesche/ I like the calmness and concentration of the scene while the original subject of the series is cited in the upper right corner of the photograph and colour appears on the handrails.
The red scarf with the black dot pattern was a present from a Chinese friend, for my wife. I created a series of self portraits with it asking myself questions about political issues reg. China, remembering a friend, Chinese rock star Cui Jian wearing a red blindfold in one of his most famous song videos, my transcultural life, and at that time including the arab spring movement, culture & religion clash etc. I decided it is meant as a gender neutral dadaistic call for love & peace. I then exhibtited the self portraits in Germany and at the PHOTO BEIJING 2014. During an exhibition in Germany I shot the "self portrait with the self portrait with a red chinese scarf". The Chinese friend decided never to gift scarfs again to us ;-) but came to see the exhibition in Beijing.
Something blurry with a grungy look for a change. It’s a series shot in December 2004 on a long distance Indian Rail Train to Orissa. I took the pictures through an aged dirty train door window while moving. I was instantly fascinated by the results reminding me of old Dutch landscape paintings overlayed with tinted varnish or just patina. I decided to leave the images just as they turned out while shooting. It was a colourful adventurous trip otherwise...
series, selection | J & E foodsaving | shot in three sessions in March 2015 (plus one earlier session in September 2014 with a different camera) | the series is partly documentary on foodsaving/foodsharing, but more intended as an art photography series influenced by street photography
Every now and then goals appear on my photographs, these I shot end of October, 2015 at BSV Ölper, Braunschweig, Germany.
shot in March, 2014 on a playground in Aachen, Aken, Aix La Chapelle available as a mirrored diptych or as a 2-panel diptych