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Albrecht Fuchs: Portraits

In a workshop, perhaps a print shop, a woman with long dark hair stands behind a large tabletop. On it is a print with a misty look, as if made with spray paint. The woman is looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a dark blue, loose-fitting dress with a deep V-neck.
Albrecht Fuchs, Taryn Simon, New York 2007. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025

Born in Bielefeld in 1964 and based in Cologne, photographer Albrecht Fuchs portrays artists ranging from Ennio Morricone, Martin Kippenberger and Isabelle Huppert to John Baldessari, Nicole Eisenman and Kasper König. After thirty years of work, his series of pictures, some of which were commissioned for newspapers or magazines, provide an insight into artists’ circles worldwide. His photographs are characterized by the fact that he seeks closeness in the distance of the camera. He always shows the personalities in their surroundings, always focusing on the connection between person and space. In this way, Fuchs succeeds in photographing the subjects with great naturalness or even quiet intimacy. His works have been exhibited internationally and are represented in renowned collections. Magazines such as art, Monopol, Süddeutsche Zeitung and FAZ regularly publish his portraits.

A man in dark blue clothing in front of a wall with splendidly decorated tiles in blue and red. He has hardly any hair left and wears dark-rimmed glasses. In front of him is a camera on a tripod. The photo was taken in a mirror.
Albrecht Fuchs, Self portrait, 2025. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025

Albrecht Fuchs

1964 born in Bielefeld, lives and works in Cologne

1986-1993 Studies at the Gesamthochschule Essen, communication design with a focus on photography

1989 Stay in New York, beginning to explore the portrait as a theme

1995 Portraits of Martin von Kippenberger and documentation of his “Metro Net” project

2004-2005 Lectureship at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg

2005 residency in Kuala Lumpur, project “artconneXions”, Goethe Institute /IFA

2006-2008 Teaching position at the Düsseldorf Art Academy

2008 Workshop at the Goethe Institute in Lagos/Nigeria

2009 residency and workshop at the Goethe Institute in Wellington/NZ

 

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2024 Here, Van Horn Gallery, Düsseldorf

2021 Album. Portraits 1989-2020, Kunsthaus Nuremberg

Album. Portraits 1989-2020, Leopold Hoesch Museum Düren

Ⓐ, Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman Gallery, Innsbruck

2020 Two, Nagel Draxler Cabinet, Berlin

Album. Portraits 1989-2020Museum for Photography Braunschweig, Braunschweig

2018 31 Portraits, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne

2016 The Others, Gallery Christian Nagel Projects, Cologne

2012 In the last light, Temporary Gallery, Cologne Album. Portraits 1989-2020, Museum for Photography Braunschweig, Braunschweig

Gallery for Modern Photography, Berlin

2008 Gallery Stephane Simoens, Knokke/Belgium

Gallery Mireille Mosler, New York

2007 Gallery Lena Brüning, Berlin

2005 Gallery Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne

2003 Reger Forum for Contemporary Photography, Munich

2002 Galerie Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne, Statements Paris Photo, Paris

Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2001 Gallery Frehrking Wiesehöfer, Cologne

2000 Gallery Katja Rid, Munich

 

Group exhibitions (selection)

2024 Erinnerungsbilder / Memory Pictures, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
Looking into Time – Age and Aging in Photographic Portraits, The Photographic Collection SK Kultur, Cologne

2023 Looking back in time – age and ageing in photographic portraits, Schloss Neuhardenberg

2020 Portrait II, Neuhardenberg Castle
Great Small Works, Stephane Simoens, Knokke/Belgium

2018/2019 SPECIAL ART SHOP, Gallery Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

2018 Portrait II, Kunstraum Düsseldorf

2017 Portrait II, Kunstverein Oldenburg
curated_by Johannes Wohnseifer, Gallery Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman, Vienna
FaceTunes, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld

2016 Untitled #2 (Portrait), Gallery Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne
Mit anderen Augen / With different Eyes, Kunstmuseum Bonn (catalog)
Mit anderen Augen / With different Eyes, Kunsthalle Nürnberg (catalog)

2014 Through My Eye, Annet Gelink, Amsterdam Through My Eye

2013 Lead Awards, Hamburg

2012 I surrender, Dan Devening Projects, Chicago

2011 Pour Arno, Van Moerkerke Collection, Oostende

Kids Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

2010 ÜBERMODELS, Program, Berlin

Goethe Institute Brussels “Albrecht Fuchs / Jens Ulrich”

2008 Albrecht Fuchs / Johannes Wohnseifer Spichernhöfe Cologne

from 2007 Presentation/presentation, worldwide traveling exhibition of the IFA, Berlin

What does the Jellyfish want? Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2006 Portrait and human image, SK Foundation Cologne

2005 Born in the 60s, C/o Berlin, Berlin

2003 Gallery Gaby Kraushaar, Düsseldorf

2002 Gallery Mai 36, Zurich

2001 Gallery Nikolas Krupp, Basel

2000 Kölnischer Kunstverein annual editions

1997 Really – 7 positions of contemporary photography, Stadtmuseum München (catalog)

Contemporary German Photography Galerie Reckermann, Cologne, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Galerie

neugerriemschneider, Berlin (Catalog)

 

Publications (selection)

2023 Donat, Simonett & Baer, Basel

2022 Basel Family Album by Simonett & Baer, Simonett & Baer, Basel

2020 Album. Portraits 1989-2020, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König

Fifty Three Portraits and a Haystack, Simonett & Baer ,Basel

2018 31 Portraits, Koenig Books, London

2008 MK 95, Snoeck Verlag

2007 Portraits, Snoeck Verlag

2001 Portraits, Tropen Verlag

On a balcony of an apartment block, a woman with short hair stands behind a table with a round white marble top. On the table are two pumpkins and a bunch of leeks. She is wearing red trousers, a grey shirt and a dark blazer. Leafless trees can be seen in the background.
Albrecht Fuchs, Alexandra Bircken, Berlin 2019. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
In a room with parquet flooring, a woman with short hair is standing in front of a black table with an orange-coloured wooden chair. She is wearing white trousers and a beige-coloured blouse. There are photos and drawings on the wall.
Albrecht Fuchs, Christine Binswanger, Basel 2021. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
A room with bookshelves against the wall, a tall green plant and a few pieces of furniture. An older man with white hair and a full white beard is lying on a brown sofa. He is wearing a turquoise T-shirt and dark trousers.
Albrecht Fuchs, John Baldessari, Los Angeles, 2004. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
A young woman with dyed blonde shoulder-length hair and dark highlights is standing on a small terrace next to a low concrete wall. She is wearing a grey jumper, dark, comfortable trousers and flip-flops.
Albrecht Fuchs, Keren Cytter, New York, 2019. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
A young woman stands with her arms folded, leaning against a table in front of a window with a light-coloured curtain. She is wearing shoulder-length dark hair, a dark jumper and jeans. Craft materials in cheerful colours lie on the table.
Albrecht Fuchs, Ketuta Alexi Meshkishvili, Berlin 2024. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
A man with short brown hair and a neat beard is sitting on a comfortable-looking sofa with grey-bluish floral decorations. He is wearing jeans and a dark blue jumper. Works of art hang on the wall.
Albrecht Fuchs, Marcel Odenbach, Köln 2011. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
View from behind: A man with cropped hair is sitting on a red sofa watching television. In the foreground are stacks of books and drawings, to the right a bottle of mineral water.
Albrecht Fuchs, Martin Kippenberger, St. Georgen 1995.© Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
In the corner of a room whose walls are lined with mirror foil, a woman sits on a wide antique chair with her leg bent. She has curly auburn hair and is wearing a dark blue top. Behind her is a man in a dark suit and white shirt. He has slightly flushed cheeks and short grey hair. There are paintings on the walls.
Albrecht Fuchs, Nicole Hackert und Bruno Brunnet, Berlin 2022. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025
In a workshop, perhaps a print shop, a woman with long dark hair stands behind a large tabletop. On it is a print with a misty look, as if made with spray paint. The woman is looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a dark blue, loose-fitting dress with a deep V-neck.
Albrecht Fuchs, Taryn Simon, New York 2007. © Albrecht Fuchs, VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025

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Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

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Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.
Rising red sandstone in the quarry with traces of cut stones.

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Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.
Galvanised pipework, partly at right angles.

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Cooperation with the HSBI 2022/23

A curved reflection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld building. Columns and the protruding first floor can be recognised.
A curved reflection of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld building. Columns and the protruding first floor can be recognised.

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Like an abstract face made of black and white areas, with the black areas forming the eyes, beard and hair, and the white, lightly painted areas forming the skin and nose. Very abstract, perhaps it is not a face.

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Two truncated orange-red circles. One at the top left, one at the bottom right. They almost touch each other in the upper third of the sheet. A white rectangle and several black rectangles of different widths are placed on the circles.

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View into the collection #9
In a room with a concrete floor, there is a cupboard-like metal construction with large glass panes. Inside on the right are a few balls, perhaps made of clay. Leaning against the left is a man in greyish clothes, barefoot. Splashes of red paint on the left pane of glass.

Edith Dekyndt
View of a wall at an acute angle. On it 8 fluorescent tubes in two arrangements of four, one above the other, with two protruding at a slight angle in between, one of them yellow. The wall and room are bathed in green light.

All light

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Black and white photo of a street. We are looking at a wall of houses with stores. Women are crossing the street beneath the large lettering. Two of them are completely covered in white fabric, apart from their eyes.

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