Burkhard von Harder, 1954*, Isle of Sylt/Germany

NYU Film Student (class of Haig Manoogian) 1977/78 and 

Fleckhaus (1925 -1983) Student, University of Wuppertal 

(1982/83, studies ended with F.’s untimely death)

 

 Exhibitions (solo/group) :

• 59. VENICE BIENNIAL, April 23 - Nov 27, 2022 (g)

• PHOTO LONDON with Arthill Gallery, London / UK, Fall 2021 (g)

• SHANGHAI ART FAIR, Shanghai / China, Fall 2020 (s)

• Shanghai International Photography Festival, Fall 2020 (s)

• DAS MAGISCHE THEATER, St. Moritz / Switzerland, Winter 2020 (g)

• IBICENCO IV DESERT WATERS, Ibiza / Spain, Fall 2019 (g)

• BLACKBOX, APPROPRIATING THE QUATSI-TRILGOY, Shenzen / China, Fall 2018 (g)

• SHANGHAI PHOTO, Shanghai/China, Fall 2018 (s)

• IMMORTAL CITY, EXHIBITION, Binhai / China, Fall 2018 (g)

• DETOUR+DISTANCE, Beijing / China, Spring 2018 (s)

• IMPERIAL PARK, Beijing / China, Summer 2017 (g)

• 24 FPS-DECONSTRUCTING MOVIE(S), Being3 Gallery, Beijing.China, Dec. 2015 (s)

• THE PURE SUPREME, 10 years anniversary Being3 Gallery, Beijing/ China,, Dec.12, 2015 with Zhong Biao, Piero Mottola, Vanessa Alessi, Lisa SIsters, Su Rui, Ji Zi, Zhu Xiaodi, Chen Danyang, Zhang Zhaohui, Lan Zhenghui, Wei Ligang, Lv Peng

• NARBE DEUTSCHLAND, 967 min, 2008-2014, Being3 Gallery, Beijing/China, Oct. 25 - Dec. 7, 2014 (s)

•  SECOND SERIES 2014, atArt, 798, Beijing/China, Oct 25 - Dec. 7, 2014 (s)

• INFOCUS, Juried exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, second museum survey on the PoD phaenomenon, Arizona/ USA, Aug 23 - Sept 28, 2014

• RECIPROCAL FABRICATION, Art College of Shangdong Architectual University Jinan/Shangdong, China 2013 (Claus Brunsmann, Burkhard von Harder, Hans Petri, Martina Schumacher, Eva-Maria Schwab, Eduard Winklhofer)

• VIZII: 1st Int. Festival of Visual Culture and Photos, Kyiv/Ukraine, May / June 2013 (s)

• ED RUSCHA - BOOKS & CO, Gagosian - Madison Ave. NYC - bvh book contribution: SCARRED - Every Mile of the Death Strip, NYC/USA, March 5 - April 27, 2013

• COLOR, CWC Gallery/Camera Work Contemporary, Berlin/Germany, Sept. 15 - Dec. 1,2012

• DIY-PHOTOGRAPHERS & BOOKS, Cleveland Museum of Art - first museum survey on PoD phenomenon, Aug 11 - Dec 30, 2012 (bvh contribution: ARCHIVE MIRROR)

• THE UNSEEN EYE: Photographs from the Unconscious - The W.M.Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY/USA - October 1st 2011, February 19th, 2012

• DIE FOTO-BILDNISSE VON BURKHARD VON HARDER, Galerie Christian Pixis, Munich/Germany, 2009, double-feature with painter Rocco Pagel

• PANORAMA FOR LITHUANIA, site specific Installation, 3 meter x 12 meter, Fort IX Memorial, Kaunas/Lithuania, 2008 (s)

• DER VERTRAG, Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld/Germany, 2005 (s)

• VON HARDER, HILSDORF, HORST P. HORST, Camera Work, Berlin/ Germany, 2001

• SWIMMERS, Goethe Institut, New York/USA, 2000 (s)

• IMAGES, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö/Sweden, 1997 (s)

• 50 JAHRE MODERNE FARBPHOTOGRAPHIE, Photokina, Köln/Germany, 1986 (g)

 

Films : 

 

PLANET SCAR, 2:12, 2020

UNTTITLED FILMSCROLLS, Experimental Filmseries. 2015-2018

NARBE DEUTSCHLAND / SCAR GERMANY (Narbe Project Part II), 

960:00, 2009-2014 (Remastered 2022), Germany

NARBE BERLIN / SCAR BERLIN (Narbe Project Part I), 76:00, 2009, Germany

YOU CANT PUSH BACK THE RIVER, 1992-96, 86:00, Brasil/Germany

BRIEF AN EINEN FREMDEN, 1989, 28:00, Morocco/Germany

REQUIEM - VOM SCHEITERN EINER GEISTIGEN ENTGRENZUNG, 45:00, 1979/80, Germany

 

Publications (about works by Burkhard von Harder - selection):

• THE GUARDIAN, 01/05/2022, LensCulture’s Black & White Photography Awards, 

• BLURS, Catalogue Group Show Being3 Gallery, Beijing / China, Fall 2021

• ArtLovers, Galerie Christian Pixis, Munich/ Germany, Winter 2021

• CONVEYOR Magazin #7, 2015 (Decaying History by Liz Sales)

• NARBE DEUTSCHLAND, Exhibition Catalogue Being3 Gallery, Beijing China, 2014

• INT. NEW YORK TIMES, PAGE TWO (The Images they left behind), 8/14/2014

• ARCHIVE MIRROR BY BURKHARD VON HARDER, Text by Sarah James, PHOTOWORKS #18 - 5/2012

• COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, Text: Karl E. Johnson, EYEMAZING Magazine 1/2012, by Anonymous/Burkhard von Harder

• THE UNSEEN EYE. Photographs from the Unconscious. The WM Hunt / Collection, Burkhard von Harder: Man on the Diving Board, 1985, Aperture/Thames & Hudson, London/NY, 2011

• PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF DIGITAL PRINTING, Nash Editions, Burkhard von Harder: Frontispiz and page 206, Graham Nash (Hg.), Berkeley, CA 2006

• DER VERTRAG, Exhibition Catalogue, Burkhard von Harder. Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld, 2005

• IMAGES, Exhibition Catalogue, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö 1997

• Varanasi, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1987

• INDIA POR BURKHARD PHILIPP HARDER, Irisfoto no. 552, April/Mai 1992, page 16-25

• ROBERTO BURLE MARX: UMA FLOR DE PESSOA, Vogue Brasil, Vogue Special Edition : Cover and 30 Page spread, text: Fernando Gabeira, photographs: Burkhard von Harder, page 76-107, Nr. 139, February 1987

• INDIA POR BURKHARD PHILIPP HARDER, Irisfoto no. 552, April/Mai 1992, page 16-25

• Schwimmer II, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1986

• Schwimmer, Zeit-Magazin, 1986

• Hansa Varietee Hamburg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983

• Der Wiener Ring, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983

• Cafe Greco, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983

• 50 JAHRE FARBFOTOGRAFIE, Manfred Heiting Hrsg, photokina, 1986

• DAS DEUTSCHE LICHTBILD, Wolf Strache/Otto Steinert (Hg.), S. 147: Burkhard von Harder: Drei Phasen eines Zuges, DSB, Stuttgart 1973

Publications (texts on Burkhard von Harder - selection):

• RADICAL ARCHIVES by Sarah James, FRIEZE d/e Magazine, 2015

• EVERYONE IS THE ENTIRE HUMANKIND, catalogue text by Mianbu (curator/poet) on the 16 hour project NARBE DEUTSCHLAND by Burkhard von Harder, Being3 Gallery, Beijing 2014

• THE IMAGES THEY LEFT BEHIND, Int. New York Times, Aug 14, 2014

• BLACK AND WHITE ATLANTIS, text by Oksana Zabushko on the anonymous Ukrainian negatives by Burkhard von Harder, 2013

• DER VERSUCH ZU VERSTEHEN - DIE FOTOINSTALLATION PANORAMA FORT IX/LITAUEN VON BURKHARD VON HARDER, Text Nicole Graner, SZ vom 19.12.2012

• ARCHIVE MIRROR BY BURKHARD VON HARDER, Text by Sarah James, PHOTOWORKS #18 - 5/2012

• COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, Text: Karl E. Johnson, EYEMAZING Magazine 1/2012, by Anonymous/Burkhard von Harder

• FOTOGRAFIE UND ERINNERUNG: DIE FOTO-BILDNISSE VON BURKHARD VON HARDER, Text von Christian d’Orville, Artlover 05/2011, Galerie Christian Pixis/Muenchen

• ERINNERUNGEN AN AFGHANISTAN, Text F. Adler, Juni/Juli 2009, SCHWARZWEISS 70 (Magazine for Photography)

• Prof. Joern Merkert: Text unvollendet (unpublished), 2007

• DIE SCHEMEN DES URSPRUNGS. ZU DEN FOTOGRAFISCHEN BILDERN VON BURKHARD VON HARDER, Text: Bernard Marcade, 2002 (unpublished)

• SWIMMERS, Catalogue, Burkhard von Harder: Portraits of People in German Bathing Houses, Text: Andy Grundberg, Goethe Institute, New York, 2001

Participant at Conventions:

• ACCIDENT ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL i.e. THE BIG DISTRACTION, presenter, DNK Deutsches Nationalkomitee fuer Denkmalschutz, Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste/Dresden, Oct. 7, 2011

• THE ART OF PUBLIC MEMORY: NARBE BERLIN, presenter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2011

Burkhard von Harder is a former member of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative. Between 2011 and 2013 he self-published almost many books and zines (MORTO IN ITALIA, 2010 / ARCHIVE MIRROR, 2011 / COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, 2011 / ANONYMOUS COLD WAR ARCHIVE, 2014)

 

Works in private and public collections incl. the Libraries of Tate Modern / London / Metropolitan Museum of Art/NY / New York Public Library (NYPL) / Cleveland Museum of Art/USA / Centre Pompidou/Paris. Burkhard von Harder’s work has been exhibited internationally in China/England/France/Germany/Italy/Lithuania/ Netherlands/Spain/ Sweden/Ukraine/USA.

 

Feb, 2022