Dirk Müggenburg

b 1977 Buchholz. Lives and works in Berlin.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Dirk Mueggenburg’s still-lifes are a result of an obsession with flowers: People use them as symbols to make statements of affection and mourning, and people avoid them as they stand for vulnerability and doomed promises. It seems impossible to view flowers as neutral objects, for their designs arouse either admiration and desire or loathing due to cultural overexposure and negative connotations of kitsch. Dirk Mueggenburg happily gives in to this hate-love relationship and explores a critical engagement with attraction, melancholia and sentiment.

 

Vita

  • Education
  • 2012 Deutsche Pop Academy for Music and Media - Berlin - DE
  • 1999 - 2005 Diploma Communication Design - University of Applied Sciences - Hamburg - DE 
  • Analog & Digital Photography & Image Processing - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design - Jerusalem
  • Exhibitions
  • 2017 50 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation - Multipolster - Berlin - DE
  • Awards
  • 2009 Prize of the Darmstädter Sezession - Darmstadt - DE
  • 2005 Kodak New Talent Award - Hamburg - DE
  • Publications
  • 2017 
  • Photography Portfolio - Luel magazine
  • Der Greif
  • DNCHT Magazine for Photography, Design and Subculture #18
  • 2015 
  • Guest-Room - Der Greif
  • 2007
  • Vorn IV
  • 2005
  • Photonews Nr.5

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