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Oliver Mark (born 1963) is a German photographer, known primarily for his portrait photographs of international celebrities.




Career



In the 1990s, Mark began photographing celebrities. He made portraits of public figures including actors.
His personal interest lies in contemporary artists and their creative world.
He works with both a single-lens reflex camera and an old 680 Polaroid camera. The instant photographs produced by the Polaroid reveal Mark's familiarity and closeness to the subjects he portrays.
In addition to his portraits, Mark regularly engages in independent projects. In the series Natura Morta (2017), he photographed confiscated objects from the evidence room of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation. These items, mostly falling under species protection regulations, were originally intended as souvenirs before being seized by customs authorities. Mark presents these objects in a way that emphasizes their allure, only to evoke stronger repulsion from the viewer. The series was exhibited in 2017 in two parts at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Natural History Museum in Vienna.




Personal life


Mark is the father of two sons and lives in Berlin.




Publications


Portraits. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2484-5.
With Martina Schellhorn: Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-932502-60-6.
Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag. Alpenland, Schaan 2013, ISBN 978-3-905437-34-8.
Außenseiter und Eingeweihter. [Outsider and Insider] Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3756-2.
Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben. [From the rubble crawls life] b.frank books, Zürich 2013, ISBN 978-3-906217-00-0. (with poems by K. O. Götz)
Oliver – Nutte Künstler Fotograf. Die ganze Wahrheit über Oliver Mark. [Oliver – hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark] Grauel, Berlin 2014.
Natura Morta. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86828-759-2. (with texts by Barbara Hendricks, Rainer Vollkommer, Philipp Demandt, Julia M. Nauhaus, Michael Schipper, Aurelia Frick, Christian Köberl, Lorenz Becker)
Bucovina Monastery Life. Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum, 2018, ISBN 978-606-8698-29-8. (with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu)
No Show. Distanz, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-95476-281-1. (with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll, Christoph Peters, Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper)




Solo exhibitions



2002/03: Portraits, Mougins Center of Photography, Mougins
2011: 7 Artists and 1 Nude, Galerie Gloria, Berlin
2011: Portraits, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm
2012/13: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren, Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam
2013: Heimat verpflichtet, Kanzlei im Lübbenauer Schlossbezirk, Lübbenau
2013: Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag am 15 August 2012, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
2014: Oliver Mark – still...lesen, Goethe-Institut Irland, Dublin
2014: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz des Neuanfangs, Fürst-Pückler-Museum, Cottbus
2014: Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben – Portraits von Karl Otto Götz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
2016/17: Natura Morta, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
2017: Natura Morta, Natural History Museum Vienna
2017: Natura Morta, Fotografien von Oliver Mark in Korrespondenz zu Stillleben-Gemälden der Sammlung, The Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2018: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Bukovina Museum Suceava, Romania
2019: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz
2019: No Show, Villa Dessauer – Museen der Stadt Bamberg
2019/20: Golden Shoes – Photographs from the Collection of the Liechtenstein National Museum by Oliver Mark
2019/20: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, St. Thomas von Aquin Church
2020: Jenny Holzer's Hands in the Peter and Paul Church, Potsdam




Collections


Mark's work is held in the following permanent collections:

Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Würth Collection
Bukovina Museum, Suceava, Romania




Gallery















































See also



List of German artists
List of photographers
List of people from Berlin




References






External links



Official website
"Oliver Mark at the Lindenau-Museum" In: clairbykahn.com
Interview: "Oliver Mark's Astounding Portraits of Your Favorite Artists" In: noisey.vice.com
Article about the "Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2013" In: justaddpictures.com
Literature by and about Oliver Mark in the German National Library catalogue

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