After some detours, I am once again living in Frankfurt am Main, where I was born. Subsequent to studying visual communication, I worked as a filmmaker – you can find more information about my films here. In addition to working on my films, I have turned my focus more and more to photography, now switching evenly between the moving and the still image.
There are similarities and opposites in the fields of film and photography. The observing moment and process of exploring, I value in both. The photographic image, as a single image, I perceive as contemplative. Putting one image in dialogue with another causes a narration in the viewers’ mind. A series can deepen a theme. Photography is a language with its own specificity.
My pleasure in photography is the process of clipping out space and time and transforming them into an image. I’m drawn by the valuable in the mundane.
For me Photography is an art of discovering things and shifting them into a visual expression. Open minded, and with some luck and matching circumstances, I find my pictures everywhere. I call them improvised treasures.
My photographic approach is intuitive, it combines the controlled random and the conscious selection. This process occasionally develops into a further conceptual work and deepening of the theme.
Solo exhibitions
2023 – „Blauer Mond und tanzende Linien“, Kunstfoyer Gallustheater Frankfurt
2021 – „Bild2Film“, Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2018 – 2018 – „transform“, projektHaus Leistikow, Fotografie & Tanzfilme
Participation in group exhibitions (selection)
2023 – „Verschleierte Illusionen“, together with Sabine Stange, Kunstbalkon Kassel,
Collaboration Produzentengalerie kunstbalkon Kassel and Kunstvereins EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2023 – „reconsider“, EULENGASSE guest in Galeria e Arteve Gjilan, Kosovo
2022 – „Licht bewegt“, Kunsttage 30 Dreieich, Städtische Galerie Dreieich
2022 – „Zeitkonserven“, Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE, Frankfurt,
2022 – „grün“, Scheune 7, Flörsbachtal-Kempfenbrunn, Video „grünes Begehren“
2022 – „Kurswechsel“, Ausstellungsraum EULENGASSE, Frankfurt
2019 – „Set in Motion“, Kunstfabrik Darmstadt-Wixhausen
Art scholarships
2020 – Project grant from the Hessian Cultural Foundation as part of the „Hessen kulturell neu eröffnen“ funding program
1997 – Moldova scholarship from the Hess. Ministry of Science and Art, 3-month stay in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, fall 1997 – Internet project and photographic work
Awards
2022 Shortlisted at the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award with the project „Memory Affairs“
2014 – 1st prize and cinema prize at the Choreografic Captures competition for „A Horse’s Dream“
2004 Jury-Preis Dance on Camera Festival New York for the film „Ladies and Gentlemen over 65“
2003 German Film Critics‘ Award for the best documentary film for „Ladies and Gentlemen over 65“
2000 – Nomination for the International Media Art Prize ZKM 50 Best for the film „Somewhere we have seen each other before“
Professional Activities and Research Experience
1985 until – now I work as a freelance lens-based artist.
1992 – 96 research assistent at Academy of Media Arts Cologne
1983 – 2017 Management of my own production company, production of numerous documentaries as well as feature and experimental films. The films were often supported by funding and shown at festivals, in cinema and on television. I have worked in the areas of production, directing and editing and have occasionally worked as a camera operator.
Education
1985 diploma in visual communication with film and photo at the University of Art and Design Offenbach (Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach)
You can find me on Instagram
If there is interest in my works please feel free to contact me.
lmangelsdorff(at)t-online.de