In 2022, I started experimenting with flowers as part of the photographic poetry series. The first results can be seen here. more...
Katalog 96 Seiten, Herausgeber:Wolf Nkole Helzle, Einführung Wolf Nkole Helzle. Gestaltung WELLHOLZ, 2022.
Participatory photo art project by Wolf Nkole Helzle 1997 - 2022 ff more...
FACE(S) OF THE 11th ASSEMBLY - Photo Art Project with the Participants of the 11th Assembly of the WCC by Artist Wolf Nkole Helzle more...
In 1997, I began to take photographic portraits of people. In doing so, I explored the question of how I could imagine being a six-billionth. Of something in an order of magnitude I could not adjust. In the early years, I used a morphing programme to calculate the transitions from one face to the next. The result was projected onto a suitable surface in large format. The work kept evolving and in 2012 I was able to develop software that allowed me to layer all the faces of an event in a highly transparent way. From then on, the result consisted of all individual portraits as well as a collective portrait. more...
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Starting in 2021, I plan to photograph at least 5,000 people in the more than 50 African countries and to form a common, collective face of the African continent from all the individual portraits. more...
With the new series "Digital Painting - Landscapes of the Swabian Alb" I applied for the tender of the Ministry of Science, Research and Art of the State of Baden Württemberg. The application stated that I use new techniques in my photography, which focus on the chosen location from above as well as from all sides and many angles, from far away and in close detail. more...
TOZO KOMA:ankommen - an intercultural audiovisual project. Kinshasa is currently considered the most culturally exciting and diverse metropolis in Africa, with a vibrant, pulsating, extremely progressive art and culture scene. As an intercultural project, TOZO KOMA brings together some of the leading artists from Kinshasa with avant-garde artists from Baden-Württemberg to develop a joint performance between music and video. (Press release of the organisers) more...
Nepal. Kathmandu. Rajesh Shahi calls me by video call to ask if I am willing to photograph the pupils of his Sanga Sangai school. No sooner said than done: more...
Real encounters can also take place online. Taking a photo takes max. 2 minutes. There is no queue. You release your photo. And so the media artist is now available online :from 2 - 30.11.2020 from 14-16 clock CET After completion of the project at the end of November 2020, the results will be shown both here online on this site and in Wolf Helzle's next exhibition. more...
Katalog 60 Seiten, Herausgeber: Wolf Nkole Helzle, Einführung Ricarda Geib. Gestaltung WELLHOLZ, 2020.
For centuries, the genre of the portrait remained determined by Cartesian thought: "cogito ergo sum". Faces were considered the key to identification. Helzle broke with the topos of unity, the inviolability of the self. more...