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Videos of media art installations, visual music productions and about the working methods of Wolf Nkole Helzle 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...

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...

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...

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...

Art action for a cultural change from PLEASE to THANKS more...

Katalog 56 Seiten, Herausgeber: Regens Wagner. Absberg, Grußwort Dr. Hubert Soyer. Gestaltung WELLHOLZ, 2018.
Das Gesicht von Regens Wagner Absberg – die Geschichte eines „Werdens“ more...

Katalog 56 Seiten, Herausgeber: Stadt Korntal-Münchingen, Grußwort Dr. Joachim Wolf. Gestaltung WELLHOLZ, 2018.
Partizipatives Fotokunstprojekt mit der Bevölkerung von Korntal-Münchingen und ihren Feunden zum Stadtjubiläum 2019 more...