media artist

In our first exhibition of 2024, everything revolves around perception - paintings and photographs come together to question and expand our understanding of reality. more...

HEAVEN ON EARTH Masayuki Akamatsu and Wolf Nkole Helzle at the Reutlingen City Library [ [6.9.-16.11.2024]. Masayuki Akamatsu and Wolf Nkole Helzle got to know and appreciate each other at the Ogaki Biennale in Japan in 2004. Since then, they have been in dialogue both artistically and as friends. In these 20 years, they have had many joint projects and exhibitions, both in Japan and in Germany and Europe. Zum 20-jährigen Jubiläum stellen die beiden Medienkünstler ein Ausstellungskonzept mit ihren neuesten Arbeiten vor, welche beide auf dem Prinzip des Reisens basieren. more...

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

In 2022, I started experimenting with flowers as part of the photographic poetry series. The first results can be seen here. 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...

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...

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