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Starting in 2021, I planned 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. After a year of work, I am delighted to have more than 2,000 portraits from 17 African countries. 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...
Following an inner voice, the internationally operating media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle is releasing a limited and signed edition of his series of works "Homo universalis - The Image of Man" in order to use the proceeds to relieve the suffering of the people in the Moria camp on Lesbos. "The situation of the refugees gets to me so much that I ask myself what I can do to help these people." more...
Katalog 56 Seiten, Herausgeber:Wolf Nkole Helzle (mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Stiftung "Schlösschen im Hofgarten", Wertheim, Einführung Betha Maier-Kraushaar. Gestaltung WELLHOLZ, 2020.
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Inspired by reading the work of the Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti and his statement „the observer is the observed“, I took a photo of a random counterpart every day from 2010 to 2011 in order to personally verify this statement. With the astonishing result that the previous view of the world: „This is me“ and „This is not me“ could no longer be maintained. As if by chance, a new series „365 Self-Portraits“ was created. Further interests were added like „Simultaneity“ and the project „Stuttgart 21“, so that I developed the concept for this work at the end of 2011. Sponsors enabled me to realize the design and programming, so that the platform went online in March 2012. more...
