The multimedia art project myMatrix by media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle is a vast cosmos of images of a special kind. Designed as a participatory project involving the local population, thousands of images of a landscape, a city or a region move across a large area indoors or outdoors. These are images that the artist captures with the local population during photographic walks. In the projection, the images condense into three dimensions, then explode again, contract or pause at an image and fly on again in a constantly random order. 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 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...
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...
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...
A group of artists, musicians and sound designers encounter the landscapes of the Swabian Alb. The dialogues and introductions that take place in this way form the basis for a variety of productions. The website provides insights into inspections, field recordings and artistic realisations. more...
Audiovisual Installation by Wolf Nkole Helzle with photographes of Victor S. Brigola, Emine Cetin, Karin Fietzek, Angelika Hagen, Ulla Hallkola, Manfred Helzle, Wolf Nkole Helzle, Timber A. Hemprich, Rolf-Peter König, Hans Landenberger, Rüdiger Miksch, Nuray Önoglu, Karin Pietzka, Karin Rehm, Mervi Rutanen, Michael Satow, Raija Silvenoinen, Gerd und Monika Strobel, German und Magnus Zoeschinger and with Field Recordings of Thorsten Toto Schreijäg and Michael Fetscher.. more...
Homo Universalis is like a picture of a higher order, a floating icon. It gives the portrayed a new, common identity. The Today is exceeded on a future which is not tangible. Since 2009, the artist works on "multiple portraits." Scintillating between individual and collective Helzle organized duality and bring them into balance, the ego becomes We. Multiple portraits reflect a different reality than that of the individual. more...