Artist Statement
A significant part of my artistic practice involves walking through meadows, forests, and mountains. This is where I encounter a web of interconnections that extend far beyond the realm of the human. This web is inhabited by a wide variety of beings that mutually depend on each other, in permanent change. By actively looking out for these other beings located in the margins of our phenomenal perception, a correspondence between the human and the nonhuman sphere starts to unfold. The intention of my artistic practice is to create positions that allow the opposites of the rational and the irrational, life and non-life, art and nature to converge. The imaginary perspectives thereby created are designed to sensitize our perception to alternative forms of knowledge and the ecological complexity of the world.
Biography
Martin Tscholl (1983) has been studying fine art photography at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin at the seminar Ludwig Rauch (2017-2019) and at the Masterclass Ludwig Rauch (2020-2023). He holds an M.A. in Visual and Media Anthropology and is an artistic researcher at the Natural History Museum in Berlin. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in artistic research at SINTA (Studies in the Arts) in Bern, Switzerland. His visual research practice draws on aesthetic experience as core to ecological sensibility. His works have been awarded and shown internationally several times amongst others at Copenhagen Photo Festival, Fotofestival Lenzburg, Fresh Eyes Photo Fair, Amsterdam, International Photography Festival Encontros Da Imagem, Braga.
Exhibitions/presentations
2024 Book Presentation "Imaginary Ecologies", Paris Photo
2024 Forest Vortex - Im Sog des Waldes, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin. Curator: Thomas Stanka
2024 Anthropocene: Before, Still and Tomorrow, Braga, Portugal. Curator: Vítor Nieves
2023 Kunstraum Potsdam, Masterclass Ludwig Rauch
2022 Photopia, Hamburg
2022 Fotogipfel Oberstdorf, Kunsthaus Villa Jaus
2020 Photo Kyiv, International Photography Fair
2020 Social and Distance, Torstrasse 111 - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
2020 Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan
2020 Fresh Eyes Photo Fair, Amsterdam
2020 International Photography Festival FestFoto, Ibere Camargo Museum, Porto Alegre
2020 International Photography Festival Encontros Da Imagem, Braga
2019 The Independent Photographer, Talents Of The Year 2019, Fifty dots Gallery, Barcelona
2019 The Censored Exhibition, Copenhagen Photo Festival
2019 Suche nach Schönheit, Fotofestival Lenzburg
2019 Abstract, The SE Center for Photography
2019 Vom Kopf zum Bild und zurück, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2018 Die Unwiderlegbarkeit der Behauptung, Torstrasse 111 - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
Awards & Nominations
2023 Emergentes 2023 - International Photography Award Encontros da Imagem, Braga: Finalist
2021 Profitfoto New Talent Award 20/21: Winner - 2nd Prize
2020 Athen Photofestival: Shortlist
2020 Fresh Eyes, GUP Magazine: Emerging Talent
2020 Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2020: Shortlist
2020 International Photography Festival FestFoto, Porto Alegre: Finalist
2020 Aesthetica Art Prize: Longlist
2019 Emergentes 2019 - International Photography Award Encontros da Imagem, Braga: Finalist
2019 International Photography Grant - Category Landscape: Nominee
2019 Barcelona International Photography Awards : Nominee
2019 Athen Photofestival: Shortlist
2019 Fine Art Photography Award - Category Landscape: Nominee
2019 The Independent Photographer - Color Photography Award 2019: Winner - 3rd Prize
Publications
2021 Profifoto Nr. 7-8 - Feature
2020 Analog Magazine - Feature and Interview
2020 Fresh Eyes - The best 100 emerging photography talent from Europe - powered by GUP Magazine
2020 Future Now - 100 Contemporary Artists from the Aesthetica Art Price
2019 Competitions Awards - Talents of the year 2018/2019 - The Independent Photographer
2019 Copenhagen Photo Festival Event Auction Catalogue - Bruun Rasmussen, Auctioneers of Fine Art
Artist Residency
2021 Mountain Residency Program of Photographic Research at Verzasca Photo
