VITA
2004 | today Focused on photo- and videowork with multicopters art, film, industry, advertising |
2004 | accredited artist, The Federal Association of Artists of the Fine Arts (BBK) |
2000 | photography from helicopter |
1997 | focus on photography and visual arts |
1994 | self—reliance with video installations and art videos |
1967 | born in Sindelfingen, Germany |
Stephan Zirwes is a professional Photographer who is specialised in aerial photography with an artistic approach to the themes of the environment and our surroundings. He is working with still and moving pictures since the early 90ies creating videoinstallations, art-videos and visual-arts. Then focused on Art Photography and working out of Helicopters and with Drones since many years for industry, movie productions and his own art projects. Structures and (un)intended arrangements are in the focus of his free work.
The pictures have many layers: it is about aesthetic, but then, with an documentary approach, also about ethics. Compositions which are harmonious in colour and graphic, turn out as pictures with scars in nature - made by humans. Pictures full of little storys and political elements which are made visible only through the distance from above.
AWARDS (selection)
2019 | Sony World Photographer Awards, Architecture, Category Winner |
2018 | IPA International Photography Awards, Architecture Photographer of the Year |
2016 | Sony World Photographer Award, Architecture, Winner |
2010 | Winner of the Hasselblad Masters Award |
2009 |
Sony World Photographer Award, Fine Art, Short List BFF Awards, Gold and Silver |
2008 | Honoring at the Aenne-Biermann-Preis, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Gera |
2006 | Visual Leader, Lead Awards |
2004 | Intermedia Globe GOLD, World Media Festivals, Finalist Winner, New York Festivals |
EXIBITIONS (selection)
2019 | Galerie b, Stuttgart, Germany |
2018 | Space Place One, Nizhny Tagil, Russia |
2017 | Museo Nacional de la Fotografia de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia |
2016 |
Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany Opiom Gallery, Opio, France |
2015 | Macadam Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
2014 | Luftmuseum, Amberg, Germany |
2013 | Opiom Gallery, Opio, France |
2012 |
Ross Akard Gallery, Texas, USA Krause Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Ruttkowski68, Cologne, Germany |
2010/11SF | MOMA, San Francisco, USA |
2010 |
Jeonju Photofestival, Jeonju, South Korea Baltic Biennale, St. Petersburg, Russia Photokina, Cologne, Germany |
2009 |
The Empty Quarter, Dubai, United Arab Emirates ART Miami, Florida, USA |
2007 | Museum of Contemporary Arts, Gera, Germany |
2006 | Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany |
2004 | Galerie eigen.art, Stuttgart, Germany |
PRESS (selected articles)
DJI Magazine, 2018, Summer with the Pools
L’officiel Voyage Russia, 2018, Pools
Norwegian Airlines Magazine, 2015, What’s with all the pools?
Urban China City Thinker, 2013, A parallel world
Underscore Magazine, 2013, Above and beyond
Fotomagazin, 2012, Strukturell betrachtet
Jetgala, 2011, Glacial portraits
Icon21,2011, The eye in the Sky
Hasselblad, 2010, Press Release