MARTIN KLIMAS
Martin Klimas is the colorful and creative hybrid of photographers Eadweard Muybridge and Dr. Harold Edgerton. Through his own experimentation with motion and the cause and effect in gravity, Klimas’ photographs explore relationships with time, beauty and destruction. In his work with Porcelain, Klimas uses a strobe light and a single camera frame; one chance of the figurine dropping and shattering. In his series Flowers, a spring-fired projectile bursts the base of the vase into a bedlam of fragmented pieces. In each photograph, Klimas shows the transformation of solid object into one that is in between, a temporary sculpture that comes together for a moment, creating a comforting notion that something beautiful can be created out of chaos.
Born 1971, Singen, Lake of Konstanz, Germany
E D U C A T I O N
2000 Diploma, Visual Communications, Fachhochschule Dusseldorf, Germany
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2016 |
'Soundworks', Foley Gallery, New York |
2015 |
'Lenticular / Polarization', Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf |
2013 |
'SONIC', Foley Gallery, New York |
2012 |
'Sonic Sculptures', Pavlov's Dog, Berlin |
2011 |
‘Foulard’, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf |
2009 |
‘Flowers’, Foley Gallery, New York |
2008 |
‘Ceramic Explosion’, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh |
2007 |
‘Temporary Sculpture’ Foley Gallery, New York |
2006 |
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf |
2004 |
Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf |
2006 Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany
2005 Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan, Italy
2004 Galerie Michael Cosar, Dusseldorf, Germany
2000 3 Installations at EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2016 | 'Retinal Burn', Eboran Galerie, Salzburg |
'Blütenpracht', Neue Galerie des Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany | |
2014 | 'Tiere in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie', Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Berlin |
'Porcelain: Breaking Tradition', Art Mûr, Montréal and Québec | |
'How long is now?', Foto-Raum, Wien | |
2012 | ‘Smashing!’, Benyamini Contemporary Ceramic Art Centre, TelAviv ‘Lost Paradise’, Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar ‘Wild’, The Moving Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska LOOK3 Festival, Charlottesville, Virginia |
2011 | ‘Die Zeit in der Fotografie’, Bieler Fototage, Switzerland ‘Flowers - Time, Death and Beauty’, FO.KU.S, Innsbruck ‘BLUMEN - Zeitgenössische Fotografie’, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin ‘Paper framed behind Glass’, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf |
2010 | ‘Traveling without Moving’, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf ‘Beauty - Flowers in Photography’, Alexander Ochs, Beijing |
2009 | ‘Revisiting Landscape & Still Life’, Bafa Foto, Geneva Gallery EY5, ‘Klimas - Forsen’, Düsseldorf ‘Seitenwechsel’, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf ‘Decline and Fall’, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco |
2008 | Gallery Howard House, Seattle Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca ‘Querdenker’, Darmstätter Tage der Fotografie, Eugen-Bracht-Haus, Darmstadt ‘LADA’, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig |
2007 | ‘Luft - poetische Qualitäten und turbulente Höhepunkte’, Luftmuseum Amberg ‘Die Kunst zu sammeln’, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf |
2005 The Nature of Skin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Barlachhalle, Hamburg, Germany
2001 BFF-Kongress, Willi-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany
Reinhard-Wolf-Preis, Museum fur Gestaltung, Hamburg, Germany
2000 Parallelwelten, Dortmund, Germany
Neu, altes Postsortierwerk, Dusseldorf, Germany