Lives and works in Berlin and Gothenburg
Boris´ works in staged and experimental photography deals with a visualisation of the mental state of our societies, the contemporary conditio humana.
When a situation becomes an image it can become symbolic and gain a political or social dimension.
The images, videos and paintings mirror the sphere of irrational anguish we are feeded with in societies all over the world today.
Currently Boris is working on the collaborative project Garden Eden Performance (GEP).
A new project is to produce a series of large-size photographical alchemigrams.
Alchemigrams are a mixture between photography and painting. Like in chemigrams, the photochemical process is turned uside-down, additionally many non-phographical substances get to be used in the creation of single-copy images. It´s a question about the artist´s controll over the work and the image developing by chance. These works will be exhibited in a new solo show "American Alchemistry" at The Just Gallery in Berlin Kreuzberg in January 2010.
Actually there is another show on the schedule 13th - 30th of December 2009 at ACUD Gallery, Berlin. www.acud.de
In May / June 2010, Boris is teaching experimental and staged photography at The Art Students League in New York.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo shows:
upcoming: 2010 January: "American Alchemistry". The Just Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 Greetings from Space. Godot Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2008 Gibt es den Farbengott? Privatklub Wohnung, Berlin, Germany
2004 Freeze Plates. Art Hall Vaasa, Finland
2004 What´s Love Got to Do With It? Galleri Cosmopolitan, Göteborg, Sweden
2003 The Flying Fish. Backa Theater, Göteborg, Sweden
2002 The Suspect Island. Gallery Une Galette dans l´Art, Paris, France
Art fairs :
2009 September: Berliner Liste. Fair for contemporary art.
2007 Septemeber: Berliner Kunstsalon. Art fair.
Group shows:
2009 December 13. - 30. Alchemigrams. ACUD Gallery, Berlin
2009 November 7. - 29. "Querschnitt 22", Rosegger Kunst Zentrum, Berlin
2009 September 2. - 19. "Faces of Godot", Godot Gallery, Budapest
2009 April: Greetings from Space. Art Hall Darmstadt. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany
2008 December: Drawings. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2008 July: Drawings. Galerie in der Stadtscheune, Otterndorf, Germany
2008 February: Drawings. Galerie Citycenter, Berlin
2007 August: Galerie GLUE, Berlin
2007 July: Galerie Fotoshop, Berlin
2007 April: Galerie MeinBlau, Berlin
2006 December: Galerie Blütenweiss, Berlin
2005 Hägerstens Kulturcentrum, Stockholm
2005 Kulturzentrum Kreuzberg, Saray Sosjal, Berlin
2004 Rådhusgalleri, Nykarleby, Finland
2003 Galleri Platform, Vaasa, Finland
2003 Stadsbibliotek Göteborg, Sweden
2002 Gothenburg Museum of Art, Hasselblad Center
2001 Galleri Box, Göteborg
2001 Galleri Replika, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 University for Photography and Fim Gothenburg, Sweden
2000 Kleisthaus-Gallerie, Berlin
1998, 99, 00: Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany
Permanent works in public spaces:
2008 June: wall- and ceiling-painting / collage on 72 sqm in Kulturbrauerei, Knaakstraße, Berlin
Prenzlauer Berg. Titel: „Man muß unbedeutender werden!“ (You have to get less important!
A homage to Ingeborg Bachmann).
Curated exhibitions:
2004 March: Rådhusgalleri Nykarleby: „Drömläge“ with students in fine arts from the Art School Nykarleby, Politechnika, FIN.
Grants
2009/10: two years working grant from the Konstnärsnämnden Sthm.
2006/07: one year working grant from Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm.
2005: project grant from Swedish Artist Council, Konstnärsnämnden, Sthm.
2004: exhibition grant from Artist Council Gothenburg, Kulturnämnd.
2004: exhibition grant from Artist Council Österbottens Konstråd, Vaasa FIN.
2003: artist grant from NIFCA, Helsinki, FIN.
2001: project grant from Adelbertska Stiftelsen, Gothenburg.
2000: project grant from Adelbertska Stiftelsen, Gotheburg.
Represented by
Godot Galeria. Budapest, Hungary
Galerie WOHNUNG. Berlin, Germany
Private collectors
University Teaching Positions
2006 June: Lectures in staged photography at Göteborgs Konstskola, Prof. Peter Backhaus, S.
2005 Maj-Nov: Teacher for photography at Folkuniversitet Göteborg, S.
2005 Feb.-April: University lecturer at the department for Visuell Communication (Prof. Kopek) at the
University of Arts and Design Budapest, HU.
2004 March: Curator and leading artist for art-students at the exhibition “Drömläge” (Dream- Site) at
Rådhusgalleri, Nykarleby, FIN.
2003 Okt- 04 March: Guest-teacher for Staged Photography at the Art School Polytechnika of Nykarleby,
Merits /Residences / Prices
2005: Artist in Residence at the Moholy-Nagy University for Arts and Design Budapest, Hungary
2003-04: Artist in Residence på Konstskola Nykarleby, Finland
2003: Artist behind „Smörshoes på Getryggen“ (Butter-Shoes on Goat-Back), a photo – installation in
the mountains of Jämtland, Sweden. The installation had been randomly discovered by passer-
bys and then had drawn a lot of international media attention in radio, TV and newspapers.
1996: Best young photographer of the year in Niedersachsen
(Handwerkskammer Niedersachsen), third prize in all of Germany.
1992-95: Member of the artist-group KARG (Karg means meager, local art-landscape) with ateljé-house
and an own gallery (burned down in 1995), artist-association work, Oldenburg, Germany.
Education
2002 MFA Master of Fine Arts / Photography (200P)
2000-02 Master program at the Högskolan för Fotografi och Film in
Göteborg, Sweden, at Prof. Tuija Lindström and artist Magnus Wallin.
2000 Bachelor Degree in Visuell Communikation
1996-00 Studies at Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg: Visuell
Communikation, Fine Arts at Prof. Bernhard Blume and Prof. Jochen Hiltmann.
1993-96 Education as a professional photographer at Fotostudio Thomas
Grothmann in Westerstede, Handwerkskammer Oldenburg, Germany.
1991-93 Studium Generale (fine art, music, pedagogics, geography and
psychology) at the University of Oldenburg.
Published in
2008 June: Shortstory „Fictive Dogstory One“ (Sauflied in fünf Strophen)“ (Drinking song in five verses) in
EIGENART, the art periodical of the Hochschule der Künste Berlin /HDK, D.
Several drawings included.
2008 June: Garden Eden Performance: „The Control-Cross“: dubble page as a photo-poster in EIGENART,
HDK Berlin.
2007 Nov: Garden Eden Performance: „The Concilium“: dubble page as a photo-poster in EIGENART, HDK
Berlin.
2007 Sept: catalogue Berliner Kunstsalon, D
2004 April: ”Saray Sosyal” onlinecatalogue, Berlin, D.
2003: ”Getryggen är namnet på fjället…”, preamble by Ann Nordvall in ”Konstnären”, KRO, Swedish
Artists Association periodical, nr. 3/2003.
2003, 23. Nov: ”Nykarlebybor ställde upp och jubilerade”, Jakobstads Tidning, FIN.
2003, 20. Oct: ”Konsten vi älskar och hatar”, Dagens Nyheter, frontpage cultur, Stockholm, S.
2003, 10. Oct:”Göteborgare låg bakom mystiska skor”, Metro Göteborg, S.
2003, 09. Oct: ”Skor på fjället”, Metro Malmö, S.
2003. 09. Oct: „140 skor med smör på det öde fjället”, Aftonbladet, S.
2003, 08. Oct: “Smörfyllda skor på det öde fjället förbryllar”, Aftonbladet, S.
2003, 09. Maj: ”Mannens roll står i fokus”, Göteborgs Tidning, S.
2003, 01. April: ”Sarkastisk klang i rapp kvinnopjäs”, Borås Tidning, S.
2003, 30. Mars: ”Metoden ger bilden liv”, Göteborgs Tidning, S
2003, 28. Mars: ”Girlpower och manliga bilder på Backateater”, Metro Göteborg, S.
2003, 27. Mars: ”Mäns och kvinnors roller på Backa”, Bohusläningen med Dals Dagblad, S.
2002, 23. Aug: Program to ”Festival Art et Squats”, communiqué de presse, Paris, FR.
2002, 29. Maj: ”Existenser”, master-students exhibition at Hasselblad Center”, Göteborgs-Posten, S.
2002, 21. Maj: ”Sju fotografer, sju temperament”; Göteborgs-Posten, S.
2002: ”Humaniora utan humanism, humanism utan humaniora”; photography and drawings; Lars Sewilius
Berg, ABF, Göteborg, S.
2000: Exhibition-catalogue for exibition at Kleisthaus - Gallerie, Berlin, D.
1997: ”Mein Schaukelstuhl springt vom Balkon”; phototableau in ”Orient”; publication in Material-Verlag,
Hamburg, D.
Publications
2006: "Portfolio 2000 - 2006". Förlag Medieverkstäderna, Göteborg, S. (limited edition). The book (84
pages) can be purchased via the author (info@borisduhm.com; prize 150:-Euro plus
porto; digiprint, combined sewn binding in six booklets, hand-made).
2002: ”My Weak Home”; exhibition-catalogue for the german artist and psychologist Kathy Neubauer
(born 1973 in Potsdam), 22 pages, unsewn binding, Hamburg, D.