Tobias Zielony

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Tobias Zielony (born 1973)[1] is a German photographer and short filmmaker, living in Berlin.[2] He has made work about communities at the margins of society, such as young people.[3][4][5][6][7] In 2015, Zielony's series on African refugees in Germany, the Citizen, co-represented the country at the Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize.[8][9] He had a mid-career retrospective at Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany in 2021[10] and his work is held in the collection of Philadelphia Museum of Art.[11]

Zielony in 2015

Biography[edit]

Zielony was born in Wuppertal, Germany. From 1998 to 2001, he studied documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport in Wales.[2] From 2001 to 2006, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.[12] He now lives in Berlin.[2]

Publications[edit]

Books by Zielony[edit]

  • Behind the Block. Leipzig: Institut für Buchkunst, 2004. ISBN 978-3-9328-6537-4.
  • Tobias Zielony. Marion-Ermer-Preis [de]; Universitätsverlag, Weimar, 2004. ISBN 978-3-8606-8238-8.
  • The Cast. Berlin: C/O Berlin; Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007. ISBN 978-3-4220-6626-7.
  • Trona: Armpit of America. Leipzig: Spector [de], 2008. ISBN 978-3940-06400-4.
  • Story / No Story. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010. ISBN 978-3-7757-2284-1.
  • Manitoba. Leipzig: Spector, 2011. ISBN 978-3-9400-6493-6.
  • Jenny Jenny. Leipzig: Spector, 2013. ISBN 978-3-9446-6900-7.
  • Vele. Leipzig: Spector, 2014. ISBN 978-3-9446-6953-3.
  • The Fall. Leipzig: Spector, 2021. ISBN 9783959055321. A series of six books, each including a text or work of fiction by one of Dora Koderhold, Joshua Groß [de] , Sophia Eisenhut, Enis Maci [de], Mazlum Nergiz and Jakob Nolte [de]. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at Museum Folkwang. In English and German.

Films[edit]

[13][14]

  • Big Sexyland (2008) – 3 mins
  • The Deboard (2008) – 8 mins
  • Le Vele di Scampia (2009) – 9 mins[15]
  • Der Brief (The Letter) (2013) – 5 mins
  • Kalandia Kustom Kar Kommandos (Dream Lover) (2014) – 4 mins
  • Al-Akrab (2014) – 7 mins
  • Tamil Stars (2016) – 9 mins
  • Alles (Chemnitz) (2002, 2017) – 6 mins
  • Maskirovka (2018) – 8 mins

Exhibitions[edit]

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • Tobias Zielony. The Fall, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 2021. A mid-career retrospective of photography and video.[10]

Group exhibitions[edit]

Awards[edit]

Collections[edit]

Zielony's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Trevor Paglen's drone photography wins 2016 Deutsche Börse prize". The Guardian. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  2. ^ a b c "Tobias Zielony". metalmagazine.eu. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  3. ^ "Photographing the queer youth of Kiev's underground techno scene". Dazed. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  4. ^ Colberg, Jörg (6 June 2019). "#2 Dance: Tobias Zielony". Photoworks. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  5. ^ "Photographer Tobias Zielony Explores How Fashion Can Manipulate and Conceal Identity". W Magazine. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  6. ^ Siddons, Edward. "photographer tobias zielony captures agency, not disempowerment". i–D. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  7. ^ "Between Dusk and Dawn". Aperture Foundation. 15 February 2018. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  8. ^ a b O'Hagan, Sean (5 November 2015). "Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist: drones v the women of Tahrir". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  9. ^ a b "Kunst-Biennale Venedig: Florian Ebner kuratiert deutschen Pavillon". Der Spiegel. 27 March 2014. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  10. ^ a b "Tobias Zielony". www.museum-folkwang.de. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  11. ^ a b "Search". philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
  12. ^ https://kow-berlin.com/site/assets/files/1164/tz_cv_06_2022.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  13. ^ https://kow-berlin.com/site/assets/files/1831/dossier_tz_expo_kow_2014_web.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  14. ^ "#89: Tobias Zielony — Videoart at Midnight". www.videoart-at-midnight.de. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  15. ^ "Exploring life under the sun". Times of Malta. 7 January 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-25.

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