TOBIAS ZIELONY
Tobias Zielony (*1973, lives in Berlin) has for many years been photographing young people in their given environments, mainly in the public space. He is attracted to the fringe areas of urban reality: the banlieues of French metropolises, the cities of Saxony-Anhalt that have gained a reputation as shrinking cities, or the desert city Trona outside Los Angeles. In such places social tensions, the lack of alternatives and prospects are strongly in evidence.
Tobias Zielony was born in 1973 in Wuppertal, Germany. After studying Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport, Zielony enters Timm Rauterts’ class for artistic photography at the HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig in 2001. After his graduation in 2004 and his master in 2006 he moves to Berlin. He receives the GASAG-Kunstpreis, Berlin, in 2006 as well as grants for New York and Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions follow at C/O Berlin in 2007, Kunstverein Hamburg in 2010, Folkwang Museum Essen, MMK Zollamt Frankfurt and and Camera Austria Graz in 2011. Tobias Zielony lives and works in Berlin.
At KOW Berlin from 04.02.2012 to 15.04.2012
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