Jakob Ganslmeier
FROM THE SERIES LOVELY PLANET: POLEN FROM THE SERIES LOVELY PLANET: POLEN
Jakob Ganslmeier
Year | 2015 |
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Edition | 2 motifs, each 20 |
Technique | C-Print |
Image Size | 30 x 35 cm |
Price | each 280,00 € (incl. 19% VAT) |
Details | signed and numbered |
Jakob Ganslmeier (b. 1990, Munich; lives and works in Berlin) studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, and at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. His pictures, which have garnered numerous awards, are frequently featured in leading German media and have been shown in exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
BOOKS ABOUT THE ARTIST
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Jakob Ganslmeier
Lovely Planet. Polen / Poland16€ Add to cartAn Unconventional and Humorous Guide to a Country of Contrasts
In 2015, the photographer Jakob Ganslmeier (b. Munich, 1990; lives and works in Berlin) went on an extended tour of Poland in search of shots that captured the country’s social realities and way of life at a time of wrenching changes. The title of his project evokes associations with Lonely Planet, one of the world’s best-selling series of travel guides, and the artist took inspiration from the format of the popular books, where recommendations for readers exploring strange lands are grouped by categories. Crisscrossing Poland—he covered over ten thousand kilometers—Ganslmeier encountered widely different people and draws our attention to places that would never make it into a guidebook. His pictures show a country of extremes, between boomtown optimism and decline, consumerism and poverty, gleaming façades and bleak village streets.
Jakob Ganslmeier studied at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berlin, and at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. His pictures, which have garnered numerous awards, are frequently featured in leading German media and have been shown in exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including at the Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus, the Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, the Triennale der Photographie Hamburg, and the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris.