Patrick Bienert

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Patrick Bienert
NationalityGerman
Occupation(s)Fashion and Documentary Photographer
Website https://www.patrickbienert.com/

Patrick Bienert (born 1980) is a German photographer [1] who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape and documentary photography. He predominantly documents youth culture and transformation on the borders of Eastern Europe. [2] In January 2020, he published the book East End of Europe, about a pro-European generation in Georgia. [3] [4] In 2017, Bienert published the book Wake Up Nights, about young nightlife culture in Ukraine. [3]

Contents

His projects are grounded in cultures and identity in relation to the history and its traces between the land and its inhabitants. [2]

Early Life & Education

Bienert was born in 1980 and grew up in Munich, Germany, where he studied photography at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie and the Munich University of Applied Sciences until 2006. [3]

Career

His photography project East End of Europe about a pro-European generation in Georgia was published in 2020 as a book by Kahl Editions. [1] [n 1] Another Magazine included the monograph in its list of must-have photo books in 2020. [5]

Other bodies of Bienert's work include Asmara (2013), [n 2] in which he photographed both the modernist architecture of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, from the period of the Italian colonisation, and the city's current inhabitants; Clothing Trade, [n 3] a project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia (2018); and Banks of Dnister (2019), [n 4] for which he followed the Dnister river along its route through Moldova, the breakaway state Transnistria and Ukraine, portraying the youth culture and the landscapes in the post-Soviet states.[ citation needed ]

Bienert's work has been published in magazines including The New York Times Magazine , The Atlantic , [6] Double Magazine [7] and Zeit Magazin . [8]

In 2018 he received a grant from the Goethe-Institut to work on his project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia. [9]

His personal projects have been exhibited at OFR Galerie in Paris; [10] Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; [11] Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia; [12] and Store Studios, London. [13]

Commissioned by the fashion brand Jil Sander, Bienert photographed at the Italian island of Ponza for the brand's pre-fall 2020 advertisements. [14]

Publications

Exhibitions

Films

Awards

Notes

  1. 1 2 Publisher's description of East End of Europe, Kahl Editions, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  2. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Asmara", Lensculture . Accessed 17 January 2022.
  3. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Clothing Trade", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022.
  4. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Banks of Dnister", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Press – East End of Europe – Patrick Bienert", Kahl Editions. Accessed 2 March 2021.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Jacob Charles Wilson, "Photographer Patrick Bienert's Powerful Portrait of a Changing Georgia", Another Man , 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Hanna Torseke, "East End of Europe", Are We Europe, 11 April 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "East End of Europe", Paper Journal, 4 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Coline Olsina, "Georgia is a special place", Blind Magazine 2 Jul 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Belle Hutton, "Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy", Another Magazine , 9 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Rachel Monroe, "Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World", The Atlantic , 6 February 2021. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Curators", Models-dot, Double Magazine. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  8. ↑ Christoph Amend, "Am Ende der Nacht", Zeit Magazin , 25 September 2019. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "Vernissage Patrick Bienert", Goethe Institut. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Vernissage East End of Europe", Lives Magazine, 7 January 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Visual leader Exhibition", Deichtorhallen. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  12. 1 2 "Exposition Amphithéâtre de Carthage", Goethe Institute. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  13. 1 2 "Wake up Nights", Store Studios. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  14. ↑ "The Ponza project documented by Patrick Bienert", Jil Sander, 7 September 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  15. ↑ "Post Soviet Visions", Calvert 22 Foundation. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  16. ↑ "Patrick Bienert-Wake up Nights", Photography-now. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  17. ↑ "Ngorongoro 2 Artists", Ngorongoro Artist weekend. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  18. ↑ "Tbilisi Night of Photography 2019", Tbilisi Photo Festival. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  19. ↑ "Paper Journal 01 exhibition Webber Gallery", Paper Journal. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  20. ↑ "Faces of Tbilisi", Zeit Magazin . Accessed 2 March 2021.
  21. ↑ "Patrick Bienert – Kiev", Vimeo. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  22. ↑ "Rovinj Photodays 2020 Grand Prix", Rovinj Photodays. Accessed 17 January 2022.
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