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Kai Loges

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About

Growing up in a family of architects, as a teenager the closest friend of a BFF founding member, a 10-year intermezzo in social education as a photo workshop and youth centre manager, then the leap into the water of self-employment during my photo and film design studies in 1987. And since 1994, together with Andreas Langen, as "die arge lola".

Statement

Find, don't search. What shapes us as human beings and how do we deal with it? How do we shape? Aesthetics and psyche. History and trauma. Barbed images.

Education

  • 1986 - 87 | Studium Foto- / Film-Design, FH Bielefeld (DE)
  • 1985 - 1986 | Assistenz bei Guntram Gerst (DE)
  • 1973 | Praktikum Fotografie bei Hans Paysan (DE)

Institution (Work Experience)

  • 1994 - heute | mit Andreas Langen: die arge lola, Stuttgart (DE)
  • 1987 - heute | Freiberuflich

Selected Awards

  • 2018 | PhotoCalender Award, Stuttgart (DE)
  • 2014 | Gregor- Fotokalender Preis der Jury, Stuttgart (DE)
  • 2007 | Saarländischer Staatspreis für Design für Buch "Im Reich der Mitte" (DE)
  • 2006 | Gregor- Hauptpreis Internationale Kalenderschau, Stuttgart (DE)

Selected Exhibitions/Publications

  • Ausstellungen / Exhibitions:
  • 2019 | Haus der Photographie Deichtorhallen Hamburg (DE)
  • 2017 | Stiftung Demokratie Saarland, Saarbrücken (DE)
  • 2016 | Galerie Höhmannhaus, Augsburg (DE)
  • 2016 | Deutscher Pavillon, Architekturbiennale, Venedig (IT)
  • 2015 | FFotogallery, Cardiff (GB)
  • 2013 | Museum Theodor-Heuss-Haus, Stuttgart (DE)
  • Publikationen / Publications:
  • 2013 | Im Reich der Mitte II, Regiofactum Edition Saarbrücken (DE)
  • 2007 | Im Reich der Mitte, Regiofactum Edition Saarbrücken (DE)

Personal Website

http://www.dieargelola.de

Works

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Next door Auschwitz - The Neighborhoods of the Camps Auschwitz I - III (2012 - 2017)

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Next door Auschwitz - The Neighborhoods of the Camps Auschwitz I - III (2012 - 2017)

Auschwitz has been examined widely and is visited by millions each year. Nevertheless there is a terrain almost unknown: the neighborhoods of the camps. Our project explores the history and present state of these neighborhoods: How is living in the shadow of historical trauma, and how do we deal with it today?

Format:

Photo / Video

Credits
Title:
argelola_Nebenan_01
Author:
Andreas Langen
Work:
die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Next door Auschwitz - The Neighborhoods of the Camps Auschwitz I - III (2012 - 2017)
Copyright:
© Andreas Langen

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | On Democracy (2009 - ongoing)

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | On Democracy (2009 - ongoing)

"On Democracy" is an observation of processes, places and people linked to democracy and the crisis it faces - from the everyday-object of a filebox used in public authorities to the relics of terroristic assaults to the traces of the dramatic protest on Euromaidan at Kiev. - When shown as exhibition, we add an interactive device that is a kind of sculpture.

Format:

Photo / Video

Credits
Title:
argelola_Demokratie_01
Author:
Andreas Langen
Work:
die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | On Democracy (2009 - ongoing)
Copyright:
© Andreas Langen

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Real Rooms (1994 - ongoing)

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Real Rooms (1994 - ongoing)

"Real Rooms" is a series of interior-photographs in a strictly documentary way, which means we do not interfere with the scenes we randomly find. The pictures show traces of time, use and design without designers - a visual cronicle from museums, canteens, churches, hospitals, labs und other non-private spaces.

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Photo / Video

Credits
Title:
argelola_RealeRaeume_01
Author:
Andreas Langen
Work:
die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Real Rooms (1994 - ongoing)
Copyright:
© Andreas Langen

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Hommage to J.W.Schirmer (2008)

die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Hommage to J.W.Schirmer (2008)

"Hommage to J-W. Schirmer" refers to romantic landscape-painting and to the construction of nature in pictures then an in present times. The work is a triptych.

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Photo / Video

Credits
Title:
argelola_Schirmer_01
Author:
Andreas Langen
Work:
die arge lola (Kai Loges + Andreas Langen) | Hommage to J.W.Schirmer (2008)
Year Created:
2008
Copyright:
© Andreas Langen