KLAUS KILLISCH
KLAUS KILLISCH
(*1959, Leipzig) is a visual artist and passionate musician. He studied painting at the Weissensee Art Academy Berlin. His pictures are expressive; they originated in the subculture of the 1980s and its zeitgeist. Scholarships and trips abroad brought him to France, Italy, Ireland, USA and Japan. His works have been shown at the Biennale di Venezia (1990), in the Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (1991), the New National Gallery, Berlin (2003), the Museum of the Fine Arts Leipzig (2019), and elsewhere.
“On the always emotional, but also heretical and social-critical screens, it rocks and grooves; figures seem to have come from science fiction films. In this way Klaus Killisch develops his unique rhythmical, emotional, but also differentiated style. He translates image into musicality and vice versa”(Berliner Zeitung, 25.2.20). There with him at the photo shooting by Sibylle Fendt is the protagonist of many of his works: the blue guitar – inspired by a photograph of a Fender Telecaster, which he had build as a youth.
SIBYLLE FENDT
(*1974, Karlsruhe) 1993–1995 Master’s programme in art history, sociology and philosophy at Karlsruhe University. 1996–2002 photography studies at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences. 2003 Swart Masterclass, Word Press Photo Foundation. 2004–2006 guest study programme at the Städel School in Frankfurt am Main with Wolfgang Tillmans. 2008–2019 lecturer at the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. Member of OSTKREUZ since 2010. Published GÄRTNERS REISE (Gardner’s Trip), Kehrer Verlang, Heidelberg, in 2012. 2019–2020 administrative professor at Hochschule Hannover in the discipline of photojournalism and documentary photography. 2020 group exhibition TRAUERN (Mourning), Kunsthalle Hamburg; publication HOLZBACHTAL, NOTHING, NOTHING, a book about waiting and nothingness in the refugee camp H8 in the Black Forest. Published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg.