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Patrick Bienert
Born1980 (age 43–44)
NationalityGerman
Known forFashion and Documentary Photographer
Websitewww.patrickbienert.com

Patrick Bienert (born 1980)[1] is a German photographer[2] 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.[3] In January 2020, he published the book East End of Europe, about a pro-European generation in Georgia.[4][5] In 2017, Bienert published the book Wake Up Nights, about young nightlife culture in Ukraine.[4]

His projects are grounded in cultures and identity in relation to the history and its traces between the land and its inhabitants.[3]

Early life and education

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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.[4]

Career

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His photography project East End of Europe about a pro-European generation in Georgia was published in 2020 as a book by Kahl Editions.[2][n 1] Another Magazine included the monograph in its list of must-have photo books in 2020.[6] 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 The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,[7] Double Magazine[8] and Zeit Magazin.[9] In 2018 he received a grant from the Goethe-Institut to work on his project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia.[10] His personal projects have been exhibited at OFR Galerie in Paris;[11] Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany;[12] Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia;[13] and Store Studios, London.[14] Commissioned by the fashion brand Jil Sander, Bienert photographed at the Italian island of Ponza for the brand's pre-fall 2020 advertisements.[15]

Publications

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  • Wake Up Nights. Self-published, 2017. Edition of 500 copies.
  • East End of Europe. With an essay by Florian Illies. Kahl, 2020. ISBN 978-0995761162. Edition of 500 copies.[2][n 1]

Exhibitions

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  • Asmara, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2013[12]
  • Wake up Nights, Store Studios London, 2018[14]
  • Post Soviet Visions, Wake up Nights, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, 2018[16]
  • Wake up Nights, Capitis Studios, Berlin, 2018[17]
  • Wake up Nights, Ngorongoro, Berlin, 2018[18]
  • Clothing Trade, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019[19]
  • Conversations, Webber Gallery, London, 2018[20]
  • East End of Europe, Republic Square, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019[21]
  • Clothing Trade, Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia, 2019[13]
  • East End of Europe, OFR Galerie, Paris, 2020[11][n 5]

Films

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  • Kiev (2018) – short film[22]

Awards

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  • Rovinj Photodays Award, Clothing Trade, Grand Prix, 2020[23]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b 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.

References

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  1. ^ "@patrick_bienert". Patrick Bienert. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Jacob Charles Wilson, "Photographer Patrick Bienert's Powerful Portrait of a Changing Georgia", Another Man, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b Hanna Torseke, "East End of Europe", Are We Europe, 11 April 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "East End of Europe", Paper Journal, 4 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  5. ^ Coline Olsina, "Georgia is a special place", Blind Magazine 2 Jul 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  6. ^ Belle Hutton, "Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy", Another Magazine, 9 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  7. ^ Rachel Monroe, "Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World", The Atlantic, 6 February 2021. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Curators", Models-dot, Double Magazine. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  9. ^ Christoph Amend, "Am Ende der Nacht", Zeit Magazin, 25 September 2019. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Vernissage Patrick Bienert", Goethe Institut. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  11. ^ a b "Vernissage East End of Europe", Lives Magazine, 7 January 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Visual leader Exhibition", Deichtorhallen. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  13. ^ a b "Exposition Amphithéâtre de Carthage", Goethe Institute. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  14. ^ a b "Wake up Nights", Store Studios. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  15. ^ "The Ponza project documented by Patrick Bienert", Jil Sander, 7 September 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Post Soviet Visions", Calvert 22 Foundation. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  17. ^ "Patrick Bienert-Wake up Nights", Photography-now. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  18. ^ "Ngorongoro 2 Artists", Ngorongoro Artist weekend. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  19. ^ "Tbilisi Night of Photography 2019", Tbilisi Photo Festival. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  20. ^ "Paper Journal 01 exhibition Webber Gallery", Paper Journal. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  21. ^ "Faces of Tbilisi", Zeit Magazin. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  22. ^ "Patrick Bienert – Kiev", Vimeo. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  23. ^ "Rovinj Photodays 2020 Grand Prix", Rovinj Photodays. Accessed 17 January 2022.
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