champions   System-House   Play   Beauties

BERNHARD MOOSBAUER ABOUT In his photographic works Bernhard Moosbauer concerns himself with exemplary situations, ostensibly perfect modes of being, and mannerisms. In his series 'champions' his subject is the world of beauty contests for poodles. He doesn't show the owners and their surroundings, however, nor the close-knit world of the contests. Rather, Bernhard Moosbauer portrays the dogs by presenting them human-like. A field of tension develops between grandeur, melancholy, eroticism, glamour and irony. Born March 20, 1969 in Straubing, since 2001 work as media artist, DJ and photographer VITA 06/07-09/07 Working stay in Auckland/New Zealand, soundwork, language studies 10/2001 Move to Berlin 08/2001 Diploma media-art (sound) and photography at Academy of Visual Art (HGB) in Leipzig 05/99-09/99 Working stay in New York, soundwork, language studies 03/98-03/99 Guest studies in Prof. Ruedi Baur's conceptional design class 10/97-07/01 Photography studies with Prof. Timm Rautert and Media-art with Prof. Helmut Mark at the Academy of Visual Art (HGB) in Leipzig 10/1997 Move to Leipzig 08/1997 Diploma Communications-design with focus on new media 10/95-06/96 Working stay in Australia, soundworks, language studies 10/91-01/97 Communication-design studies at the Fachhochschule Wuerzburg with Prof. Stamm and Wolfgang Vollmer Numerous exhibitions, i.e. Museum fuer Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Kulturforum Lueneburg, as well as the organization and presentation of different projects in the border areas of art, photography and music.