Axel Hütte was born in Essen in 1951. Having studied under Bernd Becher at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie from 1973-81, Hütte is one of the leading proponents of The Düsseldorf School of Photography, a movement which contemporizes the tradition of documentary photography. He is currently based in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Central to Hütte’s practice is the concept of photographic ‘objectivity’, where an image’s impartial technological production is its primary ‘value’ or ‘truth’. In his city and landscapes, Hütte both enhances and complicates this overtly clinical approach to image-making by incorporating devices
more commonly associated with abstract painting, such as mathematically formulated compositions, heightened consciousness of the picture plane, and ‘all overness’ (where every part of the image is considered of equal importance). Breathtakingly beautiful yet emotionally detached, his works exemplify ideas of the contemporary sublime.Hütte’s museum exhibitions include Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MAGASIN Grenoble, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, ZKM, and Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires.
Born 1951 in Essen, Germany
Lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin
Education
1973 – 1981 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany under Prof. Bernd Becher
Selected Awards and Grants
1993
Hermann Claasen Award
1986 – 1988
Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Stipend
1985
Scholarship for Deutsches Studienzentrum Venedig, Venice, Italy
1982
DAAD scholarship, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015
Shadows of Lights, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2014
Axel Hütte: Fantasmi e realtà, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
Venezia, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Fora Boaria, Modena, Italy
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Gallerie di Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy
2013
Fondazione Fotografia, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
Pasaje escindido, Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, Spain
2011
FRANKFURT 2011 // EMETH, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Towards the Wood, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Emerald woods, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
2010
Altes Rathaus, Ingelheim, Germany
Towards the Wood, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
2009
Out of Darkness, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom
En Tierras Extrañas, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Hospedería Fonseca, Salamanca, Spain
2008
Fog and Fire, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Berlin, Germany
Las Vegas, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
2006
Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
North – South, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
North – South, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Places, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
After Midnight, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2005
Galerie Six Friedrich/Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
2004
Terra Incognita, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Terra Incognita, Fundación César Manrique, Lanzarote, Spain
2002
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
As Dark as Light, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
2001
As Dark as Light, Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2000
Kontinente, Haus der Preussag AG, Hannover, Germany
Fecit, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
1999
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Galeri K, Oslo, Norway
1998
Musée-Château d’Annecy, Annecy, France
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
1997
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Musei Civici Rubiera, Reggio Emilia, Italy
1996
Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
1995
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1993
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
Eleni Koroneu Gallery, Athens, Greece
1992
Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Marseille, France
Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
1991
Galeries Bruges la Morte, Bruges, Belgium
1990
Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
Glenn & Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Rotterdamse Kunsstichting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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