Jörn Vanhöfen

1961       
Born in Dinslaken / Lower Rhine

1981       
School-leaving certificate followed by civilian service

1985       
Studied Communication Design at the University of Essen
(formerly the Folkwang College)

1989       
Studied Photography at the College of Graphics and Book Art in Leipzig
Graduated with a degree from Leipzig

1993       
Studied for a Masters degree at the college in Leipzig

1994       
Founded the mambo group of authors in Berlin

1995
Member of the Ostkreuz Photographic Agency

1999
Co-founder of the Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm photography forum in Berlin.               
Started work as curator

2000
Founded the Fotografie am Schiffbauerdamm School with Arno Fischer

2002       
Finished working as a photographic journalist

2003       
Worked exclusively as a freelance photographer

Untill 2007   
Director and lecturer of the FAS School, Berlin

 lives and works in Berlin

Solo show

2016
11. Juni 2016, Galerie Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin

2015
10.01.15 - 26.04.15 Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin

2014
Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich
Foto Kunst Stadtforum, Innsbruck

2013
Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

2012
Robert Mann Gallery, New York

2011
Galerie Kuckei + Kuckei
K. Galerie, Lissabon

2010
Landesmuseum Oldenburg

2009
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

2008
Galerie Römerapotheke Zürich

2007
Kuckei & Kuckei, Berlin

2004
Galerie Römerapotheke, Zürich

2001
Kunstverein Glückstadt
Altonaer Museum, Hamburg

1998
Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
Die Elbe, Hitzacker
Kulturhaus, Aalen

1997
Instituto Cervantes, Rom

1996
Instituto Cervantes, Bremen
Museum Velbert
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Habana Vieja, Göttingen

1994
Centro Cultural Jose Marti, Mexico City
Goethe Institut, Mexico City
Universität Monterey, Monterey

1993
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Fototeca de Cuba, Havanna

Group show

 

Public collections

The Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
The Progressive Art Collection, Ohio, USA
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
HessKiss, Zürich, Switzerland
Collection Gerlt, Köln, Germany
Collection Matheis, Königswinter, Germany
Collection Straus, London, UK
Collection Huri, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection Yahr, Miami, USA
Collection Binkert, Zürich, Switzerland
Collection Jantzen, Zürich, Switzerland

publications

New monographie: Jörn Vanhöfen, Aftermath, Hatje Cantz Verlag, coming in 2011
catalogue NATIONNATURE, Museum On The Seam, Jerusalem, Israel, 2009
Südafrikas Küste, marebuchverlag, 2008
weather report, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, 2007
Die Elbe, Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, 2000
Östlich von Eden, Brandstätter 1999
DU - die Elbe, Nr. 683, 1998
Junge Kunst aus Lateinamerika, Havanna/Sao Paolo, Eigenverlag, 1995
Leipziger Schule, Absolventen 1980- 1993, 1993