2019 Diploma at Academy of fine Arts, HGB, Leipzig
2017 Studies with Ricarda Roggan, Academy of fine Arts, ABK, Stuttgart
2015-19 Studies with Heidi Specker, Academy of fine Arts, HGB, Leipzig
2013 Final Degree at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie & Gestaltung, Berlin
2008 Bachelor of Arts, Area Studies and Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin
SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS
2021
Hans-Purmann-Preise für Bildende Kunst, Kunstverein Speyer
Die Direkte Auktion, Postbank Hochhaus, Berlin
STUDIO BERLIN, Berghain Berlin
PORTAL, by NO´ ONO`O, Chaussee 36, Berlin
The Fairest, Teaser No. II, Berlin
8 Rooms Gallery, Exhibtion No. 7, Berlin
Die Direkte Auktion, Postbank Hochhaus, Berlin
STUDIO BERLIN, Berghain Berlin
PORTAL, by NO´ ONO`O, Chaussee 36, Berlin
The Fairest, Teaser No. II, Berlin
8 Rooms Gallery, Exhibtion No. 7, Berlin
2020
Fremder
Blick, Stadtmuseum
Hofheim am Taunus
2019
KOMPONENTE, HGB Galerie, Leipzig
2018
Kapsel, HGB, Leipzig
2017
The Great Infinity Pool vol. III - Folkwang Museum, Essen
Things are not so black and white, HGB, Leipzig
Things are not so black and white, HGB, Leipzig
2016
Positionen - Photobastei, Zürich
2015
Thinking, Acting, Reflecting 4.0 - SAP Kunsthalle, Walldorf
2014
Thinking, Acting, Reflecting 4.0 - SAP Kunsthalle, Walldorf
Nimrod, Gallery Pavlov´s Dog, Berlin
Entrepreneur Award 4.0, Igersheim
CNA Portfolio Days & Nights, Luxembourg
Nimrod, Gallery Pavlov´s Dog, Berlin
Entrepreneur Award 4.0, Igersheim
CNA Portfolio Days & Nights, Luxembourg
2013
SIEBEN, Uferhallen, Berlin
2012
Atelierhaus auf Bötzow, Die Ostkreuzschule & Götz Diergarten, Berlin
GRANTS
2021
Resident Hafnarborg | Iceland
Among the nominees for Hans-Purrmann Förderpreis
Among the nominees for Hans-Purrmann Förderpreis
2014
Entrepreneur Award 4.0
ABOUT
Bastian Gehbauer studied at at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin
and the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart (ABK) with Ricarda Roggan. He
graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig (HGB), where he studied
photography in the class of Heidi Specker.
In his work he deals with rooms and things without focusing on the illustration
of architecture or objects but rather on their emotional quality going beyond the
explicitly shown. Within the past years his practice went from describing the conversion
of spaces to their human purpose relation over their rudimentary construction
to finally a growing abstraction.
„I want to create images of “mental spaces” that are not referring to a particular
place but rather an emotional state. I see my works also as a stage for a possible
projection of the observer.“
In his carefully composed photographs you can often find an expression of silence
and reduction. Bastians works were shown in solo and group shows like the “Grand Infinity Pool
vol.III Folkwang Museum (DE), Photobastei Zürich (CH), SAP Kunsthalle Walldorf
(DE) and Pavlov´s Dog Galerie Berlin (DE).