MICHAEL ACKERMAN

 Summer Workshop in Sicily – August 1-7, 2021 

“In Michael Ackerman’s work, documentary and autobiography conspire with fiction, and all of the above dissolve into hallucination. All of Ackerman’s work explores time and timelessness, personal history and the history of places. decayed and damaged images, not as a matter of style but a direct analogue of experience.” Jem Cohen, Filmmaker and Visual Artist

In my workshops I try to understand each participant’s individual vision, mentality, sensibility and their history. I try to challenge them to break some borders that they may be confined by. I wish to inspire them to consider new possibilities for their work. To feel more free to explore their own curiosities, passions and obsessions. To create something more true to life – to each of our own subjective reality and to the world we live in and share. It’s very important for me that all the participants feel that their voice is valid and equal in the workshop. It should be a collaboration, not a lecture.

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VENUE – Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, Italy

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BIOGRAPHY

Michael Ackerman

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1967.

Family moves to New York 1974.

Lives and works in Berlin.

Books

Hunger Epilogue, Void 2019

Half Life, Delpire, Dewi Lewis, Lunwerg, Peliti, 2010.

Fiction, Delpire, Gena Kehayoff 2001.

End Time City, Nathan/Delpire, Scalo 1999.

Selected Publications

2wice, Abitare, Aperture, Art On Paper, Beaux Arts, Die Zeit, Doubletake, Eyemazing, French Photo, Granta, Harpers, India Magazine, La Humanite, Internazionale, Les Inrockuptibles, Liberation, Le Matin, Le Monde 2, Metropolis, New York Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, Ray Gun, La Repubblica delle Donne, Rolling Stone, Stern and The Village Voice.

Awards

SCAM Roger Pic Award, 2009.

Prix Nadar, End Time City, 1999.

Best Documentary of 1999, End Time City, photo-eye, 1999.

Infinity Award, Young Photographer, International Center of Photography, 1998.

Selected Exhibitions

2020

Van Der Grinten Galerie, Köln,, Germany

 2019

Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris, France

2017

Leica Gallery, Milan, Italy

Foto Leggendo Festival, Rome, Italy

Tete Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2016

Diary of a Job – Olympus Carte Blanche, Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles

2015

The Phos Center, Torino Italy

Kunstwerk, Vienna Austria

L’oeil Urbain, Corbeil France

“Sing Another Song Boys” (with Lorenzo Castore) Rome Italy

 2014

MC2 Gallery, Milan, Italy

Foto Istanbul, Turkey

 L’intuition – A projection in collaboration with musician Vincent Courtois, curated by Christian Caujolle. Performed at La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, Le Lux Scene national de Valence, Festival Banlieues Blues, Paris and Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles

 2012

Argus Foto Kunst, Berlin, Germany

2010

Galerie VU’, Paris, France.
Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Sète. France.
Stimultania, Strasbourg, France.

2007

Fotofestival, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany.

2006

Camelot Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

Van Der Grinten Galerie, Cologne, Germany.

FAS Galerie, Berlin, Germany.

Rencontres D’Arles, Arles, France.

2005

Hermès Gallery, New York, USA.

Alchemia Gallery, Krakow, Poland.

2004

Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

Kerrigan Cambell Art + Projects, New York, USA.

Alchemia, Krakow, Poland.

2002

Pantherei Gallery, Munich, Germany.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia.

The Naarden Photography Biennal, Naarden, Netherlands.

2001

Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

2000

Scalo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.

Argos Photography Festival, Vevey, Switzerland.

Foksal, Nyon, Switzerland.

Atelier De Visu Marseille, France.

1999

Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

Margaret Bodell, New York, USA.

Chronique Nomades Honfleur, France.

Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest, France.

Grazie Neri Gallery, Milan, Italy.

1998

Zentrum Für Fotografie Berlin, Germany

Photography Festival ,Vigo, Spain

La Bibliothèque Centrale Elsa Triolet, Bobigny, France.

Margaret Bodell, New York, USA.

1996

Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York, USA.

Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy.

1990

Albany Center Galleries, Albany, USA.

Selected group exhibitions

2009

Darkside II. Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Germany.

Djân, Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

« Tout l’univers… », Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

2003

Uniques, Galerie VU’, Paris, France.

2000

Positions, Attitudes, Actions, Social and Political Commitment in Photography, Foto Biënnale, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1999

Elogio de la Pasion, PhotoEspana, circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain.

Wonderland, Nooderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, Netherlands.

Photography Work

1997 – 2015

Member of Agence and Gallerie VU, Paris France

1995 – 1996

Photographer at New York Magazine

1993 – 1994

Photographer at The Village Voice

1991 – 1993

Photographer at New York Perspectives

Teaching Work

2000 – Present

Workshops at various photographic institutions including The International Center of Photography, New York, Toscana Photographic Workshops, Neue Schulle Für Fotografie, Berlin, Spazioc Labo, Italy, Agence VU, Paris.

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