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
LODGING & MEALS see info on Summer workshops
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.
PRACTICAL INFO
| WORKSHOP DATES | Summer Workshops – August 1-7, 2021 |
| WHERE | Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, Italy |
| WORKSHOP FEE | € 1.200 |