1975: born; 1993: Abitur and High School Semester in Wayne, Michigan USA; 1994: employed in the zoological garden; 1995: began holding exhibitions; 2003: Became a member of the Federation of Artists, studied Linguistics, Literary Science and Art History in Dresden; 2004: Magister Artium (MA); Since 2005 self-employed as an artist with a focus on photography; 2007-09 Lecturer at the Department of Applied Linguistics, Technische Universität Dresden; 2008-11 Member of the Executive Board of the Dresden Artists' Association.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Mappe des Bauhäuslers, Galerie Mitte Dresden (mit Inge Thiess-Böttner)
Übergangsräume, Kulturrathaus Dresden und Galerie Budissin, Bautzener Kunstverein (Katalog)
Stadträume, Villa Eschebach, Dresdner Volksbank Raiffeisenbank (mit Beate Bilkenroth)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Neues aus Dresdner Ateliers, Villa Eschebach, Volksbank Dresden-Bautzen eG;
DISPLA(Y)CED - Internationale Ausstellung auf Großflächenplakaten im Dresdner Stadtraum (Katalog);
Ostrale – Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Ostragehege Dresden (Katalog);
Bestandsaufnahme, Kunstraum Dresden; Haltungen – Positionen Sächsischer Fotografie der Gegenwart, Bürgerfoyer im Sächsischen Landtag; Künstlermesse Dresden
Sichtweisen, Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Dresden
Galerie Raskolnikow, Dresden; Heimat, Galerie des Neuen Sächsischen Kunstvereins; Stadtgalerie Radebeul;
Dunkel und Licht, Galerie 2. Stock des Dresdner Rathauses; Künstlermesse Dresden
Grenzgänge, Kulturhaus der BASF Schwarzheide (Katalog); Galerie Mitte Dresden; Künstlermesse Dresden
Works in Public Collections
- Deutsche Fotothek, Archiv der Fotografen
- Grafiksammlung der Sächsischen Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek
- Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Kunstfonds and Kupferstichkabinett
- Museen der Stadt Dresden, Technische Sammlungen
- Stadtmuseum und Stadtarchiv Dresden
- Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen
- Stiftung Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Glashütte
Selected Publications
About Luc Saalfield
„His creative approach: to look at details, seemingly unintentionally but with the possibility for the viewer’s own associations. These are not reports. It is only through the sequence within the presented series that connections are opened up and deepened. Pictures as understatements, seemingly unrelated and yet a mosaic.“
„The photographic skills of Luc Saalfeld are radical. One can only show how one experiences reality, not how it is. Fiction is foreign to him, as is dramatization; however, projections are not. His pictures are biographical notations, the expression of a reflection on the world, space and light, which manifests itself as work with an independent worldview and which gradually takes shape through the experience of the medium of photography.
„He makes the invisible visible to us. Furthermore, the individual images from the image pool— even within the cycles—are repeatedly reassembled. This enables conceptual works with varying story lines, and certainly also a manipulative interaction with the viewing habits and perceptions of the audience.“
„Just a short time after their creation, photographs unfold their own lives in the eye of the beholder. Thinking is comparative, and to remember is to reflect and compare; photographs refresh the memory of our earlier existence. What we bring with us, we must imbed in the pictures, in order to decipher them. And what we take with us from the images is the shaping and the direction that our thinking has received. The complex process of image reception thus always oscillates between past, present and future.“
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