Andreas Müller-Pohle

Andreas Müller-Pohle, born in Braunschweig in 1951, is a Berlin-based media artist and publisher. He studied Economics and Communication Sciences at the Universities of Hanover and Göttingen. In 1979, he founded European Photography, an independent art magazine for contemporary photography and new media. His first artistic projects in the late 1970s focused on issues of photographic perception and later on photo recycling, now also incorporating video. In the mid-1990s, he began exploring the use of digital, genetic, and political codes. Various projects on the topic of water followed, with extensive portraits of the Danube River and the megalopolis of Hong Kong. Müller-Pohle’s works have been widely published and exhibited and are included in numerous private and museum collections worldwide. As a publisher, Müller-Pohle has edited the major works of the media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser and including the seminal Philosophy of Photography, which has been translated into over twenty languages. With the publication of Flusser’s essay Die Schrift: Hat Schreiben Zukunft? (Does Writing Have a Future?) on floppy disk in 1986, he is one of the pioneers of today’s e-book. In 2001, Müller-Pohle was awarded the European Photography Prize by the Reind M. De Vries Foundation. He is the author of numerous texts on photo theory, among others on “Visualism,” and has been a visiting professor and lecturer at, among others, the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, and the Hong Kong Design Institute. In addition to various singular topics, he engages in two long-term projects in which he combines photography, video and sound: Studies on Water, including his portraits of the Danube River and the waterscapes of Hong Kong, and Studies on Traffic, in which he investigates mobility phenomena in different regions of the world.  – Full CV