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 Hannover 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 to explore the use of digital, genetic, and political codes. This was followed by various projects on the topic of water, with extensive portraits of the Danube River and the megalopolis of Hong Kong. Müller-Pohle’s work has been widely published and exhibited and is 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 groundbreaking 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 photographic theory, including “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 subjects, he is engaged in two long-term projects in which he combines photography, video and sound: Studies on Water, including his portraits of the Danube and Hong Kong’s waterscapes, and Studies on Traffic, exploring mobility phenomena in different regions of the world. He is currently working on a book about Vladimir Putin and his relationships with foreign leaders and cultural figures entitled Putin’s Long Shadows. Another theoretical and practical focus of his work is projects at the intersection of photography and artificial intelligence, most recently Niépce Recoded.
