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 exploring the use of digital, genetic, and political codes. This was followed by various projects on the topic of water, including 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, he has edited the major works of media philosopher Vilém Flusser, available today in the ten-volume Edition Flusser, 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, Müller-Pohle is considered one of the pioneers of today’s e-book. In 2001, he 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 institutions such as the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, and the Hong Kong Design Institute.
In addition to his long-term projects Studies on Water and Studies on Traffic – which combine photography, video, and sound, and explore themes such as global waterscapes and mobility phenomena across different regions – 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 key focus of his theoretical and practical work is the intersection of photography and artificial intelligence, most recently explored in the project Niépce Recoded.
