User:Michael Najjar

Michael Najjar (* 31 October 1966 in Landau in der Pfalz) is a German photographer.

Biography
Michael Najjar was born on 31 October 1966 in Landau, West Germany. Since 1988 he has lived and worked in Berlin.

From 1988 to1993 he studied at the Bildo-Akademie für Kunst und Medien in Berlin, the first private art academy in Germany, where he learnt experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to the media of photography, video and computers. It was there that he first became acquainted with the work of the cultural theorists Jean Baudrillard, Vilém Flusser and Paul Virilio which exerted a major influence on his later creative output. He graduated in 1993 under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Born. The marked global outlook shown in his art is colored by his life and work in Brazil, Cuba, Spain, England, Japan and the USA.

Most of Najjar’s work is museums and private collections. In 2008 he was given his first mid-career retrospective at the GEM Museum for Contemporary Art and the Hague Museum of Photography.

In 2007 he married the art historian and gallery owner Dr. Sherin Najjar.

Exhibitions (selection)
2010


 * CAC Malaga, Spain
 * Biennial for Art and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
 * TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Teneriffa, Spanien

2009
 * Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA
 * New Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, Niederlande
 * Leopold Hösch Museum, Düren, Deutschland
 * 5.Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Deutschland

2008
 * GEM Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Fotomuseum Den Haag
 * Central Academy of Fine Arts, Peking
 * Museo Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca
 * Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham

2007
 * FORMA_Centro_Internazionale_di_Fotografia, Mailand, Italien
 * Kunstverein Heidelberg, Deutschland
 * Museum Kunstwerk, Stuttgart, Deutschland

2006
 * 10. Architektur Biennale, Venedig, Italien
 * 9. Biennale Havanna, Kuba
 * Museo DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
 * Centre pour l´ Image Contemporaine, Genf, Schweiz
 * Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Deutschland

2005
 * Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, Deutschland
 * Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Deutschland
 * National Museum of Science, Thaipeh, Taiwan
 * Convergence Biennale, Peking, China

2004
 * Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spanien
 * Science Museum, London, UK
 * Photokina, Köln, Deutschland

2003
 * Deichtorhallen, Internationales Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Deutschland
 * Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Deutschland
 * Museum Traphold, Kolding, Dänemark

2002
 * Kunsthalle Hamburg, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Deutschland
 * Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Deutschland

2000
 * Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Forum Fotografie, Hamburg, Deutschland

1999
 * Museum Ludwig, Köln, Deutschland

1998
 * Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Forum Fotografie, Hamburg, Deutschland

Work series

 * high altitude, 2008 - 2009
 * bionic angel, 2006 - 2008
 * netropolis, 2003 - 2006
 * no memory access, 2001 - 2005
 * information and apocalypse, 2003
 * end of sex.as we know it., 2002
 * schnittbilder, 2001
 * nexus project part I, 1999 - 2000
 * japanese style, 1999 - 2000
 * ¡viva fidel! – journey into absurdity, 1997

Weblinks

 * Website von Michael Najjar
 * Artnet
 * K07674
 * K07674