Patrick Bienert (born 1980) is a German photographer[1] who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape and documentary photography. He predominantly documents youth culture and transformation on the borders of Eastern Europe.[2] In January 2020, he published the book East End of Europe, about a pro-European generation in Georgia.[3][4] In 2017, Bienert published the book Wake Up Nights, about young nightlife culture in Ukraine.[3]

His projects are grounded in cultures and identity in relation to the history and its traces between the land and its inhabitants.[2]

Life and work

Bienert grew up in Munich, Germany, where he studied photography at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie and the Munich University of Applied Sciences until 2006.[3]

His photography project East End of Europe about a pro-European generation in Georgia was published in 2020 as a book by Kahl Editions.[1][n 1] Another Magazine included the monograph in its list of must-have photo books in 2020.[5] Brad Feuerhelm wrote, "This is a lovely book full of promise and suffers little from the exceptional portraits that Patrick Bienert produces."[6]

Other bodies of Bienert's work include Asmara (2013),[n 2] in which he photographed both the modernist architecture of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, from the period of the Italian colonisation, and the city's current inhabitants; Clothing Trade,[n 3] a project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia (2018); and Banks of Dnister (2019),[n 4] for which he followed the Dnister river along its route through Moldova, the breakaway state Transnistria and Ukraine, portraying the youth culture and the landscapes in the post-Soviet states.

Bienert's work has been published in magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,[7] Double Magazine[8] and Zeit Magazin.[9]

In 2018 he received a grant from the Goethe-Institut to work on his project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia.[10]

His personal projects have been exhibited at OFR Galerie in Paris;[11] Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany;[12] Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia;[13] and Store Studios, London.[14]

Commissioned by the fashion brand Jil Sander, Bienert photographed at the Italian island of Ponza for the brand's pre-fall 2020 advertisements.[15]

Publications

  • Wake Up Nights. Self-published, 2017. Edition of 500 copies.
  • East End of Europe. With an essay by Florian Illies. Kahl, 2020. ISBN 978-0995761162. Edition of 500 copies.[1][n 1]

Exhibitions

  • Asmara, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2013[12]
  • Wake up Nights, Store Studios London, 2018[14]
  • Post Soviet Visions, Wake up Nights, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, 2018[16]
  • Wake up Nights, Capitis Studios, Berlin, 2018[17]
  • Wake up Nights, Ngorongoro, Berlin, 2018[18]
  • Clothing Trade, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019[19]
  • Conversations, Webber Gallery, London, 2018[20]
  • East End of Europe, Republic Square, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019[21]
  • Clothing Trade, Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia, 2019[13]
  • East End of Europe, OFR Galerie, Paris, 2020[11][n 5]

Films

  • Kiev (2018) – short film[22]

Awards

  • Rovinj Photodays Award, Clothing Trade, Grand Prix, 2020[23]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Publisher's description of East End of Europe, Kahl Editions, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  2. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Asmara", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022.
  3. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Clothing Trade", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022.
  4. ↑ For a portfolio, see "Banks of Dnister", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Press – East End of Europe – Patrick Bienert", Kahl Editions. Accessed 2 March 2021.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Jacob Charles Wilson, "Photographer Patrick Bienert's Powerful Portrait of a Changing Georgia", Another Man, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 Hanna Torseke, "East End of Europe", Are We Europe, 11 April 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "East End of Europe", Paper Journal, 4 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Coline Olsina, "Georgia is a special place", Blind Magazine 2 Jul 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  5. ↑ Belle Hutton, "Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy", Another Magazine, 9 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  6. ↑ Brad Feuerhelm, "East End of Europe", Ordinary Light, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  7. ↑ Rachel Monroe, "Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World", The Atlantic, 6 February 2021. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Curators", Models-dot, Double Magazine. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  9. ↑ Christoph Amend, "Am Ende der Nacht", Zeit Magazin, 25 September 2019. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  10. ↑ "Vernissage Patrick Bienert", Goethe Institut. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  11. 1 2 "Vernissage East End of Europe", Lives Magazine, 7 January 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  12. 1 2 "Visual leader Exhibition", Deichtorhallen. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  13. 1 2 "Exposition Amphithéâtre de Carthage", Goethe Institute. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  14. 1 2 "Wake up Nights", Store Studios. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  15. ↑ "The Ponza project documented by Patrick Bienert", Jil Sander, 7 September 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  16. ↑ "Post Soviet Visions", Calvert 22 Foundation. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  17. ↑ "Patrick Bienert-Wake up Nights", Photography-now. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  18. ↑ "Ngorongoro 2 Artists", Ngorongoro Artist weekend. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  19. ↑ "Tbilisi Night of Photography 2019", Tbilisi Photo Festival. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  20. ↑ "Paper Journal 01 exhibition Webber Gallery", Paper Journal. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  21. ↑ "Faces of Tbilisi", Zeit Magazin. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  22. ↑ "Patrick Bienert – Kiev", Vimeo. Accessed 2 March 2021.
  23. ↑ "Rovinj Photodays 2020 Grand Prix", Rovinj Photodays. Accessed 17 January 2022.
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