Timo Kahlen. Experimental Photography

Timo Kahlen
Phosphorus Photography
(Phosphor- Photographie),
1987 - 2008


        


Ephemeral, glowing images of light
on a phosphorescent screen.
Photography as a process of transformation:
fragile, phosphorescent images accumulate in the camera,
transform and vanish in time.


   

Scholarship of the Berlin Senate, 1997. Phosphorus Photographs were presented at the
Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin in 1992, at Galerie Voges + Deisen, Frankfurt in 1993 and 1995 /
the Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft Berlin in 1995 / the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in 1998.
Public collections: Fotografische Sammlung DZ Bank, Frankfurt / Sammlung Künstlerförderung Berlin

Timo Kahlen. Projektion (Projection), 1994
Jam jar, miniaturized projection of a tree

Edition Galerie Voges + Deisen, Frankfurt am Main







Timo Kahlen. Cutting Edge, 2006
Projections cut through clusters of dry bushes
suspended from the ceiling

"Earcatcher", Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, 2006

Timo Kahlen. Lichtstaub (Light Dust), 1996 / 97
and Vibration, 1994 / 96
Series of black and white photographs, 40 x 50 cm

Part of the sound installation Schwirren, Berlin 1994/2000
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Timo Kahlen. Images of light from a stone camera, 1986 - 1989
Himmel (Sky), October / November 1988
Light, fungi and bacteria on photographic paper, 118 x 110 cm

Series of images of the sky from a stone camera obscura,
exposed for varying lenghts of time (1 day, 1 week, 10 months).
"The camera would only allow the photographic paper
to 'see' the sky. All the information of the sky (stars,
sunlight, clouds, moonlight)  was distilled into these huge
negative-like black squares by day, and white squares by night.
Nothing could be seen in the final prints, but it is all there,
a dense centre of information... Moisture over time affected
the photographs due to the stone pyramid's hidden condensation
and bacteria ate away at both the paper and the image."

Joanna Littlejohns, Guernsey 2001



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Exhibited at the Ruine der Künste Berlin, 1989 / Frankfurter Kunstverein 1989.  Collection: Deutsche Leasing AG
Nominated for Prize for Young European Photographers 1989

Timo Kahlen. Blinder Raum (Blind space), 2000
Installation view Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin 2000
'Blind', opaque mirrors, silent gallery space with
opaque /  translucent window panes

Timo Kahlen. Einbrennen (Burnt), 1986-2000
Image of window burnt into
the curtains of my darkroom
over the period of 15 years
(sunlight on black cloth /
ca. 200 x 270 cm)

"Timo Kahlen : Liquid Light" exhibition, Galerie im Parkhaus, Berlin 2000

Timo Kahlen. Lichtmass, Berlin 1995
Sound and light installation
Empty slide projectors, wall projection of dust
on lenses, audio loop of dust on vinyl LP.
Karl-Hofer-Gesellschaft, Berlin 1995

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Timo Kahlen. Sprengen, 1989 - 2005
Series of photographs
based on an ephemeral
sculpture of light
found beneath a tree

                



Timo Kahlen. Blattlinien, 1999
Digital scans of leaves
C-prints, each 38 x 28,5 cm

The complex, abstract drawings seem to be
generic and artificial, but are actually traces of
a process, in which insects 'scan' and disect
the surface of leaves.

Part of the sound installation Luftraum, Berlin 2001






Timo Kahlen. Zwiebelmuster (Still # 16), 2006
Sound sculpture: Photographic images of flies
suspended on metal wires above a plate.
Subsonic sound composition;
irritating, chaotic flow and vibration of plate
on loudspeaker

Sound Art 2006, art cologne
exhibition of nominees for German national "Sound Art Prize 2006"
> see related sound sculptures / sound art works

Timo Kahlen. Out of Focus, 2004 - 2006
Series of three-dimensional
photographic sculptures
based on out-of-focus images
enlarged to original scale







Timo Kahlen. 200km/h, 2006
Landscape photography
Series of C-prints, 40 x 50 cm

Collection of the artist

Timo Kahlen has studied experimental photography and media
with film-maker and photographer Dieter Appelt
at the Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin from 1985-1996.
He received his Meisterschüler (Master of Arts) in 1993
and has held a lectureship at the Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin
from 1993 to 1998.

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