Premio Combat Prize

Klaus Bittner

From my art project “Climate-Change”: Photography-Digital Art / Series “Dead City”

My art project “climate-change” consists of photography-digital art, installation, painting
and drawing. For “PREMIUM COMBAT 2014 PRIZE” I have chosen a series of photographs from this project, called “Dead City”.
The climate change will have influence as well on nature as on our artificial worlds - e.g. architecture. It will force many people to migration of nations in order to escape from nature disasters. That will lead to overpopulation in other regions and there it will have negative influence on the housing situation. In order to supply people with enough housing space, architecture will fall back on cheap mass construction. There will arise inhuman housing areas, soulless large scale architecture (dead cities). My images show the positive side of the negative situation, they show the beauty of the ugly of these upcoming architectural structures.
The basic of these images are one or more photographs, which are formed by transformation and combination to a new image. I am not concerned to create total novel and crazy worlds, but I want to keep the character of the originals and to make visible and reinforce the enigmatic. In this way artificial images are arising, which look a bit like reality. Sometimes reality images which were not digital treated are arising looking artificial. My chief aim is to show images with an ambivalent character.
Photography - Digital Art - Painting - Drawing - Objects - Installation - Land Art
Studio: in Frankfurt a.M./Germany

Homepage:www.atelier-bittner.de
1944 born in Deschnei (Czech Republic)
since 1971 44 solo exhibitions in Germany, Italy, USA, Spain, France
79 participations in exhibitions and art projects in Germany and foreign countries
since 1969 Painting and Drawing
1979 Organizer of the ”Grafic Meeting” Frankfurt - Taschkent / Usbekistan
since 1980 Co-organizer of 8 public art projects
1982-1986 Teacher for painting and drawing at the ”Free Evening Scool Frankfurt”
since 1987 Artist-studio in Frankfurt-Bornheim
since 1988 Chemical pictures, objects and room-installations
since 1988 Member of the art associations: BBK, Artothek Frankfurt, U4 frAnkfuRT
since 1989 Thematic exhibitions, conception: the ”Variable Reaction”
since 1989 Thematic exhibitions (installations, paintings, objects, mixed media, performance)
since 1993 Land Art, Copy-Art, Performance
since 1994 Artist-studio in Bages, South-France
since 2000 Art projects in public space
since 2007 Photography / Digital Art
since 2009 Longtime art project “Climate Change”
Exhibitions and art projects since 2009 (selection):
2009 Bages / France, project “AGAVE”, 3 installations and photography/digital art
2009 Wiesbaden / Germany, Art Association Bellevue-Saal, paintings, installation, digital art
2010 Bages / France, “The Return 3”, Land Art - Installation
2010 Frankfurt / Germany, art mile “Berger 2900”, exhibition at U4 frAnfuRT
2010 Duisburg / Germany, Biennale Ruhr 2010, Arts Centre Liebfrauenkirche, “climate change”
2010 Frankfurt / Germany, Open Doors, solo exhibition, Studio Bittner
2010 Bages / France, the collection of “Maison des Arts”
2010 Riegel / Germany, Messmer-Foundation, André Evard - avard exhibition
2011 Karlsruhe / Germany, Höpfner-Foundation, exhibition photo avard
2011 Frankfurt / Germany, Show-Room Eulengasse Photography/Digital Art (Volume 1)
2011 Frankfurt / Germany, Show-Room Eulengasse Photography/Digital Art (Volume 2)
2012 Frankfurt / Germany, Show-Room Eulengasse Photography/Digital Art (Volume 3)
2012 Stuttgart / Germany, art association, exhibition ”my studio”
2012 Frankfurt / Germany, Luminale 2012, light- installation “1 Candela” Show-Room Eulengasse
2012 Güstrow / Germany, town gallery, art avard “ecology”, photography/digital art
2012 Wesseling / Cologne / Germany, art avard “point with no return”, photography/digital art
2012 Dragons Museum of Germany Lindenfels, international Mail Art - exhibition
2013 three online-exhibitions at ArtPackage.de
2013 Frankfurt / Germany, Show-Room Eulengasse, exhibition “Polversum”
2013 Offenbach / Germany, Gallery Salon 13, BOK, exhibition “Total Crash”
2014 Florence / Italy, Gallery Multiverso, exhibition “Contemporary Visions”