MICHAEL WESELY
b. 1963, GermanyMichael Wesely, Born in Munich in 1963, studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt fürPhotographie from 1986 to 1988 and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München from 1988to 1994. With his often extremely long exposures, he captures processes that extend overperiods of minutes, many hours and even years, and captures the passing of time: peoplestanding more or less still for five minutes, plants blossoming and withering in a few days,architecture under construction for years.
In long-term projects, he has photographed the construction of several important urbanstructures in Munich, Berlin, São Paulo, and other cities. Since 2000, he lives and works in Berlin.His works have been shown in exhibitions worldwide in numerous museums and galleriesincluding the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Neue National Galerie, Berlin, the GemeenteMuseum, The Hague, and the Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo.
Text courtesy The Columns Gallery.
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