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Alexander Kadow wurde 1985 in Winsen/Luhe, Deutschland, geboren und lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg und Berlin, Deutschland. Er erlangte sowohl seinen Bachelor als auch seinen Master in Bildender Kunst an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. Außerdem nahm er an der Meisterklasse an der Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie teil.
Kadows Arbeiten befassen sich mit Materialien, die eine Verbindung zur Fotografie und somit zur Darstellung, Bewahrung und Interpretation dessen haben, was wir Realität nennen. Durch die Umnutzung technischer Bildprodukte und ihrer Werkzeuge - von lichtempfindlichen Materialien bis hin zu Scannern und KI-Algorithmen - entstehen Bilder, die zwischen Abstraktion und repräsentativen Formen oszillieren. Kadow ist "gute aussichten - junge deutsche fotografie 2021/22“ Preisträger und "FUTURES Photography Talent, 2019" Stipendiat.
Kadow hat seit 2015 an zahlreichen Gruppen- und Einzelausstellungen sowohl in Deutschland, als auch in Den Haag, Rotterdam, Paris und Rom teilgenommen. Dabei war er in Ausstellungen u.a. in den Deichtorhallen Hamburg, im Landesmuseum Koblenz, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Goethe Institut Paris, sowie in Billytown, Den Haag, auf der „Rotterdam Artfair“ und bei UNSEEN in Amsterdam vertreten.
2021 fand außerdem eine Einzelausstellung im Kunstverein Ribnitz-Damgarten statt.
Alexander Kadow was born in 1985 in Winsen/Luhe, Germany, and lives and works in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany. He obtained both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Fine Arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. He also participated in the master class at the Ostkreuzschule for Photography.
Kadow's works deal with materials that have a connection to photography and thus to the representation, preservation and interpretation of what we call reality. By repurposing technical image products and their tools - from light-sensitive materials to scanners and AI algorithms - he creates images that oscillate between abstraction and representative forms. Kadow is a "gute aussichten - junge deutsche fotografie 2021/22" award winner and "FUTURES Photography Talent, 2019" fellow.
Since 2015, Kadow has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Germany as well as in The Hague, Rotterdam, Paris and Rome. He has been represented in exhibitions at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Landesmuseum Koblenz, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Goethe Institute Paris, as well as Billytown, The Hague, "Rotterdam Artfair" and UNSEEN in Amsterdam, among others.
In 2021, a solo exhibition was also held at the Kunstverein Ribnitz-Damgarten.
Kadow's works deal with materials that have a connection to photography and thus to the representation, preservation and interpretation of what we call reality. By repurposing technical image products and their tools - from light-sensitive materials to scanners and AI algorithms - he creates images that oscillate between abstraction and representative forms. Kadow is a "gute aussichten - junge deutsche fotografie 2021/22" award winner and "FUTURES Photography Talent, 2019" fellow.
Since 2015, Kadow has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in Germany as well as in The Hague, Rotterdam, Paris and Rome. He has been represented in exhibitions at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Landesmuseum Koblenz, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Goethe Institute Paris, as well as Billytown, The Hague, "Rotterdam Artfair" and UNSEEN in Amsterdam, among others.
In 2021, a solo exhibition was also held at the Kunstverein Ribnitz-Damgarten.