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Malte Wandel * 1982 in Munich, lives in Munich & Cologne

(b. 1982). Photographer. Lives and works in Munich and Cologne. Between 2003 and 2010 Wandel studied photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund with Susanne Brügger; he spent a semester abroad at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with André Gelpke and Thomas Weski in 2007. Since 2011 he has been pursuing further studies in media arts at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. His recent works include Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit: Die DDR in Mosambik (2010), Official [...]

(b. 1982). Photographer. Lives and works in Munich and Cologne. Between 2003 and 2010 Wandel studied photography at the Fachhochschule Dortmund with Susanne Brügger; he spent a semester abroad at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste with André Gelpke and Thomas Weski in 2007. Since 2011 he has been pursuing further studies in media arts at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. His recent works include Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit: Die DDR in Mosambik (2010), Official (2010),Sein oder Haben (2009). His exhibitions in 2011 included Vattenfall Fotopreis, C/O Berlin; unheimlich vertraut: Bilder vom Terror, C/O Berlin; Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit, Krefelder Kunstverein; BFF-Förderpreis 2011, Haus der Wirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart. Works on view in 2012 thus far, both in Munich:Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit, Galerie Jo van de Loo, and Official Forum, Stadtmuseum.2011: 2nd prize in the Vattenfall Fotopreis für junge narrative Fotografie and the BFF-Förderpreis.

 

What has happened to the sixteen-thousand young Mozambicans who lived in the GDR for more than seven years as Vertragsarbeiter (contract workers) and had to leave in 1990 when the GDR collapsed? Malte Wandel lived in Mozambique in 2009–10 and has documented in Einheit, Arbeit, Wachsamkeit (Unity, Work, Vigilance) the traces of an attachment that, twenty years after their return, is marked by economic injustice and uncertainty.

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