Jutta Biesemann & Hermann Vierke
Artists in residence for the month of August 2024.
Jutta Biesemann
Gilélag is Juttas second residency. Photography is her primary mode, but she works in installations as well. In her photography she loves composing still lives. Therefore, she searches objects in her surrounding which she brings home to her photographic table. Especially old and used things attract her because they can tell a story.
Second she works on aspects of `healing´ in former rooms of psychiatric clinics. Her own experience with an ill mother brought her to the desire of making these installations as symbolic acts of foregiveniss.
For three years she produces a series of `guardians of nature´. She installs these guardians on sensitive places in the nature to make aware which meaning nature and climate have to all of us. Up to now her favorite places where the wadden sea and its dunes in the Netherlands, lakes in Finland and in Japan as airports and overcrowded cities as well.
Jutta, born 1959, holds a BFA from the university in Münster (Germany) and she received a fine arts degree as a master student of photography in 2019. Since 2014 her photo´s are exhibited in different places and organizations in Germany and the Netherlands.
Hermann Vierke
My name is Hermann Vierke, I am German but I live in the Netherlands for more than 40 years. I followed the Dutch ‘Fotovakschool’ but in essence am an autodidact. For me photography was a super serious hobby, my profession is organisational psychologist I am a semiprofessional photographer specialized in makro stilllife, lost places and moody landscapes. For the makro stillifes I look for deformed bottle caps on the street. Thrown away and hitted by cars they reveal a rich and colorful mikrocosmos in front of a makro lens. Lost places fascinate me because they give me a an impression of the people that lived or worked there. In my photos I try to catch the atmosphere of the past. In my moody landscapes I try to discover the richness of the color shades and their interaction.
