BIOGRAPHY
"He understands urban space as modernity´s extreme" - Ralf Hanselle
Born in 1968, Torsten Warmuth works as a photo artist in Berlin. After graduating from a school in Erfurt, he completed a degree in science and a doctorate in computer-aided mathematics at the University of Kassel in 1995. As from 1996, Warmuth has dedicated himself exclusively to photography.
He produces large-format, toned enlargements on gelatin silver paper at his studio in Berlin, and his works focus on man´s anonymity in an urban environment. Schooled on the works of Photodynamism, Warmuth depicts a world that is constantly changing. Playing with the dynamics of time and motion, he creates photographs that are certainly sharply focused, but nevertheless full of optical hazes and substantial uncertainties. Long and multiple exposures create the impression that the figures in his artworks are elongated or even beginning to dissolve and disappear.
Warmuth publishes his own works in very small editions or even as unique works. They are all gelatin silver prints with multiple toning; he makes use of classical analogue darkroom processes to produce them by himself by hand.
Over the last ten years,Warmuth has exhibited many times in leading galleries and public art collections: Warsaw (2002), Kunstsammlungen Jena (2004), Hayward Gallery London (2004), Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne (2004), Kunsthalle Erfurt (2006), and Galerie Brusberg Berlin (2008).
His works can also be found in the collection of the DG Bank in Frankfurt/Main, the Kunstsammlungen Jena, and many private collections throughout Germany.
