BIOGRAPHY:
Malte Uchtmann (*1996 in Hamburg) is a photographer and media artist based in Leipzig, Germany.
Using various visual media, he is interested in the construction of reality through documentary
image strategies and examines how systems of knowledge, order and representation shape our perception and behavior.
His work has been awarded the German Photo Book Prize and was shortlisted for the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023.
He is currently part of the Photography and Media Class and the Expanded Cinema Class of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
He is available for commissions and assignments.
You can view and download the editorial porfolio
here.
EDUCATION:
2022--
Diploma, Photography and Media Class & Expanded Cinema Class,
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (HGB), Leipzig, Germany
2018 19
BA Photography, Royal Academy of the Hague (KABK), the Hague, Netherlands (Erasmus)
2016 22
BA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, Hochschule Hannover (HsH), Hanover, Germany
2015 16
BA Architecture, University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin, Germany (unfinished)
BOOKS:
SHOWS:
2024
2023
2023
2023
2022
2022
»A Videocall With Yourself« in »POSITIONEN« at GoetheExil, Hanover
2022
2022
2022
»THE STORY OF NO ANSWERS« in »PEP New Talents 2022« at Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin
2022
2021
»THE STORY OF NO ANSWERS« in »Are you still HERE/BETWEEN/THERE« at GoetheExil, Hanover
2021
2020
»ARRIVING« 7th LUMIX Festival for Young Visual Journalism, Hanover
2020
»ARRIVING« in »Urban Challenges« / PEP x B-Part Exhibition, Berlin
2019
»ARRIVING« Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe am Rondellplatz
2019
»ARRIVING« Fotofestival Horizonte Zingst
2018
»ARRIVING« Screening, Chobi Mela Festival Bangladesh
2018
Menschen-Rechte, Reutlingen
2018
»No longer, not yet« European Youth, KuK, Monschau
2018
»No longer, not yet« Container-Village, Lumix Festival, Hannover
2018
»No longer, not yet« Container-Village, 7. Triennial of Photography, Hamburg
2016
Blunt Generation, Love Foundation, Maastricht
PUBLICATIONS:
2023
2022
»THE STORY OF NO ANSWERS« in Der Freitag Nr.33
2022
»ARRIVING« im IMPULSE MAGAZIN 2022
2021
DER GREIF issue 14 "YES TO ALL" guest-edited by Sylvie Fleury
2021
»THE STORY OF NO ANSWERS« in CATALOGUE of F2 Fotofestival #Identität
2020
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
»ARRIVING« in BFF-Förderpreis Magazin
2019
»ARRIVING« Katalog Horizonte Zingst Umweltfotofestival
2019
2018
2018
2018
2018
GRANTS:
2024
Wüstenrot Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreis 15
2024
»follow up Projektförderung, Freundeskreis des Hauses der Photographie Hamburg x FUTURES Photography
2021
VG Bild-Kunst Publikationsförderung
2018
BFF-Förderpreis Nominee
AWARDS AND MENTIONS:
2023
2020
»ARRIVING« Book-Dummy, Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (German Photobookaward)
2020
»ARRIVING« Book-Dummy, Shortlist Kassel Dummy Award, Fotobookfestival Kassel
2019
»ARRIVING« Shortlist Felix Schoeller Photo Award
2019
»ARRIVING« Shortlist Copenhagen Photofestival
TEXTS, TALKS, INTERVIEWS:
2023
2023
2022
Talk:
TU Berlin, Institut für Architektur, CODEtalks #41: Malte Uchtmann
2020
2020
SELECTED CLIENTS:
DIE ZEIT (de) / Uni Spiegel (de) / Spiegel Online (de) / Brasilia Magazin (de) / ReportageSchule Reutlingen (de)
/ Baobab Magazine (nl) / Photo Presse (de) / HMTMH, Hannover / HfMT, Hamburg / Volkswagen Stiftung / GUNDLACH Bau
und Immobilien