Patrick Bienert (born 1980) is a German photographerJacob Charles Wilson, "Photographer Patrick Bienert's Powerful Portrait of a Changing Georgia", Another Man, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. who works on long-term projects of portrait, landscape and documentary photography. He predominantly documents youth culture and transformation on the borders of Eastern Europe.Hanna Torseke, "East End of Europe", Are We Europe, 11 April 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. In January 2020, he published the book East End of Europe, about a pro-European generation in Georgia.Coline Olsina, "Georgia is a special place", Blind Magazine 2 Jul 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. In 2017, Bienert published the book Wake Up Nights, about young nightlife culture in Ukraine.
His projects are grounded in cultures and identity in relation to the history and its traces between the land and its inhabitants.
Early life and education Bienert was born in 1980 and grew up in Munich, Germany, where he studied photography at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie and the Munich University of Applied Sciences until 2006.
Career His photography project East End of Europe about a pro-European generation in Georgia was published in 2020 as a book by Kahl Editions.Publisher's description of East End of Europe, Kahl Editions, 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. Another Magazine included the monograph in its list of must-have photo books in 2020.Belle Hutton, "Beautiful New Photography Books You’ll Want to Buy", Another Magazine, 9 March 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. Other bodies of Bienert's work include Asmara (2013),For a portfolio, see "Asmara", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022. in which he photographed both the modernist architecture of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, from the period of the Italian colonisation, and the city's current inhabitants; Clothing Trade,For a portfolio, see "Clothing Trade", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022. a project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia (2018); and Banks of Dnister (2019),For a portfolio, see "Banks of Dnister", Lensculture. Accessed 17 January 2022. for which he followed the Dnister river along its route through Moldova, the breakaway state Transnistria and Ukraine, portraying the youth culture and the landscapes in the post-Soviet states.
Bienert's work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,Rachel Monroe, "Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World", The Atlantic, 6 February 2021. Accessed 2 March 2021. Double Magazine"Curators", Models-dot, Double Magazine. Accessed 2 March 2021. and Zeit Magazin.Christoph Amend, "Am Ende der Nacht", Zeit Magazin, 25 September 2019. Accessed 2 March 2021. In 2018 he received a grant from the Goethe-Institut to work on his project about the second-hand clothing industry in Tunisia."Vernissage Patrick Bienert", Goethe Institut. Accessed 2 March 2021. His personal projects have been exhibited at OFR Galerie in Paris;"Vernissage East End of Europe", Lives Magazine, 7 January 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany;"Visual leader Exhibition", Deichtorhallen. Accessed 2 March 2021. Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia;"Exposition Amphithéâtre de Carthage", Goethe Institute. Accessed 2 March 2021. and Store Studios, London."Wake up Nights", Store Studios. Accessed 2 March 2021. Commissioned by the fashion brand Jil Sander, Bienert photographed at the Italian island of Ponza for the brand's pre-fall 2020 advertisements."The Ponza project documented by Patrick Bienert", Jil Sander, 7 September 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021.
Publications Wake Up Nights. Self-published, 2017. Edition of 500 copies. East End of Europe. With an essay by Florian Illies. Kahl, 2020. . Edition of 500 copies.
Exhibitions Asmara, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2013 Wake up Nights, Store Studios London, 2018 Post Soviet Visions, Wake up Nights, Calvert 22 Foundation, London, 2018"Post Soviet Visions", Calvert 22 Foundation. Accessed 2 March 2021. Wake up Nights, Capitis Studios, Berlin, 2018"Patrick Bienert-Wake up Nights", Photography-now. Accessed 2 March 2021. Wake up Nights, Ngorongoro, Berlin, 2018"Ngorongoro 2 Artists", Ngorongoro Artist weekend. Accessed 2 March 2021. Clothing Trade, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019"Tbilisi Night of Photography 2019", Tbilisi Photo Festival. Accessed 2 March 2021. Conversations, Webber Gallery, London, 2018"Paper Journal 01 exhibition Webber Gallery", Paper Journal. Accessed 2 March 2021. East End of Europe, Republic Square, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2019"Faces of Tbilisi", Zeit Magazin. Accessed 2 March 2021. Clothing Trade, Amphithéâtre de Carthage, Tunisia, 2019 East End of Europe, OFR Galerie, Paris, 2020"Press – East End of Europe – Patrick Bienert", Kahl Editions. Accessed 2 March 2021.
Films Kiev (2018) – short film"Patrick Bienert – Kiev", Vimeo. Accessed 2 March 2021.
Awards Rovinj Photodays Award, Clothing Trade, Grand Prix, 2020"Rovinj Photodays 2020 Grand Prix", Rovinj Photodays. Accessed 17 January 2022.
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Am östlichen Ende Europas – interview with Carmen Maiwald