Fine Art nominee

In his photo series Ricochet, begun in 2013, Rudolf Steiner navigates the fine line between romantically transfigured images of nature and the representation of an injured landscape. Ricochet assembles pictures that were taken in the hinterland of Biel/Bienne. These pictures do not strive for any kind of truth of nature or landscape, but were created at their core in cooperation with nature on the basis of the chosen shooting process. The pictures were taken with a camera robot, with the help of which a camera produces hundreds of individual shots of a motif, which are later joined together on the computer by a stitching program to form a single picture. Since the lighting conditions can change drastically during the long recording time of between 10 and 30 minutes and meteorological influences such as wind, fog, snow and rain also play a role, the image result can only be controlled or predicted to a limited extent. In addition, stitching can produce errors that influence the result. These influences and sources of error create unusual images in which the limits of conventional photography dissolve and expand.

Rudolf Steiner is a self-taught contemporary Artist and Photographer who lives and works in Biel, Rondchâtel and Warsaw. He has received many Awards, Grants, Prizes and Residencies and his work was shown internationally.
2019 Art Award, City of Biel/Bienne, 2017 Grant artist book,2017 Grant from the City of Biel/Bienne and the Canton of Bern (Ricochet), 2011 Artist in Residence, CulturScapes, Mamuta, Jerusalem, Israel, 2011 Interformat Symposium, Art Colony Nida, Lithuania 2010 Art and Politics, International Visitor Leadership Program, USA, 2009 Grant for a Monograph, Canton of Bern , 2009 Artist in Residence, CCA Ujazodwski Castle, Warsaw, 2008 Travel grant from the Canton of Bern, 2003 Prize of the Art Commission of the City of Bern
Exhibitions: 2020 Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, 2020 Reflector Gallery, Progr, Bern, 2016 Centre Pompidou @ Paris Photo, 2013 Apex Art, New York, 2013 Israel Photofestival, Tel Aviv, 2012 Musée d’Elysée, Lausanne, 2011 Photographers Gallery, London, 2011 ℅ Berlin, 2010 Deutsches Photomuseum Braunschweig, 2010 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Photofestival