bio // exhibition and publication history | Burkhard Philipp Harder

Exhibitions (solo/group):

• 59. VENICE BIENNIAL, APR 23 - NOV 27, 2022 (g)
• AAIE Center for contemporary Art, ROMA, SEP 08 - OCT 2, 2022 (g)
• PHOTO LONDON with Arthill Gallery, London / UK, Fall 2021 (g)
• SHANGHAI ART FAIR, Shanghai / China, Fall 2020 (s)
• BLURS, Being3 Gallery Beijing / China, OCT 10 - NOV 20, 2021 (g)
• Shanghai International Photography Festival, Fall 2020 (s)
• DAS MAGISCHE THEATER, St. Moritz / Switzerland, Winter 2020 (g)
• IBICENCO IV DESERT WATERS, Ibiza / Spain, Fall 2019 (g)
• BLACKBOX, APPROPRIATION Of THE QUATSI-TRILOGY, Shenzen / China, Fall 2018 (g)
• SHANGHAI PHOTO, Shanghai/China, Fall 2018 (s)
• IMMORTAL CITY, EXHIBITION, Binhai / China, Fall 2018 (g)
• DETOUR+DISTANCE, Beijing / China, Spring 2018 (s)
• IMPERIAL PARK, Beijing / China, Summer 2017 (g)
• 24 FPS-DECONSTRUCTING MOVIE(S), Being3 Gallery, Beijing.China, Dec. 2015 (s)
• THE PURE SUPREME, 10 years anniversary Being3 Gallery, Beijing/ China,, Dec.12, 2015 with Zhong Biao, Piero Mottola, Vanessa Alessi, Lisa SIsters, Su Rui, Ji Zi, Zhu Xiaodi, BVHarder, Chen Danyang, Zhang Zhaohui, Lan Zhenghui, Wei Ligang, Lv Peng
• NARBE DEUTSCHLAND / Scar Germany 967 min, 2008-2014, Being3 Gallery, Beijing/China, Oct. 25 - Dec. 7, 2014 (s)
• SECOND SERIES 2014, atArt, 798, Beijing/China, Oct 25 - Dec. 7, 2014 (s)
• INFOCUS, Juried exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix Art Museum, second museum survey on the PoD phaenomenon, Arizona/ USA, Aug 23 - Sept 28, 2014
• RECIPROCAL FABRICATION, Art College of Shangdong Architectual University Jinan/Shangdong, China 2013 (Claus Brunsmann, Burkhard Philipp Harder, Hans Petri, Martina Schumacher, Eva-Maria Schwab, Eduard Winklhofer)
• VIZII: 1st Int. Festival of Visual Culture and Photos, Kyiv/Ukraine, May / June 2013 (s)
• ED RUSCHA - BOOKS & CO, Gagosian - Madison Ave. NYC - bvh book contribution: SCARRED - Every Mile of the Death Strip, NYC/USA, March 5 - April 27, 2013
• COLOR, CWC Gallery/Camera Work Contemporary , Berlin/Germany, Sept. 15 - Dec. 1,2012
• DIY-PHOTOGRAPHERS & BOOKS, Cleveland Museum of Art - first museum survey on PoD phenomenon, Aug 11 - Dec 30, 2012 (B v H contribution: ARCHIVE MIRROR)
• THE UNSEEN EYE: Photographs from the Unconscious - The W.M.Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY/USA - October 1st 2011, February 19th, 2012
• DIE FOTO-BILDNISSE VON Burkhard Philipp Harder, Galerie Christian Pixis, Munich/Germany, 2009, double-feature with painter Rocco Pagel
• PANORAMA FOR LITHUANIA, Site specific Installation, 3 meter x 12 meter, Fort IX Memorial Site, Kaunas/Lithuania, 2008 (s)
• THE SIGNATURE (Der Vertrag), Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld/Germany, 2005 (s)
• VON HARDER, HILSDORF, HORST P. HORST, Camera Work, Berlin/ Germany, 2001
• SWIMMERS, Goethe Institut, New York/USA, 2000 (s)
• IMAGES, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö/Sweden, 1997 (s)
• 50 JAHRE MODERNE FARBPHOTOGRAPHIE, Photokina, Köln/Germany, 1986 (g)

Films

• PLANET SCAR, 2:12, 2020
• UNTITLED FILMSCROLLS, Experimental Filmseries. 2015-2018
• NARBE DEUTSCHLAND | SCAR GERMANY (Narbe Project Part II), 960:00, 2009-2014 (Remastered 2022), Germany
• NARBE BERLIN | SCAR BERLIN (Narbe Project Part I), 76:00, 2009, Germany
• YOU CANT PUSH BACK THE RIVER, 1992-96, 86:00, Brasil/Germany
• BRIEF AN EINEN FREMDEN, 1989, 28:00, Morocco/Germany
• REQUIEM - VOM SCHEITERN EINER GEISTIGEN ENTGRENZUNG, 45:00, 1979/80, Germany

Publications (about works by Burkhard Philipp Harder - selection):

• THE GUARDIAN 01/05/2022, Lens Culture’s Black & White Photography Awards, BLURS, Catalogue Group Show Being3 Gallery, Beijing / China, Fall 2021
• ArtLovers, Galerie Christian Pixis, Munich/ Germany, Winter 2021
• CONVEYOR Magazin #7, 2015 (Decaying History by Liz Sales)
• NARBE DEUTSCHLAND, Exhibition Catalogue Being3 Gallery, Beijing China, 2014
• INT. NEW YORK TIMES, PAGE TWO (The Images they left behind), 8/14/2014
• ARCHIVE MIRROR BY Burkhard Philipp Harder, Text by Sarah James, PHOTOWORKS #18 - 5/2012
• COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, Text: Karl E. Johnson, EYEMAZING Magazine 1/2012, by Anonymous/Burkhard Philipp Harder
• THE UNSEEN EYE. Photographs from the Unconscious. The WM Hunt / Collection, Burkhard Philipp Harder: Man on the Diving Board, 1985, Aperture/Thames & Hudson, London/NY, 2011
• PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF DIGITAL PRINTING, Nash Editions, Burkhard Philipp Harder: Frontispiz and page 206, Graham Nash (Hg.), Berkeley, CA 2006
• DER VERTRAG, Exhibition Catalogue, Burkhard Philipp Harder. Galerie am Ratswall, Bitterfeld, 2005
• IMAGES, Exhibition Catalogue, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö 1997
• Varanasi, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1987
• INDIA POR BURKHARD PHILIPP HARDER, Irisfoto no. 552, April/Mai 1992, page 16-25
• ROBERTO BURLE MARX: UMA FLOR DE PESSOA, Vogue Brasil, Vogue Special Edition : Cover and 30 Page spread, text: Fernando Gabeira, photographs: Burkhard Philipp Harder, page 76-107, Nr. 139, February 1987
• INDIA POR BURKHARD PHILIPP HARDER, Irisfoto no. 552, April/Mai 1992, page 16-25
• Schwimmer II, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1986
• Schwimmer, Zeit-Magazin, 1986
• Hansa Varietee Hamburg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983
• Der Wiener Ring, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983
• Cafe Greco, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazin, 1983
• 50 JAHRE FARBFOTOGRAFIE, Manfred Heiting Hrsg, photokina, 1986
• DAS DEUTSCHE LICHTBILD, Wolf Strache/Otto Steinert (Hg.), S. 147: Burkhard Philipp Harder: Drei Phasen eines Zuges, DSB, Stuttgart 1973

Publications (texts on Burkhard Philipp Harder - selection):

• RADICAL ARCHIVES by Sarah James, FRIEZE d/e Magazine, 2015
• EVERYONE IS THE ENTIRE HUMANKIND, catalogue text by Mianbu (curator/poet) on the 16 hour project NARBE DEUTSCHLAND by Burkhard Philipp Harder, Being3 Gallery, Beijing 2014
• THE IMAGES THEY LEFT BEHIND, Int. New York Times, Aug 14, 2014
• BLACK AND WHITE ATLANTIS, text by Oksana Zabushko on the anonymous Ukrainian negatives by Burkhard Philipp Harder, 2013
• DER VERSUCH ZU VERSTEHEN - DIE FOTOINSTALLATION PANORAMA FORT IX/LITAUEN VON Burkhard Philipp Harder, Text Nicole Graner, SZ vom 19.12.2012
• ARCHIVE MIRROR BY Burkhard Philipp Harder, Text by Sarah James, PHOTOWORKS #18 - 5/2012
• COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, Text: Karl E. Johnson, EYEMAZING Magazine 1/2012, by Anonymous/Burkhard Philipp Harder
• FOTOGRAFIE UND ERINNERUNG: DIE FOTO-BILDNISSE VON Burkhard Philipp Harder, Text von Christian d’Orville, Artlover 05/2011, Galerie Christian Pixis/Muenchen
• ERINNERUNGEN AN AFGHANISTAN, Text F. Adler, Juni/Juli 2009, SCHWARZWEISS 70 (Magazine for Photography)
• Prof. Joern Merkert: Text unvollendet (unpublished), 2007
• DIE SCHEMEN DES URSPRUNGS. ZU DEN FOTOGRAFISCHEN BILDERN VON Burkhard Philipp Harder, Text: Bernard Marcade, 2002 (unpublished)
• SWIMMERS, Catalogue, Burkhard Philipp Harder: Portraits of People in German Bathing Houses, Text: Andy Grundberg, Goethe Institute, New York, 2001

Participant at Conventions:

• ACCIDENT ON THE HIPPIE TRAIL i.e. THE BIG DISTRACTION, presenter, DNK Deutsches Nationalkomitee fuer Denkmalschutz, Akademie der Schoenen Kuenste/Dresden, Oct. 7, 2011
• ART OF PUBLIC MEMORY: NARBE BERLIN, presenter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, April 2011

Burkhard Philipp Harder is a former member of ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative. Between 2011 and 2013 he self-published many books and zines (MORTO IN ITALIA, 2010 / ARCHIVE MIRROR, 2011 / COLD WAR IN A TRASH BAG, 2011 / ANONYMOUS COLD WAR ARCHIVE, 2014)

Works in private and public collections incl. the Libraries of Tate Modern / London / Metropolitan Museum of Art/NY / New York Public Library (NYPL) / Cleveland Museum of Art/USA / Centre Pompidou/Paris. Burkhard Philipp Harder’s work has been shown in Germany, England, France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Ukraine, the United States and China.

Feb, 2026