Birgit Koschies
Born in Berlin.
Educated at the Lette Verein Berlin; beginning engagement with experimental photography.
1981 study of biology at the Freie Universität Berlin with a focus on scientific photography.
From 1986 works for various photo agencies.
Axel Koschies
Born in Kiel.
1975 hospitations in the class of Harald Duwe at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel as well as with the object artist Raffael Rheinsberg.
1976 civilian service in a care home for people with physical and psychic disabilities.
1977 studies in film and theatre, communications and Latin American literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.
KOSCHIES
While studying, joint film projects at the university film department of the FU Berlin under Prof. Dr. Werner Dewitz.
After graduation, cooperation in the fields of illustration, visual communication and theatre photography.
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30 Years of Photography in the Space of Time, 2020
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1990
Start of artistic collaboration on the cycle THE HUMAN RACE with a historic black-and-white time-slit camera that spatially depicts time diagrams on a picture.
1992
First international exhibition participation at the EXPO in Sevilla.
2011
Realization of the artistic project RUNNING DIRECTION with polychrome time-slit camera shots of film directors.
2012
Starting work on extreme movement studies as part of the MOTION PICTURES series.
2013
Increasing incorporation of abstract pictorial elements; creation of the first works from the cycle TIME LINES.
2015
First studies of the cycle SURFACES; development of a special portrait technique with the time-slit camera.
2016
Sponsorship award of the Kulturwerk Foundation of VG Bild-Kunst.
2017
Art Prize of the City of Limburg.
2020
Project grant of the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.