Armin Linke
Armin Linke (b. 1966, Milan) is an artist working with photography and film by setting up processes that question the medium,
its technologies, narrative structures, and complicities within wider socio-political structures. Linke’s work observes how
human beings (re-)design and use space and time as social forms: it constructs questions / propositions on planning the future,
on the hidden entanglements and inter-dependences within collective design practices, and on the shifting of sites of responsibility.
Linke’s exhibiting practice sets up performative scripts in which different voices and methods come together. The oeuvre functions
as a collection of tools for demystifying different design strategies and languages. Working with his own collection, Linke
challenges the conventions of photographic practice and demonstrates that photography is not the end point. In a collective
approach with other artists, as well as curators, designers, architects, historians, philosophers and scientists, the narratives,
questions, and propositions put forth by Linke’s works and practice expand into the multiple implicated registers, centring
the questions of installation and display.
Currently professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (AdBK), guest professor at ISIA Urbino, and guest artist
at CERN Geneva, Linke was also an MIT Visual Arts Program research affiliate, guest professor at the IUAV Arts
and Design University in Venice, professor of photography at the Karlsruhe University for Arts and Design (HfG), and artist in
residence at the KHI Florenz.
Linke’s installation Alpi won the special prize at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture and Image Capital was awarded the Kubus.Sparda Art Prize in 2019.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Image Capital (with Estelle Blaschke), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation,
Eschborn/Frankfurt, MAST, Bologna, and Museum Folkwang, Essen, 2022-2023; Earth Indices. Processing the Anthropocene (with Giulia Bruno), HKW,
Berlin, 2022; Blind Sensorium, Matadero, Madrid, 2021 and Museo Archeologico Nazionale Domenico Ridola, Matera ECoC 2019.
CV PDFLinke’s installation Alpi won the special prize at the 2004 Venice Biennale of Architecture and Image Capital was awarded the Kubus.Sparda Art Prize in 2019.
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