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Is something wrong with Niehaus? Still lives? Although the themes are not unusual, the still lives of Niehaus differ from the traditional still lives in that any attempt to discover meaning is futile. His main goal is to focus the spectator on the photography or the subject of his images. Where there is no appeal to logic or experience, Niehaus leaves the spectator with wonder.
Death is ever imminent in these images, as in his recent image of a cut open fish. As if it were a marionet, it apparently becomes alive again.


Holger Niehaus
1975, Nordhorn, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin. In 2002, Niehaus graduated from the AKI Academie voor beeldende kunst en vormgeving in Enschede. Since 2003, his work has merited a solo exhibition in Amsterdam.
Since 2002, he has been a featured participant in group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Tecklenburg, ’s-Hertogenbosch and Berlin.