About
Andreas Oetker-Kast (*1964) is a photographer based in Kiel, Germany. Following his studies in sociology he pursued a career in international public relations, for six years in Germany followed by two and a half years in the United States. Upon his return to Germany in 2003 he turned to professional photography, specializing in documentary style and music photography. He was participating in seminars at the Ostkreuz School of Photography, Berlin from 2006-2009, first under the guidance of Michael Trippel (2006), followed by Werner Mahler (May 2007-2009). Since 2006 his work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and internationally and was published in books and catalogs. In 2012 he and his wife started their own publishing house bt:st verlag, to provide a home for their self-published works.
books & publications
- 2018
- Tamar, Where Are You?, bt:st.de verlag
- 2016
- BACKSTAGE Johannes Oerding Alles brennt, bt:st verlag
- 2013
- looking for wonderland, bt:st verlag
- 2012
- wonderland, PHOTOGRAPHIA BOREALIS 05, edition for contemporary photography in the north, published by Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of Schleswig-Holstein
- 2010
- wunderland, PHOTOGRAPHIA BOREALIS 03, edition for contemporary photography in the north, published by Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of Schleswig-Holstein
- 2008
- manpower, self-published
music, catalog, self-published
photobook exhibitions
- 2019
- Tamar, Where Are You?
Lucie Photo Book Prize Exhibition 2019, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Tamar, Where Are You?
Lucie Photo Book Prize Exhibition 2019, New York City, U.S.A.
Tamar, Where Are You?
Indian Photography Festival (IPF), Hyderabad, India
Tamar, Where Are You?
Athens Photo Festival APhF:19, Athens, Greece - 2018
- Tamar, Where Are You?
Frankfurt Book Fair, Pavillon of the Guest of Honor Georgia, Frankfurt, Germany - 2017
- BACKSTAGE, Johannes Oerding Alles brennt
Athens Photo Festival APhF:17, The Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece - 2015
- looking for wonderland
Athens Photo Festival APhF:15, The Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece - 2014
- looking for wonderland
INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks, Phoenix Art Museum, Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography, Phoenix, USA
looking for wonderland
F Book Show, 72Gallery, Tokyo Institute of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
looking for wonderland
Encontros da Imagem, Open Call for self-published Photobooks, Braga, Portugal - 2012
- manpower
Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma: WORK, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italy
solo exhibitions
- 2013
- looking for wonderland
Amerikazentrum Hamburg, Germany - 2012
- wonderland / wunderland
NordseeMuseum Husum, Nissenhaus, Husum, Germany
wonderland
Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany - 2011
- music
ELBJAZZ Festival, DOCK 56 artgalerie an der elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany - 2010
- manpower
Ministry of Labor, Berlin, Germany
manpower
Volksbank, Baden-Baden, Germany
music
Jazz Festival Leipzig, Opera Leipzig and Jazz Club Telegraph, Leipzig, Germany
wunderland
Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany - 2009
- manpower
Kieler Nachrichten, Kiel and Neumünster, Germany - 2008
- manpower
District Court, Kiel, Germany
music – for the ear and for the eye
Exhibition with vernissage including a jazz concert of the Thomas Siffling Trio, Brenner's Park Hotel & Spa, Baden-Baden, Germany - 2007
- music – for the ear and for the eye
Exhibition with vernissage including a jazz concert of the Thomas Siffling Trio, Metro Kino im Schlosshof, Kiel, Germany
music
Kunst um den Block, TNG The Net Generation, Kiel, Germany
group exhibitions
- 2015
- Tamar, where are you?
RFLXN 05, Foto-Reflexionen 05 / 5th edition of the exhibition of a statewide selection of photographic works in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Rendsburg, Germany - 2015
- Vadehavet – Wattenmeer
Joint exhibition with the painter Else Pia Martinsen Erz in the Gallery Erz, Skaerbaek, Denmark - 2014
- looking for wonderland
F-Stop Magazine, ON THE ROAD, Issue #66
wunderland / wonderland
Continuum, Sweet Art Gallery, Naples, Florida, USA - 2013
- wunderland / wonderland
Punctum Contra Punctum II – American Edition, Sidney and Berne Davis Arts Center, Fort Myers, Florida, USA
wunderland / wonderland
Punctum Contra Punctum II, Dimitri Shevardnadze National Gallery, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia
wonderland
Incognito at Friends of the Art, Naples Museum of Art, Florida, U.S.A. - 2012
- wonderland
„Gute Fotos – guter Zweck“, FREELENS Galerie, fund-raiser in favor of the FREELENS Foundation, Hamburg, Germany
wonderland
„Punctum – Contra Punctum“, Shalva Amiranishvili Museum of Fine Arts, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia - 2011
- music
AlsterArt 2011, Hamburg, Germany
wunderland
AGROUND: 16TH Annual Photo Competition Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, U.S.A.
wunderland
„Europe – Searching New Identity“, Karvasla Building, Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia - 2010
- Various projects, AlsterArt 2010, Hamburg, Germany
manpower
New Orleans Photo Alliance, Gruppenausstellung WoRK, New Orleans, U.S.A.
wunderland
International Award for Digital and Photographic Art 2010, Museum of Art, Chianciano Terme, Italy- 2009
- music, Florence Biennale 2009, Florence, Italy
music, The Sounds of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2006
- Participation in the annual exhibition of the Ostkreuz School of Photography and Design, with the image: NYC Times Square, 2002, Berlin, Germany
grants & awards
- 2019
- Lucie Photo Book Prize, U.S.A. - Tamar, Where Are You? selected as finalist in the Independent Prize Category.
- 2018
- German Photobook Award, bronze medal for Tamar, Where Are You?, category Self-Publishing.
Grant from the Georgian National Book Center for Tamar, Where Are You? - 2011
- Working grant from the U.S. Consulate General Hamburg, facilitated by the American Society Schleswig-Holstein, for wonderland
- 2010
- Honorable Mention for Photography, International Award for Digital and Photographic Art 2010, Museum of Art, Chianciano Terme, Italy, for wunderland
Working grant from the Cultural Foundation of the Savings Bank of Schleswig-Holstein, for wunderland / wunderland - 2008
- Working grant from the prime minister of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, for manpower