Achim Mohné
Achim Mohné (*1964) studied photography at the University of Essen, followed by postgraduate studies at the Academy for Media Arts in Cologne. Since 1998 he has developed and exhibited a wide ranging body of work, which has been exhibited worldwide. He initiated many projects on video installation, public intervention, computer-based communication, surveillance technology and sound. In 2007 he founded REMOTEWORDS in collaboration with Uta Kopp. He was granted with stipends from amongst others Villa Aurora, Kunststiftung NRW or Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles. He taught at the Art Academy in Münster, the Folkwang University in Essen, Germany, as a guest professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, USA. From 2013 until 2020 he has been a lecturer for photography and new media at the ETH Zürich, CH, where he was also in charge of the 3D research Department (3D Modeling / 3D Printing).
He currently teaches as a professor for Photography at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund. Achim Mohné lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Link: www.achimmohné.net
Work in Public Space
Achim Mohné: 0,000672 Megapixel – Citizen To Be Seen From Mars
Achim Mohné: 0,000672 Megapixel – Citizen To Be Seen From Mars
Achim Mohné: 0,000672 Megapixel – Citizen To Be Seen From Mars
Achim Mohné: 0,0064 Megapixel – Planet Earth Is Blue And There’s Nothing I Can’t Do
The image as a mosaic, with a “resolution“ of 0.0064 megapixels, consisting of 6400 square concrete slabs, each 25 x 25 cm, total area 400 square meters, 14 shades of blue, 20 shades of gray, white and black. BKH, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 2017
Google Earth Models
Achim Mohné: 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODEL # 3, Galerie Falko Alexander Köln, 2019, 24x18x10 cm 3D Druck (Farbiger Pulverschichtdruck), Courtesy: Galerie Judith Andrae, Bonn
Achim Mohné‘s work, which was created especially for this exhibition, is location-specific: it shows a 3D-printed model of the specific location and urban environment of Galerie Falko Alexander, Venloer Str. 24, Cologne. The scale model is based on a unique analogue-digital process in which Mohné, instead of photographing the real space, takes pictures directly in the Google Earth App, using virtual „camera drones”. These take numerous „photos“ from all sides of the selected location. Using computer based photogrammetry, a 3-dimensional, virtual, architectural model is rendered from these screenshots. This is then printed in 3D and displayed in the gallery. The 3D model, when viewed from above and because of its photographed and 3D-printed color, strikingly resembles the underlying Google Earth satellite photos and at first glance appears to be a kind of „material photo“ of the place itself. Mohné‘s work, amongst that of others exhibited in Photon | Icon, deals with the relationship of a real place to its virtual representations; its avatars, both of which are brought together in the final work - the 3D-printed architectural model. Mohné‘s reference to the existing place gives the work a digital-referential, representational,“photographic“ aspect, which is addressed not least by the numerous glitches that appear in the transformation of real space through images taken from Google App and by the photogrammetric application, against a media background.
Text: Michael Reisch
Achim Mohné: 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODEL # 3, Galerie Falko Alexander Köln, 2019, 24x18x10 cm 3D Druck (Farbiger Pulverschichtdruck), Courtesy: Galerie Judith Andrae, Bonn
Achim Mohné: 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODEL # 3, Galerie Falko Alexander Köln, 2019, 24x18x10 cm 3D Druck (Farbiger Pulverschichtdruck), Courtesy: Galerie Judith Andrae, Bonn
Achim Mohné: 3D-GOOGLE-EARTH-MODEL # 3, Galerie Falko Alexander Köln, 2019, 24x18x10 cm 3D Druck (Farbiger Pulverschichtdruck), Courtesy: Galerie Judith Andrae, Bonn
Art in Public Space / Remote Words
REMOTEWORDS (Achim Mohné & Uta Kopp): RW.17, KuKuK e.V., Aachen/Raeren, 2011
REMOTEWORDS (Achim Mohné & Uta Kopp): RW.36, Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, 2019