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Golden, 2018

Photography

In the new series ‚Golden' Tobias Zielony continues his work on the queer and underground community in post-soviet societies in the capital of Latvia, Riga. The moment of social and political transformation is reflected on the ritualistic changes to the protagonists body and the surface of the city itself. Excluded from institutionalized representations of normative subjectivity, Zielony's young protagonists are using fashion, piercing, tattooes, and graffitti in order to rewrite intimate and common identities. The rituals of public disobedience are simultanously undermining and re-enforcing the boundaries of an increasingly hedonistic and neoliberal society.

Tobias Zielony, Ink, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Virtuve, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Rigonda, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Angel, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Camera, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Arturs, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Wood, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Gabriel, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Kriksis, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Jackets, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Autentika, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 46 x 69 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Rise, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Hair, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Fire, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Andrejsala, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Oriole, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Daniels, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP
Tobias Zielony, Eliass, 2018, from the series 'Golden', archival pigment print, 46 x 69 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP

Archival pigment prints, 69 x 46 cm, Ed. 6 + 2AP

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Tobias Zielony

Untitled (Łódź, Warsaw, Narva), 2023
Watching TV in Narva, 2022
Wolfen, 2022
The Fall, 2021
Die Untoten, 2020
Hurd's Bank, 2020
INVENTORY SERIES, 2020
Dirk and Yao, 2019
Hansha, 2019
Golden, 2018
Haus der Jugend, 2017
Alles (Chemnitz), 2002/2017
Maskirovka, 2017
Ghosts, 2016
Tamil Stars, 2016
Storyboard (Monuments Men), 2015
The Citizen, 2015
Kalandia Kustom Kar Kommandos, 2014
Die Überfahrt, 2014
Al-Akrab, 2014
The Street (Rome), 2013/2014
Jenny Jenny, 2013
Vele, 2009-2010
Manitoba, 2009-2011
Trona, 2008
Zgora, 2008
The Cast, 2007
Cluj Napoca, 2006
Big Sexyland, 2006
Tankstelle, 2004
Ha Neu, 2003
Quartiers Nord, 2003
Chemnitz, 2002
Curfew, 2001
Car Park, 2000
Das was euch am Leben hält, ist was bei uns zu Asche zerfiel, 1997–2005

Tobias Zielony is known for his photographic depictions of young people living on the fringes of affluent societies and social acceptance. For the past 20 years, Zielony has focused on suburban milieus that, from Canada to England, Ukraine, Israel, and Japan, have in common that they have fallen out of the promises of modernity's progress and are establishing a temporary life in their own cultural niches. What goes hand in hand with melancholy at the same time reveals a great human tenderness in the cohesion of precarious communities, which Zielony approaches and gives the space to stage themselves. In the process, Zielony's critical approach to documentary manifests itself in a specific aesthetic and relationship to fiction. His numerous institutional exhibitions include the German Pavilion in Venice 2015. Tobias Zielony is a professor in Hamburg since 2022.

Zielony´s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions recently such as Watching TV in Narva (KOW Berlin 2023), Dark Data (Marta Herford 2022) and Touch. Politiken der Berührung (EMOP Berlin, c/o Amtsalon 2023), Nach August Sander Menschen des 21. Jahrhunderts (Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen 2022).



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