JUERGEN TELLER [CLM]
SELF-PORTRAIT, 2016
Considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, Juergen Teller has successfully navigated both the art world and commercial photography since beginning his career in the late 1980s, shooting high profile fashion campaigns.
Juergen Teller’s photography stands apart in the fashion world. The imagery he produces is always immediately recognisable due to its innate starkness.
KATE MOSS, 1998
CHARLOTTE RAMPLING, 2004
DAVID HOCKNEY SMOKING, 2008
RIHANNA, VOGUE PARIS, 2017
It is difficult to predict Teller’s work, since he always creates something unexpected.
He treats all of his subjects — family members, celebrities, and himself with a uniform style of grit, raw emotion and humour that has become his iconic and recognizable aesthetic. The subjects come together in astonishing poses and various intensities of emotions are reflected in each of his pictures.
BLAINE BLAINE BLAINE No. 1, A/W 2017
JUDE LAW, 2001
BRAD PITT, 2001
MARION COTILLARD, 2013
Juergen Teller grew up near Erlangen, Germany and studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, before moving to London in 1986. He first worked in the music industry shooting record covers for musicians such as Simply Red, Sinéad O’Connor and Morrissey.
BJORK, 2007
SINEAD O'CONNOR, NOTHING COMPARES 2 U, 1990
SELF-SERVICE 31, 2009
KANYE, JUERGEN AND KIM, BOOK 2015
By the early 1990s, he was working for avant-garde fashion magazines such as i-D, The Face, Details and Arena. He gained wider recognition in 1996 with his front cover of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, featuring a nude Kristen McMenamy with the word ‘Versace’ drawn in a heart across her chest.
KRISTEN McMENAMY, 1996
GISELE BUNDCHEN, 2005
LOUIS VUITTON, 20166
BARNEYS, F/W 2016
CELINE, S/S 2017
Teller has collaborated with many fashion designers over the years, including Helmut Lang, Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Celine and Louis Vuitton.
He refuses to tailor his aesthetic to that of his commercial clients, a rare privilege!
His works sells an attitude, not a dream.
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, VOGUE POLSKA, APRIL 2019
YVES SAINT LAURENT. 2010
SAINT LAURENT, SUMMER 2019
ADIDAS, 2017
VOGUE POLAND, MARCH 2018
Teller has exhibited internationally, more than 60 solo shows in 25 years, including the Photographer’s Gallery, London (1998), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2004), Foundation Cartier, Paris (2006), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (2009), Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul (2011), Dallas Contemporary, USA (2011), Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013), Deste Foundation, Athens (2014), Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2015), Phillips, London (2015), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (2016) and more recently "Leg, snails and peaches", Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris in 2018.
JUERGEN TELLER, LEGS SNAILS AND PEACHES, PARIS 2018
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, LONDON 2007
SMILING ED, LONDON 2005
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, 2000
MARC JACOBS, F/W 2012
His most recent exhibition, succinctly titled HANDBAGS, is taking place at the Museo Villa Pignatelli in Naples (April 13 – May 19, 2019) and is accompanied by a book by Steidl. The show follows exhibitions at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
"What is so interesting about the repetition of the bag is how such a simple object can say so much about humanity, society, identity and fashion."
HANDBAGS EXHIBITION, NAPLES 2019
VICTORIA BECKHAM, 2018
Juergen Teller’s work is featured in numerous collections around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; International Center for Photography, New York; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
AMBER VALETTA, 1996
VICTORIA BECKHAM, 2018
BARNEYS, F/W 2016
CELINE, 2017
He has published forty-one artist books and exhibition catalogues. He currently holds a Professorship of Photography at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg.
JUERGEN TELLER, BOOK 1997
KANYE, JUERGEN AND KIM, BOOK 2015
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