Nicolas Reinhart (*1991, Germany) is an artist, curator and educator based in Germany. A central aspect of his artistic practice is the investigation of the photographic medium and its traces. In his work, he combines various image-making processes with extensive research- and text-based approaches in order to investigate the limits and mechanisms of visual representation. His work has been shown and awarded internationally and he is a founding member of Kalamari Klub, an international collective for the celebration of analog photography.
EDUCATION
2025
Diploma in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, HGB
2022–2025
Diploma studies in Photography, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, HGB
2019–2022
Diploma studies in Image Space Object Glass, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
EXHIBITIONS
2026
daisies, neue welle, Spinnerei Galleries, Leipzig
Incidental Accidental, KÄMPER Galerie, Leipzig (Solo)
2025
Form Photo Award 2025, SCOPE Art Show, Miami Art Week, Miami Beach, USA
Reflecting Errors | Errors Reflecting, HGB / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Solo)
Diploma tour, HGB / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Messy, DER GREIF, Online
2024
Von Lebensaufgaben und Lachkurven, Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg
Pouring Tears & Pucker Grains – A History of Photographic Failure, Prospekto Galerija, Lithuania (Solo)
2023
BURG Voyage, Representation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to the EU, Brussels
Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Philip Kanwischer: The History of Uncertainty (Die Geschichte der Verunsicherung), University of Heidelberg (Curator)
Revelation, analogueNOW!, Berlin
Reallabor für Erneuerbare Fotografie, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (Co-Curator)
“An archive is an archive is an archive”, DER GREIF, Online
New Talents 2022, Photographic Exploration Project, Brussels
2022
juicy things, Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle
ORTSBEGEGNUNG Bitterfeld, OSTEN, Kulturpalast Bitterfeld
2021
›Wir sind hier‹, Heidelberger Kunstverein
good morning, Kalamari Klub, Heidelberg
PUBLICATIONS
Staub aufwirbeln. Künstlerische Strategien zwischen archivistischer Praxis und der Verbildlichung der fotografischen Störung, self-published, 2025
New Links Between Different Systems, documentation of the first interdisciplinary collaboration between art and science at the University of Heidelberg, 2024
PHOTONEWS, Nr. 7–8/23, Artist feature & exhibition review
Der Apparat steht im Kontrollraum, in: ORTSBEGEGNUNG Bitterfeld, Art Sciences department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
GRANTS & AWARDS
2026 Experimental Photographer You Need To Know, EPF, Barcelona
2025 Form Photo Award (Winner)
2024 Paris Photo: Carte Blanche, Paris (Finalist)
2023 ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Exhibition grant
2023 Felix Schoeller Photo Award (Shortlist)
2022 reStart '22, Lithuanian Photographers Association (Winner)
2022 Passepartout Photo Prize (Shortlist)
2022 BarTur Photo Student Award (Shortlist)
2022 CraftHub, Maker Exchange Residency, Design School Kolding
TALKS
2026
Staub aufwirbeln – Lesung und Gespräch, KÄMPER Galerie, Leipzig
2022
ROTLICHT Festival for Analog Photography, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Symposium for Artistic Research in Analog Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography
Kniffe und Kometen, Kulturpalast Bitterfeld
Show & Tell, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin
Nicolas Reinhart (*1991, Germany) is an artist, curator and educator based in Germany. A central aspect of his artistic practice is the investigation of the photographic medium and its traces. In his work, he combines various image-making processes with extensive research- and text-based approaches in order to investigate the limits and mechanisms of visual representation. His work has been shown and awarded internationally and he is a founding member of Kalamari Klub, an international collective for the celebration of analog photography.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
daisies, neue welle, Spinnerei Galleries, Leipzig
Incidental Accidental, KÄMPER Galerie, Leipzig (Solo)
2025
Form Photo Award 2025, SCOPE Art Show, Miami Art Week, Miami Beach, USA
Reflecting Errors | Errors Reflecting, HGB / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig (Solo)
Diploma tour, HGB / Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
Messy, DER GREIF, Online
2024
Von Lebensaufgaben und Lachkurven, Haus am Wehrsteg, Heidelberg
Pouring Tears & Pucker Grains – A History of Photographic Failure, Prospekto Galerija, Lithuania (Solo)
2023
BURG Voyage, Representation of the State of Saxony-Anhalt to the EU, Brussels
Past & Present, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Philip Kanwischer: The History of Uncertainty (Die Geschichte der Verunsicherung), University of Heidelberg (Curator)
Revelation, analogueNOW!, Berlin
Reallabor für Erneuerbare Fotografie, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim (Co-Curator)
“An archive is an archive is an archive”, DER GREIF, Online
New Talents 2022, Photographic Exploration Project, Brussels
2022
juicy things, Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle
ORTSBEGEGNUNG Bitterfeld, OSTEN, Kulturpalast Bitterfeld
2021
›Wir sind hier‹, Heidelberger Kunstverein
good morning, Kalamari Klub, Heidelberg
PUBLICATIONS
Staub aufwirbeln. Künstlerische Strategien zwischen archivistischer Praxis und der Verbildlichung der fotografischen Störung, self-published, 2025
New Links Between Different Systems, documentation of the first interdisciplinary collaboration between art and science at the University of Heidelberg, 2024
PHOTONEWS, Nr. 7–8/23, Artist feature & exhibition review
Der Apparat steht im Kontrollraum, in: ORTSBEGEGNUNG Bitterfeld, Art Sciences department at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
GRANTS & AWARDS
2026 Experimental Photographer You Need To Know, EPF, Barcelona
2025 Form Photo Award (Winner)
2024 Paris Photo: Carte Blanche, Paris (Finalist)
2023 ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Exhibition grant
2023 Felix Schoeller Photo Award (Shortlist)
2022 reStart '22, Lithuanian Photographers Association (Winner)
2022 Passepartout Photo Prize (Shortlist)
2022 BarTur Photo Student Award (Shortlist)
2022 CraftHub, Maker Exchange Residency, Design School Kolding
TALKS
2026
Staub aufwirbeln – Lesung und Gespräch, KÄMPER Galerie, Leipzig
2022
ROTLICHT Festival for Analog Photography, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Symposium for Artistic Research in Analog Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography
Kniffe und Kometen, Kulturpalast Bitterfeld
Show & Tell, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin