Armin Linke

/ Armin Linke (Italy, 1966) works as an

artist in Milan and Berlin. He also teaches

in Karlsruhe, Venice and Cambridge (USA).

He exhibits all over the world and has so far

published nine books. Linke uses photography

and other media to blur or obscure

the boundary between fiction and reality.

He is working on an ongoing photo archive,

documenting human activity and natural

and man-made landscapes.

Linke’s installation at BREDAPHOTO

builds on his previous project Phenotypes /

Limited Forms (2008). In that project he allowed

visitors to work with his archive photos.

They were able to select them, group

them together and project them, finally

being allowed to print out their self-made

collection as a unique publication. The underlying

idea was that a visitor who actively

participates in an exhibition will do more

than simply look at the works; he will also