2009 Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg: Cristina's History
2008 Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie, Paris: Seuil / Threshold
2003 Bibliotheque Nationle de France, Paris: Mikael Levin, Photographies
2000 Storefront for Art and Architecure, New York: Common Places
1998 Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin: The Burden of Identity and Suche (War Story)
1997 International Center of Photography, New York: War Story
1994 Goethe House and French Cultural Services, New York: The Border Project
1989 Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany: Traumhafte Reise
1988 Centre d'Action Culturelle Granit, Belfort, France: Silent Passage
1986 Galerie Michele Chomette, Paris
1984 Susan Harder Gallery, New York
1983 Ernesto Mayans Gallery, Santa Fe
1980 Fundacion Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
1979 Camera Obscura, Stockholm
1977 The Photographers' Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions (Selected):
2009 The Solo Project, Basel; Gilles Peyroulet Gallery. "New York Moments: Mikael Levin and Rudy Burkhardt"
2008 Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. "Settling into Nature" shown in "Field Work - Part II"
2003 Venice Biannual."Notes from the Periphery" shown in "Structures of Survival"
2001 École nationale supérieure de beaux-arts, Paris: Des Territoires
2000 Museum of the City of New York: New York Now 2000
1999 White Columns, N.Y: Coming of Age
1997 Färgfabriken- Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture,Stockholm:
Form Follows [Anything]
1996 Galerie F-15 Alby, Moss, Norway: James Welling and Mikael Levin
1995 French Cultural Services, New York: The Landscape in Question
1993 Grand Palais, Paris: Salon Decouverts ( Curated by Jean-Claude Lemagny)
1990 Brooklyn Museum, New York: New Acquisitions
Musem Ludwig, Cologne:Vom Landschafsbild zur Spurensicherung
1989 Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm: Lewis Baltz and Mikael Levin
1987 One Penn Plaza, New York: Beautiful Photographs (Curated by Gene Thorton)
1985 Pavillon des Arts, Paris: La Photographie Creative (Curated by J.C. Lemagny)
Caves Sainte-Croix, Metz, France: Construire le Paysage de la Photographie
1984 Witkin Gallery, New York: Trees and Clouds
Grants/Awards/Commissions:
2009 Prix Maratier. Foundation pour le Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaisme, Paris.
2008 Burundi National Police Training Photographs. Commissioned by Belgian Technical Cooperation.
2006 Visiting Artist. Cooper Union. New York.
2005 Artist in Residence. Chinati Art Foundation. Marfa, Texas.
2002 Commission "La Bassée: A French Landscape in Transition." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris.
2001 Artist in Residence. Caribbean Contemporary Arts. Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Artist in Residence. Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. Bethany, Connecticut
2000 Commission "Sanctuaire de Source." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris.
Visiting Artist. Ecole d'Architecture, Nantes, France.
1999 Commission "La Bassée - The alluvial plain." Direction Régional de L'environment, Paris.
1997 Fellowship. Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York.
1996 Artist's Residency. Institut Francais de Thessalonique, Greece
1993 Project Grant "The Border Project." French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1991 Artist in Residence. Light Work, Syracuse, New York
1987-91 Commission "Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire." Centre d'Action Culturel Granit,
Belfort, France
1985 "Jury Prize" Festival International de la Photographie Contemporaine,
Dunkerque, France
Major Public Collections:
Judisches Museum, Berlin (a selection from War Story in the permanent installation.)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
International Center of Photography, New York
Jewish Museum, New York
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Centre national d'art et de culture George Pompidou, Paris
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Statens Konstrad, Stockholm
Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal
Solo Books and Catalolgs:
Cristina's History. Essays by Jean Francois Chevrier, Jonathan Boyarin, and Carlos Schwarz Da Silva. Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg. 2009
Pleasant if Somewhat Rude Views. Essays by Gabriel Levin. Onestar Press, Paris 2005.
Mikael Levin photographies. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Philippe Arbaïzar: "Informer le paysage". Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris 2003.
War Story. Exhibition catalog. Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier, Mikael Levin, and Annette Wieviorka . Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003.
Common Places Response Catalog. Texts by Catharina Gabrielsson, Gertrud Sandqvist, Ingo Schulze, Alexandra Yerolympos, Jean-François Chevrier, and others.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, 2000
Common Places. Project catalog. Essay by Christopher Phillips, 1999
The Burden of Identity. Exhibition catalog. Essay by Peter Stephan Jungk.
Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 1998
War Story. Texts by Meyer Levin. Introduction by Hanno Loewy, Afterword by Ellen Handy. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich, 1997 (Also published in German as Suche.)
Borders. Exhibition catalog. Essays by Jean-Francois Chevrier, Reinhold Mißelbeck, and Laura Trippi, Goethe House / French Cultural Servies, New York 1994
Silent Passage. Introduction by Andy Grundberg, Hudson Hills Press, New York 1988
Publications / Group Exhibitions Cataloges:
The Solo Project. Basel 2009. Exhibition Catalog. p.50-51
Les voyages de Vauban. Guillaume Monsaingeon. Editions Parenthese. Marseille. 2007.
Epilogue: Sur Quelques Photographies de Mikael Levin Pp. 173-175.
Chinati Foundation newsletter. Artists in residence / Mikael Levin by David Tompkins. Vol 11 (October, 2006). Pp. 72-73.
Barrow Street. "Absent Memories" New York; Summer 2006. Pp. 53-63.
Dreams and Conflicts; the Dictatorship of the Viewer. la Biennale di Venezia. Marsilio Editions 2003. "Notes from the Periphery" Pp. 262-263.
Paysages territoires. L'Île-de-France comme métaphore. Parenthèses editions, Marseille, 2002. "La Bassée" Pp. 215-237.
Spectral Evidence; The Photography of Trauma by Ulrich Baer. (MIT Press, 2002.) Chapter Two: "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition." Chapter Three: "Meyer Levin's In Search, Mikael Levin's War Story."
Des territoires en revue. "Walking City" Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts. Paris, 5/5, October 20001
Le Visiteur. "Common Places" Paris. Issue #6, Fall, 2000
Arkitektur. "Allmänna Platser" by Catharina Gabrielsson. Stockholm. October, 2000
Reflections in a Glass Eye. Works from the International Center of Photography Collection. Bulfinch Press, New York, 1999
Photosynkyria 10+1. Camera Obscura, Thesssaloniki, 1999
Handla. "Borderline" essay by Catherina Gabrielsson Åman. Nerenias & Santerus Förlag, Stockholm 1997
Documenta X- the book. Cantz Verlag l997
Kunstforum, #137; "Mikael Levin: Judische Spurensuche". 1997
Blind Spot Photography Magazine. "Coming of Age". New York, #9, Spring 1997
Magasin för modern arkitektur. "Out of the Archives - Referring to architecture" #12, Stockholm. 1995
Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire. four-volume set. Editions de l'Est 1992:
L'Hiver Introduction by John Berger
L'Automne Introduction by Claude Louis-Combert
Le Printemps Introduction by Regis Durand, essay by Alain Buttard
L'Ete Introduction by Jean-Claude Lemagny
Un petit pan de mur blanc. Galerie Jean Pierre Lambert, Paris, 1987
Cre. Art Photo 85. Festival International de la Photographie Contemporaine, Dunkerque, 1985
La Photographie Creative. Contrejour, Paris, 1984
Camera Obscura. Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm, 1981
Radio:
Le Point du Jour à lépreuve du réel. Surpris par la Nuit. France Culture, May 11, 2009.
11:15 - 12:00 PM. Produced by Natacha Wolinski, Directed by Angélique Tibau.
Aucun d'entre nous n'avait vu. Surpris par la Nuit. France Culture, March 18, 2003.
10:30 - 12:00 PM. Produced by Sèverine Nikel, Directed by Anna Szmuc.
Video:
War Story Introduction to the project, interview with Mikael Levin. 22 minutes. Directed by Sussane Partoll. Produced by the Fritz Bauer Institute,
Frankfurt / Media Films, Dornbirn, Austria.
Lectures:
2009 Maumaus School of Art, Lisbon: "Issues of representation/expression of time in film and photography" (presented at start of 5 day workshop)
2006 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris: "Cristina`s History"
2001 Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J.: "Recent projects"
Malmö Konsthögskola, Malmö, Sweden: "War Story and other projects." (presented at start of two week workshop "Malmö flanerie")
Design Trust For Public Space, New York: "Marked Landscapes"
2000 Johns Hopkins University (Neil Hertz: "Urban Photography") Baltimore, Md.
Ecole d'architecture de la Ville et des territoires. Valle de Marnes (Paris)
1999 Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris: "Landscape and Memory."
Triennale di Milano, Milan: "Katrineholm and Other Common Places."
Studies
1972-73 Williams College
1974-76 Hampshire College (B.A.)
Bibleography:
Aletti, Vince. "Mikael Levin" The Village Voice, 6/21/00
Allen, Bill. "Landscape as Metaphor" Santa Fe Reporter, 8/7/80
Anderson, Kathy. "Silent Passage" Art Documentation, Spring 1989
Baer, Ulrich. Chapter Two: "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition." Chapter Three: "Meyer Levin's In Search, Mikael Levin's War Story." Spectral Evidence; The Photography of Trauma (MIT Press, 2002.)
Baer, Ulrich. "To Give Memory a Place: Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition" Representations, University of California Press, #69, Winter, 2000
Borger-Bendegard, Lisbeth. "Städer med samma själ" Svenska Dagbladet, 7/22/99
Boutoux, Thomas. Des Terrritoires Flash Art,February, 2002
Boxer, Sarah. "Into the ‘Black Heart' of Evil: The Bodies, the Overgrowth, the Lies"
The New Tork Times,3/7/97
Buffet. Laurent. "Mikael Levin" Art Press, #357, June 2009
Buttard, Alain. "Reflections" Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire: Le Printemps
Editions de l'Est 1992
Chauveau, François. "Mikael Levin" Regard sur l'Image July 1978
Chevrier, Jean-François. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Mikael Levin and Annette Wieviorka . War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003.
Chevrier, Jean-François. Construire les Paysage de la Photographie 1984
Chevrier, Jean-François. "The Border Project" Borders, Goethe House and French Cultural Services, New York 1994
Chevrier, Jean-François. "Paris, Saturday, April 1..."; Common Places
Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Demarquette, Alain. "On Traffic Flows and History" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Down Town "Why do Mikael Levin's photographs remaind us of fables?" 3/11/99
Dragone, Angelo. La Stampa 1/26/80
Duprez, Béatrice. "Email" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Durand, Regis. "Presence et silence des formes" Art Press #135, 4/89
Engel, Rachel. "Light and its Wonders" Maariv 10/14/80
Fleury, Jean-Christian. "Mikael Levin" Photographies Magazine, December 1992
Fiedler, Peter Alexander. "Ein Sehr genauer Blick von außen" Thüringische Landszeitung, 2/3/00
Gabriellson, Catharina. "Out of Nowhere" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Gerard, Pascal. "Un Américain à Cambrai" La Voix du Nord, Jan 14,2000
Gioia, Joe. "Water and Land" Lens on Campus April,1985
Grundberg, Andy. "The Image Aflot" Silent Passage. Hudson Hills Press, New York 1988
Guerrin, Michel. "Les territiores artistiques de l'antimondialisation." Le Monde, Paris, November 10, 2001
Handy, Ellen. "Sunset at a Lake; Looking for Landscape photography in a New Millennium." Camera Work, Vol. 28, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2001)
Handy, Ellen. "Time, Memory, and the Limits of Photography" Center for
Photography Quarterly, #63, Vol. 16 No. 2,1995
Handy, Ellen. "War Stories, the Lorelei, Europe Today, and Documentary Photography"
War Story. Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich 1997
Handy, Ellen. Galerie Michele Chomette. December 1992
Helmer,Etienne. Mikael Levin. ArtPress. #347, July 2008
Helmer,Etienne. Les Repreneurs. ParisArt. November 2007
Hirsch, Marianne, and Spitzer, Leo. "War Stories: Witnessing in Retrospect" in Image and Remembrance: Representation and the Holocaust. ed. Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz. (Indiana University Press, 2003)
Körte, Peter. "Drei Reisen nach Theresienstadt" Frankfurter Rundschen, 2/26/97
Lambert, Jean-Pierre. Un Petit Pan de Mur Blanc. Galerie Jean-Pierre Lambert,
Paris 1987
Le Monde 2. "Expo et livre; Histoires d'exil." March 28, 2009. p. 8
Leroy, Pascal. Festival International de la Photographie Contemporaine 1985
Levin, Mikael. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier and Annette Wieviorka . War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003.
Levin, Mikael. "War Story: Retracing My Father's Steps" History of Photography. Photography and the Holocaust. Interviewed by Sussane Partoll. Vol. 23, no. 4 (Winter 1999).
Loewy, Hanno. "Retracing a Journey Through Europe" War Story Gina Kehayoff Verlag, Munich 1997, also published in German : "Auf den Spuren einer Reise nach Europa" Suche, Gina Kehayoff Verlag,Munich 1996.
Loke, Margarett. "Mikael Levin" Art News, september l997
Mayr, Beate. "Geschichte aus Nähe und Distanz" Tip - Innsbruck Zeitung, 05/15/97
Mißelbeck, Reinhold."The Border Project" Borders, Goethe House and
French Cultural Servies, 1994
Morton, Margaret. "Mikael Levin: Paris and Venice" NY Arts, vol. 8, no 9
Papaioannou, Hercules. "Affinity and Apartness" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Parmat, Carole. "About Mikael Levin's Photographs of Cambrai" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Rothfeld, Michael. "The Killing Fields" Manhattan Spirit, February 21, 1997
Sandqvist, Getrud. "Paradisus Terretris" Form February, 1989
Sandqvist, Getrud. "Katrineholm as Utopia" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Sauer, Benedikt. "Ihr habt uns auf unsere Geschichte gebracht" Der Standard 05/31/97
Scheirz, Kai Uwe. "Discovering the Past" Common Places Response Catalog,
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Schmidt, Konrad. "Traumhafte fotoreise zu den dusteren seen in Skandinavien"
Ruhr-Nachrichtin 7/26/89
Schrieber, Hauke. "Dreidimensionales Road Movie" Berliner Morgenpost16/6/98
Shales, Ezra. "Picturing the Pictures of the Holocaust" Review, march 15, 1997
Soulillou, Jacques. "On Traffic Flows and History" Common Places Response Catalog, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Strauss, Monica. "The Landscape of Memory" Aufbau, May 9 1997
Sturman, John. "Mikael Levin" Art News December, 1988
Trippi, Laura. "Border Photographs" Borders, Goethe House and
French Cultural Services,1994
Trippi, Laura. "Mikael Levin and James Welling" , Galeri F-15 Alby, Moss, Norway 1993
Vetrocq, Marcia E.. "Venice Biennale: Every Idea But One" Art in America September 2003
Werneburg, Brigitte. "Schmetterlinge auf Kimonos" TAZ 20-21/6/98
Westdeutche Allgemeine "Schnorkellos - aber nichtohne Emotionen" 7/13/89
Wiegand, Wilfried. "Die zweite Vergangenheit" Frankfurter Allgemeine 2/27/97
Wieviorka, Annette. "Réflextion sur les traces." Roundtable discussion with Jean-François Chevrier and Mikael Levin. War Story. Centre historique des Archives nationales, Paris 2003.
Wigh, Leif. "Lewis Baltz and Mikael Levin" Fotografiska Museet #1 1985
Yerolympos, Alexandra. "A City is its People" Common Places Response Catalog,
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, 2000
Zoom-Net. Vision Detail: "Mikael Levin; Cristina's History. May 25,2009.
Dans Cristina’s History, livre élaboré parallèlement à l’exposition du même nom qui s’est tenue au Point du Jour à Cherbourg du 11 avril au 7 juin 2009, et qui sera accueillie à la Fondation Berardo à Lisbonne du 1er septembre au 1er novembre, puis au Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme à Paris du 9 avril au 18 juillet 2010, Mikaël Levin retrace l’histoire d’une de ses parentes. Son histoire, c’est-à-dire les déplacements qui, sur quatre générations à partir de leur ancêtre commun, ont conduit ses descendants de la Pologne à la Guinée-Bissau, en passant par le Portugal. Conçu en 3 séquences dont chacune est dévolue &agr...
A Jewish Itinirary from Poland to Africa
I met Cristina da Silva-Schwarc in Guinea-Bissau in 2003. Four generations back our ancestor, Isuchaar Szwarc, a renowned Jewish scholar, lived in Zgierz, in central Poland. In his lifetime Isuchaar saw his small medieval town transformed by industrialization. He died as the Nazis exterminated the Jewish communities. Isuchaar's eldest son, Samuel, settled in Lisbon. A successful mining engineer also known for his scholarship, Samuel lived in Portugal during the waning decades of its colonial epoch. Samuel's daughter Clara settled Portuguese Guinea in 1947. There she and her husband played a prominent role in the anti-colonial movement. Since Guinea-Bissau's independence, Carlos, their youngest son, has devoted his life to the agricultural development of this impoverished nation...
Chaque année, l'Eté photographique de Lectoure (Gers) propose une dizaine d’expositions dans différents lieux de la ville. La particularité de la manifestation est d'accueillir des expositions pour la plupart inédites en France.
Cet été, pas plus que les précédents, comme l'indique son directeur François de St Pierre, « cette édition n’entend ranger les expositions sous le discours unificateur d’un thème unique ».« Ne pas répondre à cette attente de cohérence, d’harmonie, de simplification », c’est en effet « prendre le risque de déranger ». Ce dérangement permet ainsi à chaque expos...
Michael Levin was born under the vast prairie sky of Western Canada in 1967. It was when he moved to the city of Vancouver that he became engaged with the potential for landscape photography. He is the recipient of numerous awards including Nature Photographer of the Year at the 2006 International Photography Awards in New York City, as well as, Fine Art Photographer of the Year at the PX3 (Prix de la Photographie) awards in Paris, France in both 2007 and 2009. His work has been featured in Black & White Photography Magazine (2005 & 2008), Focus Fine Art (2006), Shots Magazine (2009), Silvershotz Magazine (2009), and B&W Magazine (2009 & 2010). Levin is represented by 18 galleries worldwide, and his debut monograph Zebrato (2005) is approaching its third printing.
In reference to his latest series ...
Cette nouvelle année verra le maintien de notre position de résistance à travers une proposition unique, mais évolutive, autour d'artistes Contemporains invités et de Photographies Historiques, à suivre à partir du 10 janvier, avec quelques îles: expositions monographies, invitations à comissaire extérieur, et évèbement ponctuels. C'est à l'écart des tranches de réel à l'emporte pièce et des flagoneries décoratives que s'engage le vrai travail du regard, quand il est happé sous la surface lisse de la photographie par des profondeur inattendues, ou que nonobstant les limites du cadrage l'ouverture au monde y est vertigineuse, ce saisissement de l'oeil transmet à tout le...