Hein Gravenhorst

In 1968, the artists Kilian Breier, Pierre Cordier, Hein Gravenhorst and Gottfried Jäger - initiator and namesake of the exhibition "Generative Photography" - made their first public appearance in the Bielefeld Kunsthaus. The participating artists deliberately avoided any kind of representation of non-pictorial reality in their works. Photomechanical transformations, chemistrygrams, luminograms, and pinhole structures presented a non-representational, systematic-constructive photographic imagery. Since 2001, purely digital works have been created on the computer as a continuation of generative photography. The pictures have no titles or series designations, and the artist deliberately refra...View all