Major solo exhibitions of his work have been organised at Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris (2006); Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2010); Dallas Contemporary, TX (2011); Daelim Museum, Seoul (2011); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013); Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2015); Kunsthalle Bonn, Germany (2016), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018), Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (2023). Self-portraiture has been a prominent feature of his practice and was the main focus of his 'Macho' exhibition at DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece (2014).[1]
Educationedit
Teller studied at the Bayerische Staatslehranstalt für Photographie in Munich, Germany (1984–1986). In order to avoid military national service he learned English and moved to London in 1986, aged 22.[2]
Careeredit
Since the beginning his career in the late 1980s, Teller has blurred the boundaries between his commissioned and personal work in his numerous campaigns, editorials, publications and exhibitions. Teller 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.[3]
Teller has directed several fashion films, short films and artist videos including Can I Own Myself (1998), Go-Sees[17] (2001), World Cup Final, Germany 0 Brazil 2 London (2002), Schmetterling' (2005) and Dieter (2017).[2]
In 2016, Teller curated an exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs at Alison Jacques Gallery in London where he selected 58 images from the Mapplethorpe Foundation collection.[19]
Personal lifeedit
Teller was married to UK contemporary art dealer Sadie Coles from 2003 to 2018.[20]
Teller married Dovile Drizyte in 2021.[21]
Publicationsedit
Juergen Teller. Cologne: Taschen, 1996
Der verborgene Brecht. Ein Berliner Stadtrundgang. Zurich: Scalo, 1998
Go-Sees: Girls Knocking on My Door. Zurich: Scalo, 1999. ISBN 978-3908247142.[22][23]
Remake Berlin. Steidl Verlag, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Bank Hofmann AG, 1999
Paparazzi! Photographers, Stars and Artists, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France (2014)
Faces Now: European Portrait Photography Since 1990, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, toured to Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, and National Museum of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece (2015-2016)
VOGUE 100: A Century of Style, National Portrait Gallery, London and Manchester Art Gallery (2016)
La Vie Simple - Simplement la Vie, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France (2017)
Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography 1911-2011, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (2018)
The Exhausted Man, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, Switzerland (2020)
E/Motion. Fashion in Transition, MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp, Belgium (2021)
Captivate! Fashion Photography from the 1990s. Curated by Claudia Schiffer, Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany (2021)
Vogue Paris-100 years-1920-2020, Palais Galliera, Paris, France (2021)
Collectionsedit
Teller's work is held in the following permanent collections:
^Larocca, Amy, "Straight Shooter," New York, August 17, 2008.
^"Céline Fall Winter by Juergen Teller". Design Scene - Fashion, Photography, Style & Design. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
^Vuitton, Louis. "News by Louis Vuitton: SERIES 4: THE HEROINE BY JUERGEN TELLER". uk.louisvuitton.com. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
^Dazed (25 January 2017). "See Juergen Teller's new visuals for adidas". Dazed. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^Dazed (2 February 2018). "Juergen Teller shoots and stars in the new Palace lookbook". Dazed. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^"Juergen Teller - Person - National Portrait Gallery". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^Fox, Imogen (10 July 2015). "Kim and Kanye snog (again) for fashion and other madness". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^"Naked Ambition". The Independent. 28 November 2004. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^Scheyer, Kate (21 September 2009). "Juergen Teller: "We've Got the Louvre to Ourselves, and You're Going to be Naked in Front of the Mona Lisa"". Vanity Fair. No. September. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^"Art review: Juergen Teller". The Guardian. 9 November 2001. Retrieved 12 January 2021.
^"Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg - Juergen Teller". adbk-nuernberg.de. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
^Anny Shaw (November 17, 2016), Juergen Teller reveals Mapplethorpe’s ‘gentler and more romantic side’ Archived 2016-11-21 at the Wayback MachineThe Art Newspaper.
^Alice Fisher, "[1]," The Guardian, October 28, 2018.