Oliver Blum

BIOGRAPHY

since 2022 Specialized in 360° Photography and production of Virtual Tours.
since 2008 Specialized in Architectural and Lighting Design Photography.
since 2004 Photography + Film
1993 - 2003 Production of Theater, Video and Light Art, Documentaries, Photography and Music
1988 - 1992 Study of Theater Direction, Academy for Performing Arts, Ulm
1986 - 1988 Photo assistant, Camera operator, Video editor, Frankfurt a.M.
Born in Frankfurt a.M.
Based in Barcelona + Frankfurt

WORKS

2023 GENERATIONEN Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2023 GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR Festival for audiovisual projections, Weimar
2021 GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR Festival for audiovisual projections, Weimar
2020 LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
2019 LEBANON Essay Film Production Script research, Lebanon
GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR Festival for audiovisual projections, Weimar
LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
2018 ARCHITECTURE IN THAILAND Bangkok, Sukhotai, Ayutthaya - Photo essay, Thailand
GENIUS LOCI WEIMAR Festival for audiovisual projections, Weimar
LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
2017 LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
2016 LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
TIME DRIFTS Light installation by Philipp Geist, Cologne
LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
2015 LLUM BCN Festival D'Arts Lumíniques, Barcelona
MARE NOSTRUM PRESS AWARDS Tanger, Marrakesch, Essaouira - Photo reportage, Morocco
2014 LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
2013 FESTIVAL DE FÈS DES MUSIQUES SACRÉES DU MONDE Marokko - Photo reportage, Morocco
2012 LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
THE ETERNAL CITY 2012- long term Photography Project, Rome, Italy
2011 TRACKS Palermo to Genua - Photo essay, Italy
2010 LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
MEGACITIES BY NIGHT Hongkong - Old Shanghai, Photo essay, China
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, Berlin
2009 BACKCOUNTRY Landscapes of USA - Photo essay, USA west
RHEINPARTIE Festival of Light, Middle Rhine
2008 FÊTE DES LUMIÈRES Festival of Light, Lyon
GLOW EINDHOVEN Connecting the forbidden city - Festival of Light, Eindhoven
DIWALI Hindu Festival of Lights in Varanasi (Benares) - Photo essay, India
LUMINALE FRANKFURT Biennial for Light Art and Urban Design, Frankfurt a.M.
MEGACITIES BY NIGHT Modern Shanghai, Photo essay, China
2005 - 2007 CANAL DE NANTES À BREST Documentary about Sites, calvaries and processions in Brittany, France
2003/04 AUDIOVISUAL LIGHT ART INSTALLATIONS Frankfurt, Vienna, Wuppertal
2002 BLUEPOINT UNDERGROUND meets SHIBUSA SHIRAZU JAZZ-ORCHESTRA TOKIO Concert, Performance - Crossovermedia, Wuppertal
2001 HIRNSTURM - Resonanzraum Mensch - Maschine Multimedia Opera - Direction, 3D-Light installation, Soundscapes, Crossovermedia, Wuppertal
Funded by: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Institut für Bildung und Kultur, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Landesbüro freie Kultur NRW, Kulturbüro Stadt Wuppertal
2000 FIREWALL - Experimental Multimedia Opera Text, Stage & Direction- Paketposthalle am Worringer Platz - Düsseldorf
Project partner of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF, Bonn
Funded by: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung BMBF, Institut für Bildung und Kultur IBK, Ministerium für Kultur des Landes NRW, Kulturbüro Stadt Wuppertal
1999 MIDSUMMER RECORDINGS @ Klaus Dingers ZEELAND STUDIO, Netherlands
CD release BLUEPOINT UNDERGROUND IN NEW YORK CITY @ Captain Trip Records, Tokyo
1998 BRACHLAND Theater play @ Festival Freier Theater NRW, Dortmund, Germany
SCHREIBHEFT Theater play - Text & Direction - Crossovermedia
BLUEPOINT UNDERGROUND RECORDINGS @ Klaus Dingers DINGERLAND-LILIENTHAL STUDIO, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997 BLUEPOINT UNDERGROUND REALITY SHOW 2 concerts in the National Gallery Bukarest, Romania
With support of: Auswärtiges Amt, Goethe-Institut and Rumanian Ministry of Culture and Art
1996 BRACHLAND Multimedia Theater play - Text & Direction - Crossovermedia, Wuppertal, Germany
Funded by Kulturbüro Stadt Wuppertal
1994 - 2002 Founder and member of "CROSSOVERMEDIA - Werkstatt für interdisziplinäre Kunst" and ,"BLUEPOINT UNDERGROUND - Art-Noise" Wuppertal, Germany
1992 - 1993 EASTER IN SPAIN Documentary for German Television ZDF, Murcia, Spain
1991 UNE SAISON EN ENFER by Artur Rimbaud - Co-direction / Dramaturgy - Theater Neu-Ulm, Germany
1990 ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett - Directing, Stage in a Deutsche Bahn freight wagon, Ulm, Germany
1989 TOUCH ME - I´M SICK Fluxusopera - Idea, Text, Direction, Stage, S-8 Film projections - Roxy Ulm, Germany