About
Michael Willöfer works in the field of artistic photography have a documentary approach and are conceptually oriented. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in Germany, The Netherlands, Mexico. He currently lives and works in Berlin and travels to Mexico City every year.
He was born in 1977 in former East-Berlin, Germany. He studied Law, Criminology and Architecture in Berlin and Mexico City. He later studied a master degree in Visual Arts at UNAM in Mexico City and at Concordia University in Montreal.
In 2012 he was participant of the Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico. In 2015 he received a grant from the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores Mexico for the first part of his photographic long term project Narvarte.
Links
2024 Unknown Pleasures. Galerie Erstererster, Berlin
2023 Veranstalungskalender Halle (Saale)
2023 Underground Periodismo, Artikel Yetlaneci Alcaraz, Spanish
2022 Berliner Zeitung, Artikel Ignacio Rosaslanda
2022 PiB - Photography in Berlin
2022 Narvarte. Galerie Erstererster, Berlin
2022 El Universal Querétaro, Spanish
2019 Transit Lychen - MKNÜDRWDI
2018 Der Tagesspiegel, Artikel Robert Klages
Exhibitions
2024 Unknown Pleasures. Galerie Erstererster, Berlin
2023 Tabasco # 300. Ratshof Halle (Saale)
2022 Narvarte. Galerie Erstererster, Berlin
2022 Half the Sky - Mitad del Cielo. Museo de la Ciudad Querétaro, Mexico
2021 Nuevo Mundo. Inkarma, Berlin
2019 The Mexico Project. Filmfestival Globale, Halle (Saale)
2015 También fue una Isla. Academia de Artes Visulaes AAVI, Mexico-City
2014 El perro negro – and other observations. Galería KAN, Mexico-City
2013 Tabasco # 300. Galería Miau, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
Group Exhibitions
2022 Blickwechsel. Mexican Embassy in Germany
2019 MKNÜDRWDI. Transit Lychen, Brandenburg
2015 Privada Roja Abierta. Mexico-City
2015 Salon TEA. Mexico-City
2013 Taller Espacio Alternativo. Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico
2010 Nieuw West. ACF Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, The Netherlands
2009 Mexican Film Festival. DeBalie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Lectures
2025 Fotografía Alemana Contemporánea. Museo de la Ciudad Querétaro, Mexico
2025 Perspectivas de la Fotografía Alemana. Gimnasio de Arte, Mexico City
2024 Fotografía Alemana. Una Visión General y Algunas Tendencias Contemporáneas. Posgrado UNAM, Mexico City
2019 The Düsseldorf School of Photography. An Overview. Salon TEA, Mexico City
2015 Workshop Fotografía Experimental. Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City
Contact
E-mail: michaelwilloefer@gmail.com
Whatsapp: +49 152 23097544