Libraries are both shelters and places of escape. It is this feeling that German photographer Reinhard Görner has been exploring for many years, in search of the most beautiful and solemn reading rooms around the world.
Reinhard Görner was born in Leipzig (Germany) in 1950, and is a freelance architectural photographer based in Berlin. The artist photographed and fell in love with his first library in 2005, as he was working with architect Sir Norman Foster and captured the philological library of Berlin’s Frei Universität. Since then, the cathedral-like atmosphere of New York’s Rose main reading room made a long-lasting impact on the artist and he started to intensify his documentation of libraries across the world. Görner has been exhibited in Paul Sties gallery in Germany, in Japan with B&C gallery, in Dublin and with our galleries in Paris. His work was also shown in many art fairs including Basel, Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
Görner’s photographs seek to convey the impact architecture has on our awareness of life : the libraries he captures open spaces, tell stories and refer to a time when one’s sense of aestethics and sense of space were identical. Görner’s photos refer to the vastness great architecture has been celebrating throughout history, bringing to mind historical periods where beauty and tranquility meet. His work pays a tribute to the Becher art school. Like other disciples’ – Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Candida Höfer – Görner’s work is strictly conceptual, combined with a fine technical approach. All their works demonstrate the same fascination for typology and record the heritage of the western cultural and industrial past.
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Reinhard GornerSchlierbach Abbey Library, 2019Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin152 x 190 cm (75 x 60 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP -
Reinhard GornerTwo Men of Letters - Schagl Abbey Library, 2019Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 158,7 cm (50 x 62,5 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerSainte-Geneviève library, 2018Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin178 x 212 cm (70 x 83 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerSalle Labrouste I, 2018Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin178 x 178 cm (70 x 70 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerAssemblée Nationale II, 2018Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 159 cm (50 x 62 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerGeorge Peabody Library, baltimore, 2018Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin105 x 83 cm (41.5 x 32.7)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerArchivo general de indias, Sevilla, 2017Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 127 cm (50 x 50 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerLibrary of Duchess Anna Amalia, Weimar, 2017Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin184 x 178 cm (73 x 70 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerLibrary of Congress IV Washington, 2017Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin156 x 152 cm (61 x 60 in)Edition of 15 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerThe Cohen room, Oxford, 2017Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin146 x 127 cm (57 x 50 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerWren library, Cambridge, 2017Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin178 x 222 cm (70 x 87 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerThe Grand Piano, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin178 x 182 cm (70 x 71 in)Edition of 5 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerInter Arma Charitas, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin177,8 x 183,1 cm (60 x 62 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerMilich'sche Library I, Görlitz, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 130 cm (50 x 52 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerThe Vision - Library of the Abbey in Waldsassen, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin153 x 172 cm (60 x 67 in)Edition of 7 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerNeustift Abbey library, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin177,8 x 211,3 cm (69.6 x 83 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerSaint Peter's Abbey library, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin102 x 152 cm (40 x 60 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerAdmont Abbey, library Hall, Austria, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin152 x 159 cm (60 x 62 in)Edition of 15 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerBooks, clocks and globes, national library, Prague, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 132 cm (50 x 52 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerTrinity College Library, The Long Room IV, 2016Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin178 x 222 cm (70 x 87 in)Edition of 5 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerMilich'sche Library II, Görlitz, 2015Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin101,6 x 138,4 cm (40 x 55 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerWiblingen Library, 2015Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 159 cm (50 x 62 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerUpper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz, 2014Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin172 x 191 cm (68 x 75 in)Edition of 10 + 1 AP
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Reinhard GornerFrancke Foundations IV, 2014Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin159 x 127 cm (62.5 x 50 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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Reinhard GornerRose Main Reading Room, New York Library, 2014Fine Art Lightjet Print, mounted on aluminum, plexiglass or resin127 x 160,8 cm (50 x 63 in)Edition of 25 + 2 AP
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His work was shown in many art fairs including Basel, Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong.
SOLO & GROUP SHOWS
2021
Battersea Spring
AAF Bruxelles
Battersea Fall
Art Elysé
AAF Hamburg
2020
Group show K+Y, Paris
2019
AAF London Hampstead, New York, Bruxelles, Battersea Spring
LA Art Show
Context Art Miami
Art Market Hamptons
Scope Miami Beach
2018
Art Market Hamptons
AAF London Hampstead
AAF New York
AAF Brussels
AAF Battersea Spring
Art Up Lille
LA Art Show
Context Art MiamiArt Market HamptonsScope Miami Beach
2017
Art Central, Hong Kong
AAF Singapore
AAF Brussels
AAF New York
AAF London
AAF Hong Kong
Solo show K+Y gallery, Paris
Group show K+Y gallery, Paris
LA Art Show
Context Art Miami
Art Market Hamptons
Scope Miami Beach
2016
AAF London Hampstead
AAF Hamptons
AAF Singapur
AAF New York
AAF Hong Kong
AAF Brussels
Context New York
Art central, Hong Kong
Art Wynwood, Miami
Scope Miami
Scope Basel
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
2015
AAF Singapore
AAF Seoul
AAF London
AAF Hong Kong
AAF New York
Art Wynwood, Miami
Los Angeles art show
Scope Miami
Scope Basel
Art Hamptons
Art Southamptons
Cologne art Fair
Contemporary Istanbul
8e Avenue art fair, Paris
Kunstsalon Europa, Berlin
Paul Sties gallery, Kronberg, Germany
Show K+Y gallery, London
Transform gallery, Berlin
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
Hamburg Kenney Photographs, New York
2014
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
AAF London
AAF Toronto
AAF Hampstead
AAF New York
Art Hamptons
Scope art fair, Miami
Art Toronto
Love art Toronto
Art basel, Miami
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
2013
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
Show K+Y gallery, London
2012
Show K+Y gallery, Paris
AAF Brussels
Fotofever, Paris
2011
Balt Canteen
Origin gallery, Dublin
Scope art Basel
AAF New-York
Fotofever, Paris
K+Y gallery, Paris
K+Y gallery, London
2010
Galerie Paul Sties gallery, Kronberg
2008
LUMAS gallery in Köln, Berlin and Frankfurt
2006
AMJ Design Interiors, Berlin
2005
B and C gallery, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLICATIONS
Posthorn & Reichsadler, Nicolai Verlag
K.-F. Schinkel: Charlottenhof - Römische Bäder Potsdam Sanssouci, Edition Menges
The Reichstag, Norman Foster, Jovis Verlag
Bode-Museum, Heinz Tesar, Edition Menges
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
