Artists

Jürgen Klauke

Press release

Opening: Thursday, 3 April, 6 – 9 PM

Zander Galerie Paris is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition dedicated to Jürgen Klauke. Titled Transformer, the exhibition will showcase a selection of seminal photographs from the early 1970s. These works, central to Klauke’s artistic and philosophical exploration, challenge conventional notions of gender and its representation.

Born in 1943 in Germany, Jürgen Klauke is a pioneer of conceptual and staged photography. Since the late 1960s, he has put his own body at the service of his artistic practice, pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium while interrogating the social and psychological constructs that shape human existence. Rather than documenting these tensions, Klauke transforms them into meticulously composed visual statements—a process he defines as the “aestheticization of the existential”. Through this approach, he elevates personal and societal conflict into an artistic language where alienation, identity, and the absurd become both subject and material.