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AINDREAS SCHOLZ

Artist working with cameraless and ecological photography · Art & Design Lecturer
Born Wiesbaden, DE, based in London, UK · Represented by In-Dependance, Antwerp (BE)
aindreasscholz81@gmail.com · +44 (0) 7487 742816 · www.aindreasscholz.com · @aindreasscholz

SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025     The Most Beautiful Anthropocene, Galerie LIK, Vienna, AT (two-person).
And So I Watch You From Afar, Artlink, Fort Dunree, IRE (solo).

2023     And So I Watch You From Afar, Shoal Residents, Island Darkroom, Achmore, GB (solo).
And So I Watch You From Afar, Artist in Residence, Galerie Kruse, Flensburg, DE (solo).

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026     Unseen Photo Fair, Rotterdam, NL (forthcoming).
MIA Photo Fair BNP Paribas, Milan, IT (forthcoming).
In Situ, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait City, KW.
Salon/25, Photofusion, London, UK.

2025     The Alternative Landscape, In_Dependance, Antwerp, BE.
re_exposed, Foto Wien, WUK, Vienna, AT.
Photo Frome, Frome, GB.
Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT.
Sustainable Photography?, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK.
RPS IPE 166, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
Select/25, Photofusion, London, UK.
Plant Power, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, UK.

2024     Salon/24, Photofusion, London, UK.
BIG 20, OVADA, Oxford, UK.
Symbiosis II, LAPC, London, UK.
Grand Prix, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, PL.

2023     The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London, UK.
FUTURES Photography 2023, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin Castle, Dublin, IE
Tsundoku Art Book Fair, Dublin, IE.

2022     Extraction: Loss and Restoration, GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn, UK.
Dear 2050: Oceans on the Rise, Munot Gallery, Schaffhausen, CH.
The RWA 169 Annual Open Exhibition, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK.
HALFTONE, The Library Project, Dublin, IE.
The Human Blueprint, Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, NL.
Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT.
Bath Photo Festival, Bath, GB.

2021     Health and the Climate & Ecological Emergency, UCLH, London, UK.
Salon/21, Photofusion, Brixton, London, UK.

2020     Earth Photo 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK.
190^th Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin, IE.

2019     Creekside Open 2019, APT, London, UK.

2017     Hello!, Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, DE.

SELECTED AWARDS, BURSARIES & GRANTS

2026     Glover-Rayner Prize, Photofusion, London, winner.
Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund, Bayside, CA, recipient.
1839 Awards, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA, winner.
a-n Artists’ Bursaries, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, recipient.

2025     Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England, London, UK, recipient.
AGBI Award, London, UK, recipient.
Artlink Solo Exhibition Award, Fort Dunree, IE, recipient.
Realisation Grant, The Centre for British Photography, London, UK, recipient.
SANE Creative Awards Scheme, London, UK, recipient.
Rhonda Wilson Award, NYC, USA, finalist.

2024     Paul Mellon Centre, Studies in British Art Research Support Grant, London, UK, recipient.
Photofusion Select/24, London, UK, joint winner.
Vintage Grand Prix, Bydgoszcz, PL, finalist.
AA2A, Artist Support Fund, Nottingham, UK, recipient.

2023     RSCF Foundation Grant for Analogue Photography, Edinburgh, UK, recipient.
Denis Roussel Award, Work of Merit, Austin, TX, USA, recipient.
The Eaton Fund, Fleet, UK, recipient.
FUTURES Photography, Amsterdam, NL, nominated.
TPG Bursary: Understanding Early Photographic Processes, London, UK, recipient.

2022     Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT, joint winner.
Rotterdam Photo Festival, Rotterdam, NL, joint winner.
FORMAT International Photography Review Bursary, Derby, GB, recipient.

2021     Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT, joint winner.
Earth Photo, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, finalist.

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

2026     Arctica, Svalbard, NO (forthcoming).

2025     Finnish Darkroom Association, Helsinki, FI.
WASPS, The Booth, Scalloway, UK.

2024     The Grange Projects, Great Gressingham, UK.
Le Puget, Gaja-la-Selve, FR.
AA2A Artist in Residence, Cambridge, UK.
FIKAR, Failaka, KW.

2023     JOYA AiR, Vélez-Blanco, ES.
Island Darkroom, Achmore, UK.
Galerie Kruse, Artist in Residence, Flensburg, DE.

2022     Linkshouse Orkney Arts Residency, Birsay, UK.
GroundWork Gallery, Artist in Residence, Reepham, UK.
Cow House Studios Open Residency, Rathnure, IE.

SELECTED WORK IN COLLECTIONS

Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Galerie Kruse, DE; Groundwork Gallery, UK; FIKAR, KW; IBASHO Gallery, BE; NHS Foundation Trust, UK; the Office of Public Works, IE and private collections in BE, IRE and UK.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Climanosco. (2022). Dear 2050: Oceans on the Rise. Schaffhausen, 12.12.2021 – 12.03.2022 [exhibition catalogue].
Ephemere Photo Books (2025). Eroding Forms. Ephemere.
Fabbri, M. (2024). Pure Inspiration, volume 1. Croydon: CPI Group.
Galbraith, S. (2025) ‘What Research is Being Funded?’, Source, (177), p. 11. Belfast: Photo Works North.
Neophytou, A. (2025) A Guide to Ecological Thinking in Photography, Vol. 3. [online] PHmuseum.
Shutter Hub. (2024). TO THE SEA: A Shutter Hub Editions publication. Shutter Hub.
Studies in Photography (2025) ‘Leaves’, Issue Six, pp. 78–81.
Suboart Magazine, Nr. 51–52, December 2025.
Toepfer et al. (2024) ‘The Most Beautiful Anthropocene’, Camera Austria International, 165, pp. 60–61.
Toland, A.R. and Watts, P.L. (eds.) (2025) Soils Turn. Santa Fe, NM: ecoartspace.
Watts, P. (2024). The New Geological Epoch. New Jersey: Conveyor Studios.
Zigutamve. (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). Rotlicht Festival Catalogue. Vienna [exhibition catalogues].

SELECTED LECTURES, TALKS & WORKSHOPS (INVITATION)

2026     Sustainable Analogue and Historical Processes, photoSchweiz, Zurich, CH (workshop).

2025     Seeing Soil, Alternative Process Academy (online lecture).
Experimental workshop on Camera-less photography, Lumen X, Vienna, AT (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype, MFA, The Margate School, Margate, UK (workshop).
Explore Earth’s Palette, Vintage Photo Festival, Bydgoszcz, PL (workshop).
Die Kunst des Chemigrams, Wiesbadener Fototage, Wiesbaden, DE (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype Workshop, Artlink, Fort Dunree, IE (workshop).
Introduction to Phyto-Lumen Art, Analogue Now, Berlin, DE (workshop).
Experimental Cyanotype Workshop, Finnish Darkroom Association, Helsinki, FI (workshop).
Experimental and Sustainable Photo Books Using Camera-less Photography, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (workshop).

2024     Analogue Culture Today!, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (talk).
OVADA: Associate Q&As with Aindreas Scholz, OVADA, Oxford, GB (talk).
Cyanotype Cameraless Photography, Shifting Tides, Rostrevor, GB (workshop).
Lumen Workshop, Climanosco, Langenthal, CH (workshop).
Towards a Sustainable Darkroom, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, IE (workshop).

2023     After TU Dublin: Building a Creative Trajectory, BA Photography, TU Dublin, IE (lecture).
Experimental Analogue Photography Workshop, Tsundoku Art Fair, Dublin, IE (workshop).
Chemigram Workshop, Galerie Kruse, Flensburg, DE (workshop).
Unfixed Landscapes, Rotlicht Festival for Analogue Photography, Vienna, AT (workshop).

EDUCATION

2017     PGCE, Institute of Education, University College London, UK.

2015     MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

2009     BA (Hons) Photography, Technological University Dublin, IE.