Reiner Riedler

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REINER RIEDLER FAKE HOLIDAYS

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Since 1989 Reiner Riedler, as a documentary photographer, has dealt with important topics of the present day. His view always centers on the human being in his environment. “Fake Holidays,” his most recent project (begun in 2004) has now been shown in many places including, Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, at the European Month of Photography exhibitions in Paris and Bratislava, and at Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan. His pictures have also been published in magazines such as National Geographic, Stern, The New York Times, Newsweek, Fortune, and Le Monde 2.

SELEctED ExHIbItIONS:

2011 Dreamlands, Centre George Pompidou Paris2010 Fake Holidays, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York City2009 Fake Holidays, Gallery AVLA NLB, Ljubljana, Slovenia Reiner Riedler - Wunderwelten, Fotoforum West, Innsbruck Fake Holidays, International Festival of Photography Lodz, Poland The Robinson Centrifuge, Künstlervereinigung März, Linz Die Ideale Ausstellung, ACC Galerie Weimar, Kunstfest Weimar Tourism. Spaces of Fiction, Design Center Barcelona Fake Holidays, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon Fake Holidays, Photofestival Boutographie / Montpellier / France

2008 Fake Holidays, International Festival of Photography Lodz, Poland Fake Holidays, Heart Galerie, Paris, Mois de la Photo Fake Holidays, Images 08, Vevey, CH Tourismus – All Inclusive, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt / Germany The other side, Brick 5, Month of Photography Vienna Wolfsburg-Vienna, Städteansichten, Goethe Institut Bangkok

2007 Fake Holidays, House of Photography, Novo Mesto, Slovenia Wonderland, Galerie Momentum, Vienna Fake Holidays Festival of Light, Kaunas / Lithuania Fake Holidays, Darmstädter Fototage 24 hours in Vienna, Leopold Museum, Vienna

2006 The Possibility of an Island, Sirius Art Center / Cork / Ireland Russian Circus, Anzenberger Gallery, Month of Photography Vienna

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FAKE HOLIDAYS SERIES

Reiner Riedler’s series Fake Holidays, takes us to the heart of a society of standardized leisure where foreign places are fabricated into local spaces in which we can stage our own life histories. Replicas of the greatest touristic landscapes in the world discard space, time and reality, arousing a sense of adventure and a taste for the exotic without the journey or the risk. As Jens Lindworsky mentions in the introduction of Reiner Riedler’s book, Fake Holidays, “Florida’s Disneyworld hosts more visitors than Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Israel combined. New and more refined illusionary worlds are added every year, and the simulation business is booming.”

Whether in China, Germany or in the United States, Riedler shows a dramatization of these spaces, towns and lives. A honeymoon in Paris is now possible when staying in China; experiencing the unique charm of an island vacation is even more perfect just few kilometers from Berlin. These lives dreamt in prefabricated spaces enhance the illusion that everything is possible and we can evade ourselves without even leaving.

Riedler’s work was recently selected to be part of the exhibition, Dreamlands – From Amusement Parks to Cities of Tomorrow at Centre Pompidou in Paris in summer 2010. Quentin Bajac, the curator writes: “Reliant on generalized imitation and illusion, displaying an aesthetics of accumulation and collage, and testifying to a desire to abolish the constraints of space and time, such Dreamlands have helped form the artistic, architectural and urbanistic imagination of the 20th and 21st centuries. From the utopian projects of the 1960s and ‘70s to the realities of contemporary urban design, they have changed our most basic relationships to the world and time, to geography and history; they have altered our understanding of the original and the reproduction and have blurred the boundaries between art and its old rivals of kitsch and entertainment.”

The imaginary spreads out according to a visual uniformity of the world. Provocative and spontaneous, Reiner Riedler is a photographer with a sassy sense of humor.

Sous Les Etoiles is thrilled to host the frist solo exhibition of Reiner Riedler in New York, October 7th, 2010 though November 29th, 2010.



10. Ice Cave, Indoor Ski Center, Dubai - 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 1/5+II

11. Cage, Centerparcs Bispingen, Germany - 2007 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II

14. Wintery Beach, Florida- 2005 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 3/5+II

13. Insect Screen, Titanic Resort Atalya, Turkey - 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 3/5+II

12. Superman above Red Square Antalya, Turkey - 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Artist Proof

9. Horizon #1, Tropical Islands, Berlin, Germany - 2007 39” x 47” Edition of 4/5+II

4. Capitol, Window of the World Shenzhen, China - 2008

25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II

6. The Talk, Ski Dubai Indoor Dubai - 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 4/5+II

7. Titanic Resort Hotel, Antalya, Turkey - 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 3/5+II

8. Minsk World Military Theme Park, Shenzhen, China - 2008 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 3/5+II

1. Minsk World Military Theme Park, Shenzhen, China - 2008 39” x 47” Edition of 2/5+II

5. Window of the World Theme Park, Shenzhen, China - 2008 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II

2. Wild River Florida - 2005 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II

3. Astronaut, Topkapi Place Hoyel, Antalya Turkey- 2006 25.5” x 31.5” Edition of 2/5+II



Horizon #1 Tropical Islands Resort, Berlin, Germany , 2007



Minsk World Military Theme Park, Shenzhen, China, 2008



Window of the World Theme Park, Shenzhen, China, 2008



Wild River, Florida, 2005



The Talk, Ski Dubai Indoor Ski Center, Dubai, 2006



Astronaut, Topkapi Place Hoyel, Antalya Turkey, 2006



Titanic Resort Hotel, Antalya, Turkey, 2006



Capitol, Window of the World, China, 2008



Minsk World Military Theme Park, Shenzhen, China, 2008



Ice Cave, Indoor Ski Center, Dubai, 2006



Cage, Centerparcs, Bispingen, Germany, 2007



Superman above Red Square, Antalya, Turkey, 2008



Insect Screen, Titanic Resort. Atalya, Turkey, 2006



Blizzard Lounge, Florida, 2008

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