Anton Roland Laub

Born and brought up in Bucharest, Anton Roland Laub lives and works in Berlin. He received an MA degree from the weißensee art academy in Berlin in the class of Andreas Siekmann and Alice Creischer. Previously, he completed his studies at the New School for Photography, Berlin, and graduated from the media and communication science department at the University of Bucharest. In his research-led practice, Laub engages with subversive approaches in decoding reality constructions and phantoms of power. His recent monographs, published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, address the contemporary history of Romania, as well as the legacy of the dictatorship. LAST CHRISTMAS (of Ceaușescu) poses questions about the justice discourse and the institutional memory of the Romanian Revolution three decades later. The work was longlisted for the German Photo Book Prize and shortlisted for the Photo-Book Award at the Belfast Photo Festival. Mobile Churches analyzes dictatorial fantasies that became urban realities in Bucharest of the 1980s. The eponymous solo show was nominated for the New Discovery Award during the 49th edition of the International Photography Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles. Laub was a finalist for the Dummy Book Award at the Unseen Photography Festival in Amsterdam and Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. The resulting photo book was selected for the FOLA Photobook Award in Buenos Aires and was part of the PhotoBookAthens exhibition at the Benaki Museum during the European Month of Photography, Athens. Currently, he is preparing the last publication of his trilogy, supported by the Visual Arts Research Stipend of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, and the Publication Grant of the Stiftung Kulturwerk, Bonn. Addressing the division of society and the unspoken trauma of physical violence, MINERIADA raises awareness for recursive events, in a world that is becoming increasingly polarized again.

Laub has had solo exhibitions among others at Église Saint Germain des Prés, Paris; Berlin Wall Memorial Museum, Chapel of Reconciliation, Berlin; Bucharest Municipality Museum, Bucharest; Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas; Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles; Romanian Cultural Institute, Berlin; Goethe-Institut, Bucharest, atelier 35, Uniunea Artiștilor Plastici, Bucharest. He has been part of the 7th Triennial of Photography and Architecture, Brussels; FORMAT Photography Biennale, Derby; Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles; European Month of Photography, Athens and Berlin; PhotoSaintGermain, Paris; MakeCity Festival, Berlin, PHOTO IS:RAEL, Tel Aviv. His works have been reviewed and featured in the international press, including The British Journal of Photography, Deutschlandfunk, The New York Times, L'Œil de la Photographie, AMERICAN SUBURB X, and are held in public and private collections, such as the Book and Media Art Collection of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Archive of Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles; Berlin Wall Memorial Museum, Berlin; Bucharest Municipality Museum, Bucharest.

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