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Juergen Teller looks tired. He\u2019s sitting on a plastic folding chair in the atrium of the Kunstpalais Erlangen, an art museum in a small Baroque castle in the Bavarian city of Erlangen. Assistants are running around with microphones and equipment: Teller is opening an exhibition later that evening, the first in his hometown \u2013 he hails from a nearby village. Clad in his trademark red puffer jacket and blue woolly hat, he\u2019s unshaven, and his physique is portlier than after his much vaunted fitness regime of 2016. He\u2019s back on the fags, nipping out into the freezing January afternoon at regular intervals. And he also speaks slowly, punctuating his sentences with many \u2018you knows\u2019, searching for words in an accented English despite his 30-odd years living in the UK.<\/p>\n
Teller doesn\u2019t require an introduction. He has captured everyone from Kanye West and Kim Kardashian West, to Claudia Schiffer, and Kate Moss, making fashion history with his apparently spontaneous high-flash analogue images. However, this exhibition marks a departure. Working with long-time collaborators such as Charlotte Rampling, his son and his mother, he has traded the analogue for digital precision, introducing frogs, crockery items, foxes and even the Bayern Munich football team as protagonists.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70207,"id":70207,"title":"juergenteller_01","filename":"juergenteller_01-1.jpg","filesize":737513,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/who-is-juergen-teller\/juergenteller_01\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Kanye, Juergen & Kim No.51, Chateau d'Ambleville","name":"juergenteller_01","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50678,"date":"2018-09-17 07:20:55","modified":"2018-09-17 07:21:03","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_01-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
The Erlangen exhibition, he tells Sleek, wasn\u2019t really on the cards: with a touring exhibition that\u2019s travelling from the Bundeskunsthalle to Berlin\u2019s Gropiusbau via the Rudolfinum in Prague, there wasn\u2019t really a reason. \u201cIt was the last thing I needed,\u201d he says, \u201cbut I kind of had to do it, it\u2019s a responsibility to have [an exhibition] where you come from.\u201d Showing in his hometown also brought its own challenges in terms of choosing suitable work. \u201cI worried,\u201d he admits. \u201cI worked a lot on how to do it, you know.\u201d He was cautious. \u201cI had to be sensitive for my mother. There are certain aspects where she has problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teller\u2019s preoccupation with his hometown reception found its way into a video, near the end of the exhibition, entitled \u2018Dieter, Erlangen 2017\u2019, in which Teller, disguised as an working-class Erlangen resident, with an unkempt grey wig, glasses and dirty jeans, and sporting a carrier bag from a discount supermarket, wanders through his own exhibition, muttering in his best Bavarian: \u201cWhat is this shit? Is it art? Why is it in English?\u201d Perhaps he shouldn\u2019t have worried. Over a pre-opening aperitif in a nearby caf\u00e9, SLEEK encountered a jolly group of portly gray men, reminiscing about eighties boozing sessions with Juergen, and during the interview, Volkmar, one of Juergen\u2019s first models, approached with a stack of old prints for Teller to sign. There is clearly pride in the Teller return.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70208,"id":70208,"title":"juergenteller_19","filename":"juergenteller_19-1.jpg","filesize":450508,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/who-is-juergen-teller\/juergenteller_19\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Lars Eidinger, Plates\/Teller No.18, 2016","name":"juergenteller_19","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50678,"date":"2018-09-17 07:21:49","modified":"2018-09-17 07:21:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_19-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":"
In the exhibition, the visitor first encounters a series of self-portraits, including Teller in jogging gear with a portrait of Adenauer, the first German president, and his mother Irene holding a sign. They are taken from the magazine Numero<\/em>, and show Teller engaging with a number of rites of German artistic passage: hanging out with the German president Gauck and his mum, opening his exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle, Germany\u2019s state exhibition hall \u2013 a firm arrival at the heart of the German establishment.<\/p>\n Several photos reference photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, of whom he recently curated an exhibition at Alison Jaques gallery in London. \u201cI went to his archive and spent a lot of time there, I worked on this exhibition for about three months, and I noticed that he took many weird pictures of plates. I found this image of a plate with frogs on it, and another of a pile of plates, and there was a man standing on it. And then you really wonder, what kind of meaning is this supposed to have? Does it have a meaning?\u201d<\/p>\n This sense of the surreal has become manifest in Teller\u2019s work through his detournement of Mapplethorpe\u2019s motif. This also functions as a self-reference, too: In German, \u2018Teller\u2019 means \u2018plate\u2019, perhaps one of the art world\u2019s worst dad jokes. \u201cThe title of the exhibition at the Bundeskunsthalle is \u2018Mit dem Teller nach Bonn\u2019 (With a plate to Bonn). If I put a plate in your hand, then suddenly it\u2019s a self-portrait with Charlotte Rampling, a self-portrait with, you know, bla, bla, bla. And then I started to, in a way, work three dimensionally, and produce sculptures \u2013 one meter twenty and one meter eighty diagram plates. And I put my own pictures on the large plates and the small plates, a huge series.\u201d<\/p>\n Mapplethorpe, like Teller, straddled the boundary between celebrity portraiture, commercial product shoots and surrealistic image-making. As Teller told Time Out: \u201cHe\u2019s completely uncompromising with what he wants to do. And I think that\u2019s why he\u2019s important. Some people might think his work isn\u2019t politically correct or whatever, but it\u2019s purely and selfishly an expression of what he thinks. He just went out and did it.\u201d The same could be said of Teller\u2019s trailblazing in pursuit of his idols. In 1991, he famously travelled to Japan to meet Araki, the Japanese photographic legend. \u201cHardly anyone in America or in Europe knew about him then. He literally blew my mind, you know \u2013 he just had done an exhibition in a flower garden, outdoors, exposing the photographs to the elements. I was so taken aback! He was so inspiring and so enthusiastic \u2013 I learned from him \u2013 to do what you want to do. To really roam free with your fantasy and to be brave and super energetic, with a powerful drive and work. And to trust your instinct.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70209,"id":70209,"title":"Document Journal","filename":"juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","filesize":378021,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/who-is-juergen-teller\/document-journal\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"Charlotte Rampling, a Fox, and a Plate No.14, Latimer Road studio, London 2016","name":"document-journal","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50678,"date":"2018-09-17 07:22:45","modified":"2018-09-17 07:22:55","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1500,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","thumbnail-width":128,"thumbnail-height":85,"medium":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","medium-width":1500,"medium-height":1000,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","medium_large-width":1500,"medium_large-height":1000,"large":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","large-width":1500,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","1536x1536-width":1500,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","2048x2048-width":1500,"2048x2048-height":1000,"trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","trp-custom-language-flag-width":18,"trp-custom-language-flag-height":12,"wpvr_mobile":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_DOC1409-1.jpg","wpvr_mobile-width":1500,"wpvr_mobile-height":1000}}],"settings":{"fit_width":"6","caption":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_area","text_area":" One of the most remarkable works in the Erlangen exhibition is a slide-show depicting Rampling drinking milk from a dish with a fox in the garden of Teller\u2019s studio. \u201cCharlotte Rampling asked me to do her a favour and photograph her for the cover of a magazine. And I said to her, I\u2019ll do it, but please come to London, and I will make lunch for you, and we do these pictures. And a fox just happened to be in my garden, I wanted to photograph her with it because she reminded me of one. I wanted to have myself in the image too, which is where the plate came in. So the story is Charlotte Rampling, the plate and a fox, drinking milk from me, the plate,\u201d he says. Was he \u2018performing\u2019 a maternal role? \u201cIn a way, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n Similarly, he had little interest in shooting straightforward portraits of the Kardashian Wests, finding the gardens of a French chateau, \u201cToo manicured for such a manicured couple. I just thought, \u2018Oh my God. [I\u2019d] find it much more interesting to do it on a construction site on the edge of the gardens.\u2019 The series, in which Kim is depicted crawling up a [bank] is called \u2018Kanye, Juergen and Kim\u2019 \u2013 he is in the picture through his styling, and I am in it as a plate!\u201d Initially approached by Kanye, who\u2019d always wanted to work with Teller, the photographer professed to be \u201cintrigued and amused\u201d by the singer.<\/p>\n Teller recently turned 53, and his mania for self-portraiture and self-referencing can be read as a reflection on middle-aged masculinity. Recent exhibitions certainly abound in flaccid, unremarkable penises. In one image in the Bundeskunsthalle exhibition, an unimpressed Helen Marten, recent winner of the Turner Prize, holds a vacuum cleaner looking down at an oversized piece of crockery depicting Teller in a G-string. His male protagonists are anti-heroes, anti-male. Aware of their own ridiculousness, they pose in high-heels, trouserless, holding water hoses, eating bananas. They\u2019re not vulnerable. Rather, they display the self-aware ironic melancholia of the pierrot<\/em>, conscious of their own ridiculousness. In contrast, his female protagonists are bold, gazing straight into the camera, wholly aware of their image and effect. The exception is perhaps his photo series shot with Kim Kardashian West, her position far more voyeuristic and vulnerable.<\/p>\n Teller isn\u2019t interested in portraying the everyday; instead, he inhabits his own universe. If his surroundings respond to him, it\u2019s because he controls them. He is, after all, a control freak: no one is allowed to take his photograph unless he directs it. And he dominates his images of other people through the props bearing his countenance. Here, the author is indeed a producer. Unlike many contemporary photographers, especially those endemic to social media, Teller forges a harsh, abject and surreal visual path. When he captures Charlotte Rampling and a fox drinking milk from a dish, there is a sense of disruption to the standardised performance of celebrity; the protagonists have submitted to his vision. The spontaneous composition is carefully art-directed and controlled, and thereby paradoxically much more effective.<\/p>\n This instinctual self-reliance is reflected in Teller\u2019s blunt answers. When asked what beauty is to him, the answer is a simple \u201cWas schoen ist [Ed: \u2018What is beautiful\u2019.] – it really could be anything.\u201d Similarly, a failed image is \u201cone that just doesn\u2019t work. It happens all the time. \u201c And when does he know what a good image is? \u201cYou just know it. You just absolutely know it. When your gut instinct, when your heart, when your brain, when everything works, then it comes together.\u201d<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"images","gallery":[{"ID":70210,"id":70210,"title":"Arena Homme Plus","filename":"juergenteller_A-copy-1.jpg","filesize":239626,"url":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/juergenteller_A-copy-1.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/who-is-juergen-teller\/arena-homme-plus\/","alt":"","author":"1","description":"","caption":"'I love my Mum, I love Germany No.1, Bubenreuth 2016","name":"arena-homme-plus","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":50678,"date":"2018-09-17 07:24:03","modified":"2018-09-17 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Teller has famously collaborated with visual artists, including Urs Fischer, Cindy Sherman and Boris Michaelov, the current Ukrainian representative at the 2017 Venice Biennale, whom he is photographing, along with his works, in Berlin. \u201cI am really excited about that, I love and admire and I find it so inspiring!\u201d However, his idiosyncratic approach isn\u2019t sought after in all quarters, and he feels adrift from fashion\u2019s current desire for glossy, manicured, photoshopped images. \u201cNot everyone hires me. You know it\u2019s always difficult to produce good work, you have to fight for it and work hard for it. 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His work has always blurred the boundary between commerce and art, yet this recent run of exhibitions will elevate his aesthetic games further into the context of the art world. As he noted in Erlangen, \u201cyou can use everything for your own advantage. It doesn\u2019t satisfy me to just photograph things – that\u2019s boring. Everything I do is like a self-portrait and I want to bring everything into it that I can.”<\/p>\n"}]},"yoast_head":"\n