He gathered his first artistic experience from the age of 12 in photography, followed by occupations as a comic artist, graphic designer, illustrator, silk-screen printer and painter featured in numerous publications and exhibitions, as well as a musician in several bands and solo projects (Minitchév, Disz/Play, Ladytron). In 1999, he finished his studies with a diploma in Media Arts at the Bauhau
s-influenced independent college ‘bildo akademie berlin’ with a focus on Analogue Photography, Digital Production and Media Theory, as well as Gestalt Theory. His professional career as a commercial photographer and photo-journalist with a focus on portrait and architecture includes (among others) publications in the New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Spex Magazine, Pen International, The Observer and Leica Fotografie International and commissions for clients such as ERCO, Freitag, Espace Louis Vuitton, BMW and Lotus Cars. Sebastian Mayer has photographed musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yamataka Eye, Iggy Pop, Peaches and Einstuerzende Neubauten and collaborated with artists Carsten Nicolai, Dirk Bell, Daniel Josefsohn, The Otolith Group. In 2005, after 15 years of studying and working in Berlin, he left to Liverpool and London, then Rio de Janeiro, New York, ending up in Tokyo and finally Kyoto. In 2014 he moved back to his home country Germany. He was living and working in Belin until March 2020, then he moved on to Switzerland
Sebastian Mayer is now based in the „Hermeneutic Garage“ in Zurich. EXHIBITIONS
2013 Another One Bites The Dust, Syokudo Ruins, Kyoto Japan
2013 Sleep Until Your Dreams Come True, 3F Project Room, Kyoto Japan
2011 Made in West Germany, Gallery Countach, Tokyo Japan
2011 F #$%^& West Germany, Combine Nakameguro, Tokyo Japan
2008 Absent City, Gallery Within Assistant, Tokyo, Japan
(w/ Megumi Matsubara, Assistant)
2006 Standardportraet Tokyo. Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan
(w/ Redesign Deutschland, Berlin)
2004 Moegliche Welten - Possible Worlds, Fotoforum West,
Innsbruck, Austria (w/ Carolin Hake)
2004 B/W, Gallery Glue, Berlin
2004 Nulllinie, Ill Galleries, Berlin (w/ Markus Krieger)
2003 Standardportraet, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2002 Aggregat, Pavillon an der Volksbuehne, Berlin (w/ Dag Przybilla)
2001 Boys Don’t Cry, Installation in Public Space, Berlin
1998 Galerie BerlinTokio, Berlin (w/ Evelin Hoehne)
1998 Sirup-Szene, Berlin
1998 Galerie RadioBerlin, Berlin
1997 Bei Renate, comic-library, Berlin
PARTICIPATIONS
2017 Changing & Growing, KM Galerie, Berlin
2016 Belong Anywhere, Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
2016 Liaison, Uferhallen, Berlin
2016 Wild Wild Berlin, w/ Eva Otano Ugarte & Miron Zownir; Galerie Zwitschermaschine, Berlin
2016 Hervé Humbert Zascho Petkow Sebastian Mayer; tête, Berlin
2013 Cabane Georgina, Cabane Georgina, Marseille France
2013 Work On Paper, 3F Project Room, Kyoto Japan
2013 Blank Page, Gallery Atsukobarouh, Tokyo Japan
2012 The Radiant, w/ The Otolith Group, Documenta 13, Kassel Ger
2009 Nullpunkt, w/ Redesign Deutschland, MARTa Herford Ger
2008 Post Coitum Omne Animal Triste, M.H.T., Tokyo Japan
2001 Aggregat, Pavillon an der Volksbuehne, Berlin
2000 Club N Slide, NGBK, Berlin
2000 Z2000, Akademie Der Kuenste, Berlin
2000 The Return Of Bewegungselite, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
1999 The Bewegungselite, Haus des Lehrers, Berlin
1999 ZAG, w/ Dag Przybilla, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris
1999 Silver Stories – Writing On Photography, w/ Dag Przybilla,
Galerie contact: c4, Berlin
1999 Kuenstler Gegen Den Krieg, Maria Am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
1999 Playart, Galerie Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin
1997 (Hommage to the artist 4000), Galerie BerlinTokio, Berlin
1997 Kuratorenkiller, Kassel Germany
1996 Allgirls-Galerie, Berlin
1995 Galerie O/2, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
2011 Dokument Nr01, RNN100, Raster Noton, Berlin, Germany
2006 Standardportraet, Simultanhalle, Cologne, Germany
2003 Possible Worlds, Fotoforum West, Innsbruck, Austria
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: PERIODICALS
032c (Ger), Dazed & Confused (UK), New York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), The Wire (UK), Spex (Ger), Intro (Ger), Groove (Ger), de:bug (Ger), die tageszeitung (Ger), Odds & Ends (Ger), Der Kulturspiegel (Ger), Spiegel Spezial (Ger), LFI - Leica Magazine (Ger), Revista Trip (Bra), Les Inrockuptibles (Fr), Die Zeit - Magazin Leben (Ger), Neon Magazine (Ger), Tokion Magazine (Jp), Composite Magazine (Jp), Wooly Magazine (Jp), Observer (UK), Icon Magazine (UK), Zoo International (Ger), Fashion Magazine (Can), New Scientist (USA), Nikkei Business (Jp), Pen (Jp)
CONTACT SEBASTIAN MAYER
www.sebastianmayer.com
