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b. 1962, Bad Salzuflen, Germany
Jörg Sasse was born in 1962 in Bad Salzuflen, Germany. He attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1982 to 1988, where he studied under Bernd Becher. His early work comprises images of display windows and their multifaceted reflections, and still lifes of mundane domestic interiors. Beginning in 1994, Sasse stopped taking his own photographs and began digitally manipulating found images—primarily land- and cityscapes taken by friends, acquaintances, and unknown others. He developed a process of scanning images into his computer, changing them, and then making film negatives of these manipulated images, from which the final prints are made. In 8144 (1998), the beachside lamps shine brightly even though night has not yet fallen. The carnival ride rising over the edge of a wall in 8246 (2000), originally still, seems to be in motion, its lights blurring into curved lines. By naming his works with only only four-digit numbers, Sasse underscores the fact that they are machine-made (he uses the numbers for keeping track of the images on his computer).
Sasse had his first solo show at the Kunstverein Region Heinsberg in 1989 and has since shown throughout Germany and Switzerland, as well as at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1997) and Lehmann Maupin in New York (1997, 1999, 2000, and 2001). His work has appeared in many group shows, including Kitsch-Art at Markthalle für Moderne Kunst in Stuttgart (1992), De Andere, De Andere, L'Autre at Het Nederlands Fotomuseum in Sittard, the Netherlands (1994), Sightings: New Photographic Art at Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (1998), Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (2001), and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (2002 and 2003). He has received grants from the Deutscher Künstlerbund (1996) and the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani in Venice (1997). He lives and works in Düsseldorf.
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