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Statement
 

I’m an artist working primarily with photography and experimental image-making. I explore the conditions and events that shape my human experience and, through it, the collective one. I’m interested in how our inner and outer worlds interact and how societal norms and expectations form us. Themes of spirituality, time, nature, space, technology, and creativity run through my work, arising from a steady curiosity about the world’s possibilities and mysteries. At the core, my practice is a way of remembering and investigating what makes us human.

​My practice grows out of my personal life and from an ongoing transformation in my relationship with identity, belonging, trauma, grief, and love. I’m searching for meaning and understanding while unlearning limiting personal and collective norms. I translate ideas, perspectives, and emotions from everyday experience into images. These take the form of abstract creations, staged scenes, documented moments, objects, materials, and textures that often feel raw and tactile.

​I use both analogue and digital processes and move between observation and construction. Experimentation and chance are central to my explorations. There is magic in serendipity and synchronicity, for giving up control and perfection is a continual exercise in trusting the creative act. Imperfections have become a statement of character for me: a point of interest, a sign of boldness and courage to show up as is, even when it would be easy to polish or align. Material limits help me find new approaches and perspectives.

​With a background in Communication Design, I have worked for more than fifteen years in the creative industry while living in London, São Paulo, and Berlin. My years in Brazil were a vital turning point of expansion. They connected me more and more to an intuitive, process-led way of creating and helped me realise the inner desire for a personal artistic practice.

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Berlin (2025) – Alex Libotte, Self-portrait

Biography
 

Alexander Libotte (b. 1983, Frankfurt am Main) is an artist whose practice centres on photography and experimental image-making. Trained in Communication Design in Hamburg, he spent more than fifteen years in the creative industry, working as an art director in editorial and a creative director in branding, while living in London, São Paulo and Berlin, before focusing on an independent artistic practice. His years in Brazil proved pivotal, connecting him to a more intuitive, process-led way of working that continues to inform his studio and field projects.

Selected exhibitions include his recent series Parts Unknown, shown at his own gallery space and with BAAM Berlin (2025). The series will also be part of a group show at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art (CICA Museum), South Korea (2026). His video work almamorphosis was included in the group show at the International Digitalkunst Festival in Stuttgart (2024).

Libotte attended the residency programme at the Domaine de Boisbuchet in France (2021) and took part in a photography study group with Brazilian artist and photographer André Penteado in São Paulo (2020). Recognition includes the Luxembourg Art Prize (2024) and the Fine Art Photography Awards (2017, 2024).

He is the co-founder of Space Of Hearts, his art studio and personal exhibition space in Berlin, which also serves as a platform for creative cultural exchange by hosting exhibitions and workshops. He lives and works in Berlin with his wife and collaborator, artist Adriana Takeuchi Libotte, and their twin sons, Ben and Noah.

Contact
 

Alexander Libotte

Bismarckstr. 3, 10625 Berlin, Germany

Email: alex@libotte.art

Mobile: +49 176 416 390 89

Instagram: @alex.libotte

Exhibitions
 

2026 – Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea, Group Show, Parts Unknown

2025 – Space Of Hearts, Open Studio & Exhibition, Berlin, Germany, Solo Exhibition, Parts Unknown

2025 – BAAM (Berlin Artists Art Market), Berlin, Germany, Group Show, Parts Unknown

2024 – Internationales Digitalkunst Festival, Stuttgart, Germany, Group Show, almamorphosis

2018 – Owme, São Paulo, Brazil, Solo Exhibition, Commissioned Work

2016 – Estúdio Esther, São Paulo, Brazil, Group Show, Bright Heads

Recognition & Awards
 

2025 – Fine Art Photography Awards – Nominee, Parts Unknown

2024 – Luxemburg Art Price – Certificate of Artistic Achievement, Polar Anomalies

2018 – Fine Art Photography Awards – Nominee, Water Waste

2016 – One Eyeland Photo Awards – Bronze, Water Waste

Residencies & Workshops
 

2021 – Residency Programm, Domaine de Boibuchet, France

2020 – Photography Study Group by André Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil

2004 – Vitra Workshops - Fernando & Humbert Campana, Domaine de Boibuchet, France

Publications
 

Delta Sky Magazine, Mundial Magazine, Vogue Brazil

Editions & Pricing

I work with limited, signed editions. Most photographs are available in a core format of 50 × 70 cm in an edition of 10 plus usually two artist proofs. From there, prices vary with size and rarity: smaller, more open editions are more accessible; larger works and very small editions are priced higher.
 

All prices include VAT and are unframed, unless stated otherwise. If you’re interested in a specific work, I’m happy to share the available sizes, edition numbers and prices.

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