>Norbert Schoerner

Photographer, Filmmaker

Photographer Norbert Schoerner was born in Bavaria and moved to London in 1989. His first commission was for The Face, which he received two weeks after his arrival. He has since worked for most of the major fashion and photography magazines and on advertising campaigns and projects including those for Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Nike, Armani, Miu Miu, Alexander McQueen and Shiseido. He worked an exclusive contract with Prada from 1998 until Spring 2000. He has also been involved in unique collaborations with architects Herzog and de Meuron for the Prada Tokyo Store, and Future Systems for the Selfridges in Birmingham. Schoerner is working on a feature film, 'EMBLEM'. His first monograph, 'The Order of Things' was published by Phaidon in 2001, and his second monograph is expected in 2008.

Selected Exhibitions/Screenings

The Court, Ville Noailles, Hyères, 2005
‘The Kingdom”, SDLX, Tokyo, 2004
‘The Flat', Museum 52, London 2004
‘Trailer/Man in the Holecene’, Curzon Cinema, London 2004
SHOWstudio/Eley Kishimoto, The Photographers Gallery, London, 2003
'The Archeology of Elegance', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, 2002
'Auto', Magma, Sheffield, 2002
'Tokyo/London Jam', Barbican, London, 2001 + Opera City, Tokyo, 2002
'The Order of Things', Chapman Fine Arts, London, 2001
'Big', Speak4, Tokyo, 2000
'Stealing Beauty', ICA, London, 1999
'Now', Fargfabriken, Stockholm, 1999
'The Farm', Tomato, London, 1998

Selected Publications

'The Impossible Image', Phaidon, 2000
'Dazed & Confused Archive', Booth Clibbon editions 2000
'Apocalypse', Royal Academy, London, 2000
'The Order of Things' ,Phaidon , 2001
'The Archeology Of Elegance', Schirmer, Mosel, 2002
‘Hell’, Jake + Dinos Chapman, Saatchi Gallery, 2003