Daniel Blaufuks was born in 1963 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. He studied Photography at Ar.Co - Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon, at the Royal College of Art in London, and at Watermill Center, New York. Through photography and video he produces works that reflect on the diffusion and perception of history and memory, questioning their representations and crossroads. In his books, installations, and films there is a recurrent interest in the ontological nature of the photographic image and its relationship with the passage of time. He has been exhibiting regularly since the late 1980s. We highlight individual exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Fotogallery (Cardiff), the Biennial of Vila Franca de Xira, Musée Eugéne Delacroix and Galerie Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris), the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado (Lisbon) stand out, Elga Wimmer Gallery (New York), Galería La Caja Negra Ediciones (Madrid), Galeria Manoel Macedo (Belo Horizonte), CAAA and Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães), White Pavilion – Municipal Galleries of Lisbon, European Photography Festival - Fondazione Palazzo Magnani (Reggio Emilia). He has participated in group exhibitions at Hélio Oiticica’s Art Centre in Rio de Janeiro, Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Berardo Collection Museum, among others.
In 2002, he premiered at Lincoln Center, New York, his documentary Sob Ce´us Estranhos [Under Strange Skies] (2002) and the book of the same name won the Prize for Best International Edition at the PHotoEspaña 2007 festival, Madrid. Both portray the exile of his family and the Jewish community in Portugal in their flight from Nazi power. He is also awarded the 1990 National Kodak Prize and was a finalist in the European Photography Award in 1996. He receives the BES Photo Award 2007, with a project that was published in the book Terezín (Steidl, 2010). He was a finalist for the Pilar Citoller Award (2007), nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007, 2015). He received the LOOP prize, Barcelona (2008) and, in 2016, the AICA Award for Plastic Arts.In 2017 he completed his PhD at the University of Wales, where he developed a thesis on the relationship between photography and cinema, the texts of W.G. Sebald and Georges Perec, memory and the Holocaust. He was a lecturer in several institutions and co-founded the Maumaus - School of Visual Arts in Lisbon, in 1992. He is represented in numerous private and institutional collections both in Portugal and abroad.
CB, outubro 2020
