Florian Fischer
Visual Art
Born 1981 in Tübingen
Lives and works in Halle (Saale)
Florian Fischer is a visual artist working in photography and film. His work moves between artistic and documentary forms, often exploring the intersection of image, memory, and landscape.
He studied Visual Communication with a focus on photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, earning his diploma in 2009. He later deepened his practice through a study visit at the Zurich University of the Arts (2008), a master class with Arno Fischer and Werner Mahler at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin (2011–2012), and studies in Image Sciences at the Danube University Krems (2014). From 2011 to 2016, he worked as an artistic associate at the Harz University of Applied Sciences and participated in the Werkleitz Media Masterclass (2015–2016).
His diploma project The Blue of the Sky was awarded the Aenne Biermann Prize for Contemporary German Photography. Together with Johannes Krell, he directed the short film Kaltes Tal (Cold Valley), which screened at international festivals and received the German Short Film Award in Gold.