The Canadian artist Jeff Wall (*1946, Vancouver) is among the most influential photographers of our time. In his elaborately staged picture compositions, he combines the narrative of cinema with painting. He became known through his large-format light box pictures, which in form recall the world of advertising more than that of the visual arts. With this technique he revolutionised the medium of photography and gave it an equal place alongside painting and sculpture. The exhibition at Sammlung Goetz /Schaufenster presents a selection of his iconic light box pictures from the 1990s.
Wall studied art history in Vancouver from 1964 to 1970 and, alongside this, worked as a painter and sculptor.