Photowork with comments, language Chinese 80 single-works, 41 x 53 cm, motives from berlinand motives from Taiwan
exhibited fom vom 2007 / 12 / 18 until2008 / 01 / 19 in the Kaoyuan Artcenter, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

"The urban life is the general theme and source of Baumgarten’s photographic works. He focuses on the visual traces of historical aesthetical and social developments. He groups pictures according to certain themes and combines them with short written comments, explaining, questioning or reflecting the motive of the picture. Sometimes some comments may appear ironic or poetic, but all are rather short. Those comments direct the attention of the spectator. As the comments are an essential part of the work they are translated here to Chinese

The refraction of view on things ordinary for the spectators, will be felt easy for the works with Taiwanese motives of this series. Beside the differences of the personal of perception there is the other cultural background too. This experience will help to appreciate and to understand all work of this exhibition".

Photo-work with comments, language: German, 24 single-works, 40 x 50 cm, motives from Berlin.

Presentation in glass-cases of an department store (parts of a lagrer project).
during the culture-festival "48 Stunden Neukölln", 2007 / 06 / 23 -25 in Berlin,

"The town is the sum of various designs, They might be permanent or ephemeral, ordered by the municipality or privately done, aiming at a certain target or having no seemingly no reason. Some arrangements functioning well others are failing their intentions. The pictures show various types of design in the urban sphere. They focus on the aesthetical, social and historical developments of Neukölln, of that area of Berlin.”

Link to see the pictures and to read the coments;

This site is one of the projects realized during the residency in Lille, in the Atelier de la MAJT. it is showing photos with comments from the city (Lille) and its surroundings. Here as in previous related works I try to show , what I find significant for that environement. The site is organized in different themes such as "Deco" archidectural decoration, "Parking" the permanenrt conflict between Cars and surfaces cars should not go... or "Nouvelle ville", the city developements ...

Photo -book, 24 pages, B/W-photos, comments in German, English and Japanese. 1998 (Edition of 1000 )

In this book I highlight the details from the cityscape that struck me as remarkable. Resident in Tokyo for two years, the limits of "foreign" perception were still tangible.

original photo-book, 37 B/W-photos, comments in German, English and Japanese; 1996/97.

Thought and ideas related to the everyday places and things I encountered on my way to the studio.

(1994/95 in Paris I had used already a similar concept for a book shown in the exhibition "Pensées du dehors" and for my participation of the catalogue)

from the property of Ingo Baumgarten" (1993) ; A collection of personal objects, packed as merchandise on cardboard under plastic. There is a short description on the cardboard of their story or role in my life.

a documentation of the circumstances of my life at the age of 28 years at the end of my studies, summer 1992"
(Sehnsucht nach dem Selbst : Eine Dokumentation meiner Lenbensumstände im Alter von 28 Jahren, am Ende meines Studiums, Sommer 1992")
Portfolio with 15 sheets (48,5 x 65 cm) with the printed title and glued on B/W Photos and typed comments.1992. Each of the sheets deals with one theme such as "technique" , " my methods", or "breakfast".

Photoalbum, 21 B/W-photos; 1992
The album is custom-made and alternates black
pages with parchment.

The title "Daheim" is printed on the cover.
The photos show interiors and decorations
from my parents' apartment.

Objects; 1992

Cheap soaps, ubiquitous, packed in sample bags and "scientifically" classed in alphabetic order. Parallel: bags filled with pure colour pigments, trying to match exactly the colour of the soaps.

Set of about 30 colour photos (30 x 40 cm), 1992;
rooms with public access and certain representative functions taken in Karlsruhe where I lived at the time.

Set of six color photos, 1991
Identically constructed houses which's appearances had changed with the time,- following the individuality of their owners.

B/W-Fotos mainly 24 x 30 cm

Since the beginning of my studies I have been interested in photography. My interest was focused on documenting change in industrial landscapes.