ANDRÉ WAGNER · PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST

Photography beyond the visible spectrum.

For more than two decades, André Wagner has explored with infrared photography, long exposure, and nocturnal light how time, memory, and spiritual experience become visible.

His large-format works are created on travels, at sacred sites, in landscapes, and in urban in-between spaces. They have been shown in museums and galleries, are held in public and private collections, and are published as strictly limited, signed editions.

„Zauberwald“, Zurich · Art in Architecture for Mobimo AG

Exhibitions including at the Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle and the Albertinum Dresden · Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie DGPh · Art in Architecture for Mobimo in Zurich

I believe that our perception is only at its beginning.

  • Eigenständige Werkserien

    Über zwei Jahrzehnte kontinuierliche künstlerische Arbeit.

  • In Museen und Sammlungen

    Vertreten in öffentlichen Institutionen und internationalen Privatsammlungen.

  • Streng limitierte Editionen

    Handsigniert, zertifiziert und in kleinen Auflagen erhältlich.

Selected Series

Three ways of seeing light.

Infrared, night, and long exposure form distinct color spaces within my work.

Themes and Perspectives

Artistic Stance

Color is not a surface.
It is a force.

I am interested in light and color as a language of their own. Night and the infrared spectrum each possess their own balance and their own tension.

My photographs invite us to leave the familiar gaze behind and to perceive the world more consciously.

Fotokünstler André Wagner bei der Arbeit mit Kamera und Stativ während einer Infrarotaufnahme in einer Waldlandschaft.
Fotokünstler André Wagner bei der Arbeit mit Kamera und Stativ während einer Infrarotaufnahme in einer Waldlandschaft.

For more than two decades, my works have come into being on travels, in landscapes, and in places of transition.

André Wagner

Some series accompany me over many years. Not because I want to document a place, but because its meaning only changes with time.

Works in Museums and Collections

  • The Weight of Light

    The Infrared Journey – Somewhere in Between
    Kroatien · 2023
    108 × 162 cm
    Auflage 5+2 AP

  • The Museum of the Future

    The Infrared Journey – Somewhere in Between
    Dubai · 2023
    150 × 225 cm
    Auflage 3+2 AP

  • Rakotz Bridge – Circle of Reflection

    The Infrared Journey – Somewhere in Between
    Deutschland · 2025
    108 × 162 cm
    Auflage 5+2 AP

  • Magma Ducks

    The Infrared Journey – Somewhere in Between
    Schweiz · 2023
    108 × 162 cm
    Auflage 5+2 AP

When photography becomes part of architecture.

For the Zurich project „Zauberwald“, the photography was not applied retrospectively as decoration. Format, materiality, and spatial effect were developed in dialogue with architecture, light, and movement.

The work transforms the place not through a loud staging but through color. The red forest creates tension with the visible concrete architecture and opens a second perceptual space within the building.

For site-specific projects, I develop motif, format, and material in dialogue with architecture, light, and movement. A work should not merely hang in the space but change the way it is perceived.

Art in Architecture

A Journal of My Own Seeing

Thoughts on light, color, travel, and the making of my work.

In the journal, I write about the making of my work, about travels and places that have changed the way I see. It is a space for thoughts about light, color, responsibility, and the question of what value images hold in our time.