Adrian Ferdinand

Adrian Ferdinand’s photographic work is characterised by a precise observation of the everyday and the incidental. His subjects are drawn from urban spaces, social life, subculture and fashion – always with a profound interest in values and questions of identity. With a keen eye for chance arrangements and fleeting moments, he captures situations that are often overlooked, yet reveal a particular aesthetic or abstraction.

Through carefully chosen perspectives, deliberate cropping and the use of light, Ferdinand stages people in characteristic poses as well as unnoticed details of public spaces. His works often take on a serial structure in which thematic, chromatic or installation-based connections unfold. Alongside photography, he experiments with various printing techniques, installation-based constructions and sculptural objects, though his photographic impulses always form the centre of his creative practice. In his works, the everyday is not only made visible, but also critically examined and transposed into new contexts.

Born

9 September

1995

Münster Academy of

Fine

ArtSince

2016 Fine

Art2016–2017 Studied under Prof. Tobias Hantmann & Prof. Monika StrickerSince

2017 Studied in the extended painting class under Prof. Julia

Schmidt

Exhibitions / Group exhibitions / Publications (selection)

2025 “protect me (not)”, solo exhibition, Die Sophie, Münster