Peter and Paul Church, Potsdam Natura Morta Mark's exhibition Natura Morta, which was presented in two parts at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Natural History Museum Vienna in 2017, addresses how humans deal with nature and the environment, in particular the animal world, but also the aesthetics and beauty death. Mark's still life photographs were taken in the Asservat Chamber of the Federal Office for Nature Conservation in Bonn in 2015. His idea was to photograph items seized by customs, such as leopard skulls, ivory carvings, crocodile and turtle products, protected animal and plant parts, etc. He photographed these using specific backgrounds and a method of lighting (Old Master-like daylight, lit only through a crack) to generate in the viewer a desire to observe. In the Vienna Natural History Museum, these items are sorted into three categories and exhibited in context with different animal specimens, to address the topic of species protection. The photographs were presented in historical picture frames. This created a dialog in the Paintings Gallery of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts between the different genres of painting and photography as well as the painted or photographed still lifes. Publications Portraits. Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2009, . With Martina Schellhorn: Heimat verpflichtet. Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren. Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Potsdam 2012, . Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag. Alpenland, Schaan 2013, . Außenseiter und Eingeweihter. [Outsider and Insider] Hatje Cantz, Berlin 2013, . Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben. [From the rubble crawls life] b.frank books, Zürich 2013, . (with poems by K. O. Götz) Oliver – Nutte Künstler Fotograf. Die ganze Wahrheit über Oliver Mark. [Oliver – hooker artist photographer. The whole truth about Oliver Mark] Grauel, Berlin 2014. Natura Morta. Kehrer, Heidelberg 2016, . (with texts by Barbara Hendricks, Rainer Vollkommer, Philipp Demandt, Julia M. Nauhaus, Michael Schipper, Aurelia Frick, Christian Köberl, Lorenz Becker) Bucovina Monastery Life. Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum, 2018, . (with texts by Rainer Vollkommer, Constantin-Emil Ursu, Teodor Brădăţanu) No Show. Distanz, Berlin 2019, . (with texts by Carolin Hilker-Möll, Christoph Peters, Georg Maria Roers SJ, Michael Schipper) Collections Mark's work is held in the following permanent collections Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz Würth Collection Bukovina Museum, Suceava, Romania Gallery See also Portrait photography References External links "Oliver Mark at the Lindenau-Museum" In: clairbykahn.com Interview: "Oliver Mark's Astounding Portraits of Your Favorite Artists" In: noisey.vice.com