Oliver Mark (born 20 February 1963) is a German photographer and artist known primarily for his portraits of international celebrities. Life and education Mark trained as a photographer, working first in the field of fashion photography at Burda Photo Studios in Offenburg. As a guest student, he attended seminars in Visual Culture at the Berlin University of the Arts by Katharina Sieverding, known for her large format photographs. Mark is the father of two sons and lives in Berlin. Work In the 1990s, Mark began photographing celebrities. He became known for his portraits of Anthony Hopkins and Jerry Lewis, but also of other public figures including Angela Merkel, Pope Benedict XVI, and Joachim Gauck, and actors like Ben Kingsley, Cate Blanchett and Tom Hanks. His personal interest lies in contemporary artists and their creative world. He has close contacts with well-established and emerging artists, who he portrays in their working environment. He works with both a single-lens reflex camera and an old, 680 Polaroid. The instant photos produced by the Polaroid reveal Mark's familiarity and closeness to the subjects he portrays. He has worked for magazines such as Architectural Digest, Rolling Stone, Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Stern, Time, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Die Zeit. Exhibitions Solo exhibitions 2002/03: Portraits, Mougins Center of Photography, Mougins 2011: 7 Artists and 1 Nude, Galerie Gloria, Berlin 2011: Portraits, Neuer Pfaffenhofener Kunstverein, Pfaffenhofen a. d. Ilm 2012/13: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz nach 20 Jahren, , Potsdam 2013: Heimat verpflichtet, Kanzlei im Lübbenauer Schlossbezirk, Lübbenau 2013: Oliver Marks Blick auf Liechtensteins Staatsfeiertag am 15 August 2012, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz 2014: Oliver Mark – still...lesen, Goethe-Institut Irland, Dublin 2014: Märkische Adlige – eine Bilanz des Neuanfangs, Fürst-Pückler-Museum, Cottbus 2014: Aus den Trümmern kriecht das Leben – Portraits von Karl Otto Götz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz 2016/17: Natura Morta, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz 2017: Natura Morta, Natural History Museum Vienna 2017: Natura Morta, Fotografien von Oliver Mark in Korrespondenz zu Stillleben-Gemälden der Sammlung, The Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 2018: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Bukovina Museum Suceava, Romania 2019: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, Liechtenstein National Museum, Vaduz 2019: No Show, Villa Dessauer – Museen der Stadt Bamberg 2019/20: Golden Shoes – Photographs from the Collection of the Liechtenstein National Museum by Oliver Mark 2019/20: Life at the Bukovina Monastery, St. Thomas von Aquin Church 2020: Jenny Holzer's Hands in the