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First steps
1983 Relocation from Dormagen to Cologne
1984-1989 Hairdresser Apprenticeship, Bike Messenger, Typist, Shop Assistant
1989-1990 Art school
1991-1993 Call agent
Beginning of an artistic life
1992 - 1993 Start Music project with Loy Wesselburg, songwriter and singer Peppermint Project
1993 - 2007 Music project with Micky Meuser
Music project TTAGGG with Alexander Miesen
1995 Produced the music video Peppermint Silver Surfer Loy Production
1993 - 1995 Training as make-up artist
1993 - 1994 Participation in performances of artist Otto Piene,
collaboration with artist Günther Thorn
1995 Freelance make-up artist for photo and TV shooting
1996 Stunt woman in Bonn Action Team, RTL television show "Extra Magazine"
1997 6 Month career break due to a serious bike accident in late 1997
live performance with Otto Piene
1998 - 2004 Freelance makeup artist (for "Familienduell", "Harald Schmidt Show", E-plus, Ford etc.)
2003 writing a mystery novel
2005 Concert booker
2006 Music project with Alexander Miesen
2006 - 2009 Market research
Dedicated to Photography
2010 freelance photographic artist, photography for advertising agencies, and online portals and in the leica magazine,gettyimages, vision libres (art magazine)
and other magazines
Project "Begegnung mit der Linie" (encounter with the line)
Project "Der Mensch und die Linie" (man and the line)
2011 Exhibition in Cologne Regional Court building, "Begegnung mit der Linie" (encounter with the line), (54 pictures ) : Exhibition sponsored by NRW government.
2012 Exhibition at "Tor 28", Cologne, "Und immer die Linie" (“And always the line")
20 pictures.
Koelschfuehrer-Kalender 2012 (Verlag C. Kleemann)
2013/01/13 Exhibition in South Australia, Blue Ribbon Gallery, Kangaroo Island/Australia,
cancelled due to illness (15 Pictures)
2013/03/13 Group exhibition in the Art Club Cologne (2 Pictures)
2013/04/13 Group exhibition in the Art Club Cologne (2 Pictures)
2013/05/13 Group exhibition in the Art Club Cologne (2 Pictures)
2014/01/14 Exhibition “Vivere“ Fabian Lenz in Briedel (15 Pictures) sponsored by Peter Mönnig-Foundation
2014 02/14 Group exhibition “Free-Art downloads” in the Michael Horbach Stiftung sponsort by Peter Mönnig-Foundation
2014/05/02 - 2014/05/04
Collaboration with Peter Mönnig Foundation on innovation in architecture and social psychology in cultural areas and their theory.
I have attended a workshop on Creating a Sense of Place by Investigating Space in Tbilisi organised by Lichtblick Gallery (Cologne) listed in the short cuts Kolga 2014
2014/08/14 Exhibition “AS ALWAYS ULTRA”, Gallery Seitenweise, Dormagen (16 Pictures)
2014/10/08 Group exhibition Petersbuger Art , Galerie Petersburger, Cologne
2015/04/16 – 2015/05/31
Group exhibition Petersburger Art, Galerie Petersburger, Cologne
2015/05/09 – 2015/09/07
Participation Eyes on Mainstreet Wilson, NYC May 9-Sept. 7 2015
http://www.krop.com/vincentlignier/resume/
2015/10/15 Exhibition Köln-Mülheim, Au Grand Jour
(29 Pictures in b/w) at Bürgerhaus Mütze
2016/04/09 - 2016/07/10
Eyes on Main Street Wilson Outdoor Photo Festival
2016/08/30 Exhibition Performance of Amy Kaps , Eremitage , Köln
2016/09/15 Group exhibition Petersburger Art , Petersburger , Room for Art Cologne
2016/12/03
Exhibition with S.Vereecken in Brussels
2017/05/10 - 2017/05/21
Exhibition with Rolf Kuhlmann, die Bakchenmaschine in der Eremitage Köln
2017/12/06 - 2018/11/01
Exhibition “Swimminggirl saves the colours” (32 Pictures)
Eremitage, Weidengasse
2018/04/12 - 2018/05/17
Exhibition Petersburger, Art ich (2 Pictures)
2018/09/20 - 2018/09/30
Exhibtion Petersburger Art, Photoszene Köln, “Wer kümmert sich eigentlich um die Realität”
2019/95/02 - 2019/05/12
Exhibition Petersburger Art, Photoszene Köln, Das Digital Schöne
2019 - 2026 Duncan Miller Gallery, Santa Monica , USA
I have had various pictures in the gallery
Photography for me is the time to stop, look at things carefully,
capture the uniqueness of each moment.
A love that almost borders on obsession, very intense and sustained.
My main subject is the line.