His interest is in technology, nature, and their societal consequences.
Claudius Schulze holds a degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and is pursuing a Ph.D. on big data and artistic research.
His latest book State of Nature explores the age of climate change and natural disasters in the European Landscape. It was selected by Rencontres de la Photographie Arles, Aperture/Paris Photo, and Prix Pictet for their respective awards.
Together with writer Oskar Piegsa he collects the stuff that makes Europe. Their endeavour Die Dinge Europas is turning historic faster than they would like to.
Claudius Schulze’s work is regularly published and exhibited internationally. It is held by various private and public collections.
The self-built raft The Conquest of the Improbable serves as his mobile artist studio. He sailed it to Paris and Amsterdam as part of the official programming of Unseen Amsterdamy and Hamburg Triennial of Photography.