Jürgen Klauke is an influential photographer and one of the first to get involved in Performance Art. He has contributed significantly to the development of photography as contemporary art. His avant-garde and actionist images focus on the human body in staggered settings, which often seem surreal.

Jürgen Klauke studied at the Werkschulen in Cologne and, from 1964 to 1970, he taught photography and art in Kassel. In the 1970s, Jürgen Klauke’s photographic images were based on his own body and his performances.