| | | | William Guerrieri Habana Cafè/Via della chiesa, 2009, from the series "Il Villaggio/The Village" © William Guerrieri | | | Photographic Concepts and Treasures | | Works from the Collection Part 2 – Urban Life, Architecture, Industry | | | | 2 September, 2022, to 8 January, 2023 | | Opening and presentation of the 2022 August-Sander-Award to Sora Park: Thursday, 1 September, 7.30 pm. limited attendance, advance registration required. | | | | | | | | | | Ruth Hallensleben Radium Gummiwerke, Köln, 1954 © Ruth Hallensleben/Fotoarchiv Ruhr Museum | | | | With the interlocking themes of "Urban life, architecture, industry", Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur is once again presenting a selection from its own holdings with historical and contemporary series of works in its anniversary year. The exhibits in this exhibition were collected over a period of about 30 years, some of them have already been shown in presentations, others are being presented for the first time. In total there are over 300 exhibits by 21 photographers from Germany, Italy, the USA and Japan, who have realized their works in various cultural contexts. | | | | | | Katja Stuke #19, 2006, from the series "Osaka Public/Osaka Private" © Katja Stuke | | | | But as different as the concepts of the image authors are, they are united by the motivation to capture the environment they experience in visual documents and to convey it in the most differentiated and authentic way possible. What captivates them is the visual exploration of the world, as well as the possibilities of an aptly designed photographic realization with a far-reaching withdrawal of their own influence. Buildings, products, constructions, specific inventions, production processes, equipment, as well as interventions in the landscape are brought before the eye and transformed into revealing views and series of works. | | | | | | Henry Wessel Santa Monica, Kalifornien, 1989 © The Estate of Henry Wessel, courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln | | | | Measures to secure livelihoods and to meet needs, aesthetic ideas and cultural identities emerge. The focus is on evolved structures, moments that have been overlooked or those owed to chance. They are examined concisely, humorously and critically. Direct images of people tend to recede into the background, no matter how much their everyday life and work is often the origin of what is reflected in the photographs shown and becomes the motif of the picture. What becomes clear is that urban life moves within the framework of a wealth of architecturally and industrially shaped phenomena and processes. | | | | | | Joachim Brohm Garten, 2008, from the series "Culatra" © Joachim Brohm; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 | | | | Thus the photographs, taken since the 1920s and conceived as documentaries, prove to be decidedly contemporary in terms of subject matter and reflection. In many cases, they establish that the natural environment, on which everything is based, also permeates the network of what is shown, changes substantially as well as in its meaning, and plays a new essential role. Questions of time determine the interpretation of what we perceive, and above all it is photographs that stimulate us on many levels to deal with the past in the field of tension between the present and the future. | | |
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| | Sora Park Jeff, 2018 From the series "Bei mir, Bei dir", 2018-2021 © Sora Park | | Sora Park » August-Sander-Award Winner 2022
Presentation of the 2022 August-Sander-Award to Sora Park: Thursday, 1 September, 7.30 pm.
Born in 1991 in South Korea and currently living in Essen and Berlin, artist Sora Park will be awarded the August-Sander-Prize 2022, donated by Ulla Bartenbach and Prof. Dr. Kurt Bartenbach. The award-winning series "Bei mir, bei Dir" ("With me, with you"), created between 2018 and 2021, is striking for its sensitively explored and balanced interplay of portrait and spatial study. Either in her own home or in that of her counterpart, Sora Park photographed people from her surroundings. The artist approaches them individually, senses momentary states and idiosyncrasies, maintains distance without being aloof.
In the fall of 2023, the series "Bei mir, bei Dir" will be shown in Room 2 of the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur. | | | | unsubscribe here Newsletter was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com
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