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| | | Simon Roberts: English Garden, Munich, Germany, 2015 (opened 1792) | | | | | | | | 27 May – 31 July 2017 | | | | Opening reception: Friday 26 May 19:00 | | |  | | | | | | | | | | Robert Morat Gallery is thrilled to be able to show new work by Simon Roberts this summer. "Public Performance" assembles works from three different series by the British photographer.
"Urban Parks – Green Lungs of the City" (2015–2016)
Until the mid 1600s urban parks were private; the exclusive domain of wealthy families and royalty. By the mid 1800s urban parks were starting to be seen as a way to serve the public and later as a remedy to social ills caused by the Industrial Revolution and overcrowding in lower-income neighbourhoods. Today urban parks are increasingly being created from reclaimed lands in and around cities. This photographic narrative offers a timeline of urban parks beginning in 1660, when St. James’ Park in London was made available to the public, up to the present day. It illustrates the evolving nature of urban parks over time and the philosophies behind them, reflecting the cultural history and role they play as places of social encounter and of self-staging in public space – predecessing today’s social media networks.
"Sight Sacralization: (Re)framing Switzerland" (2016)
When wealthy Euopeans set off on their Grand Tour of the continent in the 1800s, they expected Switzerland to inspire them with vistas of sublime grandeur. The landscape’s untamed romanticism was a crucial component of Switzerland’s national identity and cultural prestige. Today, the Swiss landscape often resembles a theater set, where tourists are transported to officially designated areas of natural beauty to gaze upon epic views from the safety of stage-managed viewpoints. This process is referred to by the American scholar Dean MacCannell as… | | |
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| | | © Felix Eisenmeier | | | FAMILY AND FRIENDS | | | | 20 Years of Photographic Teaching at Best-Sabel Design School Berlin | | | | 25 – 28 May 2017 | 12am – 8pm | | | | Opening reception: Wednesday, 24 May, 7 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | Are there similar ways of expression, similar stylistic approaches? Is there something that professors, students and graduates have in common? "We‘re interested in discovering if there is a shared visual language or way of working" explains Nora Bibel, the curator of the exhibition. 31 photographers show personal and commercial works from various fields: architecture, landscape, portrait, documentation, beauty, stills and experimental. "It was really hard to choose the best works since every former and current student and lecturer could enter works." The school's orientation has changed during the last 20 years and become more subtle and more sensuous. In graduate classes works and series go beyond strict categorization. Personal expression, artistic independence and attitude, a more narrative focus combined with fundamental technical skills are the school's teaching philosphy. Various photographic positions developed. Only a small range of works and styles can be shown at Kunstquartier Bethanien. "We decided to concentrate on the personal approach and relation to the works of the co-exhibitors – we wanted to create a familiar atmosphere. It's easy to compare the styles by the way the pictures are hung" states Stefan Berg, head of the photographic department. "We want to create a feeling that shows something of the spirit that has developed over the last 20 years: we are a big family with lots of friends" Stefan Berg completes. Together with his colleagues Nora Bibel, Jennifer Endom, Jens Koch, Peter Thieme, Michael Zalewski, Thomas Anschütz as well as former and current students he shares a wide range of memories. The 20th-anniversary celebration will not only be a pictural reunion. Exhibitors are: Thomas Anschütz, Stefan Berg, Nora Bibel, Simone Bilgram, Kim Bode, Thomas Bollmann, Elena Busshoff, Christopher Domakis, Felix Eisenmeier, Jennifer Endom, Liesa Fuchs, Florian Griep, Gunilla Hammel, Markus Heine, Florian Kazimirski, Katharina Kern, Sebastian Kirchner, Jens Koch, Julia Laatsch, Mandy Möbes, Henning Moser, Caterina Rancho, Sara Reuter, Annelie Saroglou, Tatjana Jule Schenk, Daniel Schmude-Sterling, Schnepp Renou, Anna-Sophie Scholz, Peter Thieme, Marina Wegener, Michael Zalewski More information: www.designschule-berlin.de
Contact: Stefan Berg, berg@best-sabel.de, +49 30 - 656 61026 | | |
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| | | Kuwait, 1991, gelatin silver print, 180.4 x 246.4 cm © Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images | | | | | | | | 25 May – 16 September 2017 | | | | Opening reception: Wednesday 24 May 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | La Photographie Gallerie presents a stunning series of images by acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado depicting the burning Kuwaiti oil fields of the 1991 Gulf War. Sebastião Salgado was born on 8 February 1944 in Aimorés in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, and currently lives in Paris with his wife and greatest accomplice, Leila Wanick Salgado. Having trained as an economist, he went on to a career as a photographer. He began working as a photographer in Paris from 1973 onwards, through the Sygma, Gamma and Magnum Photos agencies. In 1994, he and his wife Leila set up their own press agency, Amazonas Images, created exclusively for his photographic work. He has travelled more than a hundred countries for his photographic projects which, in addition to their numerous appearances in the press, have been published in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: The End of the Road (1986), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), Africa (2007), Genesis (2013) and Kuwait (2016). Touring exhibitions of these works have been, and continue to be, organised across the globe. Sebastião Salgado has been awarded numerous photographic prizes. He is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States. In 2016 Salgado became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts of the Institut de France, appointed to the seat previously occupied by Lucien Clergue. The same year he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour, France. | | |
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| | | Harry Gruyaert, USA, Los Angeles, 1982 © Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery | | | | | | | | – 27 Jun 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Hoppen Gallery are delighted to present ‘Western and Eastern Light,’ the first exhibition of photographs at the gallery by Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert. Gruyaert is a Magnum photographer who has travelled extensively over the last 30 years photographing Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and America, often by road from the comfort of his Volkswagen Kombi. He was one of the first European photographers to take advantage of the creative potential of colour photography, following in the footsteps of great American colourists such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore. | | |
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| Mexico, 2014 © Antoine d’Agata |
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© Nachlass Peter Keetman / Stiftung F.C. Gundlach |
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| | AVE MARIA 20, 2016
© Sebastiaan Bremer / Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York | | | | | | | | – 24 June 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 1998, during a residency at Skowhegan, in Maine, Sebastiaan Bremer both took a risk and made a breathtaking discovery; he upended ingrained methodologies and jettisoned just about everything that had constituted a painting for him so far, including paintbrush, brush strokes, figures and scenes rendered in paint, canvas, stretcher bars and to a certain degree, paint itself. Instead, using Milky Pens and Pentel paint pens, Bremer began to apply white pointillist dotes and small blobs in rippling and swirling patterns to enlarged copies of photographs-either found family photographs or those taken by him-essentially to draw directly on photographs. What resulted was a complex, fluid exchange between made marks and photographic image and between those marks and the photograph as an actual, physical artifact. What really began was an intricately human, searching, deeply personal response to, and transfiguration of, past situations and fleeting moments: the live, crackling, current mind operating on visual traces of the past, with all the sprawling thoughts, memories, and emotions they trigger.
(Gregory Volk, “Memory and Metamorphisis: The Work of Sebastiaan Bremer,” To Joy: Sebastiaan Bremer (Frame Publishers, The Netherlands, 2016), p.9.) | | |
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| | | Ulrike Ottinger, Shanghai Gesture, 1996 Context: Exile Shanghai, China. Courtesy the artist. | | | | | | | | Photographs and Films from the 1980s and 1990s | | | | 27 May – 13 Aug 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The exhibition China. The Arts – The People by acclaimed filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (b. 1942 in Konstanz, Germany) is the first large scale exhibition by the award-winning filmmaker and artist in Asia. The selection of works focuses on Ottinger’s research and travels in China during the 1980s and 1990s, comprising four films and more than one hundred photographs. The photographs, created throughout her career and largely in parallel with the production of her films, will be unfolded along the artist's leitmotifs.
Starting with China. The Arts – The People (1985), the exhibition leads a journey through the cultures and geographies of China, while also exploring the relationship between moving image and still life. The three acts of the documentary are presented on a three-screen installation, documenting everyday life in Beijing (February 1985), Sichuan Province (March 1985), and Yunnan Province (March 1985). While meeting the film director Ling Zifeng in one chapter, a Bamboo factory is visited in another, and in parallel the Sani show their habitat, the Stone Forest.
Taiga (1992), a documentary over eight hours long that will be presented on multiple monitors throughout the exhibition space, looks into the everyday life of nomadic peoples in Mongolia. Furthermore, on view in the cinematic space of the Centre, The Single Screen, will be the documentary Exile Shanghai (1997), telling the six life stories of German, Austrian, and Russian Jews intersecting in Shanghai after their escape from Nazi Germany, as well as Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989), Ottinger’s only feature fiction film shot in China, with the cast including Badema, Lydia Billiet, Inés Sastre, and Delphine Seyrig.
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| | | Untitled No13 + Untitled No11 from the series Close (2001-2017) © Pernilla Zetterman | | | | | | | | - 17 June 2017 | | | | Artist talk: Wednesday 31 May 18:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Warmly welcome to an artist talk, a dialogue between the artist Pernilla Zetterman and Gunilla Muhr, Head of the Department of Fine Art at Konstfack in Stockholm. The talk will be held in Swedish. The ongoing exhibition Flying Change contains parts of Zetterman´s extensive series Close (2001-2017). Themes are control, discipline, performing but also devotion and the relation to memories. Pernilla Zetterman (born 1970) lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She studied photography in Sweden and Finland, receiving a postgraduate degree from the Aalto University in Helsinki, an MFA from the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and a BFA from the School of Photography at Göteborg University. Pernilla Zetterman has received the Victor Fellowship from the Hasselblad Foundation. | | |
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© Kawita Vatanajyankur |
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| | | | | | | | final exhibition | | | | | | | | 24 May – 30 June 2017 | | | | Opening reception: Saturday 27 May 15:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 1991 Bob Hawke was Prime Minister of Australia, The Simpsons debuted on Channel 10, Boris Becker beat Ivan Lendl in the Australian Open Tennis Championship, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the web browser, Nirvana released Nevermind, and Stills Gallery opened its doors at 16 Elizabeth Street, Paddington. At the time Founder and Co-Director, Kathy Freedman announced “There’s a lot of very important and exciting work being done at present using photographic images. Stills will be providing the opportunity for people to see a wide range of current work.” From these small beginnings - a roomsheet created on a typewriter and black & white prints selling for around $200 - Stills Gallery has shifted and evolved to keep up with changes in the way we produce, enjoy and understand photography. These changes have included the move to a large converted warehouse space in 1997, to accommodate the larger works being produced by artists, and the handing over of the baton from Co-Director Sandy Edwards to current Co-Director, Bronwyn Rennex along the way. We are really proud of the artists we have worked with and the exhibitions we have mounted over the years. It has been a privilege to work with such a diverse range of talented artists. And we've enjoyed sharing their works with the world - whether in Paddington or Paris... William St or Waterloo. We've also enjoyed the artworks themselves - looking at them (in the flesh), thinking about them, writing and talking about them... and of course selling them. We have relished their power to challenge and move us. In our final exhibition Curtain Call, we are taking the opportunity to look back over the history of the gallery and will present the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including. We’ll also be featuring ‘a work a day’ on our Facebook and Instagram feeds – where we ask friends, colleagues, collectors and artists to nominate a work or artist that has spoken to them over the history of the gallery. Please join us for this final celebration of all the fantastic artists Stills has worked with over the years. | | |
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| | | |  | | | Ralf Peters: Baum 2, 2010 (Night Colours)
200 x 184 cm, C-Print/Diasec |
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| | Outlaw camp, Elkhorn, Wisconsin, 1965-66
© Danny Lyon / Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York & Zürich | | | | | | | | 24 May – 29 July 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Galerie Edwynn Houk Zurich is pleased to present works by the acclaimed photographer Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942). Featuring a selection from the two series Civil Rights and The Bikeriders, the exhibition will be on display from the 24th of May until the 29th of July 2017. Danny Lyon is one of the most important American photographers of the last half century to renew the documentary photograph's concern with justice and the universal desire for freedom. Self-taught, and driven by twin passions for social change and the medium of photography, he was shaped by his early experiences covering the unrest of the 1960s as staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Being active in the Civil Rights movement as a participant and a photojournalist led to the publication of his first book, The Movement (1964) which heralded a new style of realistic photography, a “New Journalism”, in which the photographer is entirely immersed in the subject’s world.
In 1968 Lyon published The Bikeriders, a seminal work of this modern style. The landmark collection of photographs and interviews documented the four-year period Lyon spent on the road with members of a motorcycle club known as the Chicago Outlaws, a group vilified for their efforts to live free of the conventional expectations of society. Photographed between 1963 and 1967, Lyon describes the work as "an attempt to record and glorify the life of the American bikerider”. A champion of the marginalized, and continuing in the tradition of Walker Evans and Robert Frank, his work has always resisted the obvious. For over fifty years Lyon has recorded the realities of American life, each project accompanied by books, and often fi… | | |
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| | | Lot 4113 Guy Bourdin. Charles Jourdan footwear campaign. 1979. Dye transfer print | | | Bassenge Photography Auction 109 | | | | Photography from the 19th - 21st Century | | | | | | Wednesday, 31 May, 2017, 14:00 Erdener Str. 5a, 14193 Berlin
Preview: Rankestrasse 24, 10789 Berlin | 22 – 27 May, 10:00 – 15:00 | 29 May, 10:00 - 18:00 |
30 May, 10:00 – 15:00 | as well as by appointment
Online catalogue: www.bassenge.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | Sebastião Salgado
Îles Malouines, 2009
Gelatin silver print
36.7 x 50.9 cm (50 x 60.9 cm)
Estimate € 8,000 - 10,000
Lot 186 / Auction 1089 Photography | | | Photography | | | Auction 1089: Wednesday, 31st May 2017 15:00 | | | | | | Vernissage: Friday, 26th May 2017 18:00
Preview: Saturday 27th May 10:00 – 16:00 | Sunday 28th May 11:00 – 16:00 |
Monday 29th May – Tuesday 30th May 10:00 – 17:30
Online Catalogue: www.lempertz.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | As in previous seasons, our selection of photography will once again be offered in two auctions taking place on consecutive days. Alongside the 205 lot strong Photography sale on 31st May, a further 16 important artist’s photographs will be offered as part of the auction Contemporary Art and Photography taking place on 1st June.
Some of the most fascinating works on offer this season are a group of photos by August Sander. Highlight among these is his famous portrait of the painter Heinrich Hoerle from 1928, here offered as a print from 1953 (lot 23, €50/70,000). The impressive piece originates from a portfolio "Köln wie es war" (Cologne as it was) of images depicting Cologne before WWII, which the photographer gave as a 65th birthday present to the then Mayor of the city Robert Goerlinger. The image shows the artist, who was one of the most influential members of the "Kölner Progressiven", looking out towards the viewer with a piercing gaze that appears almost sceptical or sardonic. A related work is a depiction of a "rag ball" from the same year. These parties were organised as part of the Cologne Carnival and were an important social event for artists in the city during the 1920s (lot 25, €5/7,000). The sale will also feature further portrait, landscape, and architectural photographs by August Sander under lots 17 – 24, with estimates ranging from €1,200 to €4,000. | | |
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| | | El Lissitzky. Untitled (Factory Hall), from: "USSR im Bau". Circa 1937 Vintage. Gelatin silver print of a photomontage. Estimate EUR 5,000–7,000 | | | Modern and contemporary photography | | | | | | Auction: Wednesday 31 May 2017, 18:00
Preview exhibition Berlin: 26 to 30 May 2017
Grisebach, Fasanenstraße 25, 27 und 73
Fri – Mon 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Tues 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
All catalogues and auction details online at www.grisebach.com | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Wednesday 31 May over 200 lots of modern and contemporary photography will be auctioned at Grisebach in Berlin.
One star lot in this season’s sale is an vintage or early gelatine silver print by Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Bäumchen" ("Little Tree”) of 1929 (38.4 x 27.8 cm). This is a piece of the highest rank: thanks to its powerful presence, a sophisticated composition, and the undoubted technical and artistic virtuosity of the photographer (estimate €40,000 / 60.000). The systematic botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt also occupy an important place in the history of photography. In these works Blossfeldt emphasised both the physicality and the graphic quality of the individual plants. A rare vintage print of a leaf of the "Crysanthemum segetum” (1915/25) is offered in the sale with an estimate price of €25,000/30,000. | | | | |
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| | Thomas Struth
Paradies 5, Daintree, Australien, 1998
Chromogenic print, face-mounted to plexiglass
134 x 174.5 cm (176.5 x 214 cm frame)
From an edition of 10
Estimate € 35,000 - 40,000
Lot 545 / Auction 1091 Contemporary Art | | | Contemporary Art + Photography | | | | Auction 1091: Thursday, 1st June 2017 14:00 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Düsseldorf School makes up the majority of the photographic works on offer in this spring’s Contemporary Art sale. Thomas Struth’s large format C-print "Paradies 5, Daintree, Australien" is among the artist’s earliest works from this series (lot 545, €35/40,000). Also featured are three exceptionally fine and well-preserved industrial motifs by Bernd and Hilla Becher (lot 590-592, €5/6,000 - €8/10,000). Isa Genzken followed a conceptual approach in her large-format work "Ohr" from 1980, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and is here offered under lot 602, estimated at €4/5,000. | | |
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| | Mohau Modisakeng, Video still from Passage, Three-channel projection, 2017
SOUTH AFRICAN Pavilion | | | | | | | | | | | | – 26 November 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 57th International Art Exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The Exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday May 13th to Sunday November 26th 2017, at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues. The preview will take place on May 10th, 11th and 12th, the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday May 13th 2017. The Exhibition will also include 85 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. Also for this edition, selected Collateral Events by non-profit national and international institutions, present exhibitions and initiatives. Detailed information can be found on www.labiennale.org/en/art/ | | |
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| | | © Ikuru Kuwajima | | | | | | | | | | – 28 May 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | | | From the 12th till 28th of May The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography will run PHOTOBOOKFEST, a large-scaled international event, dedicated to the photobook industry and photographic art in Russia. The festival's programme will consist of exhibition and education blocks, as well as a Photobook dummy contest.
Detailed information about the festival can be found on www.photobookfest.com. | | |
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