The well-named Rencontres — French for “meetings” — is a place of exchange with photographers, between professionals and above all with the public. It maps out the world of photography, echoing both historic and contemporary artistic practices:
Section: AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Because America’s image owes something to foreign eyes! From Robert Frank to Laura Henno, 60 years of American chronicles.
Section: RUN COMRADE, THE OLD WORLD IS BEHIND YOU Revolts, utopias, shifts: 1968, the year that changed the world. ...
Unique, festive opening week 2 - 8 July welcomes all the program’s photographers and exhibition curators and features projections, panel discussions, exhibition tours, book signings, meetings, parties and much more.
In the exhibition Structures of Identity - Photography from The Walther Collection Foam presents a selection of photographic works from the famous collection of German-American collector Artur Walther (b. 1948).
Structures of Identity examines how photographers have used portraiture to affirm or challenge social stereotypes constructed around notions of race, gender, class, and nationality. The exhibition highlights how subjectivity and social identity have been shaped and regarded within the history of the photographic medium. Iconic works by photographers including August Sander, Richard Avedon and J.D. Ojeikere are combined with the work of contemporary photographers like Yto Barrada, Samuel Fosso, Zanele Muholi and Guy Tillim. Works of vernacular photography, from a range of cultures and historical periods, are also on view.
Foam is proud to present the exhibition Foam 3h: Stelios Kallinikou - Studies in Geology. A sense of continual exploration of national identity typifies the body of work of Cypriot photographer Stelios Kallinikou (1985), who creates magical and beautiful images that are deeply rooted in the Cypriot landscape. The landscape, as a result of our collective action, becomes a vehicle for his thoughts on place, history, time and space – all fundamental issues related to human nature.
Previously Kallinikou‘s work has been described as 'local poetry'. He is not interested in narrating a linear story. His aim is to conjure a space that is beyond words. Simultaneously his appealing and technically skilled body of work circles around the politics of the landscape. By adopting the strategies of documentary photography via an introspective meditative pace, the world he constructs serves as a speculative scenario through which he can better envisage his relationship to territorial and ideological notions of the landscape such as birthplace, motherland and national identity.
The idea of the artist is often associated with ingenuity, creativity, and free expression, while Carl Gustav Jung defined a ‘complex’ as a structure of feelings, thoughts and memories. This structure centers on a significant factor in the psyche and determines our thoughts and actions. Artist Complex brings the two concepts together, and investigates the artist as a visual phenomenon composed of a particular ideas and motifs.
Featuring around 180 works produced between 1910 and 2000, this exhibition highlights the variety of photographic portraits of artists, while also giving an overview of art history’s most famous artists of the last century. Artist Complex features portraits of illustrious artists like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons and Marina Abramović, produced by an equally broad range of photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helga Fietz and Jérôme Schlomoff.
Divided into three sections, the exhibition opens up a view into the minds of the artists on show. The section Persona explores the many roles of the artist. Creativity, being the incentive for the artistic process, is at the center of the show’s second section. The section Pygmalion encompasses portraits of artists with their art works serving as symbols of their genius. At the same time, selected paintings, sculptures and drawings by key modern artists highlight the reciprocities between photography and the visual arts.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Kehrer Verlag.
From 4 to 5 October 2018 the symposium "Artist Complex. Images of Artists in Photography" will take place.
In this upcoming exhibition, Galerie Springer Berlin is presenting a completely new and exciting exhibition concept.
Heide and Robert Springer have invited 14 photography curators from different cities in Germany and Switzerland to present a work or a small group of works. The decision was completely free for each individual. There was no topic specification. Rather, it should be personally favored works, thrillingly felt random encounters or carefully selected from one's own professional work - regardless of the content or commercial aspects of the gallery. The result is surprising and fascinating at the same time.
The selection made by the 14 curators covers a wide range of different topics, styles, times or genres. The exhibition shows classic vintage photographs from the early 1950s as well as contemporary photography. It includes world-class artists as well as photographers who have barely been seen in exhibitions so far. In the free selection and meeting of the individual curators as well as in the interplay of the different works in the gallery spaces on site, Heide Springer finds the special feature of this exhibition project.
The choice of works made independently by the curators reveals surprising or conclusive themes, connections, contexts or opposites. The different, interconnecting rooms of the gallery offer the work variety and possibilities for an exciting presentation. Heide and Robert Springer will be assisted in the conception and realization of the exhibition by the Berlin curator Franziska Schmidt.
The group exhibition brings together photographic works on the theme of the ephemeral, momentary appearances and disappearances, and the fragile and transcendent. Common to all of them is a dissolution of their motifs—created by the use of soft focus, long-term exposures, and multiple exposures—which recede into the background to allow a certain pervasive mood to come to the fore. The photographs do not point to anything beyond themselves, even if we are able to recognize the forms of people, places, landscapes, or objects. What is shown manifests itself in the moment of disappearing. In many of the images this effect is fostered by mist or fog, which evokes a pervasive atmosphere and thus triggers an emotional approach to the image. The photographs confront the viewer, and in their ability to suggest presence, they give rise to an event or moment of feeling that viewers experience in their own imaginations and worlds of feeling. The exhibition views the phenomenon of the ephemeral in contemporary photography through the works of a selected group of artists, whose photographs operate on the outer edge of the visible. The show includes images of nature, landscapes, interiors, and also portraits, with examples of various photographic techniques, such as the photogram, photogravure, and platinum print.
Danish photographer Adam Jeppesen (b. 1978) experiments with photogravure by applying ink to the printing plate only once, allowing the image to fade away to the point where only a seemingly blank surface remains. American Scott B. Davis (b. 1971) works with a large-format view camera, juxtaposing original-size platinum prints in diptychs of positive and negative views of a motif that recede into the blackness of night…
Private view: 3 July, 18:30 − 20:30 We are delighted to be joined by artists Clara Wildberger, Kurt Kaindl, Paul Albert Leitner and Jan Schiefermeier. Due to security at Europe House RSVP is required.
EU 12 Star Gallery
European Commission in the UK 32 Smith Square, SW1P 3EU London ec.europa.eu/
On the occasion of Austria’s EU Presidency, the 12 Star Gallery presents a special photo exhibition of works by twenty Austrian photographers who have, each in their own way, captured Austria in the year 2016. The works highlight the manifold aspects of contemporary life in Austria from its vibrant cultural capitals and the countryside, to political and sporting events as well as the less idyllic and spectacular aspects of everyday life. The exhibition, which features prints in addition to a digital presentation, was curated by Rainer Iglar and Michael Mauracher.
curated by: Rainer Iglar und Michael Mauracher (FOTOHOF) Organised by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London
More information about the project Facing Austria and accompanying publication: oesterreich-bilder.at/en/
The exhibition of the work of Inge Morath at the Maribor Art Gallery covers her entire photographic oeuvre. This first major retrospective exhibition in Slovenia and broder region will present more than 200 works. Beginning with her first photographic projects in the early 1950s in Spain and Venice, and the large body of artists’ portraits that evolved throughout her life, the exhibition ranges from an intense exploration of her adopted hometown of New York, her travels along the Danube to Romania, and at the end of her life also pictures from Maribor.
Inge Morath belongs to those artists who have documented wider cultural spaces during extensive travels and who have created timeless portraits through intensive engagement with the people. She equally directed her loving attention to unknown accountants as well as to movie stars like Marilyn Monroe. She photographed the great artists of the 20th century, such as Picasso, Giacometti, Anaïs Nin, and Alexander Calder, in pictures that are as intimate as those of unknown street boys in Venice or dancers in a small bar in Spain.
The major Inge Morath Retrospective will be accompanied by the documentary "Copyright by Inge Morath" by German filmmaker Sabine Eckhart as well as by very personal photos of Morath’s studio and living space, which Kurt Kaindl has taken for a period of more than 15 years.
Inge Morath (1923) was one of the first Magnum members. Her international career is reflected in her life: her family derived from Slovenj Gradec, she was born in Graz, Austria; after spending her youth in various European cities, she experienced the end of World War II in Berlin, then worked together with Ernst Haas in Vienna, with Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris, and moved to the United States in 1962, after her marriage to Arthur Miller. From there she travelled to all continents as a photographer and died in 2002 during a photographic work on the Austrian-Slovenian border region.
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition from photographer Sasha Gusov, which will display a cycle of photographs of the Bolshoi Ballet Company. The exposition will include about 50 unique shots made during the period between 1992 to 2016, from behind the scenes of the "Bolshoi ballet", the brand that emerged during the first and incredibly successful tour of the Bolshoi Theater troupe in 1956. After appearances on the stage of London's Covent Garden Theater, the famous Bolshoi has forever subdued the foreign audience. After the publication of photographs of the Bolshoi in The British Journal of Photography, Gusov gained a reputation of a talented photographer.
Sasha Gusov’s photos perfectly convey the dynamics and expressiveness of ballet dance. There are among them beautiful staged portraits and fascinating, finely grasped shots of rehearsals and performances. Shot on film, "on the move" and without additional lighting, they captivate with their efficiency. "Photography is documentary – it just fixing something that is happening in a particular moment," says the photographer. And Gusov, like no other, knows how to masterfully catch these random situations. Nevertheless, he not only fixes the event, but also skillfully conveys the state of the caught instant. As Andrey Konchalovsky, the film director and great friend of Sasha, writes: "Gusov's photographs are not therefore a reflection of life but a catalogue of those unrepeatable coincidences of circumstances in time and space which the man with the camera has chosen to ‘catch’”. In the sensual, catchy and often ironic photographs we see the author himself. "When I look at Gusov`s photographs, I feel that eac…
With the exhibition "Austria. Photography 1970–2000", the Museum der Moderne Salzburg consolidates its standing as Austria’s leading center of expertise on photography. Following the original presentation at the Albertina in Vienna, the presentation in Salzburg is enhanced by additional works from the museum’s own collections. An introspective photographic survey of life in Austria, it also undertakes a probing examination of Austrian photography in the final decades of the twentieth century.
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s own collections and the Austrian Federal Photography Collection, which is housed at the museum, contain singular photographic documents. With more than 22,000 works, the collections are a vast national treasury of visual memories and media representations dating from 1945 to the present. In cooperation with the Albertina, Vienna, we drew on these holdings for the exhibition "Austria. Photography 1970–2000", an enlarged version of which opens in Salzburg in March.
"As director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, I set several priorities, including a reassessment of the collections and sustained measures to strengthen the museum as a center for expertise on photography. This year, these efforts culminate in a series of exhibitions. "With Austria. Photography 1970–2000"", we embark on a photographic exploration of Austria’s inner life that also yields a critical revision of our holdings. I am delighted that this exhibition, the fruit of a successful cooperation with the Albertina and the Federal Chancellery, now comes to Salzburg," Sabine Breitwieser, director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, says. "I am especially pleased that our spac…
The selection of photographs on offer at Koller this June is once again very broad, and runs from the beginnings of photography with exciting daguerreotypes (lots 1601-1608), early views of Egypt, India, Russia and the USA (lots 1615-1639), Alpine landscapes by Albert Steiner, Emil Meerkämpfer and Emmanuel Gyger (lots 1640-1665), classics by Geraldo dos Barros (lots 1670-1673), Frantisek Drtikol (lot 1674), a unique photocollage portrait of Che Guevara hand-painted by René Burri (lot 1716), portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn (lots 1846-1859), all the way up to contemporary photography with large-format works by Erwin Wurm (lot 1898), Massimo Vitali (lots 1916-1917), Thomas Struth (lot 1921) and Michael Wesely (lot 1926).
Particularly noteworthy are the classic photographs from the Kaspar M. Fleischmann Collection, which will be sold to benefit a chair for the theory and history of photography at the University of Zurich. The collection includes works by Pierre Dubreuil (lot 1752), Imogen Cunningham (lot 1763), Bill Brandt (lot 1764-1773), Berenice Abbott (lot 1776-1781) and a very rare platinum print by Edward Weston (lot 1787).
Another highly interesting highlight of the sale are several unique vintage prints by Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (lots 1662-1665) which document the rebellious youth culture of the 1960s.
The 25th Noorderlicht International Photography Festival takes place from 23rd June until 23rd September in Museum Belvédère in Heerenveen and examines our ambiguous relationship with nature. IN VIVO takes its inspiration from a rich tradition of a love for nature and shows images of a confrontational beauty, which upon closer examination expose the extent to which our experience of nature is directed by economic, social and cultural shifts.
Thirty photographers from eleven different countries show us their view on the experience of nature, an essential part of our identity. Research has shown that nature has a positive influence on our health, lowers stress and stimulates creativity. Nature is therefore a significant contributing factor to our well-being, however cultivated it is. IN VIVO challenges the viewer to look in a different, layered way at the living experiment we call nature.
THE LARGEST EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL IS COMING TO BADEN
THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY PHOTO CELEBRATES ITS 15TH YEAR IN 2018. WITH 400 000 VISITORS, THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY PHOTO IS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PHOTO FESTIVAL IN EUROPE.
JACQUES ROCHER, today President of the Fondation Yves Rocher, initiated a festival of photography in 2004 in his birthplace La Gacilly (FR). It was dedicated to the theme of Man and the Environment. Convinced that it is our duty to engage with the future of our planet and to look for humanistic and sustainable concepts for our interaction with nature and with each other, he and his Leading Team turned the Festival La Gacilly Photo into an event that has set an international standard of social relevance in bringing together artistic photography and photojournalism.
THE FESTIVAL LA GACILLY-BADEN PHOTO CELEBRATES ITS LAUNCH IN 2018. It complements the work in La Gacilly by expanding it and embedding it within a European context.
RAY 2018 presents outstanding examples of contemporary photogaphy at over ten venues in Frankfurt and the Rhine/Main region. In collaboration with over 15 partner institutions and collections as well as countless events RAY offers yet another summer of photographic highlights. https://ray2018.de/en/exhibitions/
The Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2018 is intended to engage audiences, inspire action and invoke change. It is a time to reflect, unlearn, rethink and restart. Photography is a powerful tool to convey the message.
This workshop will focus on the depiction of objects, materiality, memory and history in direct relationship with family history, personal memory or feelings. Participants will be asked to bring a variety of items (these could be documents, objects, even non-physical like anecdotes and crucial memories) relating to their own emotional and social legacy. A wide range of approaches is equally valid, from deeply individual/personal engagement through to more social and historical approaches.
The collaborative engagement with Gideon Mendel will focus on visual responses to these items – and an interrogation of how they might be depicted photographically. In essence this will be an ‘anti still life’ workshop and a deeply personal process is anticipated. The focus of the workshop will be on finding ways to make these objects and the stories they represent meaningful to a wider audience.
This will be an active hands-on experience with a conceptual overlay consisting of a series of individual and group feedback sessions. All participants are asked to bring digital cameras and laptops to allow for rapid experimentation and assessment of work.
Gideon Mendel’s intimate style of image-making and long-term commitment to socially engaged projects has earned him international acclaim. Born in Johannesburg in 1959, Mendel established his career with his searing photographs of the final years of apartheid. In 1991 he moved to London, and continued to respond to global issues, especially HIV/AIDS. Since 2007, Mendel has been working on "Drowning World", an art and advocacy project about flooding that is his personal response to climate change. Solo shows of "Drowning World" have been shown at many galleries and public installations around the world, most recently at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles. During 2016, Mendel received the inaugural Jackson Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Greenpeace Photo Award. Shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2015, he has also received the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, the Amnesty International Media Award and six World Press awards.
From 24 May to 9 September, 2018 the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt is presenting works by Gideon Mendel in the exhibition EXTREME. ENVIRONMENTS for RAY 2018.
In addition, a lecture by Gideon Mendel will take place on Friday, 20 July, 2018 at 6 pm at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.
