Exhibitions
Tarrah Krajnak
RePose ExPose CounterPose
RePose ExPose CounterPose presents the work of Tarrah Krajnak through a selection of major photographic series. Born in Lima and living in the United States since infancy, Krajnak has set the question of her origins, and with this her dual culture and the recent history of the land of her birth—inseparable from her own—at the heart […]
Anton Roland Laub
Bucharest Trilogy
For more than ten years, Anton Roland Laub has been using various photographic and narrative strategies to confront the recent history of his native Romania. Born in Bucharest, where he lived as a child during the final years of Communism, he witnessed the radical transformation of the historic centre of the capital, dramatically destroyed under […]
Mihai Șovăială & Anton Roland Laub
Bucharest/Palimpsest
BUCHAREST/PALIMPSEST, presented by delpire & co, is the first solo exhibition in France by Romanian artist Mihai Șovăială. In recent years, Șovăială has explored the layers of his country’s capital. With its historic center and its once-rich Art Nouveau and modernist architecture razed by Ceaușescu in the 1980s, replaced by socialist housing blocks, and now […]
Sibylle Bergemann
The Monument
From 1975 to 1986, German photographer Sibylle Bergemann documented the creation of the Marx and Engels monument in East Berlin. The project, conceived in the aftermath of World War II and the founding of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was ultimately entrusted in 1973 to the sculptor Ludwig Engelhardt, who allied himself with several other […]
Uraguchi Kusukazu
Shima no Ama
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography will be presenting Kusukazu Uraguchi. Shima no Ama, an exhibition of eighty captivating black and white photographs selected from the monumental archive of this Japanese photographer. From the mid-1950s onwards Kusukazu Uraguchi (1922-1988) devoted thirty years of his life to photographing the ama, an all-female community of Japanese fisherwomen and divers […]
Aurora Király
Beyond the Photographic Frame
The exhibition “Beyond the photographic frame” presents several recent bodies of works by Aurora Király, inspired by photographic material from her own artistic archive. With Viewfinders, Király draws from recent, everyday photographic “notes”, as well as intimate self-portraits from the 1990s, which she reframes and recontextualizes with craps of cardboard and hand-made drawings, transforming the […]
Four Walls (Voices sector of Paris Photo)
With Alexandra de Viveiros (Paris), Anca Poterasu (Bucharest), Fotograf Contemporary (Prague), Kaunas Photography, and Monopol (Warsaw) Faced with the coercive power to which many Eastern and Northern European countries were subjected between the end of World War II and the fall of the USSR, artists, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, developed diverse and powerful […]
Antanas Sutkus
Friends From France
In the summer of 1965, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir made a visit to Lithuania. Although it lasted only a week, this visit, culminating in an excursion on foot through the dunes of Nida, left an indelible impression on those who met the two intellectuals on this occasion. Through the photographs of the young […]
Andrej Polukord & Léa Habourdin
Monuments and Everlasting Flowers
In an age marked by bleak ecological prospects, the artistic strategies developed by Andrej Polukord and Léa Habourdin activate our imagination and encourage us to reinvent our relationship with nature. Polukord uses performance and photography to evoke the phenomena of massive deforestation and mocks mankind for destroying trees and turning them into pedestals for monuments […]
The Forms of Things, The Forms of Skulls, Forms of Love
Lithuanian photographs from the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Centre Pompidou and the Lithuanian Photographers Association 1973: The Iron Curtain divides Europe, isolating a large number of countries then subject to the hegemony of the USSR – including Lithuania – from the so-called Western World. In that year, the first in a […]
Uraguchi Kusukazu
Ama
For more than three thousand years, ama, the Japanese “women of the sea,” have populated the shores of the archipelago, free-diving for seaweed and abalone. Their special place in the Japanese imagination, their sensual connection to the water, their fearlessness and sovereignty have fascinated poets and artists for centuries. Japanese photographer Uraguchi Kusukazu, a native of […]
Restless Bodies
East German Photography 1980-89
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what do we know about East German photography? This exhibition focuses on the final decade of this large and too little-known chapter of history through the prism of the body. Its aim is to show how, within an authoritarian state based on the negation of individuality, […]
Marie Tomanova & Nina Medioni
The Distance That Binds Us
Marie Tomanova created the series World Between Us when, after living in New York for over 10 years, she returned to visit her mother on the family farm where she grew up in the Czech Republic. Confronted with contradictory feelings of belonging and not belonging, she looks back on the framework and values that formed […]
Marie Tomanova
It Was Once My Universe
It Was Once My Universe is the autobiographical story of a homecoming. Returning from New York to her native Mikulov, a Czech village in South Moravia, and to her family’s farm after a decade of absence, Tomanova documents her reunion with loved ones. And yet a disquieting strangeness dominates the atmosphere. The house she missed […]
Isabelle Le Minh
Cristal réel. After Alfred Ehrhardt
In this exhibition commissioned by Sonia Voss in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Paris and the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Berlin, the artist Isabelle Le Minh re-interprets a remarkable body of work by Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984), a major figure of the German Bauhaus: his photographs of crystals and minerals. With the two series presented here […]
Ilanit Illouz
Wadi Qelt, In The Stony Light
Wadi Qelt, in the Stony Light is based on extensive research into the natural elements and proposes an experimental photographic study of Wadi Qelt, a valley situated in the Judaean Desert between Jerusalem and Jericho, near the Dead Sea. This territory, imbued with stories from times immemorial, marked by political tensions, menaced by exploitation of […]
Tracey Snelling. Thibault Brunet. Lee Maelzer
All Tomorrow’s Ruins
Artists have always been fascinated by ruins. As traces of a bygone era, they remind us that our work product, too, is destined to become a ruin. Ruins constitute a source both for interpreting our history and for imagining our future. The three artists presented move the ruin into the heart of their work, focussing on […]
Louis Roederer Discovery Award
This year, the artists shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award will be exhibited in a group show where a wide range of works will resonate with each other. The 11 projects were selected from numerous submissions, largely from Europe. Reflecting a desire to question and rethink techniques and genres, they attest to a keen […]
Pants Wear Skirts
The Erfurt Women Artists' Group 1984-1994
Founded in 1984, the women’s collective »Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt« (Erfurt Women Artists’ Group) pursued a radical, artistic alternative to everyday life in East Germany. Their Super-8 films, photographs, performances, fashion-object shows, manifestos and sound experiments were based on concepts of female self-empowerment, grassroots democracy and social critique. This comprehensive exhibition, the first of its kind, presents […]
Anton Roland Laub
Mobile Churches
A visual exploration of a dramatic and absurd chapter of Romania’s recent history: the displacement of seven churches from Bucharest under Ceaușescu’s ‘systematization’ program, as well as the immurement of a synagogue. Bucharest in the 1980s. Ceaușescu’s “systematization” program is in full swing in the Romanian capital: one-third of the historic center has been wiped […]
Restless Bodies
East-German Photography 1980-1989
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what do we know about East German photography? This exhibition focuses on the final decade of this large and too little-known chapter of history through the prism of the body. Its aim is to show how, within an authoritarian state based on the negation of individuality, […]
Isabelle Le Minh
Cristal réel. After Alfred Ehrhardt
In this exhibition commissioned by Sonia Voss in collaboration with the Goethe Institute Paris and the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation in Berlin, the artist Isabelle Le Minh re-interprets a remarkable body of work by Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984), a major figure of the German Bauhaus: his photographs of crystals and minerals. With the two series presented here […]
Alfred Ehrhardt
The Forms of Nature
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, Kyotographie presents the first Japanese exhibition of Alfred Ehrhardt (1901-1984), a major photographic artist of the German avant-garde. Composer, painter, and filmmaker, as well as photographer, Ehrhardt studied at the Bauhaus (then in Dessau) in 1928-29 and attended Josef Albers’s preliminary course. At the end of his stay, […]
Curator’s Choice:
Marianne Mispelaëre
Galerie Springer Berlin presents a new exhibition concept. Heide and Robert Springer have invited 14 photography curators from 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 favoured works, thrillingly felt random encounters […]
Isabelle Le Minh & Thibault Brunet
Déjà vu
Kehrer Galerie presents two positions from France. Thibault Brunet and Isabelle Le Minh, whose works have been exhibited in French institutions on several occasions, both deal with the reactivation of images and play with our collective visual culture. Thibault Brunet (b. 1982) describes himself as a »photographer without a camera«. One of his fields of […]
Sharunas Bartas
Few of Them
First exhibition of photographs by the Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas Vilnius, Lithuania. In the forest bordering on the capital of this small Baltic country lies a chalet sheltering a dark room and a whole range of post-production equipment salvaged from a Russian studio shortly before the fall of the Soviet Bloc. This is where filmmaker […]
Sophie Calle et son invitée Serena Carone
Beau doublé, Monsieur le marquis!
The Museum of Hunting and Nature invites Sophie Calle to invest its rooms. Under the curatorship of Sonia Voss, the exhibition is the first museum presentation in France to cover several decades of the artist’s creation, since her retrospective at the Center Pompidou in 2003. Sophie Calle’s work is built on the porous boundaries between […]
Josef Koudelka
Invasion. Exiles. Wall
“When I left Czechoslovakia, I was discovering the world around me. What I needed most was to travel so that I could take photographs.” Josef Koudelka Prague, Wenceslas Square, August 22, 1968: An arm is thrust into the picture. The watch on its wrist indicates the time. In the days before, tanks of the Warsaw […]
George Shiras
In the Heart of the Dark Night
A pioneer of wildlife photography as early as in the 1880’s, George Shiras (1859-1942) was also the first to reveal, through his flash photographs, the nocturnal life of animals in the woods, revealing with his images a world previously invisible. The exhibition presents, for the first time since his death, the work of this American […]