Exhibitions
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 […]
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, […]
Pants Wear Skirts
The Erfurt Women Artists' Group 1984-94
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]