Dutch photographer DANA LIXENBERG has won the twentieth edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize at London’s Photographers’ Gallery, for her multifaceted portrait of the residents and community of the Imperial Courts housing project in Watts, Los Angeles. She was announced as the 2017 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize by broadcaster and writer, Ekow Eshun, at a special […]
Author Archives: CameraAustria
Renate Bertlmann wins 2017 Grand Austrian State Prize
Since its conception in 1950, this prestigious award has been given to only two female artists (Brigitte Kowanz (2009); Maria Lassnig (1988)), making Bertlmann the third in its history. The Grand Austrian State Prize (German: Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis) is presented by the Minister of Culture on behalf of the Republic of Austria, to an individual […]
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017
MMK 3, Frankfurt, 29 June –17 September 2017 Starting in June, the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main will present the works of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize finalists for the second time. The 2017 selection not only pays tribute to established photographic narratives but also honours experimental and conceptual approaches in documentary, […]
Peter Puklus Wins Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018
The Grand Prix Images Vevey 2017/2018 Jury selected Peter Puklus with the project “The Hero Mother – How to build a house”. The Jury was unanimous in selecting Peter Puklus for the Grand Prix 2017/18, for a truly original and intriguing proposal that draws universal issues of family and the performance of parental roles into […]
Exhibition: Radical Contemporaneity. Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid 35 years of work revisited (1982–2017)
Kunstraum Lakeside, May 12 to July 14 This exhibition encompasses the most significant body of works by the Slovenian artists Marina Gržinić and Aina Šmid developed over 35 years. Highly performative in the sense of producing the specific impact in current socio-political reality, their mode of production is prompted by a sharp and accurate sense […]
Exhibition: Viktoria Binschtok. Cutting Straws at Midnight
Klemm’s, Berlin, APR 28 – JUN 10, 2017 Opening: Friday, APR 28, 2017 | 6–9pm Special opening hours during Gallery Weekend Berlin: Friday, APR 28 | 11 am – 9 pm Saturday, APR 29 – Sunday, APR 30 | 11 am – 7 pm What do images communicate without any indication of the source, location, […]
Exhibition and Conference: Feminist Avant-Garde
Exhibition: Woman. Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970ies from the Sammlung Verbund Collection, 6. 5. – 3. 9., mumok, Vienna From May 2017, mumok is presenting more than 300 artworks from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND collection that show how women artists in the 1970s first began to collectively redefine their own image of woman. As this significant […]
Centre Pompidou Names Florian Ebner Chief of Photography
The Centre Pompidou is delighted to announce the appointment of Florian Ebner as head of the Photography Department at the Musée National d’Art Moderne. The appointment becomes effective on 1 July 2017. Florian Ebner has worked for 25 years in photography and contemporary art. He was in charge of the photography department at the Folkwang […]
Exhibition: Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire
6. April – 18. June 2017, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Zanele Muholi, Doireann O’Malley, Johannes Paul Raether, Chris E. Vargas Wild – Transgender and the Communities of Desire is an international group exhibition that draws together recent artworks dealing with questions and challenges of transgender life and communities, don’t necessarily […]
Exhibition: copy construct
CC Mechelen, March 25 – June 04, 2017 Opening: Friday March 24, 20:00 Curated by Kasper Andreasen The exhibition Copy Construct departs from different artistic practices and specific works by artists that are based on ‘reproduction’ or ‘copy’. The selected works are inherent to the production of printed matter or artist’s books. This implies that different artistic media such as […]
Screenings and Lecture Series: Recognize and Pursue / Harun Farocki
mumok and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna July 30, 2017, is the third anniversary of Harun Farocki’s passing. To keep his work as a filmmaker and artist, and as an author and teacher, alive and also to make it available (anew) as a resource to a younger generation, Sabeth Buchmann and Constanze Ruhm, in cooperation […]
Exhibition: Shirana Shahbazi
April 2 – August 6, 2017, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Opening: April 1, 5 pm The KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art is presenting the first comprehensive retrospective in Berlin of the Iranian artist Shirana Shahbazi (*1974, lives in Zurich). The exhibition will feature a selection of Shahbazi’s works from the past fifteen […]
Exhibition: Haris Epaminonda – VOL. XXII
March 10 – June 4 2017, Aspen Art Museum In her Aspen Art Museum exhibition, Berlin-based, Cypriot-born artist Haris Epaminonda expands on her practice of carefully arranging found images, objects, and film/video footage together in space. Interested in how objects’ meanings are transformed when placed in new environments, the artist reorganizes and reconfigures artifacts from […]
Exhibition: Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller. Somebody, Nobody, Anyone
11.03.2017 — 14.05.2017, West Den Haag Opening Friday 10.03.2017, 7 p.m. Location West in Huis Huguetan, Lange Voorhout 34, 2514 EE Den Haag Open Wednesday till Sunday from 12 till 6 p.m. The work of the German artists Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller focuses on re-contextualizing found footage. They often use various fragments of older […]
Symposium: Allan Sekula. From the Panorama to the Detail
February 21–22, 2017, TBA21, Augarten, Vienna Allan Sekula: From the Panorama to the Detail brings together various thinkers, historians, artists, and curators to discursively unpack the oceanic themes addressed in the exhibition Allan Sekula: OKEANOS and to expand and update some of the sociopolitical and environmental topics engaged by Sekula’s work. Marking the twentieth anniversary […]
Exhibition: Allan Sekula. Okeanos
TBA21–Augarten, Vienna, February 21–May 14, 2017 Most sea stories are allegories of authority. In this sense alone politics is never far away. (Allan Sekula) Allan Sekula: OKEANOS at TBA21–Augarten is a monographic exhibition exploring the legacy of Allan Sekula (United States, 1951–2013). Drawing from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) collection, the exhibition is charting the artist’s […]
Exhibition: Wolfgang Tillmans. 2017
15 FEBRUARY – 11 JUNE 2017, TATE MODERN, LONDON, UK Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. This February, Tate Modern will present an exhibition concentrating on his production across different media since 2003. First rising to prominence in the 1990s for his photographs of everyday […]