9. 6. – 19. 6. 2016, Łódź / Poland www.fotofestiwal.com This year’s anniversary edition of Fotofestiwal will begin on 9 June 2016 and last until 19 June 2016. The main theme of the fifteenth festival will be the experience intrinsically linked to photography from its very beginning – travel and the various forms of its […]
Redaktion
with/against the flow. Zeitgenössische fotografische Interventionen
ifa-Ausstellungsreihe zu zeitgenössischer Fotografie aus Deutschland beginnt mit Positionen von Viktoria Binschtok und Michael Schäfer im Heidelberger Kunstverein 18. 6. – 28. 8. 2016, Heidelberger Kunstverein Hauptstraße 97, 69117 Heidelberg Wir leben im Zeitalter der Bilder: Fotografien dominieren Nachrichten- und Informationskanäle, kommen immer öfter aus der Handykamera und verbreiten sich schneeballartig im Netz. Als Auftakt […]
6 x 6 Questions About the Future of Photography
Peggy Buth, Charlotte Dualé, Harun Farocki, Abrie Fourie, Anne Hardy, Inga Kerber, Philipp König, Susanne Kriemann, Michael Part, Josephine Pryde, Clunie Reid, Max Schaffer, Dirk Stewen, Una Szeemann & Bohdan Stehlik, Toilet Paper Magazine, Tris Vonna-Michell, Lidwien van de Ven Landesgalerie Linz, 25. 5. – 21. 8. 2016 Museumstr. 14, 4010 Linz The Kunstverein in […]
Preisträger und Bilanz der 62. Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Am 10. Mai gingen die 62. Internationalen Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen mit einem Besucherrekord von über 20.000 Eintritten zu Ende. Bei der Preisverleihung im Oberhausener Lichtburg Filmpalast wurden insgesamt 17 Preise verliehen. Der Hauptpreis des Festivals, der Große Preis der Stadt Oberhausen im Internationalen Wettbewerb, ging in die Schweiz an die Regisseurin Louise Carrin für Venusia, eine […]
Awåragaude? Gerald Domenig at the Secession
Wiener Secession Friedrichstraße 12, 1010 Vienna Apri 22 – June 19 2016 Photography, drawing, and writing (texts) are the preferred genres of the Austrian artist Gerald Domenig, who lives in Frankfurt am Main. He has worked in these media since the 1970s, building a sizable oeuvre distinguished by formal consistency and thematic openness. In Domenig’s […]
Past Future Housing: Exhibition with works by Morgan Fisher and Karina Nimmerfall at the MAK Center in L.A.
April 21 – June 25, 2016 Mackey Garage Top 1137 S Cochran Ave Los Angeles, CA 90019 In its ninth iteration, the MAK Center’s Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles exhibition series brings together former artist-in-residence Karina Nimmerfall and Los Angeles-based artist Morgan Fisher. Looking back at housing and urban planning in the U.S., the two artists […]
The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts: Young Portfolio 2016 Call for Entries
The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K*MoPA) invites all young photographers to send us their finest images. This invitation is not a call to a contest where pieces are judged, then ranked. Rather, it is the Museum’s wish to collect works by young and emerging photographers for its permanent collection. We believe that there is […]
Pluriversale IV
18.3. – 24.6.2016 in the ACADEMYSPACE at Herwarthstraße 3 in Cologne The PLURIVERSALE is a three-month long series of interdisciplinary events. Find the full program here: www.academycologne.org A growing awareness of Cologne’s own colonial history provides the point of departure for the exhibition Afrikahafenfest by locally based artists PETER GÜLLENSTERN and JÜRGEN STOLLHANS, whose associative, […]
The Secret Life of Images
Anna Barriball (GB), Susan Hiller (US), Sofia Hultén (S), Stephanie Kiwitt (D), Elizabeth McAlpine (GB), Lucy Skaer (GB), Emily Wardill (GB) Kunstverein Freiburg: 18. March – 1. May 2016 The Secret Life of Images explores the performative, theatrical, autobiographical, and political testimony embedded in various forms of abstraction. The geometrical facets of a sculpture, the […]
Ghosts of the Civil Dead: Picturing the Society of Exclusion
Opening: 11.3. 2016 at 6.00 PM Exhibition dates: 11.3– 7.5 2016 Venue: tranzit/sk, Beskydská 12, Bratislava Wednesday–Saturday, 2–7 PM This exhibition argues for a historical perspective on today’s society of exclusion. It makes connections between the workings of institutions such as the prison, the camp and the border wall/fence in managing economic inequality and social conflict through the […]
POPCAP ’16: Outstanding African Photography
The international photography competition POPCAP is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 fifth anniversary edition. This year’s winners from South Africa, Jersey, England, France and Germany were chosen by an international panel of 20 renowned judges from 900 applications from 94 countries. The award aims to foster interest in and support for contemporary […]
The Lewis Baltz Research Fund / Inaugural recipients: Alessandro Laita and Chiaralice Rizzi
The Lewis Baltz Research Fund has been established to honor the vision and memory of the American artist Lewis Baltz. The fund involves the annual grant of a substantial fund to support the creation, completion and dissemination of a project in any artistic medium, encompassing, but not limited to, anything from academic research to book […]
Future Vocabularies / Instituting Otherwise / Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)
30.01.–01.05.2016 group exhibition and public program BAK, Utrecht (NL) Unstated (or, Living Without Approval)—part exhibition; part site for gathering, learning, and exchange—brings together perspectives from the geopolitical pressure points of various forms of statelessness. From Rojava to Palestine to Greece to the refugees in limbo in the Netherlands, the “unstated”—out of sync with the state: […]
International Photography Prize 2016
Exhibition of the winner of the International Photography Prize 2016. 6 March – 8 May, 2016 The International Photography Prize will be awarded every two years to a living photographer of renowned fame, whose artistic research has made a significant contribution to the development of the culture of contemporary imagery and its multiple declinations. In this first edition, […]
Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom
16 January 2016 – 22 January 2017 MOCAK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, façade of Building B “Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom” is a project by Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler that has been executed in various formats since 2014. Banners made by 12 artists will be presented on MOCAK’s elevation, showcasing utopian projections that […]
Ausstellungen Peter Piller und Anita Witek
22. Jänner – 22. Mai 2016 Mit Peter Piller und Anita Witek präsentiert das KUNST HAUS WIEN in zwei Einzelausstellungen künstlerische Positionen, die Fotografien als Werkstoff verstehen und als Material verarbeiten. Das Zurückgreifen auf vorhandenes Bildmaterial – Gebrauchsfotografie und Alltagsbilder, die sie vorwiegend aus Magazinen und Zeitungen entnehmen – eint Piller und Witek in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis. […]
AICA PREIS FÜR DIE “AUSSTELLUNG DES JAHRES 2015”
Der deutsche Kunstkritikerverband AICA hat den Preis für die “Ausstellung des Jahres 2015” an den Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart für die Ausstellung “Die Bestie ist der Souverän” vergeben. AUSFÜHRLICHE BEGRÜNDUNG Internationale AICA, deutsche Sektion: Die Ausstellung „Die Bestie ist der Souverän“ untersucht auf unorthodoxe, nonkonformistische und multiperspektivische Weise Formen von Wirkungskräften hegemonialer Macht, und zwar anhand […]
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016 16 April – 26 June 2016 The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016 are Laura El-Tantawy, Erik Kessels, Trevor Paglen and Tobias Zielony.This year’s shortlist reflects a range of approaches and subject matters encompassing the use of videos, objects and texts. These diverse […]