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The exhibition Susanne Kriemann: Ray, Rock, Rowan (Being a Photograph) is accompanied by the reader Being a Photograph, published in the Edition Camera Austria.
Here, Susanne Kriemann proposes a shift in the understanding of photography from the noun “photograph” to an active form and focuses on photography as a figure of thought to engage with the idea of an animate language. Such a grammar of animacy could extend beyond plants and animals to rocks and places, leading to different ways of being in the world.

This reader, designed by James Langdon, assembles texts by authors who offer a further frame of reference for Susanne Kriemann’s work: Siobhan Angus, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Zippora Elders, Daisy Hildyard, Bhanu Kapil, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, and Lisa Rosendahl.

On occasion of the book presentation, an artist talk between Susanne Kriemann and one of the authors of the publication, Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou, will take place at Camera Austria’s exhibition space.

Susanne Kriemann is an artist and a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (DE). Since 2010 she co-organizes ABA – AiR Berlin Alexanderplatz (DE) together with Aleksander Komarov. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Wattis Institute, San Francisco (US); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL); C/O Berlin, and MK&G Hamburg (DE); at the 2nd Diriyah Biennial Riyadh (SA), the 11th Shanghai Biennial (CN), the 10th and 11th Gothenburg International Biennials (SE), the 2nd Karachi Biennale (PK), the 5th Moscow Biennial (RU) and the 5th Berlin Biennial. She has authored eighteen artist’s books since 1998.

Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou is an art historian and enviromental humanities scholar, currently a postdoctoral fellow, funded by the Dutch Research Council, and a lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL). Her research centers on nuclear aesthetics and toxicity, material histories of art and the environment, feminist discourses, and antinuclear activism. She was the scientific advisor for the exhibition Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History (2024–25) at Musée d’art moderne, Paris (FR), and earned her PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (2021).

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