| | | |  | | | Max Pinckers, A Curious Phenomenon for Which I Know Not of a Valid Explanation, from the series The Fourth Wall, 2012
© Max Pinckers. | | | | | 25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories | | | | | | | 20 October 2018 – 10 February, 2019 | | | Opening: Friday, 19 October, 6-9pm
Jubilee party: Saturday, 3 November, from 5pm | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Alec Soth, Melissa, 2005
© Alec Soth | | | | | | Shared memories are at the centre of the 25-year anniversary of Fotomuseum Winterthur: For the jubilee exhibition, "25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories", friends and colleagues who have accompanied the museum along the way were asked to choose their favourite works from its collection. Director Nadine Wietlisbach, by complementing their choices with further works from the collection, provides a glimpse into the future of the museum.
In the publication accompanying the exhibition, the 25 friends and colleagues from a national and international context speak about their selection and tie it in with their personal relationship to the museum. As such, the short essays and conversations allow the reader to anecdotally follow the museum’s development. Exhibition maker and cultural entrepreneur Martin Heller, for example, takes us back to the museum’s early years via the Swiss photographer Nicolas Faure: together with Urs Stahel he devised the exhibition Wichtige Bilder at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in 1990, which featured photographs by Faure. For curator Melanie Bühler, meanwhile, Bruno Zhu represents a young generation of post-photographic artists to whom Fotomuseum offers a programmatic platform. And Michael Ringier, former president of the board of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Foundation, compares the elasticity of the balls in John Baldessari’s series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts) (1973) with that of the museum. | | | | | |  | | | John Baldessari, from the series Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts), 1973
© John Baldessari | | | | | | Nadine Wietlisbach’s selection references on the one hand to further major exhibitions from the museum’s past, like Darkside I – Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed (2008), which featured Hannah Collins. On the other hand, works by Guadalupe Ruiz, Diana Tamane and Jeff Weber represent the museum’s commitment to bring a younger generation more into focus via its collection acquisitions. The director’s choices furthermore comprise works that have been significant to her curatorial work: Sturtevant and Sherrie Levine informed her love of conceptual art, while Pipilotti Rist, Valie Export and Hannah Villiger shaped her understanding of what an unyielding artistic practice could look like. With their careful, considered compositions, the large-scale series by Bruno Serralongue (Calais, 2016) and Max Pinckers (The Fourth Wall, 2012) stand out, for Wietlisbach, as paragons of documentary storytelling that depict a truthful reality without laying claim to its autarky.
The exhibition "25 Years! Shared Histories, Shared Stories" offers a wideranging insight into Fotomuseum’s collection. Since the founding of the museum in 1993, the collecting of contemporary photography has played an important part in its activities. Through acquisitions, generous donations and permanent loans from foundations and private patrons, the collection now comprises around 8,000 photographic objects. A large part of the collection documents the museum’s exhibition programme, and in this way it forms a physical archive of international works and series from 1960 to the present day. | | | | | |  | | | Graciela Iturbide, Mujer ángel, Sonoran Desert, Mexico, 1979, from the series Die Seri-Indianer, 1979
© Graciela Iturbide | | | | | | | Works selected by: Laia Abril | Emma Bowkett | Melanie Bühler | Beate Eckhardt | Patrick Frey | Marta Gili | Martin Heller | Rainer Iglar | Nicole Kurmann | Zoe Leonard | Irene de Mendoza | Yann Mingard | Andreas Reinhart | Michael Ringier | Esther Ruelfs | Gudrun Ruetz | Wilhelm Schürmann | Aveek Sen | Shirana Shahbazi | Dorothea Strauss | David Streiff | Jan Wenzel | Trix Wetter | Francesco Zanot | Mara Züst | Nadine Wietlisbach | | | | The accompanying publication, with numerous interviews, essays and a portrait series by Anne Morgenstern, will be published by Spector Books in November. The publication is designed by Hi, Megi Zumstein and Claudio Barandun, and kindly supported by the Kresau4-Foundation. | | | | | |  | | | Tina Hage, Universal Pattern II, 2008
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