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onco-mickey-catch, 2016
@ photo+ lab | | | | | düsseldorf photo+ | | | | Biennale for Visual and Sonic Media: On Reality | | | | | | | 17 May – 14 July 2024 | | | 50 participating institutions, galleries and off-spaces
Opening "WAYS OF SEEING": Friday, 17 May, 6pm
Opening weekend:
Friday, 17 May, 6-9 pm
Saturday, 18 May, 12–4 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The third edition of the Biennial for Visual and Sonic Media düsseldorf photo+ from 17 May to 14 July 2024 is themed "On Reality". In exhibitions and concerts, talks, panels and other events, current and updated photography as well as media-based art in its most diverse facets can be experienced throughout Düsseldorf. The artists will reflect in a wide variety of ways on how media significantly shapes our understanding of reality today and in the past. Computer-generated worlds of images and sounds surround us everywhere, and the Biennale integrates these into the art trail and links analogue-generated audiovisual realities. In total, the Biennale offers over 50 exhibitions and events in museums, collections, galleries, independent exhibition spaces and universities. This year's düsseldorf photo+ is being organised under the artistic direction of Pola Sieverding and Rupert Pfab. Ljiljana Radlovic oversees the project management. | | | | | | | | | Toby Binder
Tiernan, from the series Wee Muckers, 2016
@ Galerie Clara Maria Sels | | | | | | Highlights from our varied exhibition programme:
In photographs, now seen as historic, Allan Sekula » critically illuminates social structures operating within the industrial workforce of the USA at Galerie Konrad Fischer. The group exhibition at the gallery boa basedonart, another retrospective show, focuses on social stereotypes in relation to self-portraits. Sumi Anjuman » offers a contemporary insight into gender inequality at the private Philara Collection.
Toby Binder » also takes a sociological standpoint with a look at crisis-ridden milieux at the gallery Clara Maria Sels. The exhibition at Julia Ritterskamp further investigates this stance in a show of the work of Andréas Lang » , who studies the timeless theme of genocide in relation to Armenian history. And finally, Helmut Schweizer » showcases the absurdity and cruelty of war in complex image collages at Rupert Pfab, referencing Albrecht Dürer’s depictions of the apocalypse.
Light is thrown on the all-encompassing dimension of the mediality of photography in exhibitions initiated by artists themselves: "das vorphotographische" at Projektraum Aura and "Mortal Maps" at the Künstlerverein Malkasten. The contemporary state of the digital world in light of AI and computer technology is investigated by the collective, darktaxa, at Projektbüro DFI. Artist, Lynn Hershman Leeson » , links our present day with debates around the media construction of what was termed the new media in the 1980s at the Julia Stoschek Foundation with her work, "Are Our Eyes Targets?". Kurt Dahlke aka Der Pyrolator also takes a timely backward glance at the interdisciplinary audiovisual culture of the 1980s at SETAREH X, in specific reference to the Düsseldorf scene. This viewpoint is also emphasised at VAN HORN in works by the photographer, Albrecht Fuchs » , who makes portraits of artists living and working in the Rhineland.
Many exhibitions are concerned with issues surrounding the architectural. At the Polnisches Institut Düsseldorf, Nicolas Grospierre » considers the failure of large-scale urban projects, whilst a group show at Galerie Kadel Willborn highlights its perceptual psychological aspects. In "Forthcoming" at K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen artists offer an intercontinental, intercultural comparison of urban social utopias.
In parallel to these shows, Gabriele Rothemann » at the Galerie Ute Parduhn focuses on damage to fauna, whilst, at the Stadtmuseum. Gudrun Kemsa » considers the destruction to the natural world around the Rhine. One of two projects by the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf can also be found here. Its students exemplify the laboratory nature of the Biennale with their experimental approach to the medium of exhibitions and contemporary media. Gallery wildpalms meanwhile provides a view far beyond the regional. Its exhibition showcases an encounter between art and design and concepts of reality held by indigenous American communities. | | | | | | | | | Claudia Rohrauer
underwater (HALLUCINATIONS), 2022
@ AURA Kunstraum | | | | | | Exhibition "Ways of Seeing"
Harun Farocki » Forensic Architecture » Geocinema » Kyriaki Goni » Jill Magid » Clara Mosch » Jon Rafman » Natascha Sadr Haghighian »
17 May – 14 July
Opening: Friday, 17 May, 6 pm
Curated by Pola Sieverding
and Asya Yaghmurian
The exhibition "Ways of Seeing" sheds light on the complex relationships between power and control mechanisms, social responsibility and freedom and how they are manifested or broken in the gaze of the lens and through the lens. With a focus on various situations of sur- and sousveillance - supervision and its replication - the question is posed as to what it means to see and be seen when the gazes do not meet because the direction of interest is obscured, machines take the place of eyes, or the perspective is steered, and the focus is permeated by blind spots.
Examples include Natascha Sadr Haghighian's interactive video sculpture on gaze correction and Kyriaki Goni's video installation about the last days of an AI-based voice assistant and her avatar. | | | | | | | | | | First satellite image of Earth, 1959, NASA | | | | | | Symposium "On Reality"
18 May & 19 May 2024
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Concept: Pola Sieverding and Asya Yaghmurian
On the podium: Gabrielle Moser, Sim Chi Yin, Federico Campagna, Hannah Darabi, Stan Douglas, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Elena Esposito, Jon Rafman, Ron Jafman, Julie Favreau, Elaine G. Goldberg, Annekathrin Kohout, Marie-France Rafael
The symposium "On Reality", a collaboration between düsseldorf photo+ and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, brings together experts from the fields of art, science, philosophy and media theory. Since the advent of photography the emergence of photography, questions of human access to the world and mediation have been intensively discussed. In view of computer-generated images, augmented reality and artificial intelligence, the question of the of the relationship between reality and image. The perspectives represented range from an investigative view of the present to speculative approaches that include the past and the future.
Participation is free of charge. Due to the limited number of seats, please register in advance at [email protected]. | | | | | | | | | Luca Jenniches
Soldaten from North Face Jacken und Heinz Ketchup, 2023 | | | düsseldorf photo+ talks
24 May, 7 June, 20 June, 11 July
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Roter Salon
Concept: Rupert Pfab
Guests: Ruben Arevshatyan, Kathrin Becker, Anne Eleonore Gagnon, Franziska Kunze, Anja Schürmann
Under the auspices of the Pictorial Turn (W. J. T. Mitchell, 1992) and the Iconic Turn (Gottfried Boehm, 1994), the düsseldorf photo+ talks will be the setting for an analytical debate on the complex and constantly evolving media and their effects on society, culture and individuals.
In addition, the "Biennale" concept will be discussed, a mediation format that must constantly reshape itself parallel to changes in the media and arts. Topics include images of war-damaged cities and cultural landscapes in the media discourse, the Nicéphore+ photo biennial, the entanglement of the material side of the themes includes the interweaving of the physical side of photography with the digital and the social role and responsibility of art in a national and international context. | | | | | | | | | Julia Scher
Infoscreen at the bus station somewhere near Planet Greyhound, (Detail), 2022 | | | INFOSCREEN AT BUS STATION SOMEWHERE
NEAR PLANET GREYHOUND
Julia Scher »
Take A Bow – Kö-Bogen II
17 May - 13 June 2024
The four-metre-high and 70-metre-wide LED screen on Kö-Bogen II on Schadowstraße is a new and spectacular venue for artistic interventions in public space. Düsseldorf is strengthening urban culture in the centre of the state capital with a new LED lit programme. The commercial use will give way to a curated intervention of digital and time-based art under the title Take a Bow, between 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Thematically, there is a reference to current exhibitions and events in the city. In conjunction with the düsseldorf photo+ biennale, the Cologne-based American artist Julia Scher will be showing her work Infoscreen at Bus Station Somewhere near Planet Greyhound - the fictional emigration of pets to a better world - from 17 May on.
Her video from 2022 gives hope for a new, more peaceful coexistence fused together with a critical questioning of territorial claims to power. Julia Scher’s video shows the fictional exodus of our planet’s pets – the effective slaves of affluence – in buses of the US-American bus company Greyhound as a means of transportation for refugees, migrant workers or children who have run away from home – all those whose future is marked by constant uncertainty.
Participating institutions: Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste / Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath / Bilker Bunker / Projektbüro DFI e.V. / Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf / Hochschule Düsseldorf / K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Kulturforum Alte Post / Städtische Galerie Neuss zu Gast im Atelierhaus / Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Kunstpalast / Künstlerverein Malkasten / Mataré-Haus / Sammlung Philara / photo+ lab / Polnisches Institut Düsseldorf / RED – Restaurierungszentrum Düsseldorf / SITTart Raum für Kunst im Atelierhaus / Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf / Julia Stoschek Foundation / TMD Theatermuseum Hofgartenhaus Düsseldorf
Participating galleries: Beck & Eggeling - International Fine Art / boa-basedonart / COSAR / Art Edition Fils – Galerie im stilwerk / Konrad Fischer Galerie / Grölle / Kadel Willborn / Galerie Hans Mayer / Mook Gallery / Galerie Ute Parduhn / Galerie Rupert Pfab / Petra Rinck Galerie / Julia Ritterskamp / Galerie Clara Maria Sels / SETAREH / SETAREH X / Galerie Franz Swetec / VAN HORN / wildpalms
Participating project spaces: AURA Kunstraum / b41 / Le Bureau / eversince / produzentengalerie plan.d. / the pool offshore im RfK / the pool / Salon des Amateurs / sipgate shows / STUDIO FOR ARTISTIC RESEARCH & About Repetition e.V.
düsseldorf photo+ is an initiative that originated on the Düsseldorf arts scene. It is built on a conviction that photographic and media-based art, in the form of digitalisation and artificial intelligence, can help explain, and make visible, changes in the media and society, and can allow for a critical examination and aesthetic experiencing of them. The Biennale is organised in a decentralised manner and places a focus on time-based media, also offering a comprehensive overview of Düsseldorf’s contemporary art scene.
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