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Flux Harpsichord Concert, 2016
© Elina Brotherus | | | | | | IN REFERENCE TO A SUNNY PLACE | | | | 4 June – September 18, 2022 | | | | Opening: Friday, 3 June, 7 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Elina Brotherus
Artist and Model Reflected in a Mirror 1, 2007
Aus der Serie Artist and her Model
© Elina Brotherus, 2022 | | | | | | She changes roles and perspectives, plays with relationships in the creative process and opens ever new doors between photography and other visual arts with palpable delight. The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) honours the Finnish artist Elina Brotherus with the comprehensive survey show IN REFERENCE TO A SUNNY PLACE.
On display are central themes and works from the past 20 years. In various image series and video works, Brotherus repeatedly deals with the diverse connections between model, artist and viewer, between man and woman, figure and place, as well as with the genres of portraiture and the nude. With her typically strange and ironic self-staging, she explores emotions and tensions: being alone and being together, being lost and being safe, love, sadness, yearning, and more often joyfulness.
Often it is her examination of various art movements from Romanticism to Fluxus that inspires her. References to the German painter Caspar David Friedrich, for example, can be found in her group of works The Wanderer, while the video work The Wish Tree refers to the multimedia artist Yoko Ono. Also at the FFF on show is i.a. the series Sebaldiana. Memento Mori, Brotherus’ preoccupation with the German literary figure W.G. Sebald and her mother Ulla Brotherus’ short life as an artist. A book publication by Elina Brotherus on this series will be self-published in summer 2022. | | | | | | | | | Elina Brotherus
Der Wanderer 2, 2004
Aus der Serie The New Painting
© Elina Brotherus, 2022 | | | | | | | Elina Brotherus, born in Helsinki, Master degrees in photography and chemistry, is an early protagonist of an experimental group of young visual artists i.a. at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University) in the 1990s, later dubbed The Helsinki School. Brotherus, living both in Finland and France, is considered one of the most important contemporary photo artists in Europe. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 1997, is widely published and awarded and can be found in renowned museums and other collections. | | | | | | | | | Elina Brotherus
The Hat is too Big (The Joseph Beuys Hat), 2017
Aus der Serie Meaningless Work
© Elina Brotherus, 2022 | | | | | | The exhibition is supported by the Feith Foundation, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the Women‘s Department of the City of Frankfurt.
SPECIAL EVENTS
CURATOR’S TOUR
Sunday, 26 June, 14 August, 11 September, 3 pm
with CELINA LUNSFORD
GALLERY TALK
Saturday, 10 September, 3 pm
with ELINA BROTHERUS and CELINA LUNSFORD
Public guided Tours, on Wednesdays, 5 pm | | | | | | | | | Elina Brotherus
Hôtel de Sebald 3 / Sebald’s Hotel 3, 2019
Aus der Serie Sebaldiana. Memento Mori
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