| | | | | | | | Zanele Muholi
Miss D’vine I, 2007
© Zanele Muholi / Courtesy Yancey Richardson, New York
and The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm / New York | | | | | Trace - Formations of Likeness | | | | Photography and Video from The Walther Collection | | | | | | | 14 April – 23 July 2023 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Seydou Keïta
Untitled, 1952-1955
© Seydou Keïta / Courtesy The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva
and The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm / New York | | | | | | | The core focus of the major survey exhibition "Trace - Formations of Likeness", drawn exclusively from The Walther Collection, is portrait photography - of people, objects, and places - and the tracing of societal transformation across geographic spaces and contrasting socio-political and cultural landscapes. The photographic portrait is deployed as a means to shape identity, to advocate for social change and as a subversive strategy for visibility, often through an intimate investigation of politics of memory, history, and embodiment. The portraits on display range from Zanele Muholi's visual activism with its powerful presentation of Black members of the South African LGBTQ+ scene, to Accra Shepp's series of Occupy Wall Street protesters revolting against social and economic inequality in the streets of New York City, to Zhang Huan's documentation of his performances in which the human face is transformed into a stage expressing cultural belonging. | | | | | | | | | Martina Bacigalupo
Untitled (man in blue jacket and green pants), from the series "Gulu Real Art Studio", 2011-2012
© Martina Bacigalupo / Courtesy The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm / New York | | | | | | The substantial breadth and dialogical scope of the exhibition, which encompasses works from the last three centuries and brings together artists from Africa, America, Europe, and Asia, enables audiences to consider not only the parallel histories of the medium, but for its materiality, taxonomy, and serial structures to be revealed and drawn into question. As with Karrabing Film Collective, this exhibition brings together artistic practices that are focused on the making of images, and the production of representations of the real and the imaginary.
The exhibition "Trace" is developed in close collaboration with The Walther Collection, a New York City/Neu-Ulm-based art foundation internationally recognised for their critical engagement with contemporary and historical photography, as well as lens-based media. The works on display by a diverse group of artists from different cultural backgrounds, as well as archival, documentary and vernacular photography, offer a global context to reflect on the divergent trajectories of photography today.
Collectively, they showcase the medium's capacity as both an instrument for empower ment and formation of the seif, as well as its complex uses as a tool for control and subjugation. | | | | | | | | | Samuel Fosso
Self-Portraits (Angela Davis), from the series "African Spirits", 2008
© Samuel Fosso. Courtesy Jean-Marc Patras, Paris
and The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm / New York | | | | | | Together with Hamid Zenati's display "AII-Over" in the Mittelhalle, as well as a series of other exhibitions in the 2023 programme of Haus der Kunst, the exhibition "Trace" stands to reexamine the stories we are told, highlight that which is missing from historic narratives and repurpose the urgency of acting locally while keeping the world in our minds, as well as question canons and traditions and look to bring to the fore those voices historically set aside.
On the occasion of the exhibition, Haus der Kunst München is publishing the exhibition guide "Trace - Formations of Likeness, Photography and Video from The Walther Collectionl", VfmK Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Vienna. With contributions by Andrea Lissoni, Artur Walther, Mark Sealy, Anna Schneider, Hanns Lennart Wiesner, 96 pages. Available from May 2023. | | | | | | | | | Unidentified Photographer (American)
[Bobbie], ca. 1963
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