THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg September 10 to November 6, 2011
Bild: Francesco Giusti, „Bonga Bonga“ from the Series Sapologie, Ponte- Noire, Congo, 2009 Courtesy: Francesco Giusti
Credit: Said Atabekov, aus der Serie „Way to Rome“, 2007, C print, 50 x 65 cm, Courtesy of Impronte Contemporary Art, Milano
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KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM ZEPHYR DER REISS-ENGELHORN-MUSEEN ALTER MESSPLATZ MANNHEIM WILHELM-HACK-MUSEUM Media Relations: KUNSTVEREIN LUDWIGSHAFEN Goldmann HEIDELBERGER KUNSTVEREIN Public Relations Christa SAMMLUNG PRINZHORN Stollenwerk HALLE02/KUNSTHALLE HEIDELBERG Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland
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CONTENT
1. Press Release
2. Concept
3. Thematic Categories and Venues a. Mannheim (ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie of the Reiss-Engelhorn useum, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Alter Messplatz) b. Ludwigshafen (Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen) c. Heidelberg (Heidelberger Kunstverein, Sammlung Prinzhorn, halle02/Kunsthalle)
4. Artists a. List of artists (alphabetical order) b. List of artists (by venues)
5. Curators a. Katerina Gregos b. Solvej Helweg Ovesen
6. Dates and Facts
7. Highlights of the Program (Lectures and Reviews)
8. Co-operations and Network
9. History of the Fotofestival
10. Thumbnail and Credits (selection) Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations 11. Sponsors Christa Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 12. BASF SE – Premium sponsor & Partner of the 4. Fotofestival 80538 München Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg Deutschland
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1. PRESS RELEASE
56 INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ARTISTS FROM 32 COUNTRIES EXPLORE THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. A PREVIEW OF THE 7 EXHIBITION SPACES IN 3 FESTIVAL CITIES - MANNHEIM, LUDWIGSHAFEN AND HEIDELBERG
What might a portrait of humankind look in the year 2011? And what does the expanded medium of photography, reveal about the challenges confronting the people of Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia today? How does photography convey anthropological knowledge and transmit information from and to humans today?
For the 4th edition of Germany’s largest curated photo festival, Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen, set out to present a diversity of images of humankind today. The eye of the "lonely hunter" in the festival’s title is the eye of the photographer, always "on the lookout for idiosyncracies, subjectivities and surprises, as a means of expressing the marginalised, the suppressed, the invisible and the contradictory", say the curators in their catalogue text. Thematically, the festival is centred around socio-political themes such as economic and exploitative circuits, imperialism and the legacy of colonialisms, environmental issues, tolerance, ethnographic ‘othering’, civil liberties, but also more personal existential issues such as individual rites of passage, daily survival strategies and mortality.
The over 700 works in the exhibition advocate a new photographic humanism, an approach to photography which is more directly engaged, acknowledges the responsibilities and problematics underlying the capturing of the ‘other’ and the politics of representation, and puts emphasis on direct communication, interaction and intimacy – as opposed to ‘objective’ social analysis or activism. Here, the camera’s ability to convey knowledge as a feeling or emotion, not as a mere certification of truth, is rediscovered. With five festival thematic categories, and three solo exhibitions spanning seven prominent venues in the three festival cities - Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg - the high-calibre programme of the 4th Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg brings together works which are socially and politically engaged but also display a strong sense of visuality. Ranging from documentary to constructed photography, traditional landscape, portrait photography, and docu-fiction, as well as film and video installation, the festival presents a range of lens-based media reflecting the expanded Media Relations: nature of photography today. This spectrum of photographic forms combines powerful imagery Goldmann Public Relations and critically engaged positions to tell captivating stories from the lives of people living in the Christa 21st century. Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland
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MANNHEIM
THE AFFECT AND EFFECT OF POLITICS, ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie der Reiss- Engelhorn Museen, Mannheim How do the decisions that politicians make (or don’t make) affect our lives in real, tangible ways? What are the effects of political practice or malpractice? The Affect and Effect of Politics explores the real, tangible effects of politics on human beings and how these are imprinted on the physical environment: on landscapes, buildings, and social spaces; but also how they impact humans psychologically and in practical terms. The works in this exhibition – many of which are indebted to the humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography - focuses on the legacy of colonialisms and empire, current political upheavals and their repercussions, the politico-economic entanglements of the West beyond its own borders, and the new realities of the emerging economic super-powers in developing countries.
ROLE AND RITUAL, Kunsthalle Mannheim Rituals are essential formats of actions that create and sustain human culture, spirituality and sociality. Rituals are both historically inherited and contemporarily invented collective actions ordered in a commonly known dramaturgy. Through rituals, and the role-play they often entail, humans experience, partake of and interpret communal events, whether celebratory or distressing. These events confirm as well as generate a sense of collective experience – in some cases also consciousness. Role and Ritual unfolds through artistic and anthropocentric ‘case studies’ of local ritual culture and role-playing cited in a postcolonial, global context, and questions the myths generated in anthropological and ethnographic photography.
Solo presentation: BEAT STREULI: New public commission for the Alte Messeplatz, Mannheim Beat Streuli has become internationally known for his urban portraits - photographs of anonymous passers-by captured unawares - taken over the years in the world’s big cities. In his work, ethnic or cultural backgrounds take a back seat in favor of a phenomenological treatment of their incidental activities and bodily gestures. The repetition of human forms and human ‘traffic’ develops into a meditative inquiry into a human condition. For the 4th edition of the Fotofestival Beat Streuli has developed a site-specific work especially for the Alte Messeplatz in the city of Mannheim, which was shot on location during the month of July.
LUDWIGSHAFEN ECOLOGICAL CIRCUITS, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Ecological Circuits explores the changing relationship of man to the natural environment, a relationship that has been constantly shifting and has become increasingly precarious during our times. Intervention by human beings into nature and the incessant exploitation and consumption of natural resources and raw materials, have dramatically impacted ecological circuits throughout the world. The landscape and architecture photographs presented here generate a visual consciousness of the effects of unchecked human intervention in nature but also indicate a drive to a new ecological consciousness and responsibility we all face at the Media Relations: dawn of the twenty-first century. Goldmann Public Relations Christa THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Stollenwerk The Practice of Everyday Life consists of a photographic investigation into the organisation, Bruderstraße 5 performance and ‘personalising’ of everyday life, a task all human beings face. It is inspired by 80538 München Deutschland the homonymous book, by the sociologist Michel de Certeau, where he investigates how human beings individualise culture, and alter or modify things - from utilitarian objects to quotidian Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11 practices - in order to make them ‘their own’. How do we go through the processes of daily actions, necessities, and routines? How do we devise strategies that get us through the Fax. +49-89- quotidian? The Practice of Everyday Life thus testifies to humankind’s capacity for ordinary or 211 164 29 inventive survival strategies in the face of quotidian existence as captured in the snapshot, the E-Mail: portrait, as well as staged or manipulated photography. cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de
HEIDELBERG
LIFE CYCLES, Heidelberger Kunstverein A life cycle represents the existential curve from being born to passing away and the trajectory of an individual existence between the two. The photographs in Life Cycles capture and cut through the existential moments of biographical importance that impact upon and eventually constitute our subjective experience of the world and the deeper bliss or painful hardship of life. They allude to the ephemeral nature as well as the material, and physical consequences of the passage of time. The exhibition provides insight into the different conditions that human beings are subjected to in their various life stages and explores how these appear as a photographic testimonies: from the amateur family album and the still life to the carefully staged allusive portrait and the hard-edged realist representation that has its roots in the tradition of documentary photography.
Solo presentation: ROGER BALLEN: Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg Roger Ballen’s point of departure is sociological and anthropological, with a focus on the disenfranchised, the marginalised and the peripheral. He has become known for his piercing black and white photographs of people living on the fringes of South African white society. The series Outland captures the life of the isolated and poor rural white population (in the dorps or small villages), and consists of some of the most arresting and piercing documents of human life of the latter part of the twentieth century in South Africa. Shadow Chamber, on the other hand, is another series which portrays estranged, psychologically shaken people in grubby rooms, sometimes accompanied by pets who appear as maladjusted and confused as their owners. These photographs capture with great empathy the daily life of people living almost entirely outside of society: a telling and intense psychological document of bare life.
Solo presentation: TOBIAS ZIELONY: halle02/Kunsthalle, Heidelberg For over a decade Tobias Zielony has observed and documented the nocturnal life of suburban Germany, Poland, Canada, USA, France and Italy. His images depict youths hanging out and posing in petrol stations, car parks and deserted social housing estates. The series Quartiers Nord (2003) and Vele (2009-10) presented as part of the 4. Fotofestival, both deal with alienating architectures and the social relations that play out therein. Quartiers Nord consists of a series of photographs taken in the northern part of Marseille, where the population is largely Algerian or North West African. Vele is a series of images that were shot in a social housing complex in the north of Naples.
2011 CURATORS OF THE 4th FOTOFESTIVAL MANNHEIM_LUDWIGSHAFEN_HEIDELBERG
A. KATERINA GREGOS (*Born in Athens, Greece; living in Brussels, Belgium)
Katerina Gregos is an art historian and museologist, specialised in lens-based media. She is currently curator of the Danish Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennial (2011) and on the curatorial Media Relations: Goldmann team of Manifesta 9 (2012). She has curated several international large-scale exhibitions Public Relations including Contour 2009 – The 4th Biennial for Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (2009) and Christa the 6th E V+A Biennial in Limerick, Ireland (2006). From 1997 to 2002 she was director and Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 curator of the Deste Foundation, Athens, and during 2006 and 2007 she was the artistic director 80538 München of Argos – Centre for Art & Media in Brussels. In 2012 she will also be curating “Newtopia: The Deutschland
State of Human Rights”, timed to coincide with the opening of the Kazerne Dossin Museum and Tel. +49-89- Documentation Centre of the Holocaust and of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium (one of 211 164 11 various venues). Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 B. SOLVEJ HELWEG OVESEN (*Born in Roskilde, Denmark; living in Berlin, Germany) Solvej Helweg Ovesen completed the Curatorial Training Program at De Appel in Amsterdam. E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ During 2004-2006 she worked as curator at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. She goldmannpr.de
curated the first Copenhagen Quadriennal "U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art" (2008), the 6th Werkleitz Biennal, "Happy Believers", Halle (2006), the group exhibition "Die Welt als Bühne" in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2009/10) and ”Folklore - Old New Forms”, Kunsthal Møn, Askeby, Denmark (2011). Forthcoming exhibitions include "Never odd or even for the Grimmuseum Berlin 2011.
The ORGANISER of the festival is the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_ Heidelberg e.V., since 1993 a registered non-profit organisation which fosters dialogue on current tendencies in contemporary photography. The three participating cities, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, are represented in the executive board. Since 2005 the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg has been supported and made possible mainly by funding from BASF SE Ludwigshafen.
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2. CONCEPT
What would a portrait of humankind look like in year 2011? What are some of the key issues and challenges facing humanity today and how are they represented? How can affect and empathy be evoked by photography?
The 4th Fotofestival takes as its point of departure a humanist perspective in the tradition of documentary photography that has witnessed resurgence in contemporary art in recent years. It will focus on the new and critical ways photography transports anthropological knowledge. It will highlight the medium’s capability of transmitting information and generating awareness from and to humans.. The 4th edition of the Fotofestival aims to be a photographic survey of the human condition as we enter the second decade of the 21st century, seen from a plurality of geographic angles and subjectivities
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3. THEMATIC CATEGORIES AND VENUES
A. MANNHEIM
THE AFFECT AND EFFECT OF POLTICS ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museeum, Mannheim
How do the decisions that politicians make (or don’t make) affect our lives in real, tangible ways? What are the effects of political practice or malpractice?The Affect and Effect of Politics explores the real, tangible effects of politics on human beings and how these are imprinted on the physical environment: on landscapes, buildings, and social spaces; but also how they impact humans psychologically. The exhibition focuses on the legacy of colonialisms and empire, current political upheavals and their repercussions, the politico-economic entanglements of the West beyond its own borders, and the new realities of the emerging economic super-powers in developing countries. While most of the information we get about politics is transmitted through the media, this information comes to us from a dispassionate distance. This category of the festival thus aims to re-emphasize the capacity of photography to generate affect and empathy in relation to issues that often seem at a "safe distance from home", as well highlighting photography’s capacity to inform and generate vital knowledge that often escapes the public mainstream media discourse.
ARTISTS
1. SVEN AUGUSTIJNEN (BELGIUM, 1970) 2. GOHAR DASHTI (IRAN, 1980) 3. FOUAD ELKOURY (FRANCE/LEBANON, 1952) 4. BONIFACE MWANGI (KENYA, 1985) 5. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 6. BRUNO SERRALONGUE (FRANCE, 1968) 7. TARYN SIMON (USA, 1975) 8. JOHAN SPANNER (DENMARK, 1974) 9. GUY TILLIM (SOUTH AFRICA, 1962) 10. PAOLO WOODS (NETHERLANDS, 1971) Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations Christa Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland
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ROLE AND RITUAL Kunsthalle Mannheim Rituals are essential formats of actions creating and sustaining human culture, spirituality and sociality. Rituals are both historically inherited and contemporarily invented collective actions ordered in a commonly known dramaturgy, often ‘directed’ by a leading person. Through rituals humans experience, partake of and interpret communal events, whether celebratory or cathartic, and these events confirm as well as generate a sense of collective experience – in some cases also consciousness. The theme Role and Ritual is unfolds through artistic and anthropocentric ‘case studies’ of local ritual culture and role-playing cited in a postcolonial, global context. This exhibition presents documentations of rituals focusing on their appearance and the social roles and codes manifested therein. Here, also the role of the artist as researcher – as the ‘lonely hunter’ for specific situations and images – is reflected as regards the cultures and peoples observed.
ARTISTS
1. BANI ABIDI (PAKISTAN, 1971) 2. SAID ATABEKOV (UZBEKISTAN, 1965) 3. PEGGY BUTH (GERMANY, 1971) 4. MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL (MEXICO, 1975) 5. PHILIPPE CHANCEL (FRANCE, 1959) 6. CHEN CHIEH-JEN (TAIWAN, 1960) 7. HUSAIN & HASAN ESSOP (SOUTH AFRICA, 1985) 8. PETER FUNCH (DENMARK, 1974) 9. IGOR GRUBIC (CROATIA, 1969) 10. PIETER HUGO (SOUTH AFRICA, 1976) 11. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 12. VINCENT MEESSEN (BELGIUM/USA, 1971) 13. KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF (DENMARK, 1972) 14. JOHAN SPANNER (DENMARK, 1974) 15. JEREMY SHAW (CANADA, 1977) 16. CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER (GERMANY, 1974 )
Media Relations: Goldmann Public Relations SOLO PRESENTATION: BEAT STREULI Christa New public commission for the Alter Messeplatz, Mannheim Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 Beat Streuli has become internationally known for his urban portraits - photographs of 80538 München Deutschland anonymous passers-by captured unawares - taken over the years in the world’s big cities. In his work, ethnic or cultural backgrounds take a back seat in favor of a phenomenological treatment Tel. +49-89- of their incidental activities and bodily gestures. The repetition of human forms and human 211 164 11 th ‘traffic’ develops into a meditative inquiry into a human condition. For the 4 edition of the Fax. +49-89- Fotofestival Beat Streuli has developed a site-specific work especially for the Alte Messeplatz in 211 164 29 the city of Mannheim, which was shot on location during the month of July and captures all the E-Mail: diversity of city`s mixed population. cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de
B. LUDWIGSHAFEN
ECOLOGICAL CIRCUITS Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ecological Circuits explores the changing relationship of man to the natural environment, a relationship that has been constantly shifting and has become increasingly critical during our times. Interventions by human beings into nature and natural resources, such as exploitation, redistribution and consumption of raw materials, have dramatically impacted ecological circuits throughout the world. Melting ice caps redefining the Arctic landscape; oil, coal and gas being extracted and consumed at breakneck speed; explosive urbanisation all over the planet and cities expanding like fast-growing forests: all these are symptoms of a worrying ecological pathology. The photographs presented in Ecological Circuits generate a visual consciousness of the effects of unchecked human intervention on nature and natural resources, the vicious cycle of production and consumption, but also indicate a drive to a new ecological consciousness and responsibility we all face at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
ARTISTS
1. RAVI AGARWAL (INDIA, 1958) 2. FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN (GERMANY, 1973) 3. OLAF OTTO BECKER (GERMANY, 1959) 4. EDWARD BURTYNSKY (CANADA, 1955) 5. PHILIPPE CHANCEL (FRANCE, 1959) 6. CHEN CHIEH-JEN (TAIWAN, 1960) 7. GEERT GOIRIS (BELGIUM, 1971) 8. NICU ILFOVEANU (ROMANIA, 1975) 9. GULNARA KASMALIEVA AND MURATBEK DJUMALIEV (KYRGZSTAN, 1960 & 1965) 10. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 11. AGLAIA KONRAD (AUSTRIA, 1960) 12. YANG YONGLIANG (CHINA, 1980)
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THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE Kunstverein Ludwigshafen This sub-theme consists of a photographic investigation into the organisation, performance and ‘personalising’ of everyday life, a task all human beings face. It is inspired by the homonymous book, by the sociologist Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, where he investigates how human beings individualise culture, and alter or modify things in order to make them ‘their own’. How do we go through the processes of daily actions, necessities, and routines? How do we devise strategies that get us through the quotidian? The exhibition focuses on an important aspect of the practice of everyday life, namely the possibilities and inabilities of individual agency both as a kind of communication of a microcosmic worldview and as an example of the will to survive.
ARTISTS
1. SOFIA BURCHARDI & PLAMEN BONTCHEV (DENMARK, 1981/BULGARIA, 1980) 2. MARIE-JOSE BURKI (SWITZERLAND, 1960) 3. PETER FUNCH (DENMARK, 1974) 4. ALEXANDROS GEORGIOU (GREECE, 1970) 5. FRANCESCO GIUSTI (ITALY, 1969)) 6. CAO GUIMARÃES (BRAZIL, 1965) 7. JACOB HOLDT (DENMARK, 1947) 8. RINKO KAWAUCHI (JAPAN, 1972) 9. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 10. TRIS VONNA-MICHELL (UK, 1982) 11. PAOLO WOODS (NETHERLANDS, 1971)
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C. HEIDELBERG
LIFE CYCLES Heidelberger Kunstverein A life cycle represents an existential curve including being born and passing away, the trajectory of an individual existence. The photographs in Life Cycles capture and cut through the existential moments of biographical importance that impact upon and eventually constitute our subjective experience of the world and the deeper bliss or painful hardship of life. This exhibition venue therefore showcases the classical symbolic manifestations of the movement of life from one state to another – the so-called ‘rites of passage’ – such as wedding ceremonies or burial practices but it also provides insight into the different conditions that human beings are subjected to in their various life stages, and explores how these appear as photographic testimonies: from the amateur family album, and the still life photograph to the carefully staged allusive portrait.
ARTISTS
1. MAC ADAMS (WALES, 1943) 2. KÖKEN ERGUN (TURKEY, 1976) 3. SIMON FUJIWARA (UK, 1982) 4. AGNES GEOFFRAY (FRANCE, 1968) 5. JACOB HOLDT (DENMARK, 1947) 6. RINKO KAWAUCHI (JAPAN, 1972) 7. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 8. HETA KUCHKA (FINLAND, 1974) 9. BARBARA METSELAAR BERTHOLD (GERMANY, 1951) 10. RYAN MCGINLEY (USA, 1977) 11. BORIS MIKHAILOV (UKRAINE, 1938) 12. TORBJØRN RØDLAND (NORWAY, 1970) 13. JEREMY SHAW (CANADA, 1977) 14. FIONA TAN (INDONESIA/NETHERLANDS, 1966)
SOLO SHOW ROGER BALLEN - Collection Media Relations: Roger Ballen’s point of departure is sociological and anthropological, with a focus on the Goldmann Public Relations disenfranchised, the marginalised and the peripheral. His subjects are staged in gloomy and Christa shabby domestic settings, resulting in powerful, disturbing and alienating pictures, which Stollenwerk transcend voyeurism and venture into the territory of the affective. His series Outland (1987– Bruderstraße 5 80538 München 2000) captures the life of the isolated and poor rural white population, who lost any privileges Deutschland they had with the end of the apartheid and left many in a psychological state of shock. The Tel. +49-89- images in Shadow Chamber, from the first decade of this century, are even more haunting. 211 164 11 They picture estranged, psychologically shaken people in grubby rooms, sometimes accompanied by pets who appear as maladjusted and confused as their owners. These Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 photographs capture with great empathy the daily life of people living almost entirely outside of society: a telling and intense psychological document of bare life. E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ goldmannpr.de
SOLO SHOW TOBIAS ZIELONY halle02/Kunsthalle
For over a decade Zielony has observed and documented the nocturnal life of suburban Germany, Poland, Canada, USA, France and Italy. His images depict youths hanging out and posing in petrol stations, car parks and deserted social housing estates. The series Quartiers Nord (2003) and Vele (2009-10) both deal with the alienating architectures and social relations. Quartiers Nord consists of a series of nine photographs taken in the northern part of Marseille, where the population is largely Algerian or North West African. Vele is a series of 17 images from a social housing complex in the north of Naples. Le Vele is the name of the complex and optimistically means ‘The Sails’, but was squatted by Mafia families before the building was finished and nowadays has become the drug-dealing centre of the city. Zielony has recorded the bombastic yet fantastical architecture of concrete and metal at night, with its vast passageways and blocked perspectives becoming a visual metaphor for the estate’s social life. Zielony aims to capture the heart of an urban site and what it means to a youngster. Local youth cultures all around the world share the fact that they are inspired by global culture – film, fashion, drugs and music – which are adapted as 'styles' of representation of identity, and it is these aspects that are apparent when the youth are photographed.
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4. ARTISTS
A. LIST OF ARTISTS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
BANI ABIDI MAC ADAMS RAVI AGARWAL SAID ATABEKOV ROGER BALLEN OLAF OTTO BECKER PLAMEN BONTCHEV & SOFIA BURCHARDI MARIE JOSÉ BURKI EDWARD BURTYNSKY PEGGY BUTH MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL PHILIPPE CHANCEL CHEN CHIEH-JEN GOHAR DASHTI KÖKEN ERGUN HASAN & HUSAIN ESSOP SIMON FUJIWARA PETER FUNCH AGNÈS GEOFFRAY ALEXANDROS GEORGIOU FRANCESCO GIUSTI GEERT GOIRIS IGOR GRUBIC CAO GUIMARÃES JACOB HOLDT PIETER HUGO NICU ILFOVEANU GULNARA KASMALIEVA & MURATBEK DJUMALIEV RINKO KAWAUCHI PANOS KOKKINIAS Media Relations: Goldmann AGLAIA KONRAD Public Relations HETA KUCHKA Christa FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 RYAN MCGINLEY 80538 München VINCENT MEESSEN Deutschland BARBARA METSELAAR BERTHOLD Tel. +49-89- BORIS MIKHAILOV 211 164 11 BONIFACE MWANGI KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF Fax. +49-89- 211 164 29 TORBJØRN RØDLAND BRUNO SERRALONGUE E-Mail: cstollenwerk@ JEREMY SHAW goldmannpr.de
TARYN SIMON JOHAN SPANNER BEAT STREULI FIONA TAN GUY TILLIM CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER TRIS VONNA-MICHELL PAOLO WOODS YANG YONGLIANG TOBIAS ZIELONY
B. LIST OF ARTISTS (BY VENUES)
I. THE AFFECT AND EFFECT OF POLITICS: Zephyr Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim 1. SVEN AUGUSTIJNEN (BELGIUM, 1970) 2. GOHAR DASHTI (IRAN, 1980). 3. FOUAD ELKOURY (FRANCE/LEBANON, 1952) 4. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 5. BONIFACE MWANGI (KENYA, 1985) 6. BRUNO SERRALONGUE (FRANCE, 1968) 7. TARYN SIMON (USA, 1975) 8. JOHAN SPANNER (DENMARK, 1974) 9. GUY TILLIM (SOUTH AFRICA, 1962) 10. PAOLO WOODS (NETHERLANDS, 1971)
II. ECOLOGICAL CIRCUITS: Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen 1. RAVI AGARWAL (INDIA, 1958) 2. FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN (GERMANY, 1973) 3. OLAF OTTO BECKER (GERMANY, 1959) 4. EDWARD BURTYNSKY (CANADA, 1955) 5. PHILIPPE CHANCEL (FRANCE, 1959) 6. CHEN CHIEH-JEN (TAIWAN, 1960) 7. GEERT GOIRIS (BELGIUM, 1971) 8. NICU ILFOVEANU (ROMANIA, 1975) 9. GULNARA KASMALIEVA AND MURATBEK DJUMALIEV (KYRGZSTAN, 1960 & 1965) 10. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 11. AGLAIA KONRAD (AUSTRIA, 1960) 12. YANG YONGLIANG (CHINA, 1980)
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ROLE AND RITUAL III. : Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim 1. BANI ABIDI (PAKISTAN, 1971) 2. SAID ATABEKOV (UZBEKISTAN, 1965) 3. PEGGY BUTH (GERMANY, 1971) 4. PHILIPPE CHANCEL (FRANCE, 1959) 5. CHEN CHIEH-JEN (TAIWAN, 1960) 6. MARIANA CASTILLO DEBALL (MEXICO, 1975) 7. HUSAIN & HASAN ESSOP (SOUTH AFRICA, 1985) 8. PETER FUNCH (DENMARK, 1974) 9. IGOR GRUBIC (CROATIA, 1969) 10. PIETER HUGO (SOUTH AFRICA, 1976) 11. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 12. VINCENT MEESSEN (BELGIUM/USA, 1971 13. KIRSTINE ROEPSTORFF (DENMARK, 1972) 14. JOHAN SPANNER (DENMARK, 1974) 15. JEREMY SHAW (CANADA, 1977) 16. CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER (GERMANY, 1974 )
IV. LIFE CYCLES: Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg 1. MAC ADAMS (WALES, 1943) 2. KÖKEN ERGUN (TURKEY, 1976) 3. SIMON FUJIWARA (UK, 1982) 4. AGNES GEOFFRAY (FRANCE, 1968) 5. JACOB HOLDT (DENMARK, 1947) 6. RINKO KAWAUCHI (JAPAN, 1972) 7. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) 8. HETA KUCHKA (FINLAND, 1974) 9. BARBARA METSELAAR BERTHOLD (GERMANY, 1951) 10. RYAN MCGINLEY (USA, 1977) 11. BORIS MIKHAILOV (UKRAINE, 1938) 12. TORBJØRN RØDLAND (NORWAY, 1970) 13. JEREMY SHAW (CANADA, 1977) 14. FIONA TAN (INDONESIA/NETHERLANDS, 1966)
V. THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen 1. SOFIA BURCHARDI & PLAMEN BONTCHEV (DENMARK, 1981/BULGARIA, 1980) 2. MARIE-JOSE BURKI (SWITZERLAND, 1960) 3. PETER FUNCH (DENMARK, 1974) 4. ALEXANDROS GEORGIOU (GREECE, 1970) 5. FRANCESCO GIUSTI (ITALY, 1969) 6. CAO GUIMARÃES (BRAZIL, 1965) Media Relations: Goldmann 7. JACOB HOLDT (DENMARK, 1947) Public Relations 8. RINKO KAWAUCHI (JAPAN, 1972) Christa 9. PANOS KOKKINIAS (GREECE, 1965) Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 10. TRIS VONNA-MICHELL (UK, 1982) 80538 München 11. PAOLO WOODS (NETHERLANDS, 1971) Deutschland
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SOLO PRESENTATIONS
Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg ROGER BALLEN (USA/SOUTH AFRICA, 1950)
Halle 02/Kunsthalle, Heidelberg TOBIAS ZIELONY (GERMANY, 1973)
Alter Messplatz, Mannheim (öffentlicher Auftrag) BEAT STREULI (SWITZERLAND, 1957)
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5. CURATORS
A. KATERINA GREGOS (*Born in Athens, Greece; living in Brussels, Belgium)
Katerina Gregos is an art historian and museologist, specialised in lens-based media. She is currently curator of the Danish Pavilion for the 54th Venice Biennial (2011) and on the curatorial team of Manifesta 9 (2012). She has curated several international large-scale exhibitions including Contour 2009 – The 4th Biennial for Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (2009) and the 6th E V+A Biennial in Limerick, Ireland (2006). From 1997 to 2002 she was director and curator of the Deste Foundation, Athens, and during 2006 and 2007 she was the artistic director of Argos – Centre for Art & Media in Brussels. In 2012 she will also be curating “Newtopia: The State of Human Rights”, timed to coincide with the opening of the Kazerne Dossin Museum and Documentation Centre of the Holocaust and of Human Rights, Mechelen, Belgium (one of various venues).
B. SOLVEJ HELWEG OVESEN (*Born in Roskilde, Denmark; living in Berlin, Germany) Solvej Helweg Ovesen completed the Curatorial Training Program at De Appel in Amsterdam. During 2004-2006 she worked as curator at the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. She curated the first Copenhagen Quadriennal "U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art" (2008), the 6th Werkleitz Biennal, "Happy Believers", Halle (2006), the group exhibition "Die Welt als Bühne" in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2009/10) and ”Folklore - Old New Forms”, Kunsthal Møn, Askeby, Denmark (2011). Forthcoming exhibitions include "Never odd or even for the Grimmuseum Berlin 2011.
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6. DATES AND FACTS
Title: THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg
Duration: September 10 to November 6, 2011
Press conference: September 9 / 10 am, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Opening: Opening of the Festival: Friday, 9 September 2011, 7 pm, Kunsthalle Mannheim Focus Ludwigshafen: Saturday, 10 September 2011, 10:30 am, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen Saturday, 10 September 2011, 11:30 am, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Focus Heidelberg: Saturday, 10 September 2011, 5 pm, Sammlung Prinzhorn Saturday, 10 September, 6.30 pm, Heidelberger Kunstverein Saturday, 10 September 2011, 8.30 pm, halle02 Party
Curators: Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen
Size of the festival: 56 artists from 32 countries present over 1020 works
Venues: Mannheim Kunsthalle Mannheim ZEPHYR of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Media Relations: Alter Meßplatz Goldmann Public Relations Christa Ludwigshafen Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 Wilhelm-Hack-Museum 80538 München Kunstverein Deutschland
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Portfolio-Review: The Portfolio Review provides the opportunity for an effective exchange between photographers and selected photography experts and is directed at upper-division students, art school graduates, as well as freelance artists and photographers.
Reviewers Alexa Becker Acquisitions editor for the Kehrer Verlag Milan Chlumsky Art critic for the FAZ, curator and photographer Bernd Dinkel Photo editor, GEO Magazine Florian Ebner Curator, direction of the Photomuseum Braunschweig Anna Gripp and Denis Brudna Editors for the journal Photonews Rainer Iglar Curator, photographer and publisher Alexandra Lechner Photograph, Co-founder of the Photofestival Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Maren Lübbke-Tido Editor-in-chief for Camera Austria International, curator Robert Morat Owner of the Robert Morat Galerie in Hamburg and Berlin Esther Ruelfs Freelance Curator and writer, Köln Mette Sandbye Lecturer and art critic Claude W. Sui Director and curator of the Forum Internationale Photographie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Erno Vroonen Freelance curator
In addition, the extensive Festivalprogram offers artists talks, lectuers guides and workshops.
Cultural Award Ceremony of the German Society of Photography: October 8, 2011, 7 p.m., Heidelberger Kunstverein Media Relations: Goldmann Patrons: Stadt Mannheim Public Relations Christa Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein Stollenwerk Stadt Heidelberg Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar Festivalregion Rhein-Neckar Tel. +49-89- 211 164 11
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Other partners: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Kultur Heinrich-Vetter-Stiftung Pro Helvetia Land Baden-Württemberg Japan Foundation Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Mondriaan Stichting Statens Kunstrad Landesbank Baden-Württemberg myphotobook Flemish authorities OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar GBG – Mannheimer Wohnungsbaugesellschaft mbH rnv – Rhein-Neckar-Verkehr GmbH
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Catalogue: Editors: Katerina Gregos, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg e.V. Designer: Manuel Raeder Catalogue: 240 pages, color and black and white Fee: 20 Euros Release: 9.9.2011
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7. OPENING WEEKEND AND HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FESTIVAL EVENTS PROGRAMME
OPENING WEEKEND
09.09 // 10:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. // Portfolio Review // Print Media Academy, Heidelberg More information at www.fotofestival.info/en/reviewing
09.09. // 7:00 P.M. // Opening of the 4th Fotofestival // Kunsthalle Mannheim Greeting: Dr. Peter Kurz, Mayor of the City of Mannheim Introduction: Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen, curators Opening: Dr. Ulrike Lorenz, Director of the Kunsthalle Mannheim Moderation: Sabine Schirra, Fotofestival Board, Carolin Ellwanger, Managing Director of the Fotofestival
09.09. // 9:30 P.M. // Focus ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie of the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum Curator’s introduction to the exhibition The Effect and “Affect” of Politics with Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen (opens at 7:00 p.m.). Languages: English and German
10.09. // 10:00 A.M. – 1:30 P.M. // Portfolio Review // Print Media Academy, Heidelberg More information at www.fotofestival.info/en/reviewing
10.09. // 10:30 A.M. // Focus Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Greeting: Dietrich Skibelski, Fotofestival Board Curator’s introduction to the exhibition Ecological Circuits with Katerina Gregos. Language: English
10.09. // 11:30 A.M. // Focus Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Curator’s introduction to the exhibition The Practice of Everyday Life with Solvej Helweg Ovesen. Language: German
10.09. // 12:30 – 2:30 P.M. // Focus Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Artist’s lecture: Jacob Holdt Media Relations: Introduction: Solvej Helweg Ovesen Goldmann Language: Slide show with English commentary Public Relations Christa Stollenwerk 10.09. // 5:00 P.M. // Focus Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg Bruderstraße 5 Curator’s introduction to the exhibition Roger Ballen with Katerina Gregos, Language: English 80538 München Deutschland
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10.09. // 8:30 UP.M. // Focus halle02 // Kunsthalle, Heidelberg Curator’s introduction to the exhibition Tobias Zielony with Solvej Helweg Ovesen. Language: German Followed by the Festival Party with Lovely Music & Visual by Love Provider & Friends (Djs), Free admission! halle02
11.09.11 // 3:00 – 6:00 P.M. // Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Artists’ Talks Selected artists presented in the individual exhibition sections talk about their work: Artists: Ravi Agarwal, Gohar Dashti, Peter Funch, Alexandros Georgiou, Panos Kokkinias, Boniface Mwangi, Yang Yongliang Moderation: Katerina Gregos and Solvej Helweg Ovesen Language: English
FURTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FRINGE PROGRAM
08.10. // 3:00 P.M. // Opening The Favoriten // Print Media Academy Heidelberg The exhibition presents the three 2011 Portfolio Review favourites.
08.10. // 7:00 P.M. // Presentation of the Cultural Award 2011 of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) at the Heidelberger KunstvereinThe DGPh’s Cultural Award 2011 will be presented to Prof. Klaus Honnef within the scope of the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg. On October 8 the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) will present its distinguished Cultural Award to Bonn-based Prof. Klaus Honnef, one of the most important curators, authors, critics, and champions of artistic photography in the second half of the 20th century. Since the early 1970s and his work for documenta 5 and documenta 6, Honnef (*1939 in Tilsit) has stood for the recognition of professional photography in the context of the visual arts. Numerous now prominent names in photography have been represented at the more than 500 exhibitions he has curated. He presented their work in its early phase and is therefore also considered to be the discoverer of these artists.
09.10. // 11:15 A.M. // Guided tour with the curators // Solvej Helwig OvesenSolvej Helweg Ovesen leads a tour through the exhibitions at the two institutions in Mannheim: 11:15 A.M. Kunsthalle Mannheim 12:30 P.M. ZEPHYR
15.09., 5:00 P.M. // 23.09., 5:00 P.M. // ZEPHYR Raum für Fotografie of the Reiss- Engelhorn-Museum // Guided tours with the Festival Team Seraphine Meya and Julia Koch lead a tour through the exhibition The Effect and “Affect” of Politics. Media Relations: 05.11. // 12:00 P.M. // Guided tour with the curators // Katerina Gregos Goldmann Katerina Gregos leads a tour through the exhibitions at the two institutions in Ludwigshafen: Public Relations Christa 12:00 P.M. Kunstverein Ludwigshafen Stollenwerk 1:00 P.M. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland
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11.10. // 7:30 P.M. // Kunsthalle Mannheim // Presentation by artist Köken Ergun, Berlin, in dialogue with Dr. Christiane Brosius, Professor for Visual and Media Anthropology, Karl Jaspers Centre of Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg, One is a Lonely Number Köken Ergun works in the field of visual anthropology and will present several of his films that are all made from an artistic perspective. The filmic focus is on the rituals, the characters, and energies involved in such an event. In his artwork and research Ergun examines the performative side of rituals undertaken by ethnic minorities. Dr. Christiane Brosius, who will take part in a dialogue with Ergun about the themes of his work, is specialized in Media Anthropology, Urban Ethnology as well as Globalization and Migration. Moderation: Solvej Helweg Ovesen Language: English
26.10. // 7:00 P.M. // Kunsthalle Mannheim // Lecture and Slide show with Bani Abidi Defusing the Fuse Bani Abidi talks about her artistic practice as it spans a decade of intense social and political upheaval and civil war in Pakistan. She talks about her ideas of sidestepping urgent, sensational and newsworthy realities, to identify moments of everyday life. The exhibition Role and Ritual at the Kunsthalle Mannheim presents works from her series Karachi - Series 1 (2009). Language: English
05.11. // 2:00 P.M. // Sammlung Prinzhorn // Artist´s Discussion with Roger Ballen The internationally renowned photographer Roger Ballen, who was honored in Germany with retrospectives at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2007) and the Münchner Stadtmuseum (2010), talks about his works from the series Outland and Shadow Chamber. Introduction: Katerina Gregos Language: English
06.11. // 5:00 P.M. // Closing Event // Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen Summary and Outlook – an open talk with Katerina Gregos, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, the curators of the Fotofestival, and the curator of the next edition of the Fotofestival in 2013.
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8. COOPERATIONS AND NETWORK
Cultural organisations and supporting partners in the whole region of the Rhein-Neckar unite and collaborate for the realisation of the Fotofestival. Two federal states, three cities, and seven institutions form a constantly growing network of partners and institutions that, during the two months of the Fotofestival, support the exhibitions and events as a discursive forum and platform for communication. In this way the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg plays an important role in the image and identity building of the metropolitan area of the Rhine- Neckar.
Constantly growing numbers of visitors – nationally and internationally – and a strong response by the media attest to the success of the festival concept. Innovative co-operations of this kind are unique and function as a nationwide model. The Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg relies on its partners in the fields of culture and economy to strengthen and expand its reputation. In return, it offers a variety of co-operations and possibilities for its economic and cultural partners.
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9. HISTORY OF THE FOTOFESTIVAL
In the fall of 2011, the largest curated German photography festival will take place for the fourth time in the metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar. The Fotofestival is one of the top fifteen festivals in the region, and since its inception in 2005 it has become a highly regarded international photo biennial. The festival is curated by distinguished international visiting curators who develop a thematic concept and present works by circa sixty international artists working with the medium of photography and lens-based media in eight different venues in three cities. The most prestigious exhibition venues and institutions in the region participate in the Fotofestival: the Kunsthalle in Mannheim, the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen, the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen and the Heidelberger Kunstverein, as well as the halle_02/Kunsthalle in Heidelberg. Two additional venues were won over for 2011: ZEPHYR of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum and like 2007 the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg. The Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg joins the three cities and their art institutions together, thus enabling the initiation of a city-wide dialogue.
FROM THE 7th INTERNATIONALE FOTOTAGE MANNHEIM/LUDWIGSHAFEN TO THE 3rd FOTOFESTIVAL MANNHEIM_LUDWIGSHAFEN_HEIDELBERG
Following six successful runs of the International Fototage in the Westphalian city of Herten, the first photo festival in the metropolitan region took place in 2005. The 7th Internationale Fototage Mannheim/Ludwigshafen addressed the themes “Contemporary American Photography” and “Die Kunst Deutsche(r) zu sein” (The Art of Being German). The curator of the festival was Hansjoachim Nierentz. With a new structure, a new name, and with Heidelberg as a third partner, Christoph Tannert, director of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, curated the 2nd Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg on the theme of “Reality Crossings.” In 2009, under the heading of “Images Recalled—Bilder auf Abruf,” the 3rd Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg demonstrated how the photographic image orders and structures our perspective of the world. The festival was curated by Tobias Berger (chief curator at the Nam June Paik Art Center in Seoul, South Korea) and the photo specialist Esther Media Relations: Ruelfs. Goldmann Public Relations Christa Stollenwerk Bruderstraße 5 80538 München Deutschland
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10. Thumbnail and Credits (selection): All images are free for press release only within the coverage about the 4. Fotofesival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg and by mentioning the caption and copyright of the images.
Pieter Hugo, Escort Kama. Enugu, Nigeria. 2008. Bani Abidi, Chandra Achary. Ramadan, Karachi. 2008. Courtesy Michael Stevenson, Cape Town and Yossi Milo, New York. Courtesy Green Cardamom.
Peter Funch, Memory Lane from the series Babel Tales. 2008. Courtesy V1 Gallery.
THE EYE IS A LONELY HUNTER: IMAGES OF HUMANKIND 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg 10. September bis 6. November 2011
Olaf Otto Becker, River 2 Position 2 from the series Above Zero. 2008. © Olaf Otto Becker.
Guy Tillim, Typing pool, Town Hall, Likasi, DR Congo. 2007. Courtesy: Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin and STEVENSON Gallery, Kapstadt. Said Atabekov, from the series Way to Rome. 2007. Courtesy of Impronte Contemporary Art, Milano.
Taryn Simon, LARRY MAYES. Scene of arrest, The Royal Inn, Gary, Indiana, Police found Mayes hiding beneath a mattress in this room, Served 18.5 years of an 80-year sentence for Rape, Robbery and Roger Ballen, Tommy Samson and a mask. 2000. Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery. Unlawful Deviate Conduct”, 2002. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
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Edward Burtynsky, Socar Oil Fields #1a , Baku, Azerbaijan. 2006. © the artist. Courtesy Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln.
Tobias Zielony, Vele Azzurra, Vele. 2010. Paolo Woods, from the series Walk on my Eyes. 2004 – 2009 (released 2010). Courtesy the artist and KOW BERLIN. Courtesy the artist.
B o ri s M ik ha il o v , C a s e h i s to r y , U SS R , 1997 . R y an M c G in le y , F a lll A w a y ( Le a v e s ) . 2009 . © VG Bild-Kunst. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, © the artist. Courtesy The Breeder, Athens and Team Gallery, Paris. New York.
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11. SPONSORS
The 4. Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg is a major project of Kulturvision 2015. For their support, we wish to express our heartfelt thanks to all our sponsors, patrons, constant partners and to the exhibition venues participating in this project:
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