5. FOTO – FESTIVAL MANNHEIM LUDWIGSHAFEN HEIDELBERG DOCUMENTATION 2013 DOCUMENTATION 2013 MAJOR SUCCESS FOR THE 5th FOTOFESTIVAL MANNHEIM 9 LUDWIGSHAFEN exhibition venues HEIDELBERG 80 international artists From 14 September until 10 November 2013, the cities of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, under the title GRENZGÄNGE. MAGNUM: TRANS-TERRITORIES, presented one of Europe’s most important festivals of contemporary photography for the fifth time. The more than 1300 works by 80 international photographers and artists met with a greater resonance than ever before at all eight exhibition locations. A four-fold leap in visitor numbers has been achieved during the period from 2007 to 2013. With nearly 43,000 visitors currently, 1.300 Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, ten years after it relocated from the Ruhr area, is one of the flagship cultural projects of the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. works With the focus on positions by photographers from the agency Magnum Photos, and a compre- hensive supporting programme comprising more than 190 events, the Festival was widely acclaimed by the press both within Germany and abroad. In addition to the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the Tages- zeitung, and ZEIT, along with numerous specialist magazines (Art, Photo International, Sleek, Monopol, Photonews, LFI, Fisheye Magazine, and many more), the international press also 196 reported on the Festival: publications included Der Standard and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. events THE CURATOR The internationally engaged exhibition maker and current exhibition manager at Magnum Photos Paris, Andréa Holzherr, (D/F) curated the 5th Fotofestival. 42.832 THE PATRON visitors Thomas Hoepker (D/USA) – former Magnum President and, since 1989, member of Magnum Photos – took on the patronage of the Festival. NETWORK EXPANSION Existing international and regional co-operations were consolidated in 2013. In this its fifth edition, too, the Fotofestival worked highly successfully with the French photography company La Chambre from Strasbourg, as well as with the Internationales Festival für Performance, Live-Art und Kunst Wunder der Prärie, which took place at the same time in Mannheim. The Fotofestival forged links with other artistic spaces in the region as well in 2013: with Einraumhaus C/O and the Stadtgalerie in Mannheim, and the Breidenbach Studios in Heidelberg. For this year’s biennial, new partnerships with a total of three science faculties in Heidelberg recognized the city’s standing as a place of science and education. Two projects were realized in collaboration with Ruprechts-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. At a seminar on documentary photo- graphy, Art History students gained insights into journalistic work and compiled articles for the Festival newspaper. Under the leadership of Prof. Cord Arendes, the Historical Seminar for Public History offered a practical seminar on the history of photography in conjunction with a qualitative visitor survey. In the Art faculty, the Pedagogical University Heidelberg held a practical photography seminar that referred to the Festival project Insight/Out. The students’ works were exhibited in parallel to the Fotofestival at the Breidenbach Studios in Heidelberg. PHOTOGRAPHY IN DIALOGUE The new concept of involving 11 artistic positions in a dialogue (for example, by Veronika Veit at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum or Francis Alÿs and Sandra Schäfer at Kunstverein Heidelberg) went into individual topics in greater detail, on the basis of exhibits from different artistic practices. This extension of the curatorial programme was received highly positively and with great interest by press and visitors alike. FESTIVAL TOPIC 2013 GRENZGÄNGE. MAGNUM: TRANS-TERRITORIES Inspired by the photo festival’s location in three cities, in two German federal states and at various exhibition venues, this year’s Fotofestival presented photographic positions that dealt with different territories and regions. The curator Andréa Holzherr discussed the Festival‘s topic GRENZGÄNGE. MAGNUM: TRANS-TERRITORIES from different perspectives. The exhibited works dealt, for example, with the concept of home, but also with its opposite: with uprooting, exile and migration. They enabled a glimpse behind the walls of the excluded and the locked-up in prisons, asylums and psychiatric institutions. The photographers showed war and violent conflicts surrounding territories, but common ground, community and the connectedness of communities of interest were equally present in their works. The unification of the different photographic approaches made not only the enormous topical diversity of the Magnum photographers apparent, but also their very different personal and formal manners of approach. These were underlined by heterogeneous forms of presentation at the respective shows: pinboard, object, image/sound installation, wallpaper, wall newspaper, or vintage print. 9 Exhibition locations 7 topic categories 1 in-situ project EXHIBITIONS IN MANNHEIM KUNSTHALLE MANNHEIM UPROOTED EXIL Under the title “Uprooted / Exil” the topical exhibition at Kunsthalle Mannheim dealt with lack of a homeland, uprooting, exile and migration. A refugees’ tent, loaned by the UNHCR, brought the topic of the century – “persecution and flight” – palpably to life. The variously sized photos mounted on wooden blocks and set up on a long shelf could also be picked up, rearranged and thus grasped in the truest sense of the word. ZEPHYR DEUTSCHLANDREISE At the initiative of the photo agencies Magnum Photos (Paris) and Focus (Hamburg), the four Magnum photographers Olivia Arthur, Peter van Agtmael, Paolo Pellegrin and Moises Saman travelled the length and breadth of Germany in election year 2013, in order to render their personal image of the country. ZEITmagazin dedicated a special edition to the project. STADTGALERIE MANNHEIM INSIGHT OUT KONVERSION Stadtgalerie Mannheim was a venue for the Fotofestival for the first time in 2013. With their photographic works, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Donovan Wylie reacted to the withdrawal of the American soldiers stationed in Mannheim. EXHIBITIONS IN LUDWIGSHAFEN WILHELM-HACK-MUSEUM NO PLACE LIKE HOME ZUHAUSE The exhibition “No Place like Home / Zuhause” dealt with our roots and with the concepts home, family, and identity. The photographs told unspectacular stories: of word-famous photographers’ own families, of private living space in the world’s biggest slums, or of a love affair in icy Greenland. KUNSTVEREIN LUDWIGSHAFEN COMMUNITY Under the title “Community”, the topic of the exhibition at Kunstverein Ludwigshafen was youth culture: Gangs, clans and communities of interest. A slide show comprising photographs by 45 Magnum photographs from six decades was shown on four large screens – music and original soundtracks from the respective time of creation could be heard in synchrony to this. EXHIBITIONS IN HEIDELBERG HEIDELBERGER KUNSTVEREIN BATTLEGROUND AFGHANISTAN In the exhibition “Battleground / Afghanistan” the subject was disputed territories, war and armed conflicts, drawing on the example of Afghanistan. Against the foil of the photo fresco papered onto four walls, which enabled visitors to gain an overview of the country’s war history, artistic contributions and anonymous war tapestries were presented, having been produced in collaboration with prominent figures and artists from Afghanistan. SAMMLUNG PRINZHORN LOCKED UP DIE ZELLE Under the title “Locked up / Die Zelle” a number of photographic series were presented that dealt with the topic of enclosure / exclusion. The photographic insights into the cells of psychi- atric institutions and prisons were contrasted with the predominantly drawn and painted insights and outlooks by institutional patients from the Sammlung Prinzhorn inventory. The focus of the exhibition was formed by the walk-in reproduction of the artistically designed cell of psychiatric patient Julius Klingenbiel. HALLE 02 SOLO PRESENTATION LIU JI MIGRANT NATIONS The exhibition showed works by the young Chinese photographer and Magnum Foundation fellowship holder Liu Jie. His photographs thematized the change in family structures among the Chinese population, which is characterized by labour migration from the countryside into the expanding cities. 80 ARTISTS SHOWED WORKS FROM 35 COUNTRIES ABBAS, FRANCIS ALYS, CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON, EVE ARNOLD, OLIVIA ARTHUR, MICHA BAR-AM, BRUNO BARBEY, JONAS BENDIKSEN, MARCO BISCHOF, WERNER BISCHOF, ALIGHIERO BOETTI, ELFE BRANDENBURGER, RENÉ BURRI, CHIEN-CHI CHANG, CORNELL CAPA, ROBERT CAPA, HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, BRUCE DAVID- SON, RAYMOND DEPARDON, THOMAS DWORZAK, NIKOS ECONOMOPOULOS, ELLI- OTT ERWITT, MARTINE FRANCK, STUART FRANKLIN, LEONARD FREED, PAUL FU- SCO, CRISTINA GARCÍA RODERO, JEAN GAUMY, BRUCE GILDEN, BURT GLINN, JIM GOLDBERG, PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS, HARRY GRUYAERT, ERICH HARTMANN, DAVID ALAN HARVEY, TIM HETHERINGTON, THOMAS HOEPKER, DAVID HURN, RICHARD KALVAR, OLIVIER KOECHLIN, HIROJI KUBOTA, GUY LE QUERREC, HERBERT LIST, ALEX MAJOLI, PETER MARLOW, STEVE MCCURRY, SUSAN MEISELAS, WAYNE MIL- LER, INGE MORATH, DOMINIC NAHR, LU NAN, TRENT PARKE, MARTIN PARR, PAOLO PELLEGRIN, GUEORGUI PINKHASSOV, MARK POWER, ELI REED, AQUEELA REZAI, MARC RIBOUD, GEORGE RODGER, SABA SAHAR, MOISES SAMAN, ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI, SANDRA SCHÄFER, JÉRÔME SESSINI, DAVID SEYMOUR, JACOB AUE SOBOL, ALEC SOTH, CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS, DENNIS STOCK, MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY, LARRY TOWELL, PETER VAN AGTMAEL, VERONIKA VEIT, JOHN VINK, AGNES LISA