LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
“New Strategies! Photo Book Culture in Transition” by Markus Schaden, PhotoBookMuseum Cologne
In this lecture, Markus Schaden looks at the current situation of the photobook medium and offers exciting outlooks and perspectives from the PhotoBookMuseum ‑Think Tank! Since the New York Museum of Modern Art postulated the central role of the photo book in photography in an impressive credo at the turn of the year, a change of times seems to have begun. For more than two decades, the photo book has turbulently developed as a universal and yet visual means of expression around the globe. Markus Schaden was and is there as an activist and evangelist of this cultural asset.
Markus Schaden is a bookseller, publisher and founding director of the PhotoBookMuseum in Cologne. In the mid-1990s, he founded a publishing house and bookstore specializing in photo books and published more than 100 photo books. Since 2010, he has been a lecturer at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences, and the Lichtblick School in Cologne, among others. Schaden regularly teaches photo book workshops in Amsterdam, Jakarta, Dhaka, Mexico City, Bahrain, Arles and Cologne. In 2014, Markus Schaden and Frederic Lezmi founded the PhotoBookMuseum, the first museum to focus on the curatorial presentation of photobooks worldwide. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 7 pm
Location: Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Schulberg 10
Admission is free!
“Talk & Show:Video Art” with Mario von Kelterborn, Frankfurt am Main
Der Frankfurter Sammler Mario von Kelterborn präsentiert in lockerer Runde internationale Videokunst aus der Sammlung Kelterborn zum Festivalthema »Unruhige Zeiten«. Er führt in die gezeigten Videoarbeiten ein und stellt sich den Fragen des Publikums. Darüber hinaus gibt er Einblicke in die Kunst des Sammelns.
Mario von Kelterborn sees himself as a promoter of ideas and creativity. The entrepreneur is interested in politically explosive and philosophically profound works that are also aesthetically convincing and open up different perspectives. The focus is on video works and video installations as well as photography. Well-known artists such as Hito Steyerl (e.g. Factory of the Sun, Liquidity Inc.), Richard Mosse (e.g. The Enclave), Harun Farocki (e.g. Parallel I‑IV) or Taryn Simon are represented as well as Gary Hill as a pioneer of video art or Mariana Vassileva each with almost 50 works. Anke Röhrscheid as the first artist of the collection is collected and accompanied until today. On the other hand, young exceptional talents such as Teboho Edkins and Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis (Cesár for Maalbeek 2022) have been collected and supported since their beginnings. For Mario von Kelterborn, who was born in East Berlin, German division continues to have an impact in works by Barbara Klemm, Mario Pfeifer, and Henrike Naumann. Collection exhibitions have been held in Bremen, Goslar, Frankfurt, Giessen and Seoul.
Date: Fr, 19.08.2022, 19.30 Uhr
Location: Rubrecht Contemporary, Büdingenstraße 4–6
Admission is free!
“What is Photography?” by Dr. Christina Leber, Managing Director DZ BANK Kunststiftung.
Photography is the most interesting artistic genre of the present, considering all its forms of expression. The lecture will focus on the diversity of photographic expressions. It will start from the idea of photography, already formulated in the Platonic allegory of the cave, and will deal with the discovery of the light chamber; it will deal with the painters of the 17th century, who can be called the first light-drawers (photographers), as well as the physicists and chemists who, together with the artists of the 19th century, developed different techniques to capture the photographic image on different supports. The walk will end at the digital image generation and the numerous crossovers that artists use today for their narratives. At the DZ BANK Art Foundation, we will focus on artists who underpin the visual narrative with a very deliberate choice of techniques. Paintings from the DZ BANK art collection are used for background.
Dr. Christina Leber studied Catholic theology and education at various universities in Germany and abroad. From 1992 to 1999 she was a freelancer in numerous corporate collections, including Merril Lynch, Goldman, Sachs, Deutsche Bank. From 1999 to 2001 she was managing director of the 2 berlin biennial for contemporary art. In 2003 she joined the DK BANK Art Collection, first as curator, since 2011 as director.
Date: Mi, 24.08.2022, 19 Uhr
Location: frauen museum wiesbaden, Wörthstraße 5
Admission is free!
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“Troubled Times — Precarious Images. Photojournalism between Stagnation and Change” by Felix Koltermann
There is hardly an area of photography where media change has had such an impact as on photojournalism. Broken markets on the one hand, and diverse playout channels and new forms of publication on the other, are creating enormous centrifugal forces. How photojournalism is currently trying to position itself in our hyper-complex, extremely accelerated world, in which everyone communicates with everyone else, is the topic of the lecture.
Dr. Felix Koltermann is a research associate at the “Photojournalism and Documentary Photography” course at Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He is leading a post-doctoral research project there on photo-editorial practices in digital newspaper journalism. He also works as a freelance cultural journalist, trainer in adult education, and curator, and is building two photo book collections, “Newsprint Photobook” and “HOLY BOOKS — Photobooks about Israel/Palestine.”
Date: Do, 25.08.2022, 19 Uhr
Location: sam – Stadtmuseum am Markt, Marktplatz
Admission is free!