Bobby Scheidemann Work from Everybody is Trying. “In Everybody is Trying I shoot intuitively to create a narrative out of my surroundings. Taking notes from cinema, I merge studio constructions and the ephemeral to alter the perception of the present moment. The photographs, influenced by Miroslav Holub’s essay Tissue Culture or, About the Last Cell, […]

Place Crisis Curated by Wyatt Niehaus. “Place Crisis was one leg of a three part series entitled Material Conversion that took place at the Grimmuseum in Berlin, in December 2011. The exhibition featured work from Martin Kohout, Manuel Bürger, Justin Kemp, Daniel Michel, Chris Collins, and Anjali Alm-Basu. Place Crisis focused on the material shift […]

Barbara and Michael Leisgen Work from Memesis. “In the 1970s, the early works of Barbara & Michael Leisgen came as a counterpoint to conceptual photography, notably that of Bernd & Hilla Becher’s typology school of Düsseldorf. The series that the five Frac pictures are taken from belongs to practices operating since the early 1960s: the […]

Sarah Samy Work from Exploring Error. “An exploration of technical errors, beyond the notion of image failure. The shifting presence and absence of sound in the video was produced along the process of bending, not imposed. None of the clips were edited; only selected, cropped and collected together, aiming to hide the original source and […]

Sigurdur Gudmundsson Work from his oeuvre. “These photographs, influenced by Fluxus and conceptual art, and collectively titled Situations, construct a certain poetic and philosophical vision through a series of staged situations where the artist himself is a stand-in for a persona caught in different circumstances. Each mise-en-scène frames human existence in a humorous and pointed […]

Max Marshall Work from Fabulous Views. “In the series Fabulous Views, I examine through photography how we define nature, and how that idea of nature coexists with human interaction. Traditional depictions of the wild consist of desolate areas, lush trees, waterfalls without a human presence. However, this notion is not the most pervasive in contemporary […]

Everyone is a Photographer Curated by Susan Koenig. Everyone is a Photographer current lo-fi photography The exhibition Everyone is a Photographer is about contemporary lo-fi photography. In western countries everybody has the possibility to take photos. But where is the difference between high art and popular culture? Works of photographers and artists are still different […]

Jaakko Pallasvuo Work from New Sincerity. Also see catalogue essays by Nicholas O’Brien and Jennifer Chan. Artist’s Statement: 1. The last time I had a show I got a tattoo to go along with it: a short, hesitant line on my left arm. Volcanic ash had travelled high into the atmosphere, leading to cancelled flights. […]

Keiichi Tanaami and Oliver Payne Work from Perfect Cherry Blossom. “…The exhibition title is not only a symbol for flourishing spring and peace but also the name of one of the most advanced and violent Japanese Bullet Hell Games. A video game made by gamers for gamers from a time before the gaming industry turned […]

Ryoichi Kurokawa Work from Octfalls. “Each presentation of young Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa‘s audiovisual installations awes us more than the next. His precise ability to arrange sounds and images makes for a flawless performance from start to finish. We often feel like we’re facing an orchestra playing an expertly arranged and immaculately performed symphonic masterpiece […]