William Christenberry

The thematic focus of Bill Christenberry's work is squarely on the South of the United States, where he was born in 1936. His own biography and that of his home town, Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he has made annual working visits for decades - are a constant source of inspiration, seeding ideas which m [more...]

June 14 - August 25, 2002

Walker Evans. Polaroids

The presentation in Room 3 is dedicated to Walker Evans, (1903-1975) Polaroid photographs. In 1972 Evans began to experiment in color with a Polaroid SX-70 camera. He concentrates in these pictures particularly on signs and found objects. For example Evans photographed advertising signs, fragments o [more...]

June 14 - August 25, 2002

Mette Tronvoll

in cooperation with the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

In parallel exhibitions, portrait series by Mette Tronvoll (*1965) and Oliver Sieber (*1966) are presented alongside a third, smaller show of portrait photographs by Judith Joy Ross (*1946). Aside from the thematic link, all three pres [more...]

March 22 - May 20, 2002

Oliver Sieber

Oliver Sieber, who lives in Dusseldorf, focuses as a photographer on the different forms of expression and identities assumed by young people. For the present project, for example, entitled 11 Freundinnen..., he compiled a series of portraits of 10 to 16-year-old girls who are in soccer teams. As in [more...]

March 22 - May 20, 2002

Judith Joy Ross

The presentation of some 20 small-format photographs by American photographer Judith Joy Ross is based on a number of recent acquisitions by the Photographische Sammlung supplemented by photographs still in the artist's possession. The exhibition is staged in cooperation with Galerie Sabine Schmidt  [more...]

March 22 - May 20, 2002