Objectivities: Photography in Dusseldorf
- from: 03.10.2008
- to: 04.01.2009
- In: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
The Photography of Dusseldorf
agenda
3rd October 2008 to 4th January 2009
Practical
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris11, Avenue du President Wilson
75116 Paris
In recent years, the photographs of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Struth and Candida Hofer, Andreas Gursky and Thomass Ruff have found their place in great museums and great international private collections. When Bernd Becher took over the management of the photography department at the Staatliche Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf (School of Fine Arts) in 1976, this was the start of an unrivalled history. Today, several generations of what has come to be called "the Becher School" have contributed to this modern art from Dusseldorf being recognised on a world stage. There is sometimes a tendancy to forget that from the 1970s photography played a considerable role on the Dusseldorf artistic scene: artists like Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lothar Baumgarten and Katharina Sieverding conducted studies on photography in connection with painting and conceptual art, mass media and documentation. Their creations are at the heart of many leading exhibtions.
Around 160 works selected from around twenty artists present the diveristy and richness of their photographs from the early 1970s to today at the Kunstakademie of Dusseldorf. The exhibition, the commissioners of which are Armin Zweite and Maria Muller at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, has been invited to appear at the Musueum of Modern Art in Paris. It presents ,for the first time on such a scale in France, the diveristy and topicality of photography "made in Dusseldorf". The German and French creators will set out the artists' biographies and works in a detailled catalogue.
This project is part of the "France-Nordrhein-Westfalen 2008/2009 Season", where the aim is to give a new boost to relations between the Rhineland of North-Westphalia and France under the leadership of the Prime Minister Francois Fillon and the Minister-President of the Rhineland of North-Westphalia Jurgen Ruttgers. The France-Nordrhein-Westfalen season encompases multiple disciplines from visual arts to theatre including architecture, music, dance, cinema and literature as well as a series of bilateral university and school projects, political and social meetings.
- Updated: 14.10.2008
