Festival of the 8th Triennial of Photography
We cordially invite you to the Festival of the 8th Triennial of Photography 2022 - Currency!
»Give and Take« illustrates processes of exchange and appropriation of pictorial material in contemporary photography. Images circulate and migrate these days across diverse geographical, cultural and social boundaries. One and the same photograph may appear in myriad contexts, multiplying its impact exponentially. This makes it nearly impossible to control all the meanings that may be assigned to images we release into the world. In this »give and take«, artists appropriate images from a variety of fields as they explore the mechanisms behind the production of realities and identities.
Program
Artist talk with Viktoria Binschtok
Tuesday, 2.06.2022/ 19-20 h
Connect: Wolfgang Ullrich in conversation with the artist Viktoria Binschtok
Wolfgang Ullrich was Professor of Media Theory at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design from 2006 to 2015. Since then he has been working as a freelance author and cultural scientist in Leipzig. Ullrich is co-editor of the series »Digitale Bildkulturen«.
The artist Viktoria Binschtok (*1972, Moscow) is interested in digital image processes, image productions and the migration of images. In her large-format photo installations, she combines her own analogue photographs with images from the Internet found via algorithms.
Location: Foyer Galerie der Gegenwart
Language: German
Artist talk with Lighting the Archive
Friday, 3.06.2022/ 16-17h
Connect: Stephanie Bunk in conversation with Lighting the Archive
Stephanie Bunk in conversation with Lighting the Archive about archives in the 21st century. There is not only one photograph – can there be only one form or one place of archiving? Lighting the Archive collect answers to this question. Against the background of the debates about the establishment of an Institute for Photography, the initiators Kristin Loschert, Heinz Peter Knes, Maren Lübbke-Tidow, Heidi Specker and Rebecca Wilton conduct interviews.
Location: in the exhibition
Language: German
Performance by Josephin Böttger and Felix Kubin
FRIDAY, 3.06.2022/ 22h
Connect: Video installation »Deviation One« by Josephin Böttger with a sound installation by Felix Kubin
The video installation »Deviation One« by Hamburg-based artist Josephin Böttger (*1965) experiments with the geometry of the building surfaces of the Galerie der Gegenwart and addresses inner and outer structures of the contemporary and historical building. Changing perspectives transform and reverse the pictorial space.
In the complementary sound installation by composer Felix Kubin (*1969 in Hamburg), the sound of the room acoustics inside the building and the sounds of the surrounding city were digitally alienated. The result is a hybrid sound structure that resonate against and with the images.
Location: Platform in front of Galerie der Gegenwart
Artist talk with Max Pinckers
SATURDAY, 4.06.2022/ 16-17h
Connect: Petra Roettig in conversation with the artist Max Pinckers
Max Pinckers (*1988, BE) is an artist based in Brussels, Belgium. His oeuvre explores visual strategies in documentary photography. His work Unhistories is a collaboration with Mau Mau veterans, Kenyans who survived the colonial violence, historians, artists, activists, writers, archives, universities and museumsto fill in the missing gaps of the archives.
Location: in the exhibition
Language: English
Artist talk with Frida Orupabo
SUNDAY, 5.06.2022/ 16-17h
MUST BE CANCELLED. Connect: Koyo Kouoh in conversation with the artist Frida Orupabo
Artist talk with Matthew Muir
MONDAY, 6.06.2022/ 16-17h
Connect: Stephanie Bunk in conversation with the artist Matthew Muir
Matthew Muir (*1989, Knysna/South Africa) uses found objects, photographs and texts to deal with the omnipresent connection of these media and, in view of Fake News, to explore the question: Does the real even exist? The artist, who completed his master's degree at the HfbK with the title Crossroads in the Desert of the Real, prints partly enigmatic images on car doors or, as in his work Frog Mountain, 2019-2021 on a shower cabinet. Is this an objet trouvé? Is the frog not rather a toad?
Location: in the exhibition
Language: English
Artists
Viktoria Binschtok, Josephin Böttger, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Irene Chabr, Sara Cwynar, Katharina Gaenssler, Mathilde ter Heijne, Sabine Hornig, Louise Lawler, Matthew Muir, Frida Orupabo, Max Pinckers, Walid Raad, Volker Renner, Sebastian Riemer, Martha Rosler, Evan Roth, Thomas Ruff, Taryn Simon, Johannes Wohnseifer
Gefördert von: Freunde der Kunsthalle e. V., G. u. L. Powalla Bunny’s Stiftung, Behörde für Kultur und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg
Kulturpartner: NDR Kultur
Medienpartner: Hamburger Abendblatt