Exhibition

Hamburg: Malte Jäger
Couchsurfin

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The idea is convincing: Offer strangers the chance to stay on your couch and in return it allows you to crash for free on couches anywhere in world. The system is called “couchsurfing” and it currently counts almost 6 million members worldwide. For his photography project Malte Jäge...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Manuel Vason:
Still_Movil

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The three languages of the project’s title indicate the itinerant and interdisciplinary nature of STILL_MÓVIL, an initiative of the London-based Italian-born artist Manuel Vason and the Red Suramericana de Danza. This is a project, which reunites within its essence two languages in constan...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

The Best of Nude Photography

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Supported by Nikon, a World Premiere show has recently opened at the Czech Photo Gallery : The Best Of Nude Photography. For first time, the exhibition will show together unique personalities of the world of nude photography - Taras Kuscynskyj, Jan Saudek, Pavel Brunclik, Robert ...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

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New York: Santiago Sierra
Vétérans

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The oppressive installation by Santiago Sierra at the Team Gallery consists of nine life-sized photographs of war veterans turning their backs on the viewer, facing a corner. In his work, Santiago Sierra uses simple and obvious references to assert his oppositio...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

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Thomas Wrede: Catastrophe & Idyll

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Almost ten years in the making, the internationally acclaimed series “Real Landscapes” by German photographer Thomas Wrede (*1963), combines landscape panoramas with scenes using miniature models. In doing so, the suggestive power of images from the media as well as ...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Karine Laval:
Altered States

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On display right now at the Bonni Benrubi in New York, the French photographer Karine Laval continues her exploration of the elements. As in her previous series The Pool and Poolscapes, the focus here is water, water that is red like fire, an allusion to another element...

06.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Berlin: The Legacy of Photographer Mark Shaw

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Although most people remember him as the Kennedy family’s personal photographer, Mark Shaw (born Schlossmann in 1922) was one of the most influential American fashion photographers of the 1950s and 60s. He traveled frequently to Paris for LIFE, the most wi...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

PMU, carte blanche to Olivier Cablat at BAL

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The third Carte Blanche PMU has just been awarded to Olivier Cablat. The prize aims to “give young artists the opportunity to take a fresh look at a world hitherto unknown to them.” The winner receives 20,000€ to produce an original project to be exhibited and published. Th...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Dina Litovsky:
Untag This Photo

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For the last few years I have been photographing the New York City nightlife in its different incarnations-­‐ clubs, lounges and bars, as well as parties-­‐ both public and private. During this time I observed the focus of the events shift from partying to photographing the partying ...

01.05.2013[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Brasilia:
50 Years Later

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For the first time in France, an exhibition is paying tribute to the famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, through the story of the construction of the city of Brasilia, his masterpiece. The show runs through June 15 at the headquarters of the French Communist Party in...

20.05.2013[ read full story ]

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