THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Wolfram Hahn’s work Kaffee Bankrott potraits persons who have a hard time to cope with the material contstraints of our society. They mostly fail to assert themselves in our normative system hence maintain their own special behaviour often incomprehensible to the average citizen. The aim of the project was to offer those people a possibility to introduce their situation and environment to confront the audience with it and induce a possible reaction. The portraits have been exhibited between December 2008 and January 2009 at the subway station Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin. The self-published catalogue in an edition of 300 documents the photo series and the exhibition, with a accompanying text by Daniel Klemm.

Kaffee Bankrott – Book Launch
25th August 2010, 7 pm
The Forgotten Bar, Galerie im Regierungsviertel
Boppstr. 5, 10967 Berlin

Kay Röhlen shows in which way different political, economic or documentary positions can produce diverse and completely divergent city Images on the basis of own examples in his speech at the Projektraum Fotografie Dortmund on 5th August 2010 at 7 pm.

On Saturday, 08th May 2010, Sonic Tours offers an excursion in Rhine-Ruhr, where is plenty to see in the Culture Year 2010.

This is the schedule:

- Ruhr Views at the Sanaa building in Essen
- Ausstellen – Bilder.Räume.Interventionen in Dortmund
- AUFRUHR at RAUM.201 in Essen
- Robert Mapplethorpe retrospective at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf

Meeting point Essen main station (rear exit / Freiheit) at 08. May 2010, 10 am.

If you would like to participate please send a short e-mail to sonictours[at]sonicsites.de.

The Sonic blog offers thereby only an open context and no further services such as accommodation or tickets.

Under the title “Jetzt – Die erzählte Zeit” (Now – the narrated time) the 6th Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie takes place from 23th to 25th April 2010.

In addition to the main exhibition with 12 artists (including Sophie Calle, John Divola, Thekla Ehling, Izima Kaoru, Mona Simon and Michael Wesely) 40 additional artists are on display in 11 locations.

The symposium”Jetzt – Die erzählte Zeit” with 7 speakers (including Mona Breede, Michael Wesely and Herlinde Koelbl) will be on 24th April 2010 from 9.30 am until 6 pm.

I will be in Darmstadt at 24th April.. Who wants to meet me there, simply drops a message.

From 16th April to 18. April 2010 the annual meeting of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie with lectures, exhibitions and slide shows takes place in Echterdingen.

On the occasion of the exhibition “Timm Rautert: Josef Sudek, Prague 1967” at the Forum für Fotografie in Cologne an artist talk with Prof. Timm Rautert and Prof. Jaroslav Poncar takes place on 07th April 2010 at 8 pm.

On the occasion of the ongoing exhibition “The Sexual Identity of Gay Men” in the gallery Loris in Berlin with work by Matthias Hamann and Christian Kuhn, an artist talk takes place on 26th March at 7 pm.

As part of the exhibition “Ueber Tage – Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet” which presents the Pixelprojekt_ Ruhr, the artist talk “A question of perspective: Approaches and impact of photography today” takes place at the Kunstmuseum Mülheim on 11th March 2010 at 7 pm.

Participants will be, among others, Peter Liedtke (photographer and founder of Pixelprojekt_Ruhrgebiet), Dr. Beate Reese (Director of the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr) and Prof. Thomas Weski (Professor at the HGB Leipzig).

In February BerlinPhotoWorkshops offers a cross-country photo tour. Among others shows of Todd Hido, Joachim Brohm and Eva Bertram will be visited. Please find more information here.