THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

Mikro – project space for photography - in Duesseldorf presents from 04th September to 15th October 2010 the exhibition “Handshake Society” by Ben Van Den Berghe.

“Society handshake” deals with the ritualized gesture of handshake by using press images.

The opening is on 03 September at 8 pm.

The gallery Kaune, Sudendorf presents from 03rd September to 26th November 2010 the exhibition “For Me / For You” with new works by the Berlin based artist Stefan Heyne. Heyne dedicated his work to the elusive and uncertain in photography.

Opening is on 3rd September 2010 at 7 pm.

From 16th to 18th July the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund shows the exhibition SCHAURAUM4 with the final works of the design students. The opening is on 16 July at 20:00 clock.

The gallery exp12 in Berlin presents from 02nd July to 08th August 2010 the exhibition “An Inner Song. 12 Portraits” by Nadine Ethner. The exhibition opens on July 01st 2010 at 7 pm.

“Within the twelve portraits raise the eye of the photographer inwards the models. The constructive interference of the encounters between artist and model in space is evident in the portraits and unfolds as a triptych from the eye of the recipient, showing the human magic.”

Oliver Sieber’s work deals with the codes and subcodes of youth culture from Los Angeles to Osaka. With the exhibition “Imaginary Club” at the gallery Priska Pasquer he unites the various protagonists of his series.

Oliver Sieber, born in 1966, studied photography in Bielefeld and Duesseldorf. He lives and works in Duesseldorf.

Galerie Priska Pasquer Cologne
Exhibition Oliver Sieber “Imaginary Club”
12th June – 28th August 2010
Opening Friday 11th June 2010, 6 pm

ANTIFOTO starts where photography ends – and starts again. Invited by the Kunstraum Düsseldorf – a municipal art-space – ANTIFOTO was developed and organised by the artists Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber.

ANTIFOTO also was established to show the various aspects of the medium photography. In the first exhibition under the banner ANTIFOTO Stuke and Sieber present ten international photographers. Different approaches are recognisable which also mirror a different understanding of what photography actually is or what it can be.

Next to the photo exhibition of the project ANTIFOTO which will take place once a year Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have founded the Böhm-University. During the time of the exhibition there will be here a loose series of lectures to which experts of different disciplines are invited.

Exhibition ANTIFOTO 11th June – 18th July 2010
Kunstraum Duesseldorf (Salzmannbau) Himmelgeister Str. 107e
Opening: Thursday 10th June 2010 at 19:00 Uhr

The Boehm/Kobayashi University:
Lectures with Joachim Schmid, Aleksandra Domanovic, Swen Buckner, Markus Schaden and Jeffrey Ladd.
Saturday, 12th June 2010 at 13:00

Between May 28 and June 24, Christopher Anhalt will show photographs of his series “Scars & Beauty” at the gallery exp12 in Berlin. A new book, also titled “Scars & Beauty”, will be released at the opening event on May 28 at 7pm.

Today the exhibition “Stephen Gill und eigene Positionen” will be opened 7 pm at Projektraum Fotografie in Dortmund.

On the occasion of Ruhr 2010, Essen as European Capital of Culture, the Savings Banks Finance Group has pooled some money and asked Thomas Weski to accomplish something special for the Ruhr area.

For the exhibition “Ruhr Views”, Thomas Weski invited the photographers Hilla Becher, Laurenz Berges, Joachim Brohm, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlová, Candida Höfer, Matthias Koch, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Jörg Sasse and Thomas Struth to provide their distinct view on today’s Ruhr area.

I miss some young guns in this heavy weight line-up, but anyway doubtless a must see of the season. “Ruhr Views” is on display from 24th April to 24th September 2010 in the SANAA building in Essen.