SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHEIN RUHR

For the first time, this exhibition will examine the relationships between the different photographic positions that have developed in the cities of the Rhineland as well as the Ruhr and at the regions’ art academies since the 1960s.

[…] The Bechers’ legendary class with now internationally celebrated »students« such as Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, and Thomas Struth as the Düsseldorf School of Photography is one of the most successful movements in the history of photography. Graduates from Essen with Timm Rautert, Michael Schmidt, and Joachim Brohm are known and respected around the world for their documentary and artistic approaches. Jürgen Klauke, Astrid Klein, and Rudolf Bonvie developed independent artistic approaches in Cologne which dealt with issues of identity and gender beginning in the late 1960s. At the same time, Katharina Sieverding created her feminist-influenced art in Düsseldorf.

[...] The exhibition SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR is curated by Ralph Goertz with Gregor Jansen and Dana Bergmann.

(Text: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf)

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHEIN RUHR

21 March – 14 June 2020

Extendet until 16 August 2020