Venue:Schloss Neuhardenberg
Schinkelplatz
15320 Neuhardenberg
At the "Summer Workshop for Photography" from 23-28 September 2024, photography students and teachers from three universities - the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg - will meet at Schloss Neuhardenberg. Together, they will discuss and develop artistic contributions on what the climate crisis and the associated changes mean for artists, photographers and society. The escalating weather events give the "Summer Workshop" its title "Klimax Klima".
What role can photography play in visualising and addressing this crisis and how is it always part of the problem itself? Using the park landscape of Neuhardenberg and the landscape of the Oderbruch as examples, the participants will use artistic means to investigate the direct consequences of climate change and how actors react to it. The artistic projects can deal with local problems, but also fundamentally with the climate crisis and its phenomena.
The group of 12 students will be supervised by the mentors Prof Armin Linke (Academy of Fine Arts Munich), Prof Heidi Specker (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) and Prof Tobias Zielony (Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg) together with Prof Thomas Weski. After the "summer workshop", the joint discussion will be further developed artistically and presented in the form of an exhibition at Neuhardenberg Castle in the summer of 2025.
On 28 September at 12 noon, the students will present their preliminary results to the public in an "Open Workshop" in the Great Hall of Neuhardenberg Castle.
Admission is free.
The "Summer Workshop" follows in the tradition of the "Workshop for Photography" founded by Berlin photographer Michael Schmidt in 1976 and existing until 1986, which was a field of experimentation beyond traditional education and political-institutional guidelines.
The "Summer Workshop" is realised by the Foundation for Photography and Media Art with the Michael Schmidt Archive and the Joachim Herz Foundation in cooperation with the Schloss Neuhardenberg Foundation.
