Participating artists:Laura Bielau, Joachim Brohm, Cihan Çakmak, Kerstin Flake, Caroline Hake, Matthias Hoch, Margret Hoppe, Silke Koch, Edgar Leciejewski, Carina Linge, Ricarda Roggan, Nadin Maria Rüfenacht, Adrian Sauer, Ramona Schacht, Oskar Schmidt, Valentina Seidel, Björn Siebert, Sebastian Stumpf, Anett Stuth, Anna Vovan, Uwe Walter, Arthur Zalewski
Curator: Danny Otto und Klaus Fischer
opening hours:Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 2 - 6 pm and by appointment
Venue:KV Freunde Aktueller Kunst
Hauptstraße 60/62
08056 Zwickau
Fokus Foto uses Leipzig as a geographical interface and point of reference to bring together 22 photographic positions in a multifaceted spectrum of contemporary photography. The participating artists were selected with the aim of bringing together representatives of different generations, stylistic directions and methodological approaches in a productive dialogue.
The spectrum of works ranges from classic portrait, landscape and documentary photography to cameraless methods of image creation - both analogue in the darkroom and computer-aided and digital.
Each work functions as a referential introduction to the work of the respective artist and provides insights into personal perspectives, aesthetic decisions and social references. The arrangement in the room detaches the works from their original context and creates new content-related, aesthetic and thematic relationships. This creates surprising connections, cross-references and visual axes between the works.
The public is invited to familiarise themselves with different photographic visual languages and artistic strategies, to understand creative processes and to develop their own questions about the works on display. Last but not least, the exhibition also opens up the opportunity to re-localise photography itself as a cultural, media and discursive practice.
Fokus Foto - 22 Leipziger Blickwinkel" thus sees itself as a space for encounters, seeing and understanding - a place where photography becomes an impulse for reflection and exchange.
