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Period (opening hours):
Tue, Wed 10 am - 6 pm Thu, Fri 10 am - 8 pm Sat, Sun 10 am - 6 pm

Venue:
Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1
45128 Essen

Malte Uchtmann from the class for photography and media and the class expanded cinema is part of the award-winning exhibition of the Wüstenrot Documentary Photography Award 15. In his award-winning video and sound installation ANT*HOLOGY: De/Bugging the cultural history of ants, Malte Uchtmann uses the representation of ants to explore how our perception is influenced by our social embedding and the possibilities of acquiring knowledge. The cultural history of ants becomes the starting point for an examination of human social forms.

The exhibition shows new works by young artists that were created as part of the 15th round of awards. The Wüstenrot Foundation's Documentary Photography Prizes are the most important awards of their kind in Germany. Together with the Photographic Collection of the Museum Folkwang, they have been awarded every two years since 1994 to young artists from German universities and academies who use contemporary documentary image strategies and forms of representation to question the present. The works are shown in a travelling exhibition. A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition. A selection of the works will be included in the Museum Folkwang's photographic collection, where they will be available for research and future exhibition projects.