Participating artists:Mascha Breuer | Zina Bluhm | Esraa Dayrwan | Haru Li Wdo (Elizaveta Vdovina)| Gabriel Corredor Aristizábal | Fine Schröter | Lea Petry | Sally Alhindawi | Jule Ehlenz | Victoria Fielon | Shary Talebian | Dimitrios Mavroudis | Sarah Crameri | Nadine Aber |
Viyan Kalayci | Sophie George | Luki Haak | Oei Kim (Soo) | Carla Maruscha Fellenz
Period (opening hours):Tuesday – Saturday: 2.00 pm – 6.00 pm, Thursday: 10.00 am – 8.00 pm
Venue:Friedrichshain Photo Gallery
Helsingforser Platz 1
10243 Berlin
fotogalerie.berlin/The exhibition „Leaning into Trouble“ brings together 19 contemporary artistic works by students from the Photography and Moving Image class taught by Bara at the HGB Leipzig.
We are all facing turbulent times that draw us into conflicts, difficulties and problems which we cannot and do not wish to avoid – challenges we must engage with.
It is in this spirit that the 19 young artists—who are expanding, utilising and experimentally exploring the medium of photography in various directions—each respond in their own individual and personal way to the atmosphere, the moods and the social conditions within which they seek self-assertion, participation and reassurance.
The environment in which we live is increasingly perceived as fragile, unstable and under threat, and that is precisely why it is important to keep moving, to remain vigilant, and to practise resistance – whether angry, wild or quiet, clever, subtle, courageous, witty, sad or exaggerated.
It is about a multitude of possibilities for encountering oneself and others, for speaking, for expressing oneself, and for establishing connections between different backgrounds, cultures and identities.
In its banality and complexity, the medium of photography lends itself to investigations, communications, surprises, and questions—as subversive as possible—about the time and space between history and the future. These 19 different approaches reveal various similarities, serving as a repository of diverse experiences that viewers can share or reflect upon in relation to themselves; at the heart of it all are the bodies that speak a language.
