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Photography in the Field of Contemporary Art class, Michael Franz

The tasks and the selection of artistic means are free choices made by students working autonomously. A method of working which makes use of various forms of media is desirable, as well as projects with a research character and which pursue research and conceptual approaches or put into practise an exchange with other art disciplines. Ideally the class will be made up of a group of students who motivate each other and who are involved in the development of the work of their fellow student, who at the end of their study will leave an institution behind them, whose infrastructure and recognition they no longer require and who are networked with artistic personalities of the same age, whose opinion they value. Picking up on issues which arise from work discussions in the class, contemporary and historical positions of photography will be introduced and discussed. In the process it is expressly desired that the students are involved in all fields of artistic production beyond photography, employ an experimental working method and select content which could be socially relevant. Importance is attached to the development of an appropriate language (and being silent) about their own work as an expression of an independent artistic approach, as well as a reliable definition of their own approach alongside related approaches from art history. Excursions and guest lectures serve the purpose at an early stage of directing the students towards a broad field of the most diverse opportunities to perform their job and to provide support in order to formulate their own position.

Selected works
FEARS LIFT SHARES
FEARS LIFT SHARES
Adrian Viktor Lück
V1
V1
(from Voyeure 1-3), 30 x 40 cm, laserprint in clip frame
Caroline Zellfelder
Systematischer Nischenkomplex Variation 1.1
Systematischer Nischenkomplex Variation 1.1
Emilia Trog
Backups of a Floating River
Backups of a Floating River
Two-channel projection slideshow 05:04min (40 scans each in loop) Text to go (A4 Ink-Jet Print)
Joseph Imilian
Folders I-VII
Folders I-VII
2021-2023 (ongoing) free hanging shelf H100xW90xD35cm seven steel folders(each H32xW29xD47cm) per steel folder between 60 and 106 C-prints in transparent foil table, chair
Joseph Imilian
New Fable
New Fable
with Milad Shahmoradi 3-channel video installation, colour, sound dimensions variable
Helene Schirach
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
with Lydi Marx and Jb Burguet empty DVD cases, MDF board, tension belt, picture frame, A4 copy paper, clipboard 92x134 cm - 40x30 cm - 21x29,7 cm
Helene Schirach
2screen Experience (aus luv me, luv me luve me loop)
2screen Experience (aus luv me, luv me luve me loop)
C-Print, Aluminium Frame, 30cm x 40cm, 2023 Juri Marian Groß
Juri Marian Groß
Ohne Titel (aus Mont Blanc READY)
Ohne Titel (aus Mont Blanc READY)
with Heinrich Kühtreiber 33 photographies in html, 2022 Juri Marian Groß
Juri Marian Groß
untitled
untitled
Leon Billerbeck
untitled
untitled
Leon Billerbeck
Sternchen
Sternchen
lasered steel, paint measurements variable
Philipp Zöhrer
Parallels supposedly never meet
Parallels supposedly never meet
C-Prints, aluminium frames 59,4x84,1cm
Philipp Zöhrer
you're now chatting with a random stranger
you're now chatting with a random stranger
filmstilll from "you're now chatting with a random stranger (2022)"
Sarah Letalik