Photography Art – Icons of Photographic Art
Big success of the autumn exhibition
From 13th October to 10th November 2024 masterpieces by Photgraphy artists were on display at the latest event presented by Kunst für Angeln.
The exhibition has closed but some of the Photographies are still available (edition of 100).
If interested contact: visit@kunstfuerangeln.de
What is a good picture? – A good picture touches you, it gets under your skin, it sticks to your memory. There are pictures that almost everyone knows. No matter whether you have already dealt with photography and its history or not – some images are in the visual memory of the 21st Century, firmly anchored as contemporary documents.
It is photography that has shaped and still shapes our view of the world, because the photo remains, it is not fleeting. In addition to all the staged illusory worlds, authentic photography searches for true moments – for truthfulness, and captures them. In a world where everything seems less and less real, perhaps that is where art stands.
Icons of photography: just a mirror of current events? How does this special meaning arise, why do certain photographs become so well-known? Why are they put on a book – or magazine cover? And why exactly does this one motif gets on the cover?
These and other questions were addressed by Ingrid Roosen-Trinks, collector and board member of the association KUNST FÜR ANGELN and Timm Vollert, curator and member of the German Society for Photography, in the exhibition Photography Art – Icons of Photoart” from 13th October to 10th November 2024.
The collector Roosen-Trinks was looking for photographs by well-known photo artists for the exhibition, whose motifs have now become icons. In addition, there were also new acquisitions of young photo artists who still work analogue and can be assigned to authentic photography.
Timm Vollert drrew from an extensive pool of exceptional photo art of almost all subject areas, thanks to his years of close cooperation with international artists and photographers as well as from photo collections and archives.
The result has been an exciting mixture of photo art with over 100 pictures from the field of street photography, including icons of photo art, which can also be found in leading international photo collections. Famous photographs from metropolises such as New York, Berlin, Hollywood and Paris have been on display as well as masterpieces of black and white photography.
PHOTO PROJECT 2024 / GERMAN – DANISH FRIENDSHIP
WITTKIELHOF – WEST WING October 13th to November 10th, 2024
“Kunst für Angeln: Art overcomes boundaries Photoproject 2024”
It was a photo project with the Schleswig-Holstein and Danish artists: in each case, photographers were looking for a creative cooperation partner on the other side of the border to implement together motifs that depict the German-Danish friendship photographically
Each of the participating artists invited at least 10 people from their network to the opening to discuss together about the resulting, exhibited motifs.
Example:
A Danish photo artist looked for an artist in Schleswig Holstein, both of whom were working on the subject of “German-Danish friendship”.
2 participating artists (1 from Denmark plus 1 from Schleswig-Holstein) = 2 photo-subjects plus each 10 Germans from Schleswig-Holstein and 10 Danes from their circle of friends = 20 people per cooperation duo.
10 artists per country were invited, each creating a photo artwork on the theme.
The project and exhibition were organized by Kunst für Angeln e.V.