Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2018

In addition to the exhibitions, there will be artist talks, lectures, discussions and selected films about photography as part of the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2018.

You can find the programme here at the end of January.

We offer public guided tours on
Saturday, 17 February and Sunday, 18 February 2018

Detailed information will follow in mid-January

The tours are fee-based and amount to 5.00 Euros per participant. Please send an email to if interested.

You can find more information on the programme with discussions, lectures and film screenings here at the end of January.

Haus der Universität
Schadowplatz 14
40212 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8110345

www.hdu.hhu.de

The exhibition against the space at the ANTICHAMBRE hotel friends features works by Marta Colombo, Tobias Grewe, Jan Mammey and Daniel Poller. The show displays different photographic positions, that question the usual meaning of photography. The artworks don’t follow the classical pattern of being installed (i.e. hung) on the walls, but are exhibited like plastic sculptures within the room.

Marta Colombo (b. 1984) takes pictures of architectural fragments which she presents in an installation. Tobias Grewe (b. 1975) focuses on architectural details taken from his surroundings, which he then displays without context. For the show, he has developed a new wall piece, which aims to change the perception of the room. Jan Mammey (b. 1974) and Daniel Poller (b. 1984) collaborated on the work Evolution added value, which shows the visitor plastic photographies. The exhibition is curated by Wilko Austermann.


16 February – 13 May 2018

ANTICHAMBRE hotel friends
Worringerstraße 94-96
40210 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)163 1423925

Facebook.com/antichambre9496

In the fall of 1949, six young West German photographers founded the fotoform group as a creative working group and organizational platform, free and independent from associations and institutions, looking for a new beginning after the war.

The modern imagery developed by the photographers Toni Schneiders, Peter Keetman, Wolfgang Reisewitz, Otto Steinert, Ludwig Windstosser and Siegfried Lauterwasser, was supposed to be not only factual and documentary style, but also individualized by emphasizing the personal contribution made by the photographer to the picture. Through modern ways of photographic composition, the laws of nature, technological innovations and societal changes were adressed as key themes now, as well as the expression of an altogether new understanding of the world.


16 February – 23 March 2018

Grisebach
Bilker Straße 4–6
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8629 2199

www.grisebach.com

The concept of neighbourhood has changed a lot in the course of the past few decades.
What happened in the immediate surrounding has now become a broader concept in times of the Global Village. But the quintessence of the term still remains the relationship. The relationship between people, between cultures, humans and their environment.

Under the title Neighborhood, a whole district of Düsseldorf and its art scene, this year the Worringer Platz with its lively off-scene, will be focused on each year. Introducing this new series, there will be a group exhibition in 2018, which deals with the topic of Neighborhood and which will feature works by Toby Binder, Matt Hulse Giya Makondo-Wills, Lucia Tollens and Adriano Vannini.


WP5 Raum Rudolph
Worringer Platz 5
40210 Düsseldorf

Die Werkserie von 12 Erinnerungsportraits ist das Ergebnis einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit Zeitzeugen der nationalsozialistischen Epoche, die sich für die Mahn- und Gedenkstätte in Düsseldorf engagierten. Viele Jahre lang berichteten sie sehr eindrucksvoll und einprägsam von ihrem Schicksal als Verfolgte im Dritten Reich, und sie setzten sich sehr engagiert für die Vermittlung ihrer Erinnerungen ein. Künstlerisch geht es dabei nicht so sehr darum, ein ‘realistisches’ Portrait zu erstellen. Vielmehr geht es um den Versuch, das ‘innere Bild’ als lebendigen Prozess zu visualisieren. Erinnerungen an Personen, Situationen oder Gegenstände sind oft überlagert, verkrustet und kommen aus verschiedenen Zeitabschnitten des Lebens. Manche Erinnerungen sind intensiver als andere, manche sind klar, andere sind verschwommen oder überlagern sich. Es ist ein Prozess, der auch an den menschlichen Körper und seine Fähigkeiten gebunden ist. Die entstandenen Licht-Collagen / Fotografien simulieren den Prozess der visuellen Verarbeitung und Speicherung von Bildern im menschlichen Gehirn.

Künstler-Führung durch die Ausstellung
Samstag, 17.02. und Sonntag, 18.02., jeweils 15:00 Uhr


06 February – 27 May 2018

Opening Times:
Friday, 11.00 am – 05.00 pm
Saturday, 01.00 pm – 05.00 pm
Sunday, 11.00 am – 05.00 pm

Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Düsseldorf
Mühlenstraße 29
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8996205

www.duesseldorf.de/mahn-und-gedenkstaette

16 February – 28 February 2018

Olympus in Kooperation mit Duesseldorf Photo Weekend
in the premises of the TZR Galerie
Poststr. 3
40213 Düsseldorf
www.olympus.de

Under the title Dos Desiertos the gallery Shia Bender presents the impressive black and white landscape photographs by Victor van Keuren. The photographer depicts the vastness of the great deserts, their uncompromising hardness and the vibrancy of fleeting cloud formations. He describes the desert as a place of introspection and fantasy. Remarkable is the combination of infinite regions with the microscopic, so to speak graphic elaboration of the surface structure.
(See also Björn Drenkwitz, Fake Perception)

Artist talk at the vernissage:
Friday, 16.02.2018, 7.30 p.m.
Dr. Danièle Perrier talks with the artist Björn Drenkwitz


16 February – 6 March 2018

Galerie Shia Bender
Graf-Adolf-Straße 49
40210 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 22057940

www.galerie-shia-bender.com

Mesopotamia is the name of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, the sources of which the Bible says are found in Paradise. The two rivers have flowed through the land for thousands of years and have witnessed great empires come and go. On the occasion of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend, Galerie Breckner is exhibiting photographs of Mohamad Al Roumi from the 1980s and 1990s. The artist portrays present everyday life in what was once Mesopotamia. In this way he builds a bridge between the landscape shrouded in myth and the cultural and religious diversity of Syria.
Special event: “Culture nation Syria”

Panel discussion: “Kulturland Syrien”
Saturday, 17. February 2018, 3:00 p.m.
Panel discussion with the artist Mohamad Al Roumi and with Dr. Antonia Rados (television journalist, winner of the Bavarian Television Prize) and
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wilhelm (Chairman of the Landschaftsversammlung Rheinland (state communal assembly of the Rhineland region, participated in the rebuilding of the in the meantime once again destroyed Aleppo in the 1990s)
Host: Dr. Christiane Hoffmans (Cultural editor of Welt am Sonntag and BLAU)


16 February – 31 March 2018

Galerie Breckner
Altestadt 6
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 54221310

www.galerie-breckner.de

Opening on 17 February 2018

Walzwerk Null
Walzwerkstraße 14
40599 Düsseldorf

www.walzwerknull.de

Identity plays a central role in the portrait series Traditional Costume by the
Düsseldorf-based artist Corina Gertz; still the works are rather about an affiliation to a particular geographic region than about individuals. The persons depicted are thus merely surrogates. What is more, the people portrayed are anonymised even further by the fact that their backs are turned to the viewer, which turns the attention towards their traditional costumes as an identity conveying element.

As a photographer and fashion designer, Corina Gertz is fully aware of the significance of clothing and fashion as a means of nonverbal communication. Her series develop while travelling and reflect her passion for the colourful diversities and cultural particularities of our contemporary world. Her photographs have been exhibited in international museums, including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museo delle Culture del Mondo in Genoa, and the Bendigo Art Gallery in Victoria, Australia.


28 January – 25 February 2018

Galerie Peter Tedden zu Gast bei
Matthias Erntges Galerie
Bürgerstraße 22
40219 Düsseldorf

www.galerie-tedden.de

Subjects such as the past, hope and breaking existing stereotypes set an undisguised view of contemporary Russia in the exhibition infinite by Andrej Krementschouk. Picturesque landscapes, infinite wideness and great passion, but social tensions and political isolationism threaten social cohesion. For years, Krementschouk traveled through Russia to perceive and document the country. Andrej Krementschouk (*1973 in Gorki) has been living in Germany since the mid-nineties. He continuously works on artistic projects in his new and old homecountry. His extraordinary position between photography and literature developed as a result of his constant interest for different ways of working and different genres in the fine arts. In addition to photos from his work series the Russians (working title), images, which were created as part of the novel Der Tisch written under the pseudonym Ananij Kokurin published by Osburg Verlag are being shown.


16 February – 7 April 2018

Galerie Clara Maria Sels
Poststraße 3
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 328020

www.galerie-claramariasels.de

16 February – 16 March 2018

gleixner art
Dorotheenstraße 22
40235 Düsseldorf
www.menoparkas.lt
www.donatasstankevicius.com

In Karsten Kronas’ works, Roland Barthes’ punctum, a seemingly insignificant detail of a photograph, triggering the subjective moment of an unreflected and overwhelming connection between the observer and the observed, is extended to the whole of the photograph. Kronas’ artistic selection in the act of taking the picture puts the narrative of his documentary subjects in a state of uncertainty, leaving the observer to find the decisive point of the work not in the image, but in his own associations.

Kronas intensifies his search for the punctum by moving it into the darkroom and shifting to the realm of the process and the medium itself. The eternal errors are created in experiments with damaged photo material, in which the artist concentrates on the light, colour and chemistry of the photograph.


16 February – 29 March 2018

Engelage & Lieder
Ackerstraße 199
40233 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 91735283

www.engelageundlieder.com

special program Mobile photo studio
Paul Walther: Ambrotypies – Historical Wet Plate Photography.

In the mobile photo studio of Paul Walther, a visit to the photographer becomes a special event, as it did over 160 years ago. Paul Walther’s ambrotypes let the photograph of the moment experience in a long-forgotten way. Ambrotype (from the Greek word ambrotos “immortal”) is a direct-positive photographic method used between 1852 and 1890.

Thanks to this ancient photographic technique from the time of early industrialization, once developed by Frederick Scott Archer, the results are of a unique, high-resolution sharpness and aura that can not be artificially reproduced with any modern-day image-editing program. At the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2018 you have the opportunity to follow the whole process from the preparation of the photograph to the development of the silver plate with your image in the laboratory.


16 February, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
17 February, 12:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
18 February, 12:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

16. Februar – 16. März 2018

Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie
Dominikaner Str. 11
40545 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 17158920

www.burkhardeikelmann.de

Weithorn Gallery will be presenting in the Johanneskirche Düsseldorf an exhibition titled ETERNITY with photographs by Benedict J. Fernandez and Jürgen Wassmuth. In the mid-sixties Ben Fernandez took pictures of the protest movement known as the photographic diary of those days in the sixties. The powerful photos of Dr. Martin Luther King, which were taken in his last year living, titled Countdown to eternity, can be found in collections of many museums worldwide. Today, they still have the same significance as fifty years ago. Jürgen Wassmuth will present an excerpt of his project Moments for eternity, observed moments of great narrative quality, seen with a humanistic eye. For decades, both photographers had a constant exchange of ideas. This exhibition will be the first presentation of their work together.


16 February – 10 March 2018

Weithorn Galerie
in cooperation with the Johannes Church
Martin-Luther-Platz 39
40212 Düsseldorf

www.weithorn-galerie.de
“www.johanneskirche.org”

Two photographic positions that use opposing strategies while pursuing the same goal: the questioning of the photographic medium itself.

The focus of Sara-Lena Maierhofer’s work is the relationship between fiction and documentation. The artist merges these two modes to unsettle the viewer. Alongside documentary photographs, which she extracts from archives or online platforms, she creates staged images. Photography no longer remains solely an image, but is set into motion or becomes three-dimensional.

Conrad Müller’s works, on the other hand, seek tension in the flatness of photography. By producing both digital and analog, figurative as well as abstract images, Müller demonstrates that the oscillation between different formats of photography does not lead to a blurring of the individual forms, but rather to a new creation of form.


9 February – 19 February 2018

Im Goldenen
Ackerstr. 49
40233 Düsseldorf

www.facebook.com/imgoldenen

25 January – 28 March 2018

Stiftung Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus.
Deutsch-osteuropäisches Forum
Bismarckstraße 90
40210 Düsseldorf
www.g-h-h.de

16 February – 13 April 2018

Galerie am Meer
Worringer Straße 57
40211 Düsseldorf

www.galerieammeer.com

In the exhibition Hecho en Mexico, the two Mexican artists Alexa Torre and Catherine Abitbol show a contrary view of the contemporary Latin American art scene. In their works, the artists address the cultural and geographic diversity as well as pre-Columbian and native traditions of Latin America.

Alexa Torre explores local, cultural events in her close family environment and Catherine Abitbol animates surreal scenes in public places. The central theme of the artists is to use their art to explain the past, understand the present and change the future. Through different perspectives they open up a balance between intellectual emotions and real consciousness for the viewer.

With Hecho en Mexico the Gericke + Paffrath Gallery deliberately want to not only emphasize the feminist side of the female artists, but in particular show their strength, sensitivity and courage in revolutionizing contemporary art.


16 February – 17 March 2018

Gericke + Paffrath Gallery
Bilker Straße 3
40213 Düsseldorf
www.gerickepaffrath.com

16 February – 27 March 2018

Haus der Universität
Schadowplatz 14
40212 Düsseldorf
www.christophbangert.com

In very personal interviews and photo series, five women from Albania who came to Germany as refugees tell their life story; they talk about their fears and their wishes for a new life in Germany, giving an insight into what they experienced in the past and today, showing us their world.
As part of the project, Rolanda Laminca from Albania and photographer Nina Ditscheid from Düsseldorf photographed the women in such a way that excerpts from their past and their present, their personality and above all their strength come to light in the pictures. A project of Duesseldorf Photo Weekend in cooperation with Caritasverband Düsseldorf e.V.


16 February – 27 March 2018

Haus der Universität
Schadowplatz 14
40212 Düsseldorf

Horst Ademeit (1937-2010) devoted the last 40 years of his life to documenting the harmful influence of cold rays on himself and his environment. With the aid of Polaroid photography, as well as analogue and digital photography, and various electrical measuring devices he gathered the material which formed his daily observations of his immediate environment in Flingern, very close to the Filmwerkstatt.

Ademeit developed a complex recording system for documenting the cold rays. The need to record and the consistent logic of his system required a strict routine which determined the course of his whole day. The exhibition shows a selection of the almost 9000 polaroids as well as digital photographs and measuring devices he used.

Film & Discussion
Sunday, 18.02.2018, 6.00 p.m.
A sensitive portrait of the artist Horst Ademeit, which offers extraordinary insights into his way of working, his ideas and his living environment, which was next to the Filmwerkstatt. The film accompanies Ademeit as he makes his daily observations on cold rays and how he documents them in urban and private spaces. The film will be followed by a discussion with the gallery owners Nicole Delmes and Susanne Zander, Professor Ilka Becker and Jan Wagner.


16 February – 18 February 2017

Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf e.V.
Birkenstraße 47 (in the yard)
40233 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 4080701

www.filmwerkstatt-duesseldorf.de

16 February – 13 March 2018

WP8
Kölner Straße 73
40211 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 93896450

www.wp8.org

The photographs of the painter Katarzyna Cudnik play a fundamental role concerning the clarification and visualisation of the horizon and the exploration of colour in space. The motifs of nature and the staged macro photographs seem alien, almost picturesque, emphasising both space and light. They are structured to simaltaneously touch reality and abstraction. Large screens in the courtyard enable the observer to have a better understanding of the balance between emptiness and fullness.


16 February – 18 February 2018

Cudnik & Hager
Worringer Straße 103, Hinterhof
40210 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0) 177 2166372 (Cudnik)
T: +49 (0) 1573 0680938 (Hager)


www.cudnik.de
www.carlhager.de

In many different ways, our daily life is coined by private and public free spaces, and it’s a landscape architect’s task to design them. The planning and creation tasks of today’s landscape architecture reach far beyond gardens and parks, they include town squares and cemeteries as well the embedding of quarters promenades as well as playgrounds and sporting grounds. Apart from a few famous new build projects, most construction contributions serve the purpose of improving the living environment, and the ones who designed them are merely known to experts. Landscape architecture designs urban free spaces, makes cities inhabitable and places worth living. It is able to revive abandoned areas and organizes the re-use and the new use of post-industrial spaces and waste lands.

The exhibition shows national and international examples of contemporary landscape architecture in order to present the range of tasks of landscape architecture to a broad public on the one hand. Nikolai Benner (Kassel) and Mark Pflüger (Hamburg) are both trained landscape architects and use this qualification for their work as photographers.

Vernissage: 02/14/2018, 7:00 p.m.
at the opening speaks Prof. dr. Stefanie Hennecke (Department of Open Space Planning, University of Kassel)


14 February – 01 April 2018

Museum für Gartenkunst
Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath
Benrather Schlossallee 102-108
40597 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 89 97140


www.schloss-benrath.de

16 February – 18 February 2017

onomato künstlerverein e.V.
Birkenstraße 97
40233 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 3983836

www.onomato-verein.de

With exhibitions from international art colleges, #FRESH gives an insight into the young photography scene. In 2018, artists from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) will present their works at a large exhibtion at the Stilwerk. In Ontology of Encounter, the curator Václav Janoščík assembles student positions that oscillate between expressive and intimate photography; the deep and the superficial, the serious and the ephemeral.

16 February – 18 February 2018

Showroom im stilwerk
1. OG
Grünstraße 15
40212 Düsseldorf
www.famu.cz

Photography is the most popular image medium of our times: photos are posted, liked and quickly forgotten again.
Artistic practice is the polar opposite. An engagement with reality through the medium of photography inevitably demands working on an image, starting with its construction. An image comes into being not only in the moment of exposure, but rather acquires significance and creates new relationships through time, circulation, and form.

The positions from the class of Prof. Joachim Brohm at the HGB Leipzig interact with contemporary photographic discourse in a specific way: in the exhibition space, thoughts, ideas, images, and objects produce collective resonances that both reflect our reality and allow it to be grasped.

With works by Daniele Ansidei, Wut Chalanant, Kalinka Gieseler, Bernadette Keating, Sophia Kesting, Dana Lorenz, Abel Minée, Daniel Poller


03 February – 7 April 2018

Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
Bilkerstraße 4-6
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 4915890

www.beck-eggeling.de

F.C. Gundlach is one of the best-known fashion photographers of the 20th century. His models, light-footed and nonchalant, still embody the spirit of unbounded freedom. Gundlach’s photographs have long been recognised as icons of fashion photography, and have been exemplary for generations of photographers who followed him. His clients, alongside the elegant post-war publication Film und Frau, were major magazines such as Brigitte, Stern, Quick, Twen and Annabelle. Gundlach’s images struck a chord with a time and a generation that longed for the wide world. The camera was his constant companion from the very beginning. The great metropolises of fashion, Berlin, Paris and New York, were his second home.

As well as fashion photography, he produced impressive travel reportages – Gundlach visited the pyramids in Egypt, the temples of Angkor Wat and Oscar Niemeyer’s futuristic jungle city Brasilia. With great sensitivity he made these famous monuments parts of his ingenious architectural scenes.

Since 2009 the VERTICAL GALLERY is a unique art project of the InterContinental Dusseldorf with the renowned curator Werner Lippert.


27 January – 08 April 2018

VERTICAL GALLERY
im InterContinental Düsseldorf

Königsallee 59
40215 Düsseldorf
VERTICAL GALLERY VII

The gallery Shia Bender shows works by Björn Drenkwitz for the first time in Düsseldorf.
In terms of content, Drenkwitz deals with the moving image and transfers the processes and insights of his video works to other media, in addition to the influence of the time-lapse
especially the transmission of digital data in analog media. Often the discrepancy between the visual perception and the acoustic plays an important role. More and more often his works are charged with political content. The concept of the work requires the choice of a variety of means of expression, video installations, digital images and screenshots of sound waves, origami and sound installations and even flowers and paving stones.

Friday, 16.02.2018, 7.30 p.m.
Artist talk at the vernissage
Dr. Danièle Perrier talks with the artist Björn Drenkwitz


16 February – 23 March 2018

Galerie Shia Bender
Graf-Adolf-Straße 49
40210 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 22057940

www.galerie-shia-bender.com

Otto Snoek (b.1966) is an internationally well-known, independent documentary photographer. Using a hit-and-run-style of photography he is a master of mixing humor and irony with skepticism and gloom – leaving a space or gap between them that obliges the viewers to determine their own positions and emotional response.


Snoek‘s work is based on a sense of personal wonder regarding the perceived and actual social tendencies that bring about friction, 
nationalism, popular culture, populism and consumption. He searches for elements that unite us, but also for those that divide us. There is room for intuition and social criticism; and combining the two he condeses reality. 
In 1997 he began working on his photo essay about Rotterdam, the city he was born and lives in, titled Hometown, parts of which will be shown at the exhibition JUST PEOPLE! Om en nabij.


15 February – 08 March 2018

d|d contemporary art gallery
Altestadt 13
40213 Düsseldorf
Stadthaus an St. Lambertus
T: +49 (0)211 325057

www.ddcontemp.de

15 February – 03 March 2018

Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg
Hohenzollernstraße 30
40211 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8368491

www.galerie-lausberg.com

David Lynch, Katharina Grosse, Jörg Immendorff, Dennis Hopper, Ringo Starr – stars from the worlds of film, fashion, music, and art – Michael Dannenmann has portrayed them all. The power of his expressive portraits lies in the photographer’s sense of how to capture what is essential about a human being in a second, how to let something personal shine through. The images are a skillful interplay of planning and spontaneity. He only creates a setting and leaves his sitters ample space. This has made him one of the most important contemporary portrait photographers. Michael Dannenmann’s work has appeared in magazines such as ARTnews, Forbes, Manager Magazin, Vogue, and Die Zeit. Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art is pleased to present a representative selection of his portrait photographs.


16 February – 7 April 2018

Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art
Bilkerstraße 5
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 4915890

www.beck-eggeling.de

In his photographs, Horst Schäfer reveals the qualities of the urban space, which are full of contrasts. For Schäfer, it is essential to capture the relationships between people and architecture. Schäfer made his photographic debut in Düsseldorf in the 1950s. In 1961 he moved to New York and worked as a press photographer, i.a. for the Time magazine. Withal he remains true to his philosophy of “visualizing the visible”.

In 1980 the artist moves back to Germany. When traveling, i.a. to Paris, he constantly finds new motives for his main interest in composition – man and urbanity – of his classic black and white photography. Horst Schäfer received several awards honoring his eye for the special photographic moment. His works are represented in collections worldwide, notably the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

Artist talk at the vernissage:
Friday, 16.02.2018, 6.30 p.m.


16 February – 3 March 2018

Art Edition-Fils – Galerie im stilwerk
Grünstraße 15
stilwerk (1. OG)
40212 Düsseldorf
Tel: +49 (0)211 6016666

www.fils-fine-arts.de

The exhibition I SEE SEE, I AM is the result of a focused research on artists who form the Iranian canon of video art and use this medium to demonstrate a specific artistic individuality.

I SEE, I AM focuses on three women whose works serve to illuminate patterns, changes and developments in contemporary Iranian video art. Likewise, the works exhibit characteristics that exist independently of cinema and other artistic genres. The selected artists do not work explicitly culturally, but unambiguously address intercultural issues.


16 February – 17 March 2018

Setareh Gallery
Hohe Straße 53
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 82827171

www.setareh-gallery.com

With the works by Tammam Azzam, Sulafa Hijazi, Ammar, Abd Rabbo, Dino Ahmad Ali, Ali Kaaf, Muzaffar Salman, Jaber Al Azmeh, Akram El Halabi, Alaa Hamameh, Khaled Abdulwahed and Amjad Wardeh exhibited in the Galerie Breckner, a generation of artists impacted by war reflects on the civil war prevailing in Syria since 2011.

Tammam Azzam uses Western masterpieces, such as Gustav Klimt’s painting The Kiss, through photomontages in the midst of war and destruction. “The suffering in Syria is visible to everyone. But communicating this horror with art is a real challenge. Therefore, I try to translate the tragedy with international pictographs that are familiar to everyone. It’s my way of dealing with the indescribable“, says the artist.

Through their artworks, the eight artists pave the way for an art founded on pain and suffering that is both a global symbol of hope and captures the essence of today’s life.


16 February – 31 March 2018

Galerie Breckner
Altestadt 7
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 54221310

www.galerie-breckner.de

The studio collective Morello at the Ackerstrasse 29a consists of an informal association of artists who are using the spaces in a collaborative and multifunctional manner for both work and exhibition purposes. A shared trait of their respective work is found in a common interest in the aspects of modelling.


16 February – 18 February 2018

Morello
Ackerstraße 29a
2. Hinterhof Erdgeschoss
40233 Düsseldorf

Imago is an etymological term and the title of the forthcoming exhibition at the Polish Institute Düsseldorf, which will show photos by Anna Grzelewska and Zuza Krajewska as part of Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2018. The word imago refers to an adult insect at the final stage of the development of the species.

Zuza Krajewska‘s series portrays boys, who, after committing a crime, were sent to a borstal. She creates a picture full of dualities: on the one hand the boys appear to be childlike and innocent, while on the other hand they seem to be strikingly adult.

In the series Julia Wannabe Anna Grzelewska photographed her daughter over the course of several years, thereby showing Julia going through a metamorphosis.
“My purpose was to search for sources of woman’s identity and to approach the moment when a girl becomes a woman. There is something ambiguous and perturbing in this transition. The culture pictures childhood as a land of happiness: sweet and innocent. Also, our memory tends to wipe any flaws out of this image. Shooting Julia I wanted to look at the process of growing up in a more complex way.“ (Anna Grzelewska)


16 February – 22 March 2018

Polnisches Institut Düsseldorf
Citadellstraße 7
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 866960

www.polnisches-institut.de

16 February – 18 February 2018

Franzmann – JugendKULTURcafé
Ratinger Str. 20
40213 Düsseldorf

On the occasion of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend 2018 the focus lies on photography and digital media. How can photography be used and utilized as a stimulant in visual arts today? Some works clearly are of photographic origin, others seem to be photographs, but they are not. Along with classical photographs, photo books, mixed media such as collage, over-panting and installation will be shown as well.

The Off-Space Flingern 15 has been around for some years in a varying constellation of artists. It is situated in a backyard of Düsseldorf’s Ackerstraße 15, close to the Worringer Platz. The collective’s current artists cover the fields of painting, drawing, photography, printing and installation. According to need, they use and combine multiple productive techniques. The artists of Flingern 15 invite you to discuss the manifold possibilities of photography in the fine arts.


16 February – 18 February 2018

Flingern 15
Ackerstraße 15, backyard
40233 Düsseldorf

16 February – 28 February 2018

Olympus in Kooperation mit Duesseldorf Photo Weekend
in the premises of the TZR Galerie
Poststr. 3
40213 Düsseldorf
www.olympus.de

With its focus on Outsider Art, the DIRECT ART GALLERY aims to discover and support artistic positions crossing borders of Contemporary Art. For the first time, the gallery presents the artworks by Berlin based photographer Christine Denck. Her photography is touching, tells stories, demands the total attention of the viewer. With her strong portraits, Christine Denck addresses major themes of life: humans who question and try to find their identity, who try to understand the world, who show a direct view which simultaneously discloses strength and vulnerability. Her artworks visualize existential emotions like profound fears by waking up in a demolition house or the irrepressible desire for freedom which one hopes to find in an artificial glittering world or in the “Cowboy Romance” of the Wild West.


16 February – 24 March 2018

Direct Art Gallery
Outsider & more
Citadellstraße 15
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 86280730

www.directartgallery.de

The photographer Marcus Schwier is known for his architectural shots of metropolises all around the world. Beyond room and space, important constituents of his work are localization and the specifics of a place, town or city, as well as the concepts of home and affiliation.

Marcus Schwier first studied architecture, then he was a student of photography at the art academy, both in Düsseldorf. Here, in his hometown, he continuously produces series of photographs that are continued or finished at other places. The exhibition MARCUS SCHWIER: DÜSSELDORF shows well-known series of photographs as well as numerous works that are to be seen for the first time.


16 February – 13. April 2018

Haus der Architekten
Zollhof 1
40221 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0) 211 496741

www.aknw.de

Galerie Franz Swetec presents a selection of photographs by Ulrike Crespo (*1950, Fulda). Ulrike Crespo lives in Frankfurt, Wien and West Cork, Ireland.

The exhibition is titled “ICELAND”. The shots were taken in 2013 during a journey along the coast of Iceland as well as during a second trip to the south-west of the island in 2015, including a helicopter-flight around the Eyjafjallajökull and the highland of the Landmannalaugar close to the Hekla volcano.

“In her images of Iceland, Ulrike Crespo shows us landscapes that are almost devoid of humans. Without pathos, but with a timeless eye she guides us through a landscape that is in a state of constant change, thus ensuring each viewer creating their very own images of this world. Her images leave us scope for associations, desires and -for example in my case- memories.” (Matthias Wagner K)


16 February – 24 March 2018

Galerie Franz Swetec
Kasernenstraße 13
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 324247

www.galerie-swetec.de

16 February – 16 March 2018

Burkhard Eikelmann Galerie
Dominikaner Str. 11
40545 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 17158920

www.burkhardeikelmann.de

In english it is called “to take a picture”. In german “to make a picture”. Christian Steinmetz takes the picture, cuts it out of what is seen and stays in the photography to be able to make the moment repeatable.


To see. A selection of his topics over the years, for years to come. One does not always find everything, does not encounter everything immediately. His central idea is the observation of time, whose changes, redesigns are mostly marginal or repetitions.

Having a word. From the beginning photography is subject to a technical development. Already the second photo of all times was made differently than the first one. Until digitization, there were always organic development processes. But now the provisional standstill in the recording technique is reached, which feigns uniqueness mostly through prefabricated automatisms.
So to say that there are unprocessed, pure images, is an attempted assertion. Each picture is edited the moment it is played back. Pre-programmed as little as possible, as far as it is determined by himself, is certainly the claim of Christian Steinmetz.


16 February – 18 February 2018

Studio Keyeffect
Ackerstraße 29a
2. Hinterhof | Souterrain
40233 Düsseldorf


Rita Rohlfing is an artist who does not operate within the logic of a single art genre, but oversteps the usual genre bounds and integrates them into her art. If her works with their vital interest in paint and its effects also have strong roots in the field of color painting, they, with their emphasis on material and spatial effects, always present themselves as three-dimensional objects and as such have a relation to sculpture. In a large-scale format they even expand into veritable environments. The fact that Rohlfing’s artistic repertoire now also ranges into the field of photography is, on the one hand, at first surprising, on the other, only consistent. The themes the artist takes up can be articulated just as succintly in the medium of photography.

It remains notable that it was the architecture and the spatial impact of the Deilmann building that inspired the artist to her presention of a photo-projection and photographs. The eight photos, despite their lack of color, have an unmistable reference to painting. The light-dark, the distribution of the light values, which seemingly leave gestural traces, allow them to appear to be photographic variants of abstract paintings. At the same time, they are recognizable as well-known themes in Rohlfing’s work, i.e., reflection and blurring as in the mirrored light on the lacerated floor. In her works, she reflects the fact that we live in a present age that is enormously complex and, in its many aspects, has become incomprehensible.


26 January – 19 February 2018

Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg
Hohenzollernstraße 30
40211 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8368491

www.galerie-lausberg.com

It is Sonja Hamad‘s first work after graduating from Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin in 2013. For this series, she went back to her home country Syria, which she had left at the age of three with her parents. Motivated by a fascination for the women‘s movement of the Kurdish fighters and shaped by living in the diaspora, questions concerning her own identity are the main reasons, which inspired her above and beyond this series, to undertake the journeys to the war zones, which could be very dangerous. The intensity of her work ist reflected in the colour photos, which show the human behind the front, the beauty of the landscape on the one hand and the dystopian cruelness of the crime scene on the other hand and which open a view for moments of female adornment in the detail photos. (Text: Min-young Jeon)

16 February – 27 March 2018

Haus der Universität
Schadowplatz 14
40212 Düsseldorf
www.sonjahamad.com

Sandra Senn (* 1973 in Baden/Switzerland, lives in Berlin and Baden) ranks among the most important Swiss artists working in the field of digital images. For many years now, her multifaceted work has attracted enthusiastic attention at home and abroad and can be found in important institutional and private collections. In her current solo exhibition with the poetic (German) title «Zwischen zwei Meeren» [Between Two Seas] she is showcasing new groups of works. Eroded monumental animals in the solitude of the wide seas articulate the finite nature of civilisation. Yet, who has vanished – humans or animals? Does the apparent end actually mean the end, or is this the dawn of a new consciousness?


26 January – 03 March 2018

Galerie Voss
Mühlengasse 3
40213 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 134982

www.galerievoss.de

16. February – 16. March 2018

fiftyfifty Galerie
Jägerstr. 15
40231 Düsseldorf
www.fiftyfifty-galerie.de

Inspired by Plato’s Symposium and Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper Katharina Mayer,
in co-operation with streetpaper fiftyfifty, created in 2006 her extremely large-sized Symposium of Friends, an unconventional presentation of homeless people within the refectory of Düsseldorf’s Franciscan monastery (recently torn down). This work of art generates a grotesque impression. The beards, on purpose carelessly pasted to the faces, lend an almost archaic atmosphere to the situation. The steeple hats, worn by some of the present homeless people, produce both a funny and threatening effect, especially since they evoke recollections of the unholy inquisition with all its tribulations and persecutions – hardships being still suffered today by people who have to live on the streets. A complex modern artwork, an altarpiece in a way, with manifold levels of meaning, complemented by larger-than-life-size individual portraits at which, perhaps, the viewer may come in face-to-face contact with one of the unconventional guests of the Round Table.


16. February – 16. March 2018

fiftyfifty Galerie
Jägerstr. 15
40231 Düsseldorf
www.fiftyfifty-galerie.de

Photographic objects have been the centre of Akram Zaatari’s (born in Saida/Lebanon in 1966, lives and works in Beirut) artistic practice since 1995. Photographic formations or emergences, as he calls them, are the focus of this exhibition: enigmatic objects that bear traces of past events and accompany people through key moments in their lives. Cherished at times, destroyed at others, photographs are capable of provoking diverse and extreme reactions. Initially, capturing instances, they change over time.

The perception of an image changes, but sometimes the physicality of the object itself is also altered as a result of its contact with the natural, social and political environment. As a co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (1997 in Beirut) and as principle contributor to its expanding collection, Zaatari’s oeuvre represents an uncompromising contribution to the discourse on photography and its changing function over the years.


18 November 2017 – 25 February 2018

K21 Ständehaus
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Ständehausstraße 1
40217 Düsseldorf
www.kunstsammlung.de

Hartmut Neumann (*1954) is primarily known for his painting, in which the figurations unfold with their many details to a comprehensive, almost abstract (pictorial) ornamentation. He is interested in the fantastic and he breathes life into bizarre beings. He also humorously uses the game with words in his titles.

Neumann is professor at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig since 1992. A little later he begins to deal with photography in relation to his painting and drawing oeuvre. It is about inventing a reality that is different from the “usual” reality – similar to his painting – and he becomes aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the respective medium. Since the 2000s, classic black and white works have been added, supplementing his often luminous, color-rich works. To locate the different series in the artistic oeuvre is the aim of the first retrospective of his photographs.


16 February – 31 May 2018

Museum Ratingen
Peter-Brüning-Platz 1
40878 Ratingen
T: +49 (0)2102 5504181

www.museum-ratingen.de

Across 48 works, GENERATION LOSS showcases the entire spectrum of the works in the collection. This will provide a unique and unprecedented overview of the structure of the history and the historicity of the JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION.

Formally, the exhibition will very visibly connect works, in what is a sort of straightforward, socially demonstrative way: projected works will be screened in choreographed sequences and in proximity to one another. This will be partially achieved using acoustic glass to divide the works and effectively block sound leaks, but allows you to see through to other spaces, works. No work alone, all works in relation.

The exhibition will feature works by Eleanor Antin, Ed Atkins & Simon Thompson, Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Klaus vom Bruch, Bernadette Corporation, Lynda Benglis, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Hannah Black, Klaus vom Bruch, Chris Burden, Matt Calderwood, Patty Chang, Ian Cheng, Jen DeNike, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Cheryl Donegan, Trisha Donnelly, Cao Fei, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Dara Friedman, Cyprien Gaillard, Douglas Gordon, Barbara Hammer, Christian Jankowski, Joan Jonas, Imi Knoebel, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Lutz Mommartz, Bruce Nauman, Jon Rafman, Lucy Raven, Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, James Richards, Rachel Rose, Jack Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ulay & Marina Abramović, Steina Vasulka, Hannah Wilke, Jordan Wolfson, Tobias Zielony


10 June 2017 – 29 July 2018

Julia Stoschek Collection
Schanzenstraße 54
40549 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 5858840

www.julia-stoschek-collection.net

After winning the Portfolio Review Award 2017, Alix Marie presents her solo exhibition ADYTA as part of the Dusseldorf Photo Weekend 2018. Displayed across two rooms at Ratinger Tor, ADYTA features two distinct new installations by the artist, The Pythia (2018) and Heracles (2018), both inspired by Greek mythology and created during her recent two-month residency at Void in Athens. Marie’s installations embrace both photography and sculpture in innovative and sophisticated constellations. They are explorations into her personal involvement with and critical inquiry of the body, challenging notions of its cultural representations and appropriations.

Presented in the first room, Marie’s The Pythia (2018) is an installation comprising a photographic self-portrait of the artist printed on Perspex and a water fountain incorporating mist and models of snakes. The title, The Pythia, refers to the high priestess of Delphi from Greek mythology. The priestess was also the oracle, a powerful prophetic figure who entered a trance-like state after breathing in natural gases that seeped out of the ground. In The Pythia, the machine-made mist recalls this inspirational gas. The snakes engage with the symbolism of the Pythia, a word that is etymologically derived from the same root as python. Marie’s work draws particularly on mythological readings of the snakes being linked to pubic hair and a fear of female genitalia.

Marie’s Heracles (2018), shown in the second room, stems from her interest in exploring and questioning the construction of gender. Having worked on the representation and perception of femininity previously, Marie has more recently been researching and investigating masculinity, looking at both biological and socially defined factors of its construct. Muscularity is considered a particular attribute of virility, which led Marie to research further into bodybuilding. With her series Flex (2017), she employs cropped images of male bodybuilders’ arms taken from FLEX magazine and uses the dye sublimation printing technique to create unique three-dimensional photographic sculptures resembling cushions. Evolving from this earlier series, her new installation Heracles features twelve of these cushion-like objects individually displayed on rotary barbecues, continuously turning on themselves and evoking the Greek tradition of rotisserie grilling, three of them shown here.

Both installations critically examine reductive readings of femininity and masculinity and question ideas of gender that – despite social progress – still have a major impact on the individual development of identity. The exhibition raises a dialectic that is latent in history but often held back by conventions that suppress and control the body. At a time when sexual liberation often runs parallel to its opposite, Marie reflects on the possibilities of re-appropriating one’s body.


16 February – 23 March 2018

Opening hours after the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend
every Saturday from 12.00 a.m. – 04.00 p.m.

and after agreements

Ratinger Tor
Maximilian-Weyhe-Allee 1 + 2
40213 Düsseldorf
www.alixmarie.com

The photos of Hosam Katan (*1994 in Aleppo) show what it is like to live with war; destruction and sadness, but also joy and courage are all part of Yalla Habibi – Living with War in Aleppo.

“Yalla Habibi is also part of my own story. Growing up in Aleppo I could never have imagined that one day war would break out in my country. I felt the responsibility to document what was happening around me. As many international news organizations were leaving the country for security reasons, I realized the importance to not let the events and people in Aleppo go unseen.“

Hosam Katan began working as a photographer for the Aleppo Media Center at the age of 18. His photos were published in many international magazines. At the end of 2015, he left his home country and came to Germany as a refugee. Hosam Katan is currently studying photojournalism at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Hanover. Awards he received include the Ian Parry Special Award 2014, the Ian Parry Award 2015 and the Felix Schoeller Photo Award 2017.


16 February – 27 March 2018

Haus der Universität
Schadowplatz 14
40212 Düsseldorf
www.hosamkatan.com

Two photographers, both with roots in photojournalism, offer their personal view on objects and life. Wim Woeber from Cologne, who is passionate about people and mobility, portrays discarded aircraft in muted colors and found in places that are difficult to enter. These images emanate a subliminal morbidity that becomes massive on closer inspection.

By contrast, Eric Alexander presents relaxed, contemplative characters from Düsseldorf’s art scene in images of contrasting black and white, taken in the “Schwarzer Raum”.
The sessions in this “darkroom for experimental portrait photography” create a break, a purposeless gap in the person’s existence, thereby offering the personality a chance to show itself! THE BLACK ROOM is set up in the gallery.

Both artists are present throughout the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend.


Galerie Christian Marx
Grünstr. 15
stilwerk
40212 Düsseldorf
www.cm-galerie.de

The International Music Academy Anton Rubinstein presents Film Stills from the Golden Age of Hollywood, hosted in the historical “Haus Goldener Helm” in the middle of the Düsseldorf old town. The Collection Hollywood at the Piano portrays stars in romantic, comical, dreamy, flirtatious situations – always glamorously situated at, by, or near a grand piano.

Over 30 exhibits create a historical portrait: from portraits of silent film stars Elsie Ferguson and Vilma Banky, to Diane Keaton’s entrance in Woody Allen’s Love and Death, including stills from Greta Garbo, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Vittorio Gassman, Ingrid Bergman, Katherine Hepburn, Diane Keaton and Marilyn Monroe.

Visitors also have the opportunity to listen to live music, as there will be concerts given by lecturers and students of the Music Academy every hour on the hour.

• Friday, February 16, 2018 *
• Music by Maria Fernandez-Casado, Jun Qiu and Yifei Wang *

*Saturday, February 17, 2018 *
Music by Yue Che, Mamiko Kan, Daria Sokolova, Lisa Franken, Elena Prokina, *Irina Leveleva and Andre Lantsov *

*Sunday, February 18, 2018 *
*Music by Ayka Elaman Kyzy, Eunjun Chae, Elena Bobrovskikh and Igor Tchetuev *


February 16 – February 18 2018

Internationale Musikakademie Anton Rubinstein
Flingerstraße 1
40213 Düsseldorf

www.rubinstein-akademie.de

The exhibition Facetten gives an insight into each one of the artists photographic eye. Interesting, simple moments caught by a camera show the individualities of different genres. They present a range of work out of travel, portrait, landscapes, architecture and street. The viewer experiences many different sides of photography in a unique and exciting way. In the group are some well-known photographers like Rebecca Handler from New York and Andreas Neubauer from Munich, the professional photographer Christian Köster, the production artist Mrs. White and the hobbyphotographer Ralf Berg. The exhibition is a collaboration with Nikon.

Saturday, February 17, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
*Photo Flea Market *
Find treasures & make a bargain
www.fotokoch.de/flohmarkt

Saturday, February 17, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Nikon Day
- Information booth
- Free Clean & Check
- Free photo walks
- Borrow Nikon article 1 day for free
- Special offers


15. February – 31. October 2018

Foto Koch

Schadowstraße 62

40212 Düsseldorf
www.fotokoch.de

In the era of Facebook, Twitter and Co. the way people deal with images has undergone fundamental changes. Images, circulating in social networks, have become an essential means of expression for a broad public. This comprises banalities from the users’ lives as well as photographic evidence from the global trouble spots of our present times.

In view of their great affective potential, images ingeniously impact the entire gamut of emotions. They are “liked” in large numbers, provoke protests, prompt criticism and reckless insults, but are also capable of promoting public debate and a sense of community. The exhibition Affect Me. Social Media Images in Art presents works from nine international artistic positions working with images originating from social media. Their focus lies particularly on those images that are shared in the context of global political conflicts. The artists reflect how these pictures move and mobilize, beyond their reporting function, and how they are positioned on the border between fiction and reality. Curated by Julia Höner & Kerstin Schankweiler.


11 November 2017 – 10 March 2018

KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation
Kaistrasse 10
40221 Düsseldorf
www.kaistrasse10.de

16 – 18 February 2018

CONZEN am Carlsplatz
Benrather Straße 8
40213 Düsseldorf
www.conzen.de

The pendulum swings back and forth – no forward motion without moving backwards. Moving forward as well as sometimes moving backwards is one of the peculiarities of the human species. We invite the artists to perceive these poles, to act in the space and thus to define their position.

The perception of back and forth can be of various kinds. Seeking, repeating until monotony and compulsiveness. 
In this process, doubts, carelessness or sisyphean actions are not far away.

To and fro also means travelling between countries, worlds, continents – meandering, but also the worldwide fluctuation of migration and refugees. Progress and regression can also be the nature of political change. Back and forth means controversy, an altercation, as well. Without this, no developing knowledge and no artistic process would be possible.


10 February – 4 March 2018

produzentengalerie plan.d. e.V.
Dorotheenstraße 59
40235 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 7300251

www.galerie-plan-d.de

David Burdeny translates his intimate appreciation for the structure, details and metaphorical value of space into sublime observations on how the contemporary world is still pregnant with mystery and potential.

In the series Metro David Burdeny shows what lies beneath: a hypnotizing beauty of Moscow’s historic metro stations. David Burdeny spent two weeks underground the Russian capital and believes he was the first photographer ever to be allowed to shoot the stations after-hours, devoid of passengers. Capturing the extravagant and historic interior of the metro stations, a whole world of opulent architecture opens up.⠀

The series Salt is another work by Burdeny, which will be on display in the exhibition. With his aerial photographs over the wide salt lakes in Australia, South America and the USA, Burdeny shows the artistic potential of pure space and its sensual structuring. With their amorphous shapes, elongated fields of colour and vertical, jagged and sinuous lines, Burdeny’s images suggest the painterly expressiveness of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and other expressionists in their artist statement.


26 January – 03 March 2018

Galerie Bernd A. Lausberg
Hohenzollernstraße 30
40211 Düsseldorf
T: +49 (0)211 8368491

www.galerie-lausberg.com