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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation

Exhibition cooperations

In addition to the exhibition schedule at The Cube, which includes works that are part of the Collection as well as works from promoted projects – such as the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize or the Foam Talent programme – the Foundation makes an ongoing effort to develop further collaborations with cultural institutions both within and outside of Germany. In 2014, the Art Collection exhibition “Human Nature” was on display at the NRW Forum Düsseldorf as part of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend. Since the first edition of RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/Rhein Main in 2012, the Art Collection has also been an important partner of this new photo triennial and participates in RAY both with works on loan and as an exhibition venue. As the Collection’s curator, Anne-Marie Beckman is also a member of the Ray curator team. In cooperation with the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, the special exhibition for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize was shown as part of the RAY photo triennial at the museum’s exhibition space MMK in 2015 and 2017. It was again showcased at MMK and as part of RAY 2018 in 2018.


As a main goal, the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation seeks to continue to bring important photography exhibitions to Frankfurt and to make the Art Collection accessible to a broad audience outside of the exhibition space at the company’s headquarters.

 

Art Collection on Tour

Changing Views - 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse

Exhibition: 3 May to 7 July 2019

In light of the 20-year anniversary of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam presented "Changing Views – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse", an extensive range of works from the Collection. The exhibition period consisted of four back-to-back presentations that recorded positions on some key themes of the collection, with works from different photographers. This concept celebrated the variety and comprehensive quality of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The show included works from iconic names such as Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Rineke Dijkstra, Dana Lixenberg and from younger photographers like Tobias Zielony and Mike Brodie, and hidden gems like Gerd Danigel or Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer.

The four succesive chapters were:

Germany (3 – 19 May)
Icons (21 May – 4 June)
Traces of Disorder (6 June – 23 June)
Youth Culture (25 June – 7 July)

More details about the different chapters here.

Exhibition funding

Armin Linke, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max Planck Institut, Photothek, Florence, Italy, 2018 © Armin Linke for the project Image Capital by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, 2018. Courtesy: the artist and Vistamare Milano / Pescara

Image Capital

Exhibition: 9 September to 11 December 2022 at Museum Folkwang Essen

We were a cooperation partner to the exhibition "Image Capital" at the Folkwang Museum Essen. The show illustrated the history and present of the medium of photography as an information technology and is based on an interdisciplinary research project by photography historian Estelle Blaschke and artist Armin Linke.

Photographs of any kind are often edited, exchanged, stored and sold, many also deleted and forgotten. All of these actions shape how we interact with them. While the history of digital image practices is still emerging, today the incessant accumulation of photographs in search engines, social media or in the memories of our smartphones stands out. The exhibition features photographs, video works, texts, archival images, and interviews from research, academia, and industry, posing questions such as. How are value systems created? How are the ever-growing volumes of images managed, used, and monetized in digital and analog concepts?

After the opening in Essen, the presentation was shown in different variations at the Fondazione MAST/ Bologna and at the Centre Pompidou/Paris as well as in our premises in Eschborn. You can find more information here.

 

Jochen Lempert

Exhibition: 12 March to 5 June 2022 at the Portikus Frankfurt am Main

The Portikus Frankfurt, part of the renowned Städelschule (college of fine arts), showed an exhibition of the work of the photographer Jochen Lempert (*1958), which marked his first solo exhibition in Frankfurt.

As part of our diverse support programme, we support this presentation. In his black-and-white photographs and diverse installations, the artist deals in detail with phenomena from the animal and plant world and how we encounter them in different contexts. Lempert's work is characterized by the fact that he combines a biological with a photographic perspective, thereby creating new perspectives. Jochen Lempert will develop a new group of works for the Portikus that deals with the flora and fauna of the Maininsel and the area around the Old Bridge.

Jochen Lempert was already a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2014. His project, which was selected for the prize at the time, can be found here.

 

Zanele Muholi

Exhibition and Panel: 26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022 at the Gropius Bau Berlin

As part of our exhibition cooperation, we were supporting the presentation "Zanele Muholi" at the Gropius Bau in Berlin and the accompanying programme "Forms of Insistence, Tenderness and Refuge". This was the first major exhibition of the South African photographer in Germany. 

Zanele Muholi (*1972, South Africa), a visual activist, came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that tell stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa and beyond. Presenting the full breadth of Muholi’s career, the Gropius Bau survey brings together over 200 photographs: from their very first body of work, “Only Half the Picture”, to their on-going series “Somnyama Ngonyama”. Muholi’s work addresses sexual politics, racial violence, communal resistance and self-assertion and is a gesture of visibility, empowerment and social activism. It challenges dominant stereotypes and the heteronormative gaze while speaking to various forms of social, communal and artistic self-empowerment.

The public programme “Forms of Insistence, Tenderness and Refuge” accompanied the exhibition and included conversations, movie screenings, special tours and a poetry convening. It was held from November 2021 until March 2022. As part of the Zanele Muholi exhibition’s closing weekend, Tina Campt, Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, delivered a keynote titled “Gazing While Black: Black Bodies, White Cube Spaces”. This was followed by a keynote of Renée Mussai, curator and scholar of photography and lens-based media, titled “Other/Wise – Notes on Curatorial Care, Visual Activism, and Seeing with Different Eyes”. After a welcome by Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation), the event was moderated by curator Natasha Ginwala. You can find more about the event here.

Zanele Muholi’s work "Faces and Phases" is part of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. In 2015 Muholi was a finalist of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

 

Photographs become Pictures. The Becher Class.

Exhibition: 27 April to 13 August 2017 at the Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main

In 2017 the Städel Museum in Frankfurt showed the exhibition "Photographs become Pictures. The Becher Class". The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation supported this exhibition with 25 loans. The show featured works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse and Thomas Struth from the Art Collection.

With its some 200 photographs by internationally renowned artists the exhibition explored, among other things, the question as to what influence Bernd and Hilla Becher had on their students at the art academy Düsseldorf.

More information about the exhibition here.

 

Claudia Andujar. Tomorrow must not be like yesterday

Exhibition: 18 February to 25 June 2017 at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main

This exhibition was the first in Europe to provide extensive insights into the œuvre of the photographer Claudia Andujar (b. in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 1931), a resident of Brazil. In the early 1980s, in connection with her activist involvement in efforts to protect and preserve the Yanomami, the largest indigenous ethnic group in the Amazon region, she produced "Marcado" (The Marked Ones). The portraits launched Andujar's in-depth exploration of the Yanomami culture and have come to be considered her single most important series.

RAY Triennal of photography

Maisie Cousins, Walking Back To Happiness, 2023 © Maisie Cousins

About the cooperation

Since 2012, the entire Rhine-Main region is dedicated to photography every three years.In the form of the RAY photography triennial, the region presents an extensive programme of exhibitions and events under a varying theme. The international triennial of photography RAY, organised by Fotografieprojekte gGmbH, was founded on the initiative of Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain to bundle and highlight the expertise and diversity of artistic photography and related media in the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main region.

Since the first Triennial, we have not only been one of the main exhibition venues, but also a sponsor and part of the bcuratorial team. With exhibitions, numerous events and a three-day festival on the Triennial theme, RAY offers a multifaceted exploration of photography.

RAY editions

We are taking part in the international photography triennial RAY for the fifth time this year. More than eleven institutions in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region are particiapating in the programme and presenting contemporary photography and related media at various exhibition venues under this year's theme of ECHOES. From 30 May, we will be showing the exhibition "RAY Echoes. Memory". With the thematic focus "Memory", the show brings together eight international artistic positions that deal with the role of the medium of photography as a carrier of memory.

Further details on the current exhibition can be found here.

 

The past RAY Triennial themes were:

2021  RAY. Ideologies
2018  RAY. Extreme
2015  RAY. Imagine Reality
2012  RAY. Making History

Other projects

Diego Moreno, Red days, from the series "Malign Influences", 2021 © Diego Moreno

Photography festival „Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles“ in Arles, France

About the cooperation

As a non-profit foundation, we support young artists who work with the medium of photography in the form of awards, scholarships and exhibitions, often in cooperation with other institutions. Since 2019, we have been cooperating with the "Fotohaus ParisBerlin" and present changing works by international artists every year as part of the largest international photography festivals "Les Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles". At this festival, visitors can see works by famous photographers and lesser-known artists at various indoor and outdoor exhibition venues spread across the city of Arles.

 

The artists featured in previous years were:

2023 Verdiana Albano
2022 Daniel Castro Garcia 
2021 Philip Montgomery
2019 Florian Albrecht-Schoeck, Jana Bissdorf, Malte Sänger

 

Current exhibition

We are taking part in the renowned festival for the fifth time and are presenting works by Mexican artist Diego Moreno at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation in cooperation with Fotohaus ParisBerlin.

In his very personal work, he processes experiences from his childhood, which was characterised by a deeply religious environment. Moreno, who himself was active in the Catholic Church for more than ten years as an altar boy, discovered his homosexuality at a young age. For a long time, he felt bad and guilty because his sexual orientation did not seem compatible with the values of his environment, his religion and his family. His preoccupation with this trauma is present in the two series shown in the exhibition. In "Malign Influences", Moreno imagines an alternative reality of monstrous beings. He digitally manipulates photos from his own family archive, removes the eyes of the people depicted, distorts their bodies and replaces their faces with diabolical grimaces. With these diabolical creatures, he creates allies with whom he could identify better than with the people portrayed in the photos due to the rejection he had felt for years. The series "In My Mind There is Never Silence" also focuses on seemingly strange creatures. The so-called "Los Panzudos", which originate from a 500-year-old Catholic tradition of paying homage to the Virgin Mary, are celebrated every year in his home region of Chiapas. People dress up in masks and elaborate costumes that are conspicuous and deliberately ugly in order to symbolise their own sinfulness. These figures remind Moreno in particular of his aunt, who was also labelled ugly by many due to an illness and who, like Moreno himself, was one of society's outsiders. To honour her, he creates his own "Los Panzudos" and allows them to become part of everyday life in private spaces. 

Details about the photo festival in Arles and the exhibition can be found here

 

Exhibition and film series: "Viewfinder – Photography and Film in Dialogue"
„Hidden Views – Voyeurism in Film", 1 November 2019 to 12 January 2020

"Through the eyes of Magnum", 3 November 2020 to 13 June 2021

The series "Viewfinder – Fotografie und Film im Dialog" (Photography and Film in Dialogue) marked the beginning of a new cooperation project of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. The proximity of photography and film is evident in their similar technology, but above all, it is reflected in their reciprocal influence. A closer look at the history of the two media shows that photography is an ever-present theme in the most diverse film genres and also frequently uses cinematic language.

Part of this cooperation was a DFF film series, which is accompanied by an exhibition of works from the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, also at the DFF.