SPOTLIGHTS & INTERVIEWS
Anne Heinlein
"Geheimes Land"
“Secret Land” is about memory, the search for truth, surveillance, human destinies, and military drills. The work deals with history and time and enables an artistic reflection of the past world from the present.
“A great gift for me is that I am not a historian but an artist. That allows me to enable viewers or visitors to the exhibition and anyone who allows me to do so to engage with history on an artistic level.”–Anne Heinlein
Lena Fließbach is a freelance curator and author for contemporary art, as well as an expert on the topic of sustainability in the art and culture scene, living in Berlin.
For VTph editions, she selected these contemporary photographers – Kathrin Ganser and Alexander Gehring – who address upheaval, climate change, and the day's issues.
She co-curated the international group exhibition Zero Waste, which minimized and made their CO₂ footprint transparent. Since then, she has worked as a mentor and speaker for sustainability in the cultural sector.
"Uncertainity" is the title of the joint exhibition by Kathrin Ganser and Daniela Zeilinger, in which they open a critical dialogue about the supposed certainties and blurred edges of photography. Their complex and multi-layered works, characterized by using different image media and media-reflexive strategies, put familiar modes of perception to the test bench.
"Uncertainity" is the title of the joint exhibition by Kathrin Ganser and Daniela Zeilinger, in which they open a critical dialogue about the supposed certainties and blurred edges of photography. Their complex and multi-layered works, characterized by using different image media and media-reflexive strategies, put familiar modes of perception to the test bench.
Diptych
Stefan Heyne is a magician of light. Spectral colors are filtered and blurred by him - and thus transformed into their nuances. The beauty of the colors and the newly found tones unfold in a new section of the picture. Color tones that move vibrantly through the atmosphere are captured in their perfection on the paper. These are atmospheres, moods, situations, and spaces…
The Space of Time, each Edition 15 + 3 AP, numbered and signed on the back, Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 55,00 cm x 71,50 cm / Diptych on a single sheet of paper)
Julian Atanassov, photographer and cinematographer in cinema and commercials, shows impressive and sublime landscapes he discovers on his continuous journey through different countries, mixing life and work together.
Working primarily on color-negative film, he feels like the analog material has a flavor, a presence, "a truth," which unveils the image behind the image.
"Glowing Joshua" C-Print Fuji Crystal Archive DP, and "Joshua I & II" Gelatine Silver Print,
30 x 40 cm / Edition of 20+1 AP / Hand numbered and signed
55 x 70 cm / Edition of 7+1 AP / Hand numbered and signed
80 x 100 cm / Edition of 3+1 AP / Hand numbered and signed
Using a transdisciplinary approach of photography, film/video, installation, sound and performance, Böhm’s work interweaves documentary and research-based elements with subjective and poetic-associative layers to create sensual and immersive landscapes.
Her works were recently on view, amongst others, in the frame of „EMOP - Europäischer Monat der Fotografie“ at Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (2023), at Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin (2022), at KOHTA Helsinki (2021) and Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden (2020) and are part of the collections of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Bundesumweltministerium and Deutsche Bank, to name a few.