Julian Atanassov
Special Edition for VTph editions
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
Julian Atanassov, Nazaré I & Nazaré II, Portugal, Diptych in Cooperation with sèche editions
Nazaré I & Nazaré II, Portugal
Diptych in Cooperation with sèche editions
Hahnemühle Baryta Print
Nazaré I Edition of 10 + 1AP, Hand numbered and signed
Nazaré II Edition of 10 + 1AP, Hand numbered and signed
Hans-Christian Schink
from the series 1h - 1/03/2010, 4:58 - 5:58 pm, S 06°20.061′ E 039°33.193′
Hans-Christian Schink (*1961 in Erfurt) is considered one of Germany's most important representatives of contemporary photography. His works are in many important collections worldwide: e.g., the Museum für Moderne Kunst - Berlinische Galerie, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Sammlung Deutscher Bundestag, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, and Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad show his work.
from the series 1 h, Fine Art Print on Baryta, 50 x 60 cm, Edition of 12, limited and signed
Hans-Christian Schink, from the series 1h, 1/03/2010, 4:58 - 5:58 pm, S 06°20.061′ E 039°33.193′
Claudio Gobbi
Special Edition for VTph editions
Thanks to a grant from the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg, Claudio Gobbi had the chance to spend a whole summer in Berlin. At that time, in 2004, the focus of the artist´s project, titled Persistence, was the 20th century interiors of cultural public meeting places in Europe, and Berlin was one of the capitals he wished to explore with this topic.
The photographs derive all from 6×12 negatives and soon he discovered that the material he once collected was much richer than he could remember, and many of the sites are today fully renovated and totally transformed.
Edition of 20, C-Print Fujicolor Crystal Archive Professional Paper Maxima,
Paper ca. 25,00 cm x 40,00 cm, Image 18,70 cm x 38,00 cm
Lena Fließbach Curator´s Choice
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 three contemporary photographers – Kathrin Ganser, Alexander Gehring and Anne Schwalbe – 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. Lena Fließbach studied art history, modern history, and Latin American studies in Berlin and Granada (Spain). In Berlin, she was responsible for the photography archive and the realization of exhibition projects and publications for Donata and Wim Wenders, as well as for the exhibition program of the Galerie im Turm.
Kathrin Ganser, aus der Serie "Digitale Ruinen", 32°53’59"N, 13°8'27"E #1, 2022
Göran Gnaudschun
"Night after night, he opens the barrel and dumps the ashes from his stove into it. A cloud rises, brick-red in the glow of the yard lights. Tiny points of light in it. Particles not yet extinguished. Walking down the dark hallway, he saw them glowing. First, close together, then less and less, like a universe that becomes ceaselessly emptier the further the stars move away from each other. Ultimately, it will be dark when he looks up into the sky."
Stefan Heyne
Special Edition for VTph editions
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, Editions 15 + 3 AP, numbered and signed on the back, Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 55,00 cm x 71,50 cm
Alexandra Wolframm
Special Edition for VTph editions
Alexandra Wolframm's work focuses on the existential relationship between man and nature and the interaction between vision and imagination. Her focus here is on the aspect of time about human existence and the indifference of nature to the latter. The landscape as an appearance and metaphor of nature is like a counterpart or a mirror. A part of our human existence - yet we are alienated from it.
Ulrike Kolb
"Marc Chagall. The modernity of the decorative"
In collaboration with the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, a photo series was created that is part of the special exhibition "Marc Chagall. The Modernity of the Decorative" at the Museum Berggruen in Berlin. On the occasion of this exhibition, which brings together Marc Chagall's body of work in the collections of the National Gallery, Ulrike Kolb has gone in search of traces: Are the images of the artist, who was so extraordinarily popular in the 20th century, still present to the same extent? Where does Chagall's art show up in everyday life today?
Sarah Straßmann
Special Edition for VTph editions
„Interstellar", 2022
In this new series, the artist Sarah Straßmann explores the space between folded objects, lights, and shadows and our empiric reality.
Based on the previous series, The Kingdom 2019 (in progress), the photographic objects of the work are based on mobile phone shots that have been photographed during an artist residency at the Perrhe archaeological site in south-eastern Turkey. In the ancient kingdom of Commagene, a mountain range runs through the landscape, into which the ruler Antiochos had built extensive architectural complexes 200 years before Christ. Stairs, columns, and rooms were wrested from the rocks.
The artist photographed and edited four motifs in 2022 for a Special Edition exclusively for VTph editions.
Edition of 25, Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, Size: 21 x 21 cm, numbered and signed & Edition of 3, Hahnemühle Fine Art Baryta, Size: 60 x 60 cm, numbered and signed
"Opposite"
Sarah Straßmann's artistic photographic approach deals with objects and space and their relationship of these to each other. In her series Opposite (2009-work in progress), she creates images whose associative strengths deal with the dissolution, disintegration, and de-embedding of things and layers. Objects are part of the ablation of space, time, and identity.
Rosenbaum Art Advisory Choice
Special Edition for VTph editions
As an independent art consultant, art historian and art advisor Julia Rosenbaum helps people find the right artwork and make the right purchase decision. Julia Rosenbaum (*1978) studied art history, classical archaeology and education in Berlin and Rome. She has been working for Deutsche Bank's art department since 2005.
