Betty Böhm
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.
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.
Alexander Gehring
Special Edition for VTph editions
Alexander Gehring's images are not only a tribute to analog photography and the creation of each individual work as an image of the world but also to the irretrievability of nature.
Kathrin Ganser
Special Edition for VTph editions
Against the background of multiple ecological and humanitarian crises of our time, Kathrin Ganser explores questions about the perception of space and pictorial space, the supposed perfection of mapped views, the satellite and aerial photographs and 3D images, or the earth observations of Google Earth and Google Maps.
Anne Schwalbe
Special Edition for VTph editions
The work of Berlin-based artist Anne Schwalbe focuses on nature and nature as a habitat. Above all, her photographic works are quiet and meditative images. Anne Schwalbe finds the extraordinary in the nature surrounding us seemingly as a matter of course. Her analog photographs are mostly close-ups taken in daylight, which she finally pulls off by hand in her lab. The images were taken on her trip through Japan. Anne Schwalbe roamed through gardens, temples, and parks to discover a familiar silence in trees, flowers, or plants in the middle of cities like Kyoto and Tokyo and capture it for us.
Nadine Ethner
Nadine Ethner, based in Berlin, works on interdisciplinary projects as a photographer and artist with other artists. Travel in Europe, India, Japan, North Africa and Turkey during the same period exerted a strong, lasting influence on her visual language. This diversity of experience resulted in numerous group and solo shows in various galleries, institutions and foundations.
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
Alexandra Wolframm
Two views of a forest make one picture - the forest is upside down. And yet it is not a reflection. If space-time is relative, why should landscapes always be horizontal?
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, even in its seemingly tamed form of the Western world, is like a counterpart or a kind of mirror: a part of our human existence - yet we are alienated from it.
Sarah Straßmann
"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.
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
Stefan Heyne
Special Edition for VTph editions
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)
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.
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