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gute aussichten 2009/2010

On Thursday April 29th the exhibition “gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie 2009/2010” opens at the Haus der Photographie, Hamburg.

Established in 2004 as a platform for supporting young, talented photographers gute aussichten has developed into one of Germany’s most important and respected contemporary photography prizes.

This years exhibition features the work of the 8 artists – Georg Brückmann (HGB Leipzig); Philipp Dorl, (FH Bielefeld); Sonja Kälberer, (HGB Leipzig); Ute Klein, (Folkwang Hochschule Essen); Ingo Mittelstaedt, (HBK Braunschweig); Mona Mönnig, (Folkwang Hochschule Essen); Shigeru Takato, (KHM Köln) and Anna Simone Wallinger, (Lette-Verein Berlin) – and presents a broad spectrum of the possibilities available in modern photography.

For all “photographic illusions” play a strong role in the 2009/2010 gute aussichten exhibition.

Philipp Dorl, for example, with his work “…nach Maß, Zahl und Gewicht” moves between painting and photography, between perception and optical illusion and in doing so presents a world that is only familar in its unfamiliarity.

In a similar vein Georg Brückmann‘s diploma show “in-situ” makes use of a certain artistic license to explore the imaginary extension of the visible. Which, at a very basic level, means painting design classics such as the Eames Lounge Chair or Barcelona Chair onto photographs of otherwise unspectacular rooms. The result is an excellent, thought provoking “reality”.

All in all gute aussichten 2009/2010 presents 104 pictures, 2 slide shows, 2 DVDs, 2 books, one container and  various displays.

“gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie 2009/2010” runs at the Haus der Photographie, Hamburg from April 29 until May 30th

Full details can be found at http://www.guteaussichten.org

Gropius Sessel by Georg Brückmann (Foto Georg Brückmann, in situ, www.guteaussichten.org)