Photography special
Photography traditionally plays a strong role at the Saisonstart in the "City of Photographers" and fans of the expressive possibilities of this medium will find it all over the city.
In the Bahnhofsviertel you can see Kai Middendorff portraits of Romy Schneider, some of which have never been shown before. Helga Kneidl took in Paris in 1973. These are complemented by sensitive portraits of actresses and actors; Helga Kneidl became known as a theater photographer through her work at the Schaubühne Berlin and the Hamburg Schauspielhaus.
In Bockenheim, the PanGallery in the KunstRaum Bernusstrasse Heinrich Heidersbergerwho stands for German architectural and advertising photography of the 1950s and 1960s like almost no other photographer. Not far away in the MARS documents Stefan Steins photographically documents the upheavals of (Western) society, while the French photographer and video artist Sylvain Couzinet Jacques spent a summer observing the spatial situation of young people on a traffic circle in Madrid.
Heinrich Heidersberger, Form.Structure.Light_Photographs, Sep 05 - Oct 12, PanGallery
SUB ROSA by Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques
in MARS ©Robert Schittko
Stefans Steins,We will die soon, Sep 08 - Sep 27, MARS ©Robert Schittko
Also taking a look at the city Jonas Frei in his photographic series "The City", which takes the viewer on a journey through the imposing architecture of the Frankfurt skyline, exhibited at the Frankfurt Artists' Club in the Nebbienschen Gartenhaus in the park of the Bockenheimer Anlage.
Jonas Frei, Urban Structures, Architecture in Shadows and Lines, Aug 22 - Sep 08, Frankfurter Künstlerclub
Photography as a theme also at Laura Schawelka in Innenstadt FILIALE. Through photos, sculptures, and video, the artist explores photography's complicity in the commodification of (female) bodies. Laura Schawelka studied with Tobias Rehberger at the Städelschule.
Laura Schawelka,Disclosure, Sep 07 – Oct 05, FILIALE
The DZ Bank Art Foundation is showing a presentation of the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, while in the Ostend there will be a reunion with the internationally award-winning Johanna Diehl at Wilma Tolksdorf attracts visitors.
John Yuyi, Julia's Twitter 2, 2016 © John Yuyi, Towards the Collection. Fotomuseum Wintherthur, June 28 - Sep 28, Art Foundation DZ Bank
Johanna Diehl,CONTINUITÀ, September 7 – October 31, Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery
In Sachsenhausen, GaleriePeter Sillemis exhibitinglandscape portraitsby Barbara Klemm — from the Neckar to the Nidda, from the Mongolian desert to the Iguazú Falls, all of them silver gelatin prints taken by the artist herself. And not far away, at the Frankfurt KunstSäule , conceptual artist Karsten Bott explores traces of life in the Willy-Brandt-Platz subway station in a photographic work.
Barbara Klemm,Landscapes, September7 – October 19, Galerie Peter Sillem
Karsten Bott,Ghosts, Aug 30 2024 - April 04 2025, Frankfurter KunstSäule
