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Erosion durch Wasser, das unhörbar, aber stetig von den Gipfeln der Berge über Gletscher, Tropenwälder, Sanddünen, Eisfelder in Patagonien und europäische Gletscher in den Ozean und die Gewässer des New Yorker Hafens hinabrieselt. Die Bilder der Künstlerin Renate Aller bezeugen die Verbundenheit dieser voneinander entfernten Umgebungen und regen zum Gespräch über die unterschiedlichen (politischen) Landschaften an, in denen wir leben.Renate Aller ist Deutsche und lebt und arbeitet in New York. Ihre großformatigen Fotografien sind in der Sammlung zahlreicher Museen vertreten, darunter in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, der National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., der Yale University Art Gallery, dem George Eastman Museum, dem New York His-torical Society Museum, dem Musée des Beaux- Arts, Le Locle, und dem Parrish Art Museum.

Was, wenn es bei Fotografie mehr um Zuhören als um Sehen ginge? Die Fotoarbeit "Come Get Your Honey" nutzt diese Frage als eine Art Kompass beim Erzählen der Geschichten von trans* und queeren Geflüchteten in Berlin. Gleichzeitig ist sie der Weg des Fotografen, durch Verletzlichkeit, Freundschaft und Freude mit ihnen Beziehungen auf Augenhöhe einzugehen. Samet Durgun will sie als komplexe menschliche Wesen zeigen, die ihre neue Heimat in einem fremden Land und trotz eines extrem aufgeheizten politischen Klimas suchen. Andere Berichte über LGBTQIA+ und geflüchtete Menschen reduzieren diese häufig auf ihr Leid, indem sie ihre Körper mit dem Blick von Außen geradezu sezieren oder ihren Daseinskampf romantisieren.Samet Durgun (*1988) lebt in Berlin. Er ist Deutscher mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund und abchasischen Wurzeln. Er hat einen BA der Bogazici Universität, Türkei.

In early 2017, photographer Janet Holmes met a hen suffering from reproductive illness at the Wild Bird Fund in New York City, where she volunteered as a caregiver. During her search to find a permanent home for the hen after she was discharged from the Fund''s clinic, Janet Holmes discovered a network of people (primarily women) who turn their homes into sanctuaries for rescued chickens. She decided to make portraits of the chickens and their rescuers to honour both the birds who had suffered so much before their rescue and the people who invested so much love, time, and money caring for them.

At the beginning of her travels to China in 1998, Rosemarie Zens found a predominantly agrarian multi-ethnic state and initially photographed mainly landscapes and everyday scenes in urban and rural situations that reminded her of pre-modern times in our Western world. Within a time-frame of twenty years, ground-breaking developments took place. The memorable photographs show how China increasingly orients itself towards Western culture and how homogenizing forces such as science, technology and the global market influence individual life.

Beginning as a designer, Peter Fink (1907, Grand Rapids - 1984, New York City) travelled the globe from the 1950s to 1970s, moving in hidden streets and industrial towns of postwar Japan, France, Portugal, northern Africa, and the Middle East, photographing workers and street scenes. Arts and culture are recurring themes, as well as the life of workers, families or children in each new place he observed, but also expressive portraits and fashion, surreal still-lives, or his radical Refractions - reflections on architecture.

It is regarded as a place of longing: Greenland - the largest island in the world, named by the Viking Erik the Red - has always held a mysterious fascination. Famous for its breathtaking ice landscapes, its diverse arctic wildlife, and its long, fjord-lined coastal region, it stretches over several climate zones. Greenland is the perfect destination for adventurers. The photographer Ulrike Crespo (1950 2019) thus once again takes us on a journey and transports us to one of the least densely populated countries on earth, where, during the arctic summer, the sun does not set, even at night.

Israel has been in a near-continuous state of conflict since the day of its proclamation, some seventy years ago. It has sustained its military through compulsory service. The overwhelming majority of those in its Defense Forces were born in Israel, raised alongside this notion of service. But theirs is not the only story of Israel''s soldiers. There is a group of young men and women who come from countries around the world and volunteer into this legacy. For them, the price of admission into Israeli society is this very service. They are called ''lone soldiers.''

Susan Hefuna embraces a wide range of media, including drawing, sculpture, and installation as well as video, photography, and performance. Her textile works are exploring the visual and cultural signifiers that have come to embody her unique inter-cultural identity. The striking graffiti-like textile series Be One triggers varying emotions and feelings and reminds us that all is connected on this planet. This publication presents new textile works, drawings and films such as Angst Eats Soul, Munich, 2016, and Times Square, 2019.

The US American photographer Jamie Johnson has been traveling around the world for twenty years and is best known for her touching portraits of children. When she came to Ireland for the first time in 2014, she immediately felt connected to the cosmos of the Irish Travellers and would visit and photograph them time and again for five years. Fascinated by the resilience and optimism of the children, who are proud of the culture and traditions of the Irish Travellers, Johnson''s portraits aim to promote the perception and respect of children as such, far removed from the common prejudices of society.

Dotan Saguy met the Reis family, Mormons from Brazil, the day they arrived in Los Angeles in the yellow school bus they call home with their three children. They had come to the United States two years prior to chase the American Dream and decided to explore an alternative lifestyle that would allow them to spend more time as a family and discover the world together through travel. This body of work documents their trials and tribulations over their ten-month stay in the City of Angels as they struggle as unconventional parents and experimental bread winners while seeking happiness as a family.

Project Cleansweep takes its name from a Ministry of Defence report issued in 2011. The report assessed the risk of residual contamination at sites in the United Kingdom used in the manufacture, storage, and disposal of chemical and biological weapons from World War I to the present day. Photographs of more than eighty sites take us to Dorset and Devon, the Peak District, the woodlands of Yorkshire, and the countryside of the Salisbury Plain, from the coastlines of East Anglia, the West Counties and Wales to the remote Scottish Highlands and the Irish Sea.

The publication takes a closer look at amateur photography and its potential for innovation. Ever since the invention of photography, the amateur has played a key role in its development, with artists at the Bauhaus in particular recognizing the creative freedom afforded by the casual use of the camera. The catalogue compares the pictorial worlds of historical and contemporary amateur photographers, shedding light on their motivations and goals, and examining whether and how the digital amateur photography practiced today on a massive scale differs from its historical precursors.

Len Lye was one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 1930s to 1950s. At the same time, initially in New Zealand and Australia, later in London and in New York City, he created a fascinating body of work embracing all artistic disciplines which the exhibition showcases in all its variety and breadth. The three-volume catalogue presents the exhibited works and new texts by leading experts on Len Lye in one volume each. The central volume is the first facsimile edition of his Totem & Taboo sketchbook.