DOUBLE FEATURE:
YOUNG GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY 2023/24/25

The group exhibition YOUNG GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY 2023/24/25 brings together the works of thirteen award winners from two years, all of whom use photography and its extensions as a driving force—to tell stories, invent narratives, connect ideas, and renegotiate current questions.

Which traces leave their mark on (memory) landscapes? In Ichibukisho – Act of Memory, Clarita Maria delves into the subconscious to reweave forgotten stories from Lusaka, Zambia. Kyu Sang Lee's Ostinato Interstice Rendering reflects on his cultural impressions from South Korea, South Africa, and Germany through a complex and ever-changing visual language. Massimiliano Corteselli’s Contrapasso explores themes of revenge and corruption through landscapes and portraits, set against the backdrop of deliberate forest fires in the Mediterranean region. In Während wir schlafen, ziehen Wölfe um die Häuser Maya Vieth creates a docu-fictional space that recounts life stories and encounters in a sparsely populated region on the eastern edge of Germany—a place where wolves have returned.

How does the constant presence of social media change us, and what impulses does artificial intelligence provide? NiKA’s DIGITAL_DOPAMINE takes a performative look at the pitfalls of digital overconsumption. In Synthetic Embrace, Lia Meret Lehmkuhl creates an artificial idol, Betty Blizz, and examines the hidden yet powerful structures of parasocial relationships. Robin C. Wolf takes on the role of an artificial intelligence in prompt: me, responding to prompts and transforming them into photographic objects, while Matthias Grund explores and illustrates the mechanisms and systems of artificial image creation in Other Images.

How do experiences of migration, lines of conflict, and invented traditions shape identities? In the multimedia long-term study No Georgian Dream, Lea Greub embarks on a search for emerging hope amid conflicts between Georgia’s younger generation—particularly the techno scene—and the country’s conservative values. Mathilde Tiden Hansen’s long-term photographic study Sonnenallee examines Berlin’s Sonnenallee as an ambivalent, ever-transforming space, telling stories of migration and community through portraits and urban landscapes. In contrast, Larissa Zauser’s work Schützinnen focuses on rifle companies in Tyrol, presenting abstract portraits that highlight the absence of women and the hierarchies embedded within these traditions.

How can subjectively experienced states of exeption be captured in photography? Béla Avi Beinhold’s installation Das letzte Zeichen condenses the moment in which the artist discovered an unknown corpse, creating an image of a reality often overlooked in the context of addiction. In Die Psyche, der Körper und die Umwelt sind untrennbar miteinander verbunden und beeinflussen einander, Denisa Poteca documents a self-imposed fifteen-day isolation, pushing herself into an emotional state of emergency.

Since 2004, young german photography has honored outstanding final projects from German universities and academies, presenting the award winners to a wide audience at the House of Photography—currently at PHOXXI.

Curator: Sarah Gramotke, assistant curator at the House of Photography

A cooperation between the House of Photography and the Körber Foundation.