Zwischenspiel Daniela Friebel | Jonas Habrich | Meike Redeker

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Zwischenspiel
Daniela Friebel | Jonas Habrich | Meike Redeker |
Christian Retschlag | Stella von Rohden & Sascha Kregel
Curated by Christin Müller & Theresia Stipp
25.06.-03.07.2016
Opening: 24.06.2016, 7 p.m.
The exhibition
in the Museum für Photographie joins five artistic attitudes from Brunswick,
Hanover and Berlin with convincing photographic works. The vast majority of works is shown for the
first time. The artists developed some of the oeuvres especially for and in examination of the
exhibitions locality.
As different as the five approaches are, there is one commonality to hold on to: all five artists are
looking into the subject of photography itself. They produced works not only by but above all about
photography.
The work untitled (2016) by Stella von Rohen & Sascha Kregel is the result of a new artistic
collaboration. These two artists are for the first time giving an insight in their collective work which
only started this very year. The voluminous installation about to be on display in
is the result of
a multistage process of production and transformation which contains drawing and sculpture in
addition to photography. The process begins with small works from both contributors artists which
are composed in a model and photographed. The last step is the transfer into the exhibition space.
Photography is not being used as a medium that pictures something but as an independent creative
power equaling the “classic” arts like painting and sculpture.
Jonas Habrichs work Etwas später (a little later, 2016) has, at first sight, nothing to do with
photography: a voluminous black wood surface from which the artist cut out a square piece and filled
it up with clay. There a clay foot prints leading away. Habrich uses photography’s metaphoric range.
“Tracking” past moments is one of the most prominent metaphors throughout the history of
photography. By transferring the theme into a sculptural work, Habrich shows the limitations of the
medium photography in a subtle way. There are footprints in the clay. Made by a dancer who had been
there just a few days ago. This occurrence is now inaccessible for the beholder. Its former existence
lingers on in the footprints and the beholders imagination. Similar to a photography which can only
display an excerpt of a moment but never its entirety.
© Daniela Friebel | © Jonas Habrich | © Meike Redeker | © Christian Retschlag | © Stella von Rohden & Sascha Kregel
Two big QR codes are on display on one of the museum's two billboards. By scanning them with a
smartphone one can access Meike Redeker s work Gähnen Kratzen Summen (2016). It is a text-based
film making the passerby, not necessarily a visitor of the museum, part of the filmic action. Gähnen
Kratzen Summen is based on the artist's work SCRATCH, YAWN, HUM. Redeker developed this work for
a gallery in 2015. For the current exhibition
Redeker adapted her work to the museum's
spatiality and the presentation in a public space. In this way Gähnen Kratzen Summen functions as a
connecting piece between the museum's two gate houses that are separated by a road.
Christian Retschlag , being a graduate of Brunswick's Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, is locally
renowned for his enigmatic single works. The current exhibition FUENF will, in addition to other
works, feature an insight into a new series which is currently a work in progress. Single trees are
singled out through a sheet of white paper held behind them. The works objectiveness reminds of Karl
Blossfeldts plant photography. The act of singling out is part and even theme of Retschlag's work. And
herein lies the difference to Blossfeldts pictures. It is an intervention into nature making nature an
objet d'art for a brief moment.
Daniela Friebels works are worth a closer look. The artist's emphasis is on trompe-l'œil, an art
technique that creates optical illusions. Friebel's work Paintings (2015) for example – seemingly the
back of three oversize canvases leaning in the entrance area of one of the museum's gate houses are
on closer examination very large photographies. Another example is her work Batería (2015). It shows
bizarre rock formations. Identifying the military purposes they are being used for requires closer
examination of the photographies and the accompanying texts. Friebels works are playfully looking
into the subject of photography. By the means of looking, being deceived and final recognition the
beholder is being encouraged to reflect the relationship of (photographic) picture and beholder. It is
made apparent that the image is different from the object it represents.
Duration of the exhibition
25.06. – 03.07.2016
Opening of the exhibition
Friday, June 24, 2016, 7 p.m., in the presence of the artists;
DJ: Patrick Boltze
Press talk
Friday, June 24, 2016, 11 a.m.
Accompanying program
Tuesday, 28.06.2016 & Wednesday, 29.06.2016, 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.
FiBS, holiday program for children
Information and registration: Theresia Stipp,
[email protected], 0531/75000
Guided tours
Sunday 4 p.m.
Exhibition place
Museum für Photographie Braunschweig e.V.
Helmstedter Straße 1, 38102 Braunschweig
Opening hours
Tue – Fr 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., Sat + Sun 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Admission charge
2,50 € / 1 € reduced
Press contact
Christin Müller · 0531-75000 · [email protected]
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