The traditional 'Tanz in den Mai' - Dance into May -
April 30 at 10pm
Update Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2015
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| Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2015 NeoRealismo - The New Image of Italy 1932 - 1960 at the NRW-Forum January 30 - April 19 2015 Mario De Biasi, Gli italiani si voltano, Milano 1954, ©Archivo De Biasi |
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| Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2015 'Human Nature' Art Collection Deutsche Börse at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf January 30 - April 19 2015 Spring Time, Washingon © Evelyn Hofer |
Free RhineBuzz tours in English every second and fourth Friday of the month at 8pm
You simply pay €6 to enter the exhibitions
Friday January 30
Friday February 13
Friday February 27
Friday March 13
Friday March 27
Friday April 10
A newspaper has been published with information about all the exhibitions and many of the events over the weekend and beyond, and interviews with some of our guests.
It can be found at all participating locations and in many cafés and bookstores in town, or you can download it here.
Many of the exhibitions at the galleries and certainly in the museums will continue well after the Photo Weekend itself. Please check the website for details at each venue.
The Haus der Universität in the centre of Düsseldorf is also hosting exhibitions, talks and screenings including the much publicised and Oscar nominated "Finding Vivian Maier"
Personally, I am especially looking forward to the talk by Martin Barnes, Senior Curator of Photography at the Victorian and Albert Museum, London at 2:30pm on Sunday February 1. Martin will be speaking about his work with one of the oldest and most significant photographic collections in the world. For the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend, it is a real privilege that Martin will be speaking for us.
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| Haus der Universität, Shadowplatz 14, Düsseldorf |
After Martin's presentation, at 4pm I will be pleased to introduce Gen Sadakane Co-founder & Creative Director of award-winning EyeEm, will share his thoughts on a new generation photography, creating a photo app that has attracted a community of more than twelve million photographers worldwide and what it takes to turn a wish - "we want to have a photo exhibit in New York" - into reality.
Forbes cited EyeEm as one of the "Hottest Global Startups in 2013"
Opening Friday January 30, EyeEm will also be showing their exhibition: Shoot.Share.Discover at the Haus der Universität |
| @erinhoffstetter at EyeEm's Shoot.Share.Discover |
Further details of the programme, tours and events here.
We also greatly look forward to welcoming the international curators who will be touring
North Rhine-Westphalia because of the Photo Weekend.
We asked what the significance the city of Düsseldorf and photography had for them and received some charming answers including this from
Paul Roth, Director, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto:
''The city has an important association for me with photography.
I was quite moved by the visit to Dusseldorf in Wim Wenders' ALICE IN THE CITIES. Rudiger Vogler’s character accompanies the little girl Alice on a search there for her grandmother. Using nothing more than a photograph, they seek the house in Alice’s memory. The film is one of my labourites, and for me one of the most significant evocations of photography in the history of motion pictures. The city has had a kind of mythic importance in my mind ever since then."
The power of the photograph can be so many different things to each and every one of us - come and discover what the photograph means to you over the next few days in Düsseldorf!
There will be so very many, many images to discover, ponder, take home with you in your mind and who knows maybe hang on your wall one day ...
Have fun at the Duesseldorf Photo Weekend!
Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2015
Over 40 galleries, museums and alternative exhibition and event spaces
Over 150 artists
from more than 18 countries
Curators from Thailand, UK, Canada,
International Press from all over Europe and the US
And YOU!
The Duesseldorf Photo Weekend 2015 opens at the NRW-Forum on January 29 at 7pm with two exhibitions "Human Nature" Art Collection Deutsche Börse and NeoRealism - "The New Image in Italy 1932 - 1960".
All are welcome to the opening, please do come and join us!
These two exhibitions will be showing until April 19. RhineBuzz tours in English will happen from January 30 until April 10 every second Friday of the month at 8pm.
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"Figur in Gelb", London, 2014, Camera Obscura, ©Martin Streit
at the Cora Hölzl & Daniela Hölzl Gallery
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| "Dahinter steckt immer ein kluger Kopf 1995-2001" ©Alfred Seiland N.Auermann, Berlin 1997 at the Villa Grisebach, Düsseldorf |
The following day, most of the other exhibitions in the programme will open at the participating galleries. Please check the programme for exact dates and times as they all vary.
Martin Barnes was awarded the Royal Photographic Society J Dudley Johnston Award in 2013 in recognition of his extensive work in the criticism and history of photography.
The exhibitions at the various locations include work from students; graduates of the Düsseldorf Art Academy; fashion photography; art photography and vintage prints from collections from around the globe.
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| Student Evgenia Sychinskaya at Ateleir am Eck |
Personally I am very pleased to have brought the work of Italian photographer, Gabriele Croppi, to the Photo Weekend. His extraordinary images of New York and other well known cities will be shown at the Clara Maria Sels Gallery from January 30 to April 4.
Gabriele Croppi, NEW YORK, Metaphysics of the Urban Landscape from Gabriele Croppi on Vimeo.
Information on the varied programme is posted almost daily on the Facebook page.
Unique's Christmas Bash at Stone im Ratinger Hof
Staying here for Christmas?
€12 on the door for a night of fine tunes and cool folks
‘Lichten’ – Thomas Ruff in the Kunsthalle with 5 Series and 35 years of Photography
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| THOMAS RUFF Interieur 5E, 1983 From the series: Interieurs – Interieurs – Intérieurs – Interiors C-print © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014 |
‘Lichten’
September 20 – January 11
‘Instead of photographing our daily reality, Ruff focuses on portraying the realities of photography.’
This is how the Kunsthalle describes the method behind the works of Thomas Ruff in their recent exhibition running till January 11. Pretty high-toned, right? To be honest, I didn’t get it when I first read it. And I didn’t get it when I read it for the second time. Neither in English nor in German did the the actual meaning of that sentence enlighten my mind. But if you go and see the exhibition ‘Lichten’ in the Kunsthalle am Grabbeplatz 4, try and make a mental note of it – read on, and you’ll find out why...
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| View on the first floor of the Kunsthalle Four photos of the photogram series |
As a student of Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, born in 1958, was educated as part of the 'Düsseldorf School of Photography', which stood for a neutral, objectifying documentary-like style – like you might expect from journalistic photographers. Ruff’s own interest in astronomy — which he originally would have liked to study — furthermore explains the combination of scientific and artistic methodology behind his works. His most recent series ‘phg’ for example, resulted from a cooperation with the ’Jülich Centre of Research’ that enabled him to render his high resolution photograms with one of their supercomputers – those computers are extremely powerful and used for the most modern calculation processes in research. What has come out of this cooperation of arts and science are beautifully distractive layered 3D-like mashups of geometrical forms – difficult to explain – so do go and look for yourself.
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| THOMAS RUFF r.phg.s.05, 2014 From the series: Fotogramme – Fotogrammen – Photogrammes – Photograms C-print © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014 |
When you wander through the exhibit rooms, try and follow the path of the changing light in Ruff’s photographs. From natural daylight in his old-fashioned, antiquated interiors, over the long-distance, long-dead lights from the sky in his ‘Sterne’-photos, playing with the effects of the inversion of light in his strangely close portrait-series, to the artificial lightning in the impressive digitally processed series ‘phg’. The exhibition thereby also depicts the fast development of photography technology. From analogue technique to working methods based entirely on digital practice, from micro to macro to an almost ‘virtual’ cosmos, Ruff’s works depict a cross-section of photography history.
If you don’t want to do the exhibition on your own but prefer a bit of guidance or company – we’re planning to do a guided tour through the exhibit. We’ll announce the dates on the blog and on facebook – follow us, stay tuned!
If you’re familiar with Ruff though, you might be looking for the series of portraits that made him famous. Spoiler: you won’t find it, since this little retrospective, supported by the Kunststiftung NRW, technically is not a retrospective, but a thematic overview. An overview of five series from 35 years of the artist working with and exploring photography’s most vital ingredient: light.
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| THOMAS RUFF neg◊india_01, 2014 From the series: Negatives – Négatifs - Negatives Chromogenic print © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2014 |
The exhibition’s name ‘Lichten’ is a clever play of words. Being the plural of ‘light’ in Dutch, it evokes connotations of the German ‘belichten’, which means ‘enlighten’. And with that, we probably are pretty close to what might be the author’s intention behind ’the realities of photography’. A photograph’s impression, its expression and ‘reality’ depends to a major extent on the right lightning. Ruff’s photographs are like an expedition through the possibilities of light and its use in and for the art of photography.
Kunsthalle
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf
Opening hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm
Entry: €6 Concessions €3 Young people under 18 for free
Special offer: Free entry between 6pm and 8pm every last Thursday of the month
Alina Valient
Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective at the NRW-Forum
Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective
September 27 2014 - January 11 2015over 50 years of American photography
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| Joel Meyerowitz enjoying every second of the opening on Friday September 27 Photo© Gabi Lugis |
RhineBuzz Tours returning to the NRW-Forum
Free tours in English
Sunday September 28 at 2pm
and then every second and every fourth Friday evening of the month,
except for December 26,
except for December 26,
followed by a get together for the international community in the bar of the NRW-Forum:
Friday October 10 at 8pm
Friday October 24 at 8pm
Friday October 24 at 8pm
Friday November 14 at 8pm
Friday November 28 at 8pm
Friday November 28 at 8pm
Friday December 12 at 8pm
Friday January 9 at 8pm
Friday January 9 at 8pm
Entry €6.00
and by request during regular opening hours, €55.00 per group of up to 25 persons, plus €6.00 entry per person. Enquiries: tours@rhinebuzz.com
Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective is curated and organised by
Ralph Goertz of the IKS,
Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie
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| Photo: Pedro Custodio |
Joel Meyerowitz Retrospective is curated and organised by
Ralph Goertz of the IKS,
Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie
NRW-Forum
Ehrenhof 2
40479 Düsseldorf
The Stammtisch - meeting for the international community, is supported by the
City of Düsseldorf and the Department of Economic Development.
From October 10, I, or Ann-Katrin Borgensam, will be at the NRW-Forum from 7pm until 10pm on the Friday of each tour to answer any questions you may have on settling in in Düsseldorf, we can help to make your stay a whole lot easier!
From October 10, I, or Ann-Katrin Borgensam, will be at the NRW-Forum from 7pm until 10pm on the Friday of each tour to answer any questions you may have on settling in in Düsseldorf, we can help to make your stay a whole lot easier!
The ESC presents The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
The English Speakers' Circle presents - The Life and Times of
William Shakespeare by the Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre.
Who was William
Shakespeare? Whenever we hear his name we think of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, we think
of ‘Macbeth’. We think of the genius that is accepted as the greatest writer of
all time. Doesn’t everyone think of that?
Wilde Shamrock
Touring Theatre doesn’t. They are more interested in William Shakespeare as a
human being. Have you ever thought of Shakespeare having to suffer with every
day life? A difficult marriage, loud kids irritating him, temperamental actors
making his life a misery. These are the features of any genius that helps to
mould his life. And they are the features that Wilde Shamrock bring to life.
Just what was happening in Shakespeare’s life that may have helped him to
create some of the most celebrated works in the English language. We look at his life as it was. A struggle to
make his family happy while trying to satisfy his artistic abilities. Come
along and see the hilarious interpretation of the life of the world’s greatest
writer. Not to be missed.
Wilde Shamrock Touring Theatre has been touring Europe
since 2011 with a unique blend of theatre and Irish Music. Based in Dublin, the
company plays in schools, theatres and town halls. The blend of interactive
theatre with music has been thrilling audiences for the past three years.
The Life and Times of William Shakespeare
presented by:
English Speakers' Circle
in cooperation with the
International Education Center 'Die Brück'
English Speakers' Circle
in cooperation with the
International Education Center 'Die Brück'
Wednesday November 26 at 7pm
at the Volkshochschule,
Weiterbildungszentrum, Saal 1
Berta-von-Suttner Platz
Düsseldorf
Tickets: €9 Groups €7.50 by arrangement
contact Susan Jones 0211 3193 22
at the Volkshochschule,
Weiterbildungszentrum, Saal 1
Berta-von-Suttner Platz
Düsseldorf
Tickets: €9 Groups €7.50 by arrangement
contact Susan Jones 0211 3193 22
Tim Berresheim in the Kunstverein für Die Rheinlande und Westfalen - More ‘Digital Sweat’
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| Tim Berresheim
Installation view Auge und Welt, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2014
Center: Aspettatori crapulent I (Auge & Welt), 2014, foto mounted on dibond, framed, 240 cm x 180 cm
Courtesy Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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If you step by the Kunsthalle these days to see the Thomas Ruff exhibition, you also shouldn’t miss what’s going on on the first floor exhibition room of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Aachen-based artist, Tim Berresheim, is showing ‘Eye and World’ - anonymously set, digitally modelled figures that are placed before reduced, neutral backgrounds. Berresheim uses these as human canvases, draws and sketches on them and converts the figures that are made with the 3D-graphic programme ‘Cinema 4D’ back into a two-dimensional artwork by printing them out life-sized.
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| View on the installation ‘Eye and World’ Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2014 Middle: Aspettatori bugged out I (Auge & Welt), 2014 Photo on Dibond, framed, 240 cm x 180 cm Courtesy Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
Berresheim‘s opulent visual production shares one commonality with Ruff’s – the ‘digital sweat’ that ran whilst manufacturing the work. Both artists benefit from the possibilities of digital technology and then they go beyond, exceeding the potential. While Ruff’s works focus on the functions and possibilities of light, Berresheim is more interested in the moment of seeing and perceiving. His combination of digital technology, 3D-modelling, printing, handwriting and sketching are meant to question the conventions of defining a picture. What is the frame? What are the surroundings?
Berresheim’s works are aligned on the wall, embedded in a wallpaper, and yet, they have an arresting 3 dimensionality to them. Entering the room is like stepping into the studio of a tattoo-artist collecting ideas for his first full-body-cover. Even the artist himself – who also creates music – is tattooed all over, as if he could hop into one of his very own pictures the very next second ... check out his great website here.
‘Eye and World’
September 20 – January 11
Opening hours: Tuesday- Sunday 11am - 6pm
September 20 – January 11
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen
Grabbeplatz 4
40213 Düsseldorf
Opening hours: Tuesday- Sunday 11am - 6pm
Entry: €6 Concessions €3 Young people under 18 free
Free entry between 6pm and 8pm every last Thursday of the month
Free entry between 6pm and 8pm every last Thursday of the month
Alina Valient
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