6. Dezember 2013 bis 26. Januar 2014
WELT - BILDER / WORLD IMAGES 5.
Mit Werken von Georg Aerni, Bieke Depoorter, Naoya Hatakeyama, Elisa Larvego, Zanele Muholi, Daniel Schwartz, Cécile Wick, Tobias Zielony. Kuratoren: Andreas Fiedler und Simon Maurer
Im Helmhaus Zürich ist der fünfte Teil der Ausstellungsreihe «WELT − BILDER» zu sehen: ein lebendiges Spektrum aktueller, internationaler Fotografie. Acht exemplarische Positionen stehen für unterschiedliche Blicke in die Welt: Die Ausstellung ist ein engagiertes Wechselbad, das von zugedröhnten Teenagern in Kalifornien bis zum Krieg in Afghanistan, von Wohnsituationen in Kairo, Mumbai und Schanghai bis zu Porträts aus der Lesben- und Schwulenszene im südlichen Afrika führt. Beteiligt sind die international renommierten Künstler/innen Naoya Hatakeyama, Zanele Muholi und Tobias Zielony, die bedeutenden Schweizer Fotograf/innen Georg Aerni, Daniel Schwartz und Cécile Wick und die Newcomerinnen Bieke Depoorter und Elisa Larvego. Aus den Bildern, die wir sehen, entsteht unser Weltbild. Welche Bildwelten zeigen uns diese fotografierenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler − welche Weltbilder vermitteln sie uns?
Eröffnung der Ausstellung: Donnerstag, 5. Dezember, ab 18 Uhr.
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kultur/de/index/institutionen/helmhaus/rueckblick/vorschau12.html
What motivates all of these photographers is their interest in the other, in the unfamiliar. They have an urge to render visible the differences that play out simultaneously in our lifeworlds. In the tug of war between these divergent cultural forms, there are economic and religious views, infrastructural, social and security policies, and even sexual issues being asserted. What we glean from this exhibition is far more diverse than, and even antithetical to, the much-cited notion of the “global village”. The five Welt – Bilder / World Images exhibitions that have been held since 2005 have put forward 41 different and at times contradictory insights into a subject matter of limitless scope. This long-term project curated by Andreas Fiedler and Simon Maurer is now documented in five commentated illustrated volumes published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, forming a kind of compendium of contemporary photography.
The Welt – Bilder 5 / World Images 5 exhibition includes two artists who have participated in major international exhibitions (Venice Biennale, Documenta) in recent years yet whose works have hardly ever been shown in Switzerland: Naoya Hatakeyama from Japan and Zanele Muholi from South Africa. Tobias Zielony from Germany recently drew acclaim with a solo exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie. They are joined by three established photographic artists from Switzerland: Georg Aerni, Daniel Schwartz and Cécile Wick.
The young newcomers Bieke Depoorter (26) from Belgium and Elisa Larvego (29) from Switzerland round off this group.
The exhibition Welt – Bilder 5 / World Images 5 begins with a series of photographs by Berlin-based artist Tobias Zielony of Trona, a small south-western US town plagued by unemployment and drugs. Whereas the teenagers of Trona appear to be on the verge of losing their way in life, young Belgian photographer Bieke Depoorter shows people in their own homes and gives an intimate insight into the living conditions of her host families in Egypt, the USA and Russia. In the same room, the photographs of Afghanistan by Daniel Schwartz provide a searing analysis of history and the present day. In the last room on
this floor, Cécile Wick presents views of landscapes and cities whose geographical locations are indiscernible, dissolving into a subtly nuanced all-over in tones of grey.
South African artist Zanele Muholi presents black-and-white portraits of lesbian, transgender and gay people, mostly in the townships. The exhibition continues on the second floor with the formal clarity of photographs by Georg Aerni, exploring the impact of large-scale transformation in Asian megacities such as Mumbai. In the same room, the photographic- sociological research undertaken by Elisa Larvego in two villages on the US-Mexican border can be seen. The exhibition concludes with a conceptual work by Naoya Hatakeyama, showing life in Tokyo along a twenty-kilometre highway.
The exhibition is accompanied by the fifth publication in the Welt – Bilder / World Images series. The book includes high-quality reproductions of almost all the works shown in the exhibition, as well as texts by Andreas Fiedler, artistic director of KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin, and Simon Maurer, director of Helmhaus Zürich, providing background information on the photographs. The publication was designed by sofie’s Kommunikationsdesign, Zürich, and is distributed by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.
◇ Helmhaus - Stadt Zürich
Das Helmhaus Zürich zeigt zeitgenössische Kunst, hauptsächlich von Schweizer Künstlerinnen und Künstlern oder von Kunstschaffenden, die in der Schweiz leben.
Einzel-, Gruppen- und thematische Ausstellungen widmen sich der lebendigen Schweizer Kunstszene.
Gesprächsabende mit Künstlerinnen und Künstlern vermitteln Einblicke aus erster Hand.
https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/kultur/de/index/institutionen/helmhaus.html
