When I think about photography, I believe that before I create any image, I observe the world through the lens of all the experiences my embodied being has accumulated. However, another possibility lies in the sustainability of images and their ability to renew themselves. As the subject of the photograph, as an artist, I can choose to revisit the same image with new experiences and insights ...

Photography takes shape in my life as an experience of grasping, transforming, expanding outward, or withdrawing inward through the camera, which has become an extension of my body in the context of my passionate relationship with seeing. It has been approximately 10 months since I opened my solo exhibition in Istanbul this past January. During this time, I’ve been reflecting on the exhibition ...

Greif Alumnus Lukas Städler reflects on his photographic practice and current exhibition at Fotografiska Berlin We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Lukas Städler was among the artists selected for Der Greif X Grisebach “New Positions” Online Photography Auction. His pursuit of contemporary aesthetics through ...

Tim Grabham (AKA iloobia) is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist who has independently produced still and moving image work for over 30 years. Comprising of short film, animation, photography and installations, as well as documentary and long-form features, his work has been presented internationally at cinemas, festivals, TV online and in galleries. Ongoing interests in his work include ...

They gather, five souls woven in light, a sisterhood etched in stars. Each a luminous thread, they dance, they dream, they rise - an eternal constellation. “The more we connected through our bodies and our skin, the more this sensation emerged: acceptance as an extension of feminine qualities - a gentle yet profound strength rooted in the understanding that we are enough, just as we are, through ...

The latest finds from our community artists’ photobooks “In Focus” is a quarterly series of reviews in which we hunt down and peruse the worthy publications off the shelves of our community artists. Each month, Der Greif is selecting a set of photobooks from our talents’ pool. Compiled here are the most recent releases from our community artists Fabio Barile, Yoshi Kametani, Tyler Zeleny, and a ...

I began the process of developing black and white analogue film in July 2018 and colour analogue film in August 2020. Using a film developing kit in my bathroom, I’m interested in inviting imperfection and unpredictability into the image-making process, allowing the materiality of the film to coexist with the photographic image. I also deliberately soak the film rolls in various fluids causing ...

Making collage is a way for me to decompress my brain when I feel overwhelmed. I started this process organically by taking elements from my own photography. It’s an intuitive process, with no specific intention or purpose, simply being spontaneous in the moment. I knew it was soothing for me, but I didn’t know why. Only until last year when I got diagnosed with Adult ADHD, it started making ...

Thank You For Playing With Me dives into researching the concept of modern beauty, documenting portraits of Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell from 2019 to 2022. This project is an intimate record of that journey. I do not want anybody to feel the way I felt. Growing up in Taiwan, the pressure to conform to a standard beauty in Asia was relentless and it took a toll on me physically ...

About a year ago, I began a new project that originated with a major life change, which was having our baby. She is now one, and since just before she was born, I began making pictures which meant to primarily quell or reveal the anxieties I have about becoming, and now being, a parent. The focus in the series is explicitly not her, though she exists around the periphery, but it is more about me ...

In 2023 I was fortunate to have a solo exhibition at Reminders Photography Stronghold in Tokyo, which is run by Yumi Goto. We worked together to curate my work for the show, and it was here that I was first able to utilize the big lightboxes. I think of the lightboxes as a further attempt at abstraction of the landscape. And so I chose three images that represent satellite imagery. They play ...

A photo exhibition in collaboration with Der Greif kicks off Münchner Kammerspiele 2024/2025 season “Auf nach Woanders” ("Off to Elsewhere") is the title of the 2024/25 season of the Münchner Kammerspiele, which was inaugurated on September 14th with a photo exhibition in their foyer at Therese-Giehse-Halle. “Auf nach Woanders” stems from the call opened by Der Greif to its worldwide community ...

“For the real scandal of Galileo’s work lay not so much in his discovery, or rediscovery, that the earth revolved around the sun, but in his constitution of an infinite, and infinitely open space.” - Michel Foucault, Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias Heterotopias are real places and other spaces, they are layered and often mirroring what is outside. Foucault often describes them as ...

Images of faces preoccupied with the telescope seem to be performances. Though in other ways, the person also seems to have left their body altogether. One’s face contorts or responds, exclaims, or mirrors the object of their gaze. We sit here on Earth, in the same place as moments earlier, but when gazing at the sun we have also been transported nearly 93 million miles away. In two places at ...

Ouroboros, a term which refers to the intertwining makeup of the universe, sets the cosmos as a stage to locate the margins of our perception. This work of photography and installation portrays a repetitive loop between looking towards outer space and attempting to understand our planet. I pair images of people, scientific tools, and interiors, alongside images of abstracted landscapes of earth ...

I am currently working on a project that I did last August as part of an artistic residency called “No Ritmo do Lugar” (In the Rhythm of the Place) in Elvas - south of Portugal. In addition to the challenge of photographing in unknown territory that I have no memory of, it was enriching to work around the theme of the “Border” in a free and comprehensive way. Elvas borders Spain and its natural ...

Whenever I think of the beach or the sea, my memories are divided into three layers: The first is childhood: the endless vacations, the long days and naps in tents, the half-awake state, the wind whipping the drying towels and the voices: the mothers warning their children, the street vendors and, of course, the sadness of the high tides during the day and, of course, the last day at the beach ...

Unseen Photo Fair will once again transform the iconic Westergas site into a captivating hub: here’s a preview Unseen Photo Fair returns for its twelfth edition at Westergas in Amsterdam, with “a truly global perspective on the latest developments in contemporary photography again,” Founding Director Roderick van der Lee says. Der Greif is thrilled to explore some of our community artists that ...

Termo: (Term, v. to terminate, obsolete.) A few weeks after the land clearing, I returned to the site for several reasons. One reason is the geographical proximity of Ermo, as well as the phonetic similarity between Termo and Ermo. Additionally, there exists an aesthetic connection between both projects that could work as a complement or yet another facet of a territory transformation. In my ...

Territory and memory have been central themes in my practice. In a somewhat accidental, abstract, and even experimental way, I always end up photographing in places where I can establish connections derived from memories. My parents grew up on the same street in a small village about 8 km from the center of Porto, the second-largest city in Portugal. This coincidence shaped my existence and ...

The word Ermo (from Portuguese) means dense and dark forest; unpopulated, inhospitable place; or in some cases it could mean loneliness. Long before I knew what Ermo meant, I was already playing there with my friends. I thought the Ermo only existed there: in those two or three streets surrounded by trees. Ermo was the name of a place on the outskirts of Porto, very close to where I lived during ...

Digital Eden by Monika Góralczyk is a provocative response to the objectification of women in new technologies such as AI, and the outdated system that perpetuates it. By using a combination of real footage, 3D and deepfake technology it gives a glimpse into two worlds and highlights the reality we live in. The project takes a controversial approach to showcase the real power of women, ...

“It is odd, but only deep in the mountains, on the crest of a hill where my grandmother's hometown is located. Whereas for women like me, their lives end at the front porch door. Every time I go there, the guilt returns. But I am not them and not from there; I can almost reach for the clouds. Because I am so small in this place. If only I had been born there, everything would have been ...

The project Argania: Lack of information is my family history is part of the group exhibition ‘On the Vastness of our Identities’ by the Institute Contemporary, curated by Verdiana Albano at the Rencontres d'Arles 2024, at the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation. I had to choose a single thing that has developed even further in me in connection with living with different cultures, it would be the ...

The seventh edition of VARIOUS OTHERS aims to enhance the international atmosphere of Munich's art scene. Starting on September 5, 2024, Munich is preparing for its most extensive and diverse VARIOUS OTHERS program yet, featuring over 30 openings and a variety of events including receptions, performances, parties, and concerts. VARIOUS OTHERS is a distinctive and international format within ...