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Ruben Lundgren & Yining He

Guest Room

Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Dutch, Beijing-based photographer and curator Ruben Lundgren has chosen to collaborate with Yining He, a curator, researcher, and writer focusing on decolonial art practices in contemporary Chinese art. Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: "Domestic Miracle". There is a well-known Chinese poem with the lines, ...


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Tomasz Kawecki

Artist Feature

Can the darkness be embraced? In his book Dark Ecology, Timothy Morton proposes that we settle in the darkness. lt is deemed the only way out of the catastrophic vision of the Anthropocene, and one that gives hope for a new world to be built. Artist Tomasz Kawecki, placing a snake devouring its taił - the Ouroboros - at the beginning of his book, follows Morton's thought and invites us to enter ...


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Greif Alumni: Q&A with Tobias Kappel

Articles

Tobias Kappel “inthein” as a quest for a hybrid visual language between analogue and digital systems We periodically invite our alumni, artists we have featured in the past, to share their new work and projects with us. Tobias Kappel was among the artists selected by Robert Morat in his Guest Room back in 2015. A Berlin-based artist, Kappel explores the translation processes between different ...


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In Praise of Shadow - Book Review by Laura Carbonell, Punto de Fuga

Artist Blog by Tomasz Kawecki

Brief introduction, Punto de Fuga is an experimental platform for photography books. I had the pleasure of having my book In Praise of Shadow reviewed by Laura Carbonell, for which I thank her very much! On puntodefugabogota.com you can find this review as well as many others. In Praise of Shadow is Tomasz Kawecki’s most recent photographic project. Utilizing his distinct approach to the ...


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In Reverse

Artist Blog by Mustafah Abdulaziz

There is a wandering native to the photographic practice. Intractable, it matters not if the displacement of self is either overtly romantic or harshly inconvenient: it affords or penalizes by the same suspension of time within the life of the practitioner. Not all that is seen between the islands of documentation merits observation and it is this elusive and unpredictable manner that interests ...


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Paris Photo: insights on the most anticipated photography fair

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Paris Photo Fair is back from November 7 and returns to the iconic Grand Palais For its 27th edition, Paris Photo will return to the Grand Palais from November 7 to 10, 2024. The event will feature a dynamic program that showcases the diversity and vibrancy of both historic and contemporary photography. This prestigious photography fair, directed by Florence Bourgeois, will showcase an ...


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Der Greif X MPB: Behind the Image with Kincső Bede

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Der Greif in partnership with MPB presents Kincső Bede, recipient of the Guest Room Scholarship Der Greif introduces the Michael Famighetti’s Guest Room Scholarship awardee Kincső Bede. She is a Romanian visual artist based between Budapest and Covasna and currently represented by TOBE Gallery, with which she is participating in Paris Photo Fair these days. She was selected for Guest Room “Super ...


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Arctic

Artist Blog by Mustafah Abdulaziz

“Horror Boréale” by Anne-Françoise Hivert for Le Monde M Magazine, October 2023. Translated from the original French. For ten years, American photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz has been documenting the upheavals caused by global warming. Particularly at the North Pole, where the impact of human activity is more visible than anywhere else. Between declining glaciers and industrial settings, his ...


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Water: Part II

Artist Blog by Mustafah Abdulaziz

We must resist, in no small measure, the temptation to ignore or prescribe to the future the responsibility that rests solely within ourselves. Where a cheap plane ticket is bought when a train would do, an active choice has been made. When fast fashion and disposable income become the resource for personal and artistic expression, ego outstrips reason. If excessive consumerism in food, material, ...


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Mustafah Abdulaziz

Artist Feature

When I was a boy my mother took me to the Museum of Natural History in New York City. It was the closest thing to traveling we could do. There was a room with two floors and suspended from the ceiling in the dark, a 1:1 plexiglass model of a blue whale. The largest animal known ever to have existed. I’d lay on the floor and look up for quite some time. On the train home, I’d compare its size to ...


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Uprising narratives at Jaou Biennial 2024

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Jaou Biennial: art, resistance and reconstruction through moving images and photography The timing of this year’s Jaou Biennial could not be more significant. As Tunisia wrestles with the rise of an authoritarian turn in politics, the biennial’s focus on “resistance as the deepest form of love”, in Lina Lazaar’s words, feels necessary. Taking over the city of Tunis, the biennial takes over ...


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Der Greif X MK: Explore the artists featured in the "Auf nach Woanders" exhibition

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“Auf nach Woanders” opens up to worlds “elsewhere” Monochrome documentary, brightly staged shots, imaginative and fanciful images - the photographs selected by Çağla Ilk have very different approaches. What they have in common is a singularity of vision(s) rooted in the diversity of the contexts from which they derive. "Behind every photograph is its performative and transformative power to ...


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Der Greif Issue 17 “One Day Soon” launches

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Der Greif 17: "One Day Soon," guest-edited by Torbjørn Rødland Curiosity, criticality, artifice and reverence for the natural world appear throughout Torbjørn Rødland’s work and often in the same image, forging links between twentieth-century art photography and twenty-first-century approaches to image-making. For Issue 17, Der Greif and Rødland launched an open call titled "One Day Soon," ...


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Most Serene Republic

Artist Blog by Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao

Most Serene Republic was born out of our early morning visits to the Huntington Gardens, a spectacularly well-maintained and impressive collection of plants from all over the world, and not too far from our home in Los Angeles. The morning walks started as a simple search for something calm amidst the overwhelming “everything” of daily news, and the photographs were initially an attempt to ...


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BELA

Artist Blog by Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao

This project documenting our daughter, Bela, over her school years is at its core, simply a portrait - a very long term one, with some themes and ideas that may resonate out from the capture of one person's everyday life, but the more we think about it, the more “portrait” is the right word. Because the photographs cover almost fifteen years of a highly changeable period in a young life, we are ...


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Ancient Relic of Modern Civilization

Artist Blog by Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao

We have been making hand-bound journals of our photographs for quite some time - usually of personal work, sometimes based on a specific time and place, but more often on having compiled a volume of work that we want to contextualize or corral into a meaningful collection. When we started putting together our most recent journal, the idea of examining our own fragmented and reimagined story ...


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Der Greif X FUTURES: 3 questions to Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen

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Der Greif introduces Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen, one of the talents nominated for FUTURES in 2024 Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen (b. 1994) is a self-taught photographer and film director from Odense, Denmark. She explores the intersection of science and art. Although formally trained as a medical doctor, her artworks serve as small experiments that visualize and interpret the human body, psyche, and the ...


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WATER

Artist Blog by Jessica Haye & Clark Hsiao

"If Earth had an intergalactic symbol, surely it must be water." We came across this statement while doing research for an ongoing project we're calling Hydromap. Coming from drought-prone Southern California, where water and its use are both personal and political, we've been photographing water in its various forms, seeking out the origins and terminals of the flow of the waterways of our ...


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