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Guest Room is all about sparking collaboration. For this edition, Martin Morgenstern and Sandra Buschow from the PORTRAITS - Hellerau Photography Award 2025 have teamed up with Christina Töpfer, editor-in-chief of the magazine Camera Austria International.

Coinciding with the tenth edition of the PORTRAITS - Hellerau Photography Award, the theme for this Guest Room is: "Echoes of Truth."

"On the one hand, our theme reflects the various historical, cultural and political layers that have historically covered our founding building, the Festspielhaus Hellerau, over the course of more than a hundred years. It was built as an educational facility for music and rhythm, housed a large exhibition of expressionist painting in the 1920s, a police school during the Nazi dictatorship and a Red Army hospital after the end of the Second World War. After the political turnaround of 1989, the site was renovated in the 1990s and has now been a 'European Centre for the Arts' for twenty years. All these periods have left their mark on Hellerau, and we, the team of the PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award and with us, hundreds of artists with their exhibited works have also left our mark here.

On the other hand, we are living in over-politicized times. Here in Dresden, in Saxony, in Germany and in Europe, we are currently facing huge political challenges. Wars, inflation, the rise of the extreme political fringes with their overly simplistic answers to people's concerns. Most recently a presidential election in the USA in which the focus was less on facts than on populist volume - all of this is leading us towards an era in which truth is devalued as a currency. It only appears in distant echoes, and you have to be very sensitive and look and listen carefully to catch a glimpse of it."

Selection

    • shadowINred XIE, Forgotten birthday cake, Shanghai,CN,2024 | DER GREIF
      shadowINred XIE, Forgotten birthday cake, Shanghai,CN,2024
    • Marina Dukhina, The Bread place, Kazakhstan Kostanay, KZ, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Marina Dukhina, The Bread place, Kazakhstan Kostanay, KZ, 2024
    • Clara Watt, Provision 8, Ghana, GH, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Clara Watt, Provision 8, Ghana, GH, 2024
    • Yulai Xu, Concave 5, Changsha City, CN, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Yulai Xu, Concave 5, Changsha City, CN, 2022
    • Masoumeh BahramiGorji, 5, Mazandaran, IR, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Masoumeh BahramiGorji, 5, Mazandaran, IR, 2023
    • Sergey Novikov, Launch, London, GB, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Sergey Novikov, Launch, London, GB, 2023
    • Isabella Finholdt, Henry and Vik hold each other in Sede, Taboao da Serra Sao Paulo, BR, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Isabella Finholdt, Henry and Vik hold each other in Sede, Taboao da Serra Sao Paulo, BR, 2021
    • Anya Tsaruk, I Hope Your Family is Safe 2, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, UA, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Anya Tsaruk, I Hope Your Family is Safe 2, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, UA, 2024
    • Jesús Umbría Brito , BRITO Lola y Vera, Madrid, ES, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Jesús Umbría Brito , BRITO Lola y Vera, Madrid, ES, 2023
    • Elliot Ross, We Do The Running, Monument Valley Arizona, USA, US 2024 | DER GREIF
      Elliot Ross, We Do The Running, Monument Valley Arizona, USA, US 2024
    • Alessia Rapetti, Virus,Carrera, Italy, IT, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Alessia Rapetti, Virus,Carrera, Italy, IT, 2022
    • Barbora Křížová , Adulting Boy IV, Alber, Czech Republic, CZ, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Barbora Křížová , Adulting Boy IV, Alber, Czech Republic, CZ, 2023
    • Mari Kalabegashvili, Mari Kalabegashvili, "If You Catch My Drift (Giorgi)", Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022. | DER GREIF
      Mari Kalabegashvili, Mari Kalabegashvili, "If You Catch My Drift (Giorgi)", Tbilisi, Georgia, 2022.
    • Jia Wang, Jia Wang, "Echoes of Harmony: Preserving Culture and Nature in Inner Mongolia," Inner Mongolia, China, 2023. | DER GREIF
      Jia Wang, Jia Wang, "Echoes of Harmony: Preserving Culture and Nature in Inner Mongolia," Inner Mongolia, China, 2023.
    • Marek Kita, Marek Kita, "1/5," Warsaw, Poland, 2024. | DER GREIF
      Marek Kita, Marek Kita, "1/5," Warsaw, Poland, 2024.
    • Dávid Biró, Do You Accept Cookies? 05, Budapest, Hungary, HU, 2020 | DER GREIF
      Dávid Biró, Do You Accept Cookies? 05, Budapest, Hungary, HU, 2020
    • Martha Friedel, Lea, Schweiz, CH, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Martha Friedel, Lea, Schweiz, CH, 2024
    • Feiyi Wen, "The Untitled" from Seeing a pine tree from your bedroom window London , United Kingdom, UK, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Feiyi Wen, "The Untitled" from Seeing a pine tree from your bedroom window London , United Kingdom, UK, 2024
    • Maria Klenner, Emma, Bremen,Germany, DE, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Maria Klenner, Emma, Bremen,Germany, DE, 2024
    • Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Leclef, Ulisse near Stromboli, Sicily, Italy, IT 1992 | DER GREIF
      Marc Ohrem-Leclef, Leclef, Ulisse near Stromboli, Sicily, Italy, IT 1992
    • Catalina Caseres Saboya, The Unseen Gaze, Lima, Peru, PE, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Catalina Caseres Saboya, The Unseen Gaze, Lima, Peru, PE, 2024
    • Barbora Křížová , "Girls" from the Series "Adulting",  Alber, Czech Republic, CZ, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Barbora Křížová , "Girls" from the Series "Adulting", Alber, Czech Republic, CZ, 2023
    • Natela Grigalashvili, Maiko is preparing coffee for her guests, Mountainous, Adjara,Georgia, GE, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Natela Grigalashvili, Maiko is preparing coffee for her guests, Mountainous, Adjara,Georgia, GE, 2024
    • Luciana Demichelis, Rever, La_Plata, Argentinia, AR, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Luciana Demichelis, Rever, La_Plata, Argentinia, AR, 2022
    • Jordan Tovin, The_Watermelon Contest, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, US, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Jordan Tovin, The_Watermelon Contest, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America, US, 2024
    •  Kyra ten Brink, Journeying Home 1, Parrita, Costa Rica, CR, 2023 | DER GREIF
      Kyra ten Brink, Journeying Home 1, Parrita, Costa Rica, CR, 2023
    • Joaquín Palting, Untitled 68, Aztlán, United_States,US, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Joaquín Palting, Untitled 68, Aztlán, United_States,US, 2024
    • Ronya Hirsma, Untitled, Gothenburg, Sweden, SE, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Ronya Hirsma, Untitled, Gothenburg, Sweden, SE, 2024
    • Studio Likeness, "Socken" from the serie Zwischenzeiten, Berlin, Germany, DE, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Studio Likeness, "Socken" from the serie Zwischenzeiten, Berlin, Germany, DE, 2024
    • Jorgen Axelvall, Untitled 8, Tokyo, Japan, JP, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Jorgen Axelvall, Untitled 8, Tokyo, Japan, JP, 2024
    • Yzza Slaoui, Eid celebrations, Tendrara, MA, Morocco, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Yzza Slaoui, Eid celebrations, Tendrara, MA, Morocco, 2021
    • Leonard Vincent Rode, Parents Lair, Ostergotland, Sweden, SE, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Leonard Vincent Rode, Parents Lair, Ostergotland, Sweden, SE, 2021
    • Laura Wilhelm, Fish in the glass , Museum, Hungary, HU, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Laura Wilhelm, Fish in the glass , Museum, Hungary, HU, 2024
    • Inna Piskun, Mary, Dnepr, Ukraine, UA, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Inna Piskun, Mary, Dnepr, Ukraine, UA, 2024
    • Zsuzsa Darab, Thirtysomething, Dömös, HU, 2022 | DER GREIF
      Zsuzsa Darab, Thirtysomething, Dömös, HU, 2022
    • Natasha Danilova, Beneath the shield, South Ural, Russian Federation, RU, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Natasha Danilova, Beneath the shield, South Ural, Russian Federation, RU, 2024
    • Robert Oberzaucher, Der Gast 4, Vienna, Austria, AT | DER GREIF
      Robert Oberzaucher, Der Gast 4, Vienna, Austria, AT
    • Maria Sturm, Robert looking at himself, Pembroke, North Carolina, United States of America, US | DER GREIF
      Maria Sturm, Robert looking at himself, Pembroke, North Carolina, United States of America, US
    • Kseniia Apresian, Apresian Ventotene, Ventotene, Italy, IT | DER GREIF
      Kseniia Apresian, Apresian Ventotene, Ventotene, Italy, IT
    • Farren van Wyk, Benjamin, Gelderland, Netherlands, NL, 2021 | DER GREIF
      Farren van Wyk, Benjamin, Gelderland, Netherlands, NL, 2021
    • Jo Bradford, Untitled, From the series: "If not now, when", Dartmoor, Great Britain, GB, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Jo Bradford, Untitled, From the series: "If not now, when", Dartmoor, Great Britain, GB, 2024
    • Björn Nilsson, Farsta, Sweden, SE, 2014 | DER GREIF
      Björn Nilsson, Farsta, Sweden, SE, 2014
    • Karabo Mooki, Island Gals, Johannesburg, Sout Africa, ZA, 2024 | DER GREIF
      Karabo Mooki, Island Gals, Johannesburg, Sout Africa, ZA, 2024
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