I am not interested in Reality

Erwin Olaf, Jorma Puranen, Natascha Stellmach, Raïssa Venables, Thomas Wrede

The group exhibition I am not interested in Reality presents five international photographers who work with reflections, scenes and reconstructions of reality, free of documentary impulses. Departing from contemporary visual habits and media worlds, they offer new looks at the realities of our lives. Imagination and reality merge into one. Raïssa Venables of New York creates spaces of multiple perspectives that seem to breathe. The Finnish artist Jorma Puranen visualises the disappearance of the Sami people’s culture. The German photo-artist Thomas Wrede creates romantic landscape clichés of exotic places, and the Australian artist Natascha Stellmach turns South American dream dolls into placeholders for traumatic memories. Finally, the Dutch artist Erwin Olaf presents erotically charged portraits in a highly aesthetic style. His Key Hole installation, which makes the viewer a voyeur of alien worlds, is being shown in Germany for the first time.