One’s Own and the Other in Photography: An Exhibition for Hannah Höch

Susanne Ahner, Markus Ambach, Johanna Bartl, Christoph Bartolosch, Rainer Barzen, U.D. Bauer, Rolf Bier, Natascha Borowsky, Silvia Klara Breitwieser, Susanne Britz, Claudia Busching, Senta Connert, Marc von Criegern, Maria Anna Dewes, Caroline Dlugos, Rainer Eisch, Dörte Eißfeldt, Andreas Exner, Susanne Fasbender, Barbara Hammann, Susanne Hegmann, Dietrich Helms, Marina Herrmann, Margareta Hesse, annette hollywood, Birgit Huebner, Michael Jäger, Birgit Jensen, Timo Kahlen, Katharina Karrenberg, Veronika Kellndorfer, Ulrike Kessl, Gisela Kleinlein, Beate Klompmaker, Herbert Klophaus, Matthias Kohlmann, Herbert Koller, Claudia van Koolwijk, Julia van Koolwijk, Michael Kress, Christina Kubisch, Katrin von Lehmann, Dirk Löbbert, Maik Löbbert, Christian Müller, Reiner Nachtwey, Julia Neuenhausen, Hartmut Neumann, Christina Paetsch, Heike Pallanca, Jürgen Palmtag, Tyyne Claudia Pollmann, Nora Schattauer, Eva-Maria Schön, Nicola Schrudde, Helmut Schweizer, Martin Schwenk, Annegret Soltau, Jörg Wagner, Heike Weber, Anja Wiese, Barbara Wille, Julia Ziegler

A look at art photography in general and at Hannah Höch in particular reveal a complexity that is transformed by the artistic eye and goes far beyond mere seeing. The participating artists present insights into many facets of their work in the project space of the Deutscher Künstlerbund (Association of German Artists). New perspectives, filtered through the authors’ sensitivity, tell of holding onto what is one’s own in interaction with what is other, alien or unknown. Despite all the variations of abstraction and room for interpretation, art photography again and again refers the viewer back to human measures, and thus in all its diversity depicts the relationship of the artist to the person momentarily confronting him or her. The time span that appears in the confrontation with the famous artist and longstanding Deutscher Künstlerbund member Hannah Höch is striking evidence of the richness of the artistic eye and the individual photographers’ temporal context.