Portfolio Review
Once again, a Portfolio Review will be organised in the framework of the 6th European Month of Photography (MdF Berlin), to be held this year in collaboration with the BTK University of Applied Sciences of Berlin. Forty national and international experts are available for discussion with freelance photographers, artists, and photography students in advanced semesters.
Short Overview
Where: BTK, Bernburger Straße 24/25, 10963 Berlin
When: November 1–2, 2014
Participation fee: Three talks for € 75.00, six talks for € 130.00
Application deadline: September 12, 2014 // EXTENDED until September 24, 2014
Prices
First Prize: A solo exhibition in the dat Galerie as well as a 1,500.00 € voucher for exhibition prints with the Grieger company in Düsseldorf
Second Prize: 1,000.00 €
Third Prize: 500.00 €
Here you find detailed information for applicants and the eligibility requirements.
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Lars Blunck
Professor for art history at the Akademie der Künste in Nuremberg
Lars Blunck
Professor for art history at the Akademie der Künste in Nuremberg
Lars Blunck studied art history, political science, and geography in Brunswick and Kiel as well as cultural management in Hagen. He received his doctorate in 2001 with a dissertation on performative assemblages of the 1950s and 1960s (Between Object & Event. Partizipationskunst zwischen Mythos und Teilhabe. Weimar, 2003). Following this, he did voluntary work at Hamburger Bahnhof (Museum for Contemporary Art) before becoming a research assistant in art history at the Technical University Berlin in 2002. In 2005 he received the Deubner Prize for current art historical research, and in 2007 he habilitated at the TU Berlin with a paper on Marcel Duchamp (Duchamps Präzisionsoptik. Munich, 2008), followed by a five-year guest professorship there. In 2011 he was a fellow of the Terra Foundation for American Art and in 2013 he took on the professorship for art history at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg. In his research, Blunck focuses chiefly on the history of art and images in modernism and contemporary times, particularly the history and theory of photography.
Categories:
Art Historians, Professors
http://www.adbk-nuernberg.de/AKADEMIE/Personen/steckbriefe/blunck_lars.html
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Ludger Derenthal
Art historian and head of the Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ludger Derenthal
Art historian and head of the Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Ludger Derenthal has headed the Photography Collection of the Berlin Art Library, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2003. Before that he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, taught art history as a research assistant at the Ruhr University Bochum, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In his publications and exhibitions, he examines photography of the 19th and 20th centuries, Dada, and Surrealism – in particular the work of Max Ernst – as well as sculpture in public space.
Interested in:
positions with a critical and creative approach to photography and its history.
Categories:
Art Historians, Museum
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Susanne Prinz
| Art historian and director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e. V., Berlin
Susanne Prinz
| Art historian and director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e. V., Berlin
Susanne Prinz studied art history, American literature, and politics in Leipzig and Munich. Until 2002, she worked in the art trading field as director of the galleries Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich) and Christian Nagel (Berlin). From 2006 to 2012, she was director of the Atelier für Physisches Theater (APT) / Internationale Schule für bewegungsschauspiel Berlin. Susanne Prinz has been director of L40 – Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e. V. (specialized in art in public space) since 2010. She has organized numerous exhibitions, published many essays as a freelance author, and has worked as a curator throughout. In addition, she teaches in Salzburg and Kassel.
Interested in:
photography that investigates the nature of the image abstractly and/or formally, narrative works, still lifes, landscapes.
Not interested in:
social studies.
Categories:
Art Historians, Museum
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Bernd Stiegler
Professor for contemporary German literature at the University of Konstanz
Bernd Stiegler
Professor for contemporary German literature at the University of Konstanz
Bernd Stiegler studied German philology and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich, Paris, Berlin, and Freiburg. From 1999 to 2007 he was program director for science at Suhrkamp Verlag.
Since the fall of 2007, he has been professor for modern German literature at the University of Konstanz with a focus on the 20th century in a media context. He has edited numerous publications on the history and theory of photography, media science, and German and French literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.Categories:
Art Historians, Professors