Portfolio Reviews

Present your photographs in one-on-one discussions, explain your image ideas in person and benefit from the knowledgable opinions and suggestions of 31 international experts! For Portfolio Reviews on September 30th and October 1st, you'll have the chance as a photographer, artist or student to present your photographic work to world-renowned experts in 15 minute-long individual discussions – including photographers, curators, art directors, journalists and gallery owners. You can find an overview of the reviewers at the end of this page. 

The application process is completed.

Quick Overview

Where: Museum für Fotografie / Helmut Newton Foundation, Jebensstraße 2 . 10623 Berlin
When: September 30th and October 1st, 2016, each of them from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm / 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm 
Participation Fee: 3 discussions for 90 EUR, 6 discussions for 150 EUR
Application Deadline: September 4th, 2016, 11:59 pm
You can find the rules of participation here.

Who are the Reviewers?

  • Ludger Derenthal

    Art historian and head of the Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

    Ludger Derenthal

    Ludger Derenthal

    Art historian and head of the Photography Collection of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

    Ludger Derenthal

    Dr Ludger Derenthal / born 1964 in Cologne / Studied art history and history in Bonn and Munich / 1996/97 Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) / 1997 to 2003 Teaching art history at Ruhr University Bochum / 2001/02 Member of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton / Since 2003 head of the Collection of Photography at the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Numerous publications and more than 30 exhibitions on art and photography in the 19th, 20th and 21st century / Ludger Derenthal lives and works in Berlin.

    Interested in:

    positions with a critical and creative approach to photography and its history.

    Categories:

    Art Historians, Museum

    http://www.smb.museum/mf

  • Marcel Feil

    Deputy director, artistic affairs at Foam / Editor of Foam, the museum’s international photography magazine, Amsterdam

    Marcel Feil

    Marcel Feil

    Deputy director, artistic affairs at Foam / Editor of Foam, the museum’s international photography magazine, Amsterdam

    Marcel Feil

    Marcel Feil / Born 1968 / 1994 BA in history of art at the University of Amsterdam / 1994 to 1998 worked at the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture / 1998 to 2002 staff member at the Amsterdam Centre for Photography / 2002 to 2010 curator at the Foam museum of photography in Amsterdam, organizing a wide range of historical and contemporary exhibitions / Since 2010 deputy director, artistic affairs at Foam, as well as an editor of Foam, the museum’s international photography magazine / 2012 published A Book of Beds: A Selection of Foam Magazine Talent Photographs / 2014 curated the William Klein retrospective at Foam / Marcel Feil lives and works in Amsterdam.

     

    Photo: © Oscar Anjewierden: Marcel Feil at the Opening Araki Exhibition at Photomuseum FOAM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 18, 2014 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/duosphoto/) 

    Categories:

    Curators, Newspaper, Museum

    http://www.foam.org/home

  • Dr. Matthias Harder

    Chief curator at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin

    Dr. Matthias Harder

    Dr. Matthias Harder

    Chief curator at the Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin

    Dr. Matthias Harder

    Matthias Harder / Born 1965 / Studied history of art, classical archaeology and philosophy / MA from Kiel University / 2002 PhD from Freie Universität, Berlin / 1995 to 1999 curator at nGbK in Berlin / 1996 to 1999 founder and director of ‘empty rooms’ experimental exhibition space for installation art / 1999 to 2002 guest curator at the Fotomuseum, Munich, organizing Herbert List and Stefan Moses retrospectives / 2002 to 2004 director at Kunstverein Glückstadt (PAK) / Since 2004 chief curator at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin / Guest-curator at institutions incl. Deichtorhallen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Glyptothek, Fundació ‘la Caixa’, Tokyo Art Museum / Contributor to international journals including Photonews, Aperture and Art in America / Author of articles and essays for books and catalogues / Also works as an international lecturer, jury member, consultant and public speaker / Matthias Harder lives and works in Berlin.

     

    Photo: http://www.zeitakademie.de/seminare/die-schoenen-kuenste/fotografie [05.08.2016/14:55] 

    Categories:

    Curators, Art Historians, Museum

    http://www.helmut-newton.de/informationen/

  • Dr. Christina Leber

    Director of the DZ BANK art collection, Frankfurt

    Dr. Christina Leber

    Dr. Christina Leber

    Director of the DZ BANK art collection, Frankfurt

    Christina Leber / Born 1966 / Studied Catholic theology and education at various universities in Germany and abroad, completing her studies with a PhD / 1992 to 1999 worked freelance in various corporate art collections including at Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Tetra Pak and DG BANK / 1999 to 2001 director of the 2nd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art / 2003 to 2011 curator of the DZ BANK art collection / 2008 published a book on art collections in German corporations between the years 1965 and 2000 / Seit 2011 director of the DZ BANK art collection / Christina Leber lives and works in Frankfurt. 

    Categories:

    Festival makers, Gallery, Museum

  • Joachim Naudts

    Curator at FOMU (museum of photography) / Chief-editor of the FOMU magazines Extra and .tiff Antwerpen

    Joachim Naudts

    Joachim Naudts

    Curator at FOMU (museum of photography) / Chief-editor of the FOMU magazines Extra and .tiff Antwerpen

    Joachim Naudts / Born 1982 / 2012 started working for FOMU (museum of photography) in Antwerp / Curator of over 20 exhibitions, including Power! Photos! Freedom! (2013), Broomberg & Chanarin – Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt (2014), and Mijn vlakke land (My Flat Land, 2015) / chief-editor of the FOMU magazines Extra and .tiff / Since 2008 actively involved in the organization and planning of the non-profit organization Punctum focusing on contemporary photography / As of 2012 board member of Scherptediepte – Depth of Field, a network for researchers, curators and critics in the field of photography and media culture in the Low Countries / Regularly invited as a jury-member, speaker, writer or guest teacher in the field of contemporary photography / Joachim Naudts lives in Brussels and works in Antwerp.

    Categories:

    Curators, Professors, Newspaper, Museum

    http://www.joachimnaudts.be/

  • Dr. Christiane Stahl

    Director of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin

    Dr. Christiane Stahl

    Dr. Christiane Stahl

    Director of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, Berlin

    Dr. Christiane Stahl

    Dr. Christiane Stahl / Born 1963 / Studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and art history, theatre and film studies at the Freie Universität, Berlin / Since 1991 research associate at Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn and Galerie Karsten Greve in Cologne, Milan and Paris / Since 2002 director of Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung / 2005 received her PhD with dissertation on Alfred Ehrhardt’s early photography / Frequent lecturer, author and jury member in the field of modern and contemporary photography / Since 2006 board member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) / 2008 to 2014 vice-chair of DGPh / Since 2007 member of Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA) / In 2010 the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung moved to Berlin, and since then Christiane Stahl has been member of the European Month of Photography, Berlin / Guest lecturer at the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin / Christiane Stahl lives and works in Berlin.

    Categories:

    Art Historians, Professors, Museum

    http://www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de/