Artist Complex
Photographic Portraits from Baselitz to Warhol. Platen Collection
Brassaï , Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Denise Colomb, Pierre Descargues, Robert Doisneau, Gisèle Freund, Arnold Newman, Jérôme Schlomoff
Featuring around 180 works produced between 1910 and 2000, this exhibition highlights the breadth of variety of artists’ photographic portraits, while also giving an overview of art-historical developments over the last 100 years. All works are drawn from the Angelika Platen Collection, herself a significant photographic portraitist of artists.
The idea of the artist is often associated with genius, imagination, and creative freedom, while Carl Gustav Jung defined a “complex” as a web of feelings, thoughts, and memories that determine thought and action, mentally grouped around some significant connecting factor. The exhibition “Artist Complex” brings the two concepts together, investigating the artist as a visual phenomenon composed of a particular set of ideas and motifs and manifested in exemplary fashion in the photographic portrait. Divided into three sections, the exhibition opens up a view into the minds and personalities of the various artists on show.
Events
4.Oct - 5.Oct 6:00 pm
Symposium Artist Complex. Images of Artists in Photography
PanelKeynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Bettina Gockel, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich
Concept and organization: Jadwiga Kamola, Berlin State Museums
The symposium, which accompanies the exhibition Artist Complex. Photographic Portraits from Baselitz to Warhol. Platen Collection, analyzes photographic portraits of artists in the twentieth century. Under the umbrella term of an “artist complex” we hope to develop new theoretical approaches to portraits of artists. The psychological term of the “complex” is understood as a central driving force, which determines our thoughts and actions, and which, so we argue, materializes in the moment of the photographic exposure. In this sense, the “artist complex” replicates and re-stages historically and culturally constructed ideas of an “artist”.
Programm
Thursday, 4.10.
11.40 Jadwiga Kamola: Einführung / Introduction
12.00 Ulrike Blumenthal: Braque, l’intimiste. Der Topos vom romantischen Künstler in Brassaїs Atelieraufnahmen
12.30 Victoria Fleury: Claude Monets graphische Kunst und der Mythos eines ‚plein-air’-Malers
20 min. discussion, 30 min. break
13.50 Jean Marie Carey: Powerful Knowledge in Found Photos of Franz Marc
14.20 Clara Masnatta: Artist Complex Made Simplex. The Artists’ Portraits of Gisèle Freund
20 min. discussion, 10 min. break
15.20 Nadja Köffler: On Both Sides of the Frame – Vivian Maiers Künstlerinnenporträt zwischen kultureller Codierung und feministischer Artikulation
15.50 Maike Aden: Bas Jan Ader. Bilder der Selbsthingabe und Selbstaufgabe des Künstlers und ihre aktuelle künstlerische Rezeption
16.20 Gerd Zillner: Demiurge and Tough Prophet: Frederick Kiesler’s Self-Staging
20 min. discussion., 20. min. break
17.30 Keynote, Bettina Gockel: More than Genius: How Photography Dressed for Success – and Still Does
ca. 19.00 Führung durch die Ausstellung mit Bettina Gockel und Jadwiga Kamola / Guided tour through the exhibition with Bettina Gockel and Jadwiga Kamola
Friday 5.10.
11.30 Milijana Pavlovic und Michaela Krucsay: Komplexe Personae. Musikerinnenporträts als Verhandlungsort künstlerischer Identität und Genialität
12.00 Christian Sinn: Das Plattencover UJ3RK5 und Jeff Walls entschiedene Unentschiedenheit
20. min. discussion, 10 min. break
13.00 Wilma Scheschonk: Die Kräfte des Künstlers im fotografischen Künstlerbild
13.30 Weronika Kobylińska-Bunsch: Impossible Self-Portrait. Artist’s Body as a Sphere of Photographic Inquiry (Witkacy - Duchamp - Cahun)
20 min. discussion, 60 min. break
15.20 Constance Krüger:Der Fotografische Zyklus als künstlerisches Manifest.
Natalia LL's Categorical Statements of Post-Consumer Art, September 1975
15.50 Emily Watlington: Dialectics of Desire and Disgust in Adrian Piper’s Catalysis
16.20 Marina Linares: Körper-Kunst oder Kunst-Körper? Carolee Schneemanns Fotoserie
Eye Body
30 min. discussion, 10 min. break
17.30 Bertram Kaschek: Confrontation and Continuity. Christian Borchert’s Artist Portraits from 1975/76 and Later Years
18.00 Till Cremer: Berlin Artists: fotografische Feldforschung 2009–2014
Address
Museum für Fotografie - Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin
7.Oct 3:00 pm
Mini-Workshops Audiodescription
10-Minuten-Workshops mit Blinden und SehendenAudio description translates pictures into words.
Address
Museum für Fotografie - Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin
Additional Information
Event location: Café
Museum für Fotografie - Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek
29.06. – 7.10.2018
Location
Museum für Fotografie - Sammlung Fotografie der KunstbibliothekJebensstraße 2
10623 Berlin - Charlottenburg
T 030 266 42 42 42
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Tue, Wed, Fri–Sun 11–19 h
Thu 11–20 h
Public transport
U1, U2, U9, S5, S7, S75, S9 Zoologischer Garten
Admission price
Admission 10€ / reduced 5€
Curators
Ludger Derenthal & Jadwiga KamolaSponsors
Savings Banks Finance Group, main sponsor of the Staatliche Museen zu BerlinCatalog
Ludger Derenthal und Jadwiga Kamola (Hrsg.): Künstler Komplex. Fotografische Porträts von Baselitz bis Warhol. Sammlung Platen, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2018, 39,90€.