On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Architecture and Landscape in Norway. Photographs by Ken Schluchtmann the photographer Ken Schluchtmann will talk about his numerous travels to Norway and thus provide insight into his work process. Curator Janike Kampevold Larsen will present an overview of the history of Norwegian landscape photography, as well as contextualise Ken Schluchtmanns work in light of the history of the development of ideas as well as of photo history. In English language.

Keynote 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

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Art Collection, DZ BANK has published the catalog "FOTOFINISH. Photography‘s Triumph as an Autonomous Art Form" (2018) by Snoeck-Verlag in Cologne, offering a current overview of this exceptional corporate collection, encompassing works by Richard Avedon, Sibylle Bergemann, Viktoria Binschtok, Jan Paul Evers, Nan Goldin, Raphael Hefti, Louise Lawler, Thomas Ruff, Piotr Uklanski, Cindy Shermann, Andy Warhol, and many others. As an artistic medium, photography has undergone sweeping changes over the last 50 years and has achieved impressive success. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, photography’s ascent to the Mount Olympus of art has been extraordinary, making it
the most important visual medium of our time. Yet there are questions that have remained relevant since the inception of the medium. Under what conditions can photography be considered art? What qualities set photography apart from other artistic media? What questions does the photographic medium raise? And what visual languages, concepts, and strategies have
artists developed in recent years?

In a discussion moderated by Julia Voss, Christina Leber, Head of the DZ BANK Art Collection; Kathrin Schönegg and Steffen Siegel, two of the authors of the new catalog; and Felix Hoffmann, Chief Curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation, will talk about contemporary artistic photography at the intersection with other artistic genres and in the context of conceptual approaches.