Die Popularisierung des Smartphones ist gleichbedeutend mit einem Paradigmen­wechsel in der Welt der Bilder – eine Revolution, die Alltag und visuelle Praxen verändert hat. Das Smartphone ist zu einem universellen Tool für Kommunikation, Konsum und Medienproduktion geworden. Zwölf Jahre nach der ersten Tagung der Kommission Fotografie der Deutschen Ge­sellschaft für Volkskunde über die digitale Fotografie erkundet die Tagung, wie sich die digitale Visualisierung in Fotografie und Film vor allem durch das Smartphone fortentwickelt hat.

Here the artist makes the music: Martin Liebscher photographed himself 6,000 times in different poses at the Berliner Philharmonie concert hall. This large-format photograph from his series “Family Photos,” currently on view in the show “Time Present,” humorously investigates the coordinates of identity, time, and space, as well as the ideal of the artist genius. Friedhelm Hütte, head of Deutsche Bank’s art department, talks with the Berlin-based artist about his works and artistic practice.

On the occasion of "Existing Elsewhere" exhibition, photographers Guevara Namer and Alaa Hassan will join in conversation. They will present for the first time to Berlin’s audience, and in Germany their artistic practices, which revolve around the visual investigation of topics, such as self-representation, affect, and exile; the experience of displacement; individual and collective memories as terrains where vanished realities transform, as well as archiving online and offline as relational tool.