Memory Pictures
40 Years Museum für Photographie
Exhibition including b/w-photographs by Wolfgang Zurborn from the series “Amusement Parks in Germany” (1984)
Opening: July 12, 2024 Exhibition duration: July 13, 2024 – September 15, 2024
Laurenz Berges | Anna und Bernhard Blume | Natalie Czech | Boris Eldagsen | Walker Evans | Gisèle Freund | Albrecht Fuchs | André Gelpke | Joachim Giesel | Vadim Gushchin | Jitka Hanzlová | Erik Kessels | Chris Killip | Alwin Lay | Robert Lebeck | Natacha Lesueur | Ute Mahler | Gordon Parks | Albert Renger-Patzsch | Heinrich Riebesehl | Sebastião Salgado | August Sander | Iris R. Selke | Esther Shalev-Gerz | Malick Sidibé | Ingo Taubhorn | Susa Templin | Weegee | Miron Zownir | Wolfgang Zurborn
To mark the museum’s 40th anniversary, the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig looks back on its exhibition history in a selection of important photographic works and photographic positions.
In addition to the images with a documentary visual language shown primarily in the 1980s and 1990s, various conceptual artistic approaches developed over the course of the following decades, in which staging or media-immanent references or installations were at the forefront of the themes. The exhibition will also take a look at photographic image possibilities using the example of Boris Eldagsen’s AI-based generative photography.
The two classicist museum gatehouses will be integrated into the presentation and the rooms will be designed with references to the history of the building.
Themes such as landscape, people, portraits, nature, animals, working environments and conceptual projects on the areas of application and creative characteristics and conditions of the medium of photography have been important aspects of the museum’s program work over the last 40 years.