Image: Evelyn Hofer, Phoenix Park on a Sunday, Dublin, 1966 © The Estate of Evelyn Hofer
2019 is the 20th anniversary of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse with numerous exhibitions and events. Under the motto “From another perspective”, we invited experts to share their view on the collection with us. This way, a varied, constantly changing insight into the most important positions of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse is formed.
The anniversary program will kick off with the exhibition “We love Photography!” curated by British photographer Martin Parr, which will showcase around 130 works by 56 artists that he has selected from the Art Collection Deutsche Börse. The exhibition will feature big names in the history of photography such as Walker Evans, Bernd and Hilla Becher or Diane Arbus as well as trailblazers in documentary photography, for example Bruce Davidson, Philip Jones Griffiths and Susan Meiselas. It will also extend to younger artists such as Mike Brodie, Beate Gütschow and Simon Roberts.
Artists: Diane Arbus, Jessica Backhaus, Peter Bialobrzeski, Werner Bischof, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Mike Brodie, Joachim Brohm, Gerd Danigel, Bruce Davidson, John Davies, Phillipp-Lorca diCorcia, Nikos Economopoulos, Mitch Epstein, Walker Evans, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Lucas Foglia, Alberto Garcia Alix, Geert Goiris, David Goldblatt, Paul Graham, Philip Jones Griffiths, Andreas Gursky, Beate Gütschow, Jitka Hanzlova, Thomas Hoepker, Evelyn Hofer, Roni Horn, Pieter Hugo, Seydou Keita, Dana Lixenberg, Vivian Maier, Susan Meiselas, Boris Mikhailov, Richard Mosse, Zanele Muholi, Simon Norfolk, Arnold Odermatt, Gordon Parks, Heinrich Riebesehl, Simon Roberts, Malte Sänger, Sebastiao Salgado, Pennti Sammallathi, Jörg Sasse, Wilhelm Schürmann, Alfred Seiland, Stephen Shore, Malick Sidibè, Gunnar Smoliansky, Joel Sternfeld, John Stezaker, Thomas Struth, Joseph Szabo, Guy Tillim und Tobias Zielony.
My photograph ‘Abandoned Warship in the Kola Bay, Murmansk, Russia, 2005’ from Motherland is included in the book 1001 Photographs: You Must See Before You Die.
Publisher: Cassell (7 Sept. 2017)
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From the oldest surviving photograph from 1826, to Trump’s election win in 2016, this is a chronological tour through the greatest images ever captured, and an all-inclusive guide to the art of photography.
The book is available here.
An interview and selection of my work published in the May 2015 issue of Von Magazine, download a pdf here.
Here’s a few sample spreads….
The exhibition ‘Human Nature: 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse’ opens at NRW-Forum on 30 January until 19 April 2015 and includes prints from my Motherland series.
“Human Nature” shows artistic positions that deal with the relationship between man and nature. These are presented photographically in a diversity of landscapes. The presentation of nature far away from civilization and the man-made changes in landscape are discussed, as well as the adaptation of man to his self-created environment.
with works by
Paul Almasy
Sonja Braas
Mike Brodie
Joachim Brohm
Balthasar Burkhard
Gerd Danigel
Bruce Davidson
John Davies
Geert Goiris
Evelyn Hofer
Axel Hütte
Martin Liebscher
Vivian Maier
Richard Mosse
Jürgen Nefzger
Simon Norfolk
Regine Petersen
Simon Roberts
Sebastiao Salgado
Pentti Sammallahti
Jörg Sasse
Alfred Seiland
Gunnar Smoliansky
Joel Sternfeld
Prints from my Motherland series are included in the exhibition ‘Human Nature: 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse’ (see installation shot above).
This year Deutsche Börse will have been collecting contemporary photography for fifteen years. For this reason we will show a big anniversary exhibition in our premises from 1 October. The exhibition “Human Nature. 15 years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse ” will present around 125 works by 24 artists of the collection.
The show will tour to the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf end of January and thus be shown in a great public exhibition space as part of the Düsseldorf Photo Weekend and until April.
For more information about the collection, visit: https://www.facebook.com/ArtCollectionDeutscheBoerse
In addition to the permanent exhibition of the Art Collection Deutsche Börse, special events on the subject of photography are hosted regularly at the company’s headquarters, The Cube, in Eschborn, Germany.
Due to popular demand I’ve now released my sold-out Motherland monograph as a downloadable pdf available here: http://simoncroberts.com/shop/motherland-book/
This survey exhibition at the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow presents the work of British photographer Simon Roberts (b. 1974, UK) since 2005. After completing a substantial project in Russia, entitled Motherland, Roberts brought his attention closer to home.
With renewed interest in the relationship of individuals and groups to the landscape, Roberts focused on social practices, customs, cultural landmarks, economic and political scenarios that define his ‘small island’ as uniquely British. With echoes of ‘history painting’, these photographs point to contemporary issues specific to Britain, but equally engage with universal ideas of the human relationship to landscape, of identity and belonging.
Landscape Studies of a Small Island is presented as part of the UK Russia Year of Culture in 2014.
The exhibition is curated by Karen McQuaid from The Photographers’ Gallery, London.
More information here: http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/landscape-studies-of-a-small-island/
More installation shots from the show can be viewed here.
An essay written by Martin Caiger-Smith for the exhibition catalogue can be downloaded here.
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Curators April Watson, Jane Aspinwall, and Andy Adams will talk about the portrait show ‘Making Pictures of People’ and the changing shape of internet photography culture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art next week.
Details here- https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151600958537116&set=a.444471732115.246641.669147115&type=1