Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie /
With Different Eyes. The Portrait of Contemporary Photography

In current art, and in photography in particular, the portrait remains one of the most important and continually reinvented pictorial subjects. The aesthetic approaches range from the documentary to the staged, from the reformulation of iconographic pictorial traditions to the artistic engagement with aspects of amateur photography or abstraction as possible reflections on the theme. With this joint exhibition project, the Kunstmuseum Bonn and Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur in Köln approach this complexity and topicality. And it can already be asserted: if fifteen years ago a book such as “How you look at it?” drew the definitive line under the question of the formal kinship between the visual arts and photography, thereby contributing to an enormous appreciation of photography, then for our present day „Mit anderen Augen“ provides a broad stocktaking and definitive confirmation of the predominance of photography in the artistic genre of the portrait – a predominance that can no longer be disputed.

Artists:
Charles Fréger, Pepa Hristova, Pieter Hugo, Hiroh Kikai, Joerg Lipskoch, Francesco Neri, Mark Neville, Jerry L. Thompson, Mette Tronvoll, Albrecht Tübke
The Kunstmuseum Bonn shows: Ute Behrend, Katharina Bosse, Clegg & Guttmann, Dunja Evers, Jan Paul Evers, Albrecht Fuchs, Bernhard Fuchs, Jitka Hanzlovà, Uschi Huber, Jörg Paul Janka, Sabrina Jung, Dagmar Keller/Martin Wittwer, Annette Kelm, Erik Kessels, Dieter Kiessling, Jana Kölmel, Eckhard Korn, Christian Mayer, Katharina Mayer, Christopher Muller, Peter Piller, Barbara Probst, Tim Rautert, Daniela Risch, Thomas Ruff, Michael Schmidt, Daniel Schumann, Oliver Sieber, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Katja Stuke, Wolfgang Tillmans, Christopher Williams, Tobias Zielony

Exhibitions:
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, 26/2 – 29/5/2016
Kunstmuseum Bonn, 25/2 – 8/5/2016
Kunsthalle Nürnberg und Kunsthaus im KunstKulturQuartier, 13/10/2016 – 15/1/2017