Next Generations

A truly new photography

The "photography schools" of the Rhineland have an international format. The names Bernd and Hilla Becher are associated with photography as a conceptual medium; the famous "Becher School" emerged from their class at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Since 1990, the "Audiovisual Media" degree programme has been established at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, a completely new place for forward-looking teaching and practice of artistic photography. The artists of "Next Generations. Contemporary Photography made in the Rhineland" essentially follow the conceptual approach, but extend photography into space, the moving image, painting, poetry, graphics and photography. Born in the 1970s and 1980s, they are aware of the fleeting nature of images on the Internet. They reflect on their presence in everyday perception as well as the conditions of their construction and reproduction, often as hybrids of analogue and digital production techniques. Against this photo-historical background, they bid farewell to old ideas of photography as an image of reality and bind the once tantalising promise of reality into the echo chambers of their new artistic work.

Artists:
Alexander Basile, Johannes Bendzulla, Mia Boysen, Louisa Clement, Natalie Czech, Owen Gump, Alwin Lay, Peter Miller, Anne Pöhlmann, Johannes Post, Sebastian Riemer, Morgaine Schäfer, Berit Schneidereit, Shigeru Takato, Anna Vogel, Moritz Wegwerth, Christoph Westermeier, Matthias Wollgast

Exhibition:
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 27/1-5/5/2019