Skewed Demographic - Exhibition and Benefit Auction

Skewed Demographic is an exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York City and a benefit auction.

This exhibition is on racial health disparity honoring Amit Gupta the founder of Photojojo and other Leukemia patients of South Asian heritage.

All auctioned works will benefit marrow donor registration in underrepresented communities.

See the show and buy work at the Queens Museum today on December 10th from 1 - 5 pm, or bid for the work of any of the photographers online until December 19th.

There's great photography to find, bid here and support this important case.

Stefan Heyne

If you are planing to go to Berlin in May or June don't miss Stefan Heyne's new solo exhibition at Kommunale Galerie Berlin.

Stefan Heyne - Woran denkst Du? (What are you thinking about)

This exhibition presents more than 30 large scale photo works mainly from 2009 and 2010.

A brand new body of work will also be presented for the first time in this show.

Stefan Heyne - Woran denkst Du?

Kommunale Galerie Berlin

Hohenzollerndamm 176

10713 Berlin

Opening reception: Thursday April 28, 7 p.m.

The exhibition runs from April 29 through June 19, 2011

opening hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Wednesday, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.,

Sunday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Admission free

© copyright all images Stefan Heyne and VG Bildkunst Bonn

Lenscratch - The Luck exhibition

Aline Smithson put up a beautiful exhibition on her blog Lenscratch with the theme LUCK.

Especially in these times we need a lot of LUCK.

Here is the link to the exhibition.

Charlie Grosso

Charlie Grosso's Solo Show at Hous Projects in New York opens on March 4 and coincide with the Armory Week in NYC.

"Sustain" work from Wok The Dog

Don't miss the opening on March 4, 2011

Hous Projects

31 Howard Street

NYC

March 4 - April 16

Opening Reception: March 4, 7 - 10 pm

© copyright Charlie Grosso

Ruben Natal-San Miguel - New York, New York - The Concrete Jungle

Ruben Natal-San Miguel, founder and editor in chief of one of the most influential blogs about photography and one of the biggest enthusiasts and supporters of young photographers has a show with his own photographs from March 4 - April 10, 2010 at Kris Graves Projects in New York.

The show is called New York, New York - The Concrete Jungle.

For the past five years during the summer months, Ruben has traveled by bicycle througout Upper Manhattan, searching for what it's like to live in the Big Apple. For this is his chosen home, like many New Yorkers, Ruben is a transplant, eagerly coming to NYC to make his way in this School of Hard Knocks. As a trained architect he clearly sees both the concrete form and its human function, in particular, Ruben focused the viewer's eye on the unseen. In his exhibition, the overlooked citizens, and environments are his subject, these are things most people cannot or choose not to see. For, this is not the posh "Sex and the City" Manhattan which people clamor for, but here, Ruben has been able to find, a vibrant and colorful vision of that other Manhattan.

The show is curated by Matthew Pillsbury.

So, if you are in New York or plan to go, make sure to see this great show with Ruben's wonderful works at Kris Graves Projects, 111 Front Street #224, NY 11201

The show runs from March 4 through April 10.

The opening reception is on March 4, 6 - 9 p.m.

© all images Ruben Natal-San Miguel

Unseen - A Photographers Salon

Don't miss one of the best shows in New York this Fall

UNSEEN - A Photographers Salon

Unseen is an introduction to some of New York’s most promising, hard working, and creative minds in the photography field whose bold ideas, themes, and techniques work to transcend the history of photographic art.

Ruben Natal - San Miguel curated an extraordinary show with an amazing line up of fantastic photographers.

If you are in New York, make sure to see the show. The opening is October 22, 6p.m. - 8.30 p.m. at Randall Scott Gallery, 111 Front Street #204, Brooklyn

The show runs from October 22 through November 21

The Making of Art

© Schirn Kunsthalle

On the weekend we went to see the new exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt.
The show is really great, with fantastic artists and a very interesting theme. If you are in Frankfurt, make sure to see the exhibition.

Here is the official introduction to the show:

These days people love art – especially contemporary art, which has become a constantly growing cultural factor. Fascinated by the artists’ creative milieu, the public strives to share in its atmosphere of being something special. This exhibition offers a look behind the scenes of the contemporary art world in which the triangle of artist, artwork, and viewer has long since been expanded many times over. The relationships between artist, collector, gallerist, curator, and critic frequently inform the works’ very contents, and these aspects are increasingly represented in the works themselves. Artists – such as John Baldessari, Joseph Beuys, Tracey Emin, Fischli/Weiss, Ryan Gander, Christian Jankowski, Louise Lawler, Jonathan Monk, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat, or Ai Weiwei – keep an eye on what happens in the art world and reflect the more and more lavish trade: from the creative process and the mounting of an exhibition to the rituals of the scene. A time of upheaval like the one we witness today lends all the more urgency to exploring this complex network.
Curator: Dr. Martina Weinhart (Schirn)

The exhibition runs trough August 30

WILD THINGS! The Opening

Here are some impressions of the opening night of the show.

WILD THINGS! Happened

The opening of WILD THINGS! at Stricola Contemporary was a huge success. The gallery and the street was packed with people. We even had more people at our opening than Francesco Clemente just across the street at Deitch Project.

Amazing and WILD!!!!!!!



Ruben Natal-San Miguel wrote a great review on his blog ARTmostfierce about the show.

Read it HERE.

Thanks Ruben!!!!!

More photos and report about my trip to NYC will follow.

New York New York

Only a few hours and we are heading off to New York.

I am already looking forward to seeing all my favorite places again and to meet very nice people.









© all images Michael Werner

On the way to New York

The four babies got picked up yesterday and will be on the plane to New York on Friday.

They will be in the show WILD THINGS! at Stricola Contemporary in New York.

Munich - München

Tomorrow we are heading off to Munich to see
this


and this


and this


I am already looking forward to see the big show of William Eggleston at the Haus der Kunst in Munich

It's the Exhibition William Eggleston- Democratic Camera - Photography and Video 1961 - 2008

Takashi Murakami in Frankfurt

Yesterday we went to see the Murakami show at the MMK (Museum of modern art Frankfurt) in Frankfurt. The whole museum is turned into a Murakami world and shows only art by the japanese artist. It was really fun to see the show and to watch the movies of Kaikai and Kiki. If you are in Frankfurt or nearby, make sure to see the exhibition.

For more information visit the website of the museum here

Paris Photo

Michael Werner, Sapeurs Pompiers Paris, 2008


Michael Werner, One for the album, Place du Louvre Paris, 2008


Another big event for Photography opens today. Paris Photo, the worlds premier fair for photography. So, at the moment Europe is the center for photography in the world, which is very exciting not only for us Europeans, but for the whole photography world.

The text from the official website is as follows:

Since it first began more than a decade ago, Paris Photo has won recognition as the world's premier fair for still photography. This unique event offers a panorama of fine art photography from its early days to the present day, and presents a forward-looking overview of global trends and expressions available in this medium.

The 2008 edition, which brings together some one hundred galleries and publishers from around the world, will coincide with Paris Photography Month, making the City of Lights the international epicentre of art photography.

PARIS PHOTO - A FEW FIGURES
* 40,000 visitors (40 % from abroad).
* 120 exhibitors - galleries, publishers and magazines - from some 20 countries.
* Work by more than 500 international photographers.
* Media coverage with 500 stories in the most prestigious international news outlets.
* 1,000 accredited journalists from 50 countries.

If you want to know more about this event, check it out here

European Month of Photography, Berlin

Olympic Stadium, Berlin, 2008 © Michael Werner


This November Berlin is the center of photography in Europe. For the third time the European Month of Photography takes place in Berlin and the city is full of exciting photo exhibitions and events.

Here is the official introduction text from the website of the European Month of Photography

The Third European Month of Photography in Berlin will be taking place from 1 to 30 November 2008. For the first time it comes with a motto – 'Never seen before' is its proud claim, and it has inspired the delight in discovery and innovative imagination of the institutions taking part. More than 130 galleries, project rooms, museums and cultural institutes are involved this year, promising a packed series of exhibitions, private views, events, symposiums and workshops. For a period of 30 days the concentrated programme will draw attention to the medium of photography, offering the public new and unusual insights and giving the international photographic scene a platform for discussion.

If you are in Europe, make sure to visit Berlin, whatever you have heard about Berlin, it's true, but only even much better. It's next to New York City, the world capital of art. And I have to say, I love Berlin

Find out more about the European Month of Photography by following the link here

Call for entries

Liz Kuball had a great idea. She started an online exhibition project for everyone who got rejected at Critical Mass. And there aren't so few of us who had made the same experience as Liz.

So get your photo out and send it to Liz. But you have to hurry, the deadline is already today!!!

Here is what she wrotes about her project:

Call for entries: Critical Mass rejects
If you entered Critical Mass this year, and you didn’t get in, take heart: You can be part of a one-time-only group show right here on my blog. Send me your favorite photo from your Critical Mass entry, the one you’re thinking rocked it so hard that the Critical Mass jurors must be blind not to have chosen you. The deadline is Thursday, October 30, at 8:59 p.m. Pacific time (11:59 p.m. New York time). The next day, I’ll post every photo I’ve received. Spread the word.

Note: Please send your image at 72 dpi, measuring at least 500 pixels on the longest side. (If you’ve already sent me your image, no worries.)

The link to Liz's blog is here

Tim Hailand in Berlin

BECAUSE I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE AND I WANT TO SEE LIFE

Tim Hailand has a solo show in Berlin at the gallery untitledprojects berlin, Oranienburger Str. 27, 10117 Berlin

The show runs from October 28th trough November 29th. The opening reception is on October 27th at 7 p.m.

If you are in Berlin make sure you see the exhibition, you will regret if you don't.

Snap to grid

It's time again for SNAP TO GRID

Direct link to registration: just click here

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

LACDA invites you to exhibit your work in:
SNAP TO GRID
the UN-Juried Exhibit

Every Entry Submitted is Shown!

October 9-November 1, 2008
Opening Reception Thursday October 9, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with the Downtown Art Walk)

Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried Competition: Snap to Grid. In our annual exhibition of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

The show is mounted in our 1,200 foot storefront gallery in the bourgeoning downtown arts district in the revitalized historic core of Los Angeles. It is an area constantly building and creating itself, filled with art, hipsters, restaraunts, clubs, music, shopping and urban loft living. The area is frequented by celebrities, critics, curators and renowned artists. The opening reception is on the nignt of the exciting Downtown Art Walk which has drawn over 2,000 people (and also provides a new shuttle service between each cluster of the over 30 galleries in the immediate area). Thousands are expected to attend the exhibit.

After the exhibition the images and artist information will be archived by LACDA. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the archived images, and will also be available for review by interested area gallerists, curators and arts journalists. The ultimate resume builder. Everybody wins!

Entry fee $30US.

Proceeds benefit gallery programs.

Deadline for entries: September 30, 2008

Show is international, open to all geographical locations.

Entrants submit one JPEG file of original work up to 3mb. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. Documentation shots of digital installation and digital sculpture are acceptable.

Multiple entries are permitted. $30 registration fee for each additional image.



Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised.


Show Dates: October 9-November 1, 2008
Deadline for entries: September 30, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday October 9, 7-9pm
Entry Fee: Registration fee is $30US.
Multiple Entries: Multiple entries are permitted. $30 registration fee for each additional image.

Gallery Statement:

Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited.

The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers" around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.

Terence Koh in Frankfurt

Terence Koh, Warhol remains as a Chinese winter garden in my heart (self portrait, 2006, © Terence Koh

Yesterday we saw the Terence Koh exhibition in Frankfurt. It was a very intense and somehow surreal experience. You enter the exhibition room through a small, maybe 100 cm by 150 cm, 39.4" x 49" opening and then you enter a totally light and glaring white space. Walls, floor, ceiling, the objects, everything is white and you can hardly see because of the brightness. It is hard though to stay longer in this room, after a short time you feel dizzy and it gets unpleasant. But in any case, it was a nice afternoon after strolling through the flea market at the shore of the river Main. We almost bought a beautiful bistro marble table for the garden. It was only 25 €, but the car was quite far away and it was difficult to get back there in time, since we had only 30 minutes till they packed up their stuff. So maybe next week or so, we will try our luck again.

Here is the text about the show:

Terence Koh is installing one of his signature monochrome environments especially for the Schirn; for this exhibition, he will initiate the surreal objects, ritually summoning them to life, in a secret performance. Under the title “Captain Buddha”, visitors who set foot in the luminously flooded room are invited to accompany the artist on a journey that will take them on a search for themselves through the entire world – India, China, Burma, Belgium, Africa, Mexico and Canada are just some stations along the way – one that aims to reach nirvana and ends in nothingness.
For his installation at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Koh links two worlds that at first glance seem almost antipodal: Buddhism and that popular classic of world literature, Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” – the tale of the fateful quest of charismatic and supremely obsessed Captain Ahab for the Great White Whale. But the two worlds are alike in their descriptions of endless and irresolvable search - a unity conveyed in the title “Captain Buddha”. For this installation, Koh himself set out on a quest: clad as a monk in a golden robe, he journeyed to fifteen places – Canada, Japan, China, Thailand, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Iceland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Africa, and the USA – in his search for objects, much as Captain Ahab sailed the world over in search of the White Whale. In Terence Koh’s words: “I’m like the captain in Moby Dick. I’m trying to find the White Whale in the white objects, but in the end I find nothing.”

Back from Paris

The weekend in Paris was absolutely fantastic. The city is just amazing, magical and extraordinary. I saw the Alec Soth show "The Space Between Us" at the Musée Jeu de Paume and it was really worthwhile to go on this trip for it.

In the first room were photographs from his "Portraits" series, then came the room with works from his "Fashion Magazine" project (the third photo is taken in this room). The next room was "Dog days Bogota" then came "Sleeping by the Mississippi" and the last room was "Niagara"

The prints are so wonderful in different sizes from small to really big. I spent a long time there and could not get enough from this fantastic photographs. To see the works in the books is one thing (which I also love) but to see the big prints on the wall is a totally different experience.



© all images Michael Werner

I also was able to spent the rest of the Saturday taking photos in Paris and I am really excited about the results. I am already looking forward to going back to Paris in only a few weeks ( on the 4th of July for 4 days) and continuing my new project in the city I absolutely love.