Frankfurter Kunstverein - Veranstaltungen

The German-Austrian artist duo Eva Paulitsch und Uta Weyrich (both based in Stuttgart) collects for four years cell phone films shooted by teenagers in the public space. They save the films before deleted and organize them chronologically in an archive. Their artistic work consists in fractionizing, sorting and examining this particular film material, which serves as basis for their examination with cultural and social phenomena of present.

In multimedial installations Eva Paulitsch and Uta Weyrich thematisize the borders between art and life and create new realms of experience. Through this compilation of the so called no-story-filmformat an intensive atmosphere is created made of images and spaces, but without pretending a reading direction.

In the frame of the Deutsche Börse Residency Program the artists will continue their nomadic created project in the city space of Frankfurt and will enlarge their cell phone archive. En route with their videoclip station, they are going to ask young people in Frankfurt for their cell phone films.

On Tuesday, June 22 Eva Paulitsch and Uta Weyrich present their archive at Frankfurter Kunstverein and talk about their way to work.

Free admission
Venue: Café im Kunstverein
Language: German

Wednesday, June 23, 7 pm
"Robert Frank and the pictures in between - thoughts about ‘The Americans'"
Lecture by Sabrina Mandanici (art historian) within the series of lectures "My Theme"

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read the line of a poem twice". Although these words of Roberts Frank seem to be private, they may describe precisely the motive for the intense public and academic examination of the filmmaker's and photographer's work over the past years. It is particularly noticeable that most attempts to categorize the pictures of the North-America based Swiss in a photo-aesthetic way have failed. Therefore one will find very different slogans in connection with his work, such as documentary-photography, subjective photography, but also street-photography, photo-journalismus or photo-poet.

Sabrina Mandanici's lecture does not aim to add further categories or to support one of the existing theses. Instead Mandanici wants us to gain insight into Robert Frank's specific concept of photography using the mean of comparison. On the basis of Frank's main work ‘The Americans' (end of the 50s) she examines to what extent the aspect of how we see determines the way what we see. Sabrina Mandanici, born 1985, studies Art History and Comparative Literature in Mainz and Florence. At the moment she writes her master thesis dealing with "Moving Stills - about Robert Frank's understanding of the image".

My Theme wants to give prospective scientists from Frankfurt and surroundings the chance to present their special interests to the audience of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The program of the Frankfurter Kunstverein forms the context for this series of lectures. My Theme does not aim to present ‘classical' academic lectures but to give the audience a fascinating insight into current research.

Free admission
Venue: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1st floor
Language: German

Thursday, June 24, 7.30 pm
SCHULSTUDIO: „Randnotizen – Von der Zeitungsnotiz zum eigenen Bild'' - presentation of the results

On June 9 the new mediation program SCHULSTUDIO of Frankfurter Kunstverein started with its first project in the frame of the exhibiton "Sven Johne: Reports from the Crack of Dawn". Two classes of students of Helmholtzschule Frankfurt and Bertold Brecht Schule Darmstadt created in the last week developed their own artistic work on the topic "Randnotizen – Von der Zeitungsnotiz zum eigenen Bild" ("Side notes – From the newspaper note to the own image") - starting point was an impulse workshop with the artist Sven Johne accompanied by the mediator Susanne Hesse-Badibanga. On June 24 the result of the first SCHULSTUDIO will be presented by the students at Café im Kunstverein.

„Randnotizen – Von der Zeitungsnotiz zum eigenen Bild“ in the frame of SCHULSTUDIO is supported by Polytechnische Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main.

Free admission
Venue: Café im Kunstverein

Friday, June 25, 7 pm
Fotografie Forum as guest at Frankfurter Kunstverein:
„Art is risk made visible"
with Arno Rafael Minkkinen (Photograph and Professor)

For over 35 years the Finnish-American photographer Arno Minkkinen has primarily used his body in combination with the photographic medium to express surrealistic visions of man and nature. Establishing a direction in contemporary photography means more than having a good eye for the medium. It means selecting from hundreds of images those that best express your intentions as you build a body of work that not only enlightens others but also brings enlightenment and inspiration to you. In this workshop, we will seek to grow and expand your photographic talents not only as an imagemaker but also as an artist with a contemporary vision of the world.

In forty minutes Arno Minkkinen will try to cover forty years of self-portraits that place the human figure in a framework of natural forces and habitats: between sea and sky, between trees and forests, but also amidst interiors and exteriors, among women, and alongside a growing son. Never manipulated, the photographs reveal both the surreal as well whimsical nature of human experience.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen (*1945) received his Master of Fine Art (MFA) in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design. He has taught throughout the world since the mid 1970's and also worked as a curator and essayist. Some of his monographs include: Frostbite (Morgan & Morgan, 1978); Waterline (Marval, Aperture, and Otava, 1994), Grand Prix du Livre at the 25th Rencontres d'Arles; Body Land (Motta, Nathan, and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997&1999); SAGA (Chronicle Books, 2005) and Homework: The Finnish Photographs, 1973 to 2008 (Like Publishing, Ltd., 2008). Currently he is Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and teaches at Aalto University in Helsinki. In 2006 Minkkinen was awarded the Finnish National Art Prize in Photography.

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt in cooperation with Frankfurter Kunstverein

Venue: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1st floor
Free admission
Language: English

Thursday, July 8, 7 pm
''International cooperations'' - Curator talk with Elsy Lahner (guest at Deutsche Börse Residency Program)

International cooperations play a major role in the work of curators. Most of the time they work together with artists from different countries, realise exhibitions in or together with international exhibition spaces and galleries and often cooperate project-related with colleagues. Residency programs on the artistic as well on the curatorial side serve for an international exchange and support the networking of structures.

How and under which conditions does an art and knowledge transfer happen in the international context. Which dynamics and modalities are relevent therefore? Which differences exist in curatorial practice and in dealing with resources in the international comparison? Which functions have international cooperations in the non-profit field. On the basis of these questions Elsy Lahner talks about her own work and presents different projects.

Elsy Lahner (born 1975 in Frankfurt a.M.) works as curator in Vienna since 2003. She curated different exhibitions a.o. since 2006 the exhibition series “Space Invasions“; “Into Position“ (2007), Bauernmarkt, Vienna; “DISPLACE- Junge Fotografie aus Wien“, Frauenmuseum, Bonn. In 2007 she founded together with Alexandra Grausam the art centre “ das weisse haus“ and is director of O-suturia Freespace Foundation (O.F.F.) in Yokohama and Vienna, together with Georg Russegger since 2008. In 2008/2009 she was a Curator-in-residence at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Free admission
Venue: Café im Kunstverein
Language: German

Wednesday, July 14, 7.30 pm
Fotografie Forum as guest at Frankfurter Kunstverein:
„HIJACKED Volume 2: Australian and German Photography"
German Book Launch with the creators, writers, photographers and publishers

Building on the success of the inaugural publication "Hijacked 1 - Australia and America" this volume is a again an expansive photographic anthology, that compels us to consider two socially divergent and disparate photographic nations. Germany and Australia are juxtaposed to stimulate conversation, suggest connection and invite deconstruction. Hijacked 2 showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of 32 contemporary German and Australian photographers who are young, boundary-riding, and fringe-dwelling. "Hijacked 2" is layered with imagery both evocative and confronting, dreamlike and rousing.

A relaxed evening with projections, talking, drinking and celebrating this German book premier. Meet the creators, photographers, writers and publishers of "Hijacked 2".

"HIJACKED Volume 2: Australian and German Photography" (June 2010) is edited by Mark McPherson, Ute Noll, Markus Schaden. With texts by Blixa Bargeld, Robert Cook, Uta Daur, Bec Dean, Anna Funder, Bill Kouwenhoven, Katja Melzer, Ute Noll, Daniel Palmer, Katrina Schwarz and published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany. The english Version is published by Big City Press, Mosman Park, Australia. Participating artists: Australia: Narelle Autio, James Brickwood, Michael Corridore, Andrew Cowen, Tamara Dean, Suzie Fox, Lee Grant, Derek Henderson, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ingvar Kenne, Bronek Kózka, Georgia Metaxas, Conor O'Brien, Polixeni Papapetrou, Louis Porter. Germany: Johanna Ahlert, Natalie Bothur, Jörg Brüggemann, Thekla Ehling, Albrecht Fuchs, Jan v. Holleben, Karsten Kronas, Anne Lass, Jens Liebchen, Myriam Lutz, Julian Röder, Josef Schulz, Oliver Sieber, Ivonne Thein, Olaf Unverzart, Sascha Weidner.

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt in cooperation with Frankfurter Kunstverein

Free admission
Venue: Café im Kunstverein
Language: Englisch
For further information: www.fffrankfurt.org and www.kehrerverlag.com