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31/3/2015

Two Exhibitions

Kunsthaus Dresden Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dresden

Seiichi Furuya: what we see: Dresden 1984 - 85

The life of the Japanese-born photographer Seiichi Furuya and his image archive uniquely combine everyday life with and sociopolitical development of the former GDR, especially with 1980s Dresden. To secure the livelihood of his young family, the young architect and photographer worked as a translator for the Japanese construction company that built the Bellevue-Hotel at the time.

Together with their three-year-old son, the couple shared the life of the Dresden residents, as far as it was allowed for employees of foreign firms. What we see. Dresden 1984 – 1985 at Kunsthaus Dresden features at their place of origin a selection of 70 color and black-and-white photos and a slide installation, comprising Seiichi Furuya’s central work. Seen with the eyes of a photographer, who faces this political system and culture as a foreigner and simultaneously experiences and captures the intimacy, deep worries and happy moments of his family in this foreign environment, Furuya’s photographs shot in Dresden in 1984 and 1985 provide a unique view of the ‘closed society’ of the socialist republic. Characterized by the historical architecture and remaining ruins, but also by new buildings and the typical style of clothing at the time, the motifs shot at Prager Straße, the Dresdner Zoo or the fairground show how political and private spaces and circumstances penetrate each other.

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Lysann Buschbeck: someone is always missing

The interplay of closeness and distance is a central theme of the works by Lysann Buschbeck. Her photographs, drawings and spatial installations deal with relationships, with people in her immediate surroundings. Personal sympathy, but also embarrassment, affection or cool distance are sentiments triggered by her pictures, without crossing the thin line to voyeurism. Like diary entries, her works are both documents and mises-en-scène. With the photographic stocktaking titled “Hecht”, which the artist began with in 1998 and continues until today, Lysann Buschbeck accompanies a group of youths she got to know as neighbors in the part of Dresden called the Hechtviertel.

The comprehensive photo archive resulting from the long-term relationship between the children, and then young adults, and the artist visualizes the group’s wishes, hopes and fears. As members of the first generation after German unification, they appear to left alone alone with their questions in occupied apartments and temporary clubs, in board and care homes or detention centers. Lysann Buschbeck’s most recent works, created in Berlin and elsewhere, use hair clippings that appear to have been heedlessly swept together or a huge pile of embers to show the consequences of past events and address photography’s capability, and also incapability, of creating an adequate image of the lively unfolding of events.

Image: Lysann Buschbeck, 2013

Press Contact:
Karin Ziegler, kziegler@dresden.de

Opening: Wed, 1. Apr 2015, 19.30 Uhr

Kunsthaus Dresden
Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst
Rähnitzgasse 8, D-01097 Dresden

Opening Hours:
Tu–Th 14–19pm, Fr–Su 11am–19pm
Friday free admission
Monday closed

Admission:
Entrance 4,00 euro

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