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3/6/2010

Tobias Zielony: Story / No Story

Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg

Tobias Zielony: Story / No Story
until 4th July

Tobias Zielony (*1973, lives in Berlin) has for many years been photographing young people in their given environments, mainly in the public space. He is attracted to the fringe areas of urban reality: the banlieues of French metropolises, the cities of Saxony-Anhalt that have gained a reputation as shrinking cities, or the desert city Trona outside Los Angeles. In such places social tensions, the lack of alterna-tives and prospects are strongly in evidence.

The young people meet in car parks, shopping centres, service stations, or building entrances, which they transform into social places only through their presence. Even though people are the focus of the pictures, the architecture of the given localities also plays an important role. They shape Zielony's pictures just as much as the social relations between the people living there: the urban surroundings intensify the sense of boredom and tristesse. They are places you feel you have seen before. At the same time, the chosen scenes seem surreal, as if they were abandoned film sets. Now they function as stages on which the young people present themselves.

Thanks to global advertising, music videos, films, and Internet portals like MySpace, their postures, facial expressions, clothing, and accessories speak the same language whether they live in Marseilles, Bristol, or Halle Neustadt. They move with great self-assurance before the camera, always intent on projecting a certain image of themselves. But the presence of the photographer is really no longer necessary. Whether anyone is observing them or not, their whole lives are one long pose, as if they were on a permanent casting show. As if the promise the future holds is to be discovered so that life can finally begin. Until then they are in a state of wait-and-see.

Zielony works only with the light available, without flash or artificial light. Street lights, the sidelights of parked cars, or lighted windows create a singular atmosphere that characterises the place just as much as the architecture. His photos are in the tradition of the picture story, something between intimate prox-imity and observing distance. His intention is not to moralise or instruct; he is interested in this “completely casual form of social life” that is apparent in the young people's hanging about.

In contrast to classical documentations, his pictures exceed the boundaries of artistic work. He juxtaposes various genres, such as individual portraits, group pictures, detailed views, landscape and architectural pictures, and action photos, developing a form of narration similar to that found in films.

The exhibition assembles more than 50 works from the series “The Cast” (2007) and “Trona” (2008). His latest film from 2009, “Le Vele di Scampia” is also being shown in the context of the exhibition.

The Publishing house Hatje Cantz has produced a comprehensive publication entitled “Story / No Story” (edited by Maik Schlüter, Florian Waldvogel and Jan Wenzel) with a discussion between Tobias Zielony and the director Christian Petzold.

In the context of the exhibition, an edition by Tobias Zielony is also available from the Kunstverein

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June 6 - September 23, 2010
Wekschau IBA

Since 2007, and continuing up to 2013 the International Building Exhibition IBA Hamburg will be developing projects for the future of the metropolis on the Elbe islands Wilhelmsburg and Veddel and at Harburger Binnenhafen.

2010 is the year of IBA’s intermediate presentations: under the motto "IBA 2010_Zukunft sehen" the public can learn more about the various IBA projects at shows, guided tours and events. The twin exhibition at Kunstverein Hamburg will show the IBA Werkschau and the German entry at the 8th International Biennial of Architecture and Design (BIA) in São Paulo (Brazil). The IBA Werkschau will put on view the results of competitions, consultants‘ procedures and workshops up till now, as well as plans and models of other selected IBA projects.

The entry "CIDADE PARA TODOS. City for All – Ways to Vision" was Germany’s third contribution at the last Biennial. It was curated by IBA Hamburg GmbH as general commissioner and will now be presented to the German public. In consideration of the question "What are our concepts for the future of cities?" 30 best practice projects will illustrate the ideas German planners, architects and artists have come up with to meet the challenges of our time.

More info:
IBA Hamburg GmbH, Sabine Metzger, Tel.: 040 / 226 227-30, sabine.metzger@iba-hamburg.de


Image: Tobias Zielony, "13 Ball", 2008, Aus der Serie / from the series "Trona"

Press and Public Relations
Beate Anspach Tel. +49(0)40 32 21 58 presse@kunstverein.de

Opening Friday, June 4, 2010, 7 pm

Kunstverein Hamburg
Klosterwall 23 - Hamburg
Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday and Public Holidays 12 am – 6 pm
Public Guided tours
Every Thursday at 5 pm with the staff of the Kunstverein
Admission: 3,- Euro / Reduced 1,50 Euro

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