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15/4/2011

Two exhibitions

Museum Folkwang, Essen

Spaces that mean the world
Theater posters by Frieder Grindler and Volker Pfüller

Volker Pfüller, born in 1939 in Leipzig, is one of the best-known poster designers, at first in East Germany, and then later in the entire Federal Republic. Especially his works for the theatre are pioneering. Pfüller deliberately placed himself in the tradition of historic star posters as represented especially by Jo Steiner (1877-1935), and made classical lithographs of stone or board. The focus of his posters is generally the main figure of a piece, whose character he permeates pictorially in order to present him – via the poster – to the public. This exhibition by the German Poster Museum shows works that have been made for theatres throughout Germany since the 1970s, including those in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart and Hamburg.

Frieder Grindler (*1941) has been creating sensations with his theatre posters since the 1960s. His subtle and perfect photo montages pushed at the limits of the genre and played with montage techniques that would only become the norm with the introduction of computer added designs. His poster montages showed, with differentiation and perfection, the full potential of classical photomontage; His posters do not, however, aim at visual effect, which is only a means to an end. They point on the one hand to the theatre piece itself and on the other often have hidden references that can only be deciphered by those who have seen the piece. It is this effect that is especially appealing for the theatre. The exhibition shows exemplary works from the last forty years.

With the exhibition two monograph catalogues are being published by Edition Folkwang / Steidl (each 16 Euro at Museum Folkwang).

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Being There
Photographs by Jürgen Heinemann and Tobias Zielony
Curated by Sandra Starke

The photographer Jürgen Heinemann (*1934) himself calls his black and white photographs a pictorial compression of existential questions. After studying under Otto Steinert in Saarbrücken and Essen, he travelled extensively throughout the world. In the 1960s and 70s he photographed the major themes of work, family, children and faith with a humanitarian gesture. Apart from that, he worked for church aid organisations. Social injustice and local political problems form the focus of his work.

Together with Heinemann’s work, photographs by Tobias Zielony (*1973) are also being shown. His series Ha Neu and Chemnitz were made in 2002 and 2003 in the surroundings of Halle and Chemnitz. Both cities are characterized by emigration, poverty and unemployment. Residents' environs seem gloomy at first glance and the humans abandoned to their fate. Young people meet with the gestures of a global pop culture under the artificial light of streetlights in their own world. Tobias Zielony explores the everyday life of these youths. He photographs the very unique atmosphere of these nightly meetings and portrays the enraptured faces of young adults under artificial light.

With the exhibition a catalogue is being published by Edition Folkwang / Steidl

Image: Tobias Zielony, Fremder, a. d. Serie: Ha Neu, Halle, 2003
© Tobias Zielony

Opening 16 April 2011

Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1 - Essen
Opening hours: Tue to Sun 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Fri to 10.30 p.m., Mon closed
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