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22/11/2014

Gute Aussichten

MARTa Herford Museum of Art and Design, Herford

Marta Herford presents for the third time running the award award winners of the photography competition "gute aussichten new german photography 2014/2015" 2014/2015". In more than 300 photographs, video projections and books, the artists take their camera on a search for clues. clues. The works address basic questions of human existence: Life. Life. Death. But also every- day things. The result is a look at society which is unusually serious for a young genera- tion. tion. Their treatment of photography as a medium could hardly be more diverse. The exhi- exhi- bition offers visitors a multi- multi- facetted overview of current trends in photography.

For 11 years now this project for the promotion of young talent has offered an internationally regarded forum for the most remarkable graduation works from all German colleges, universi- ties of applied sciences and academies that offer a photography course. According to the weekly news magazine SPIEGEL, "gute aussichten" is "Germany's most prestigious competition for young photographers," which is increasingly becoming a "permanent representation for young photography." The winners of the current competition will be first presented at the Marta Her- ford before the works go on a world tour with stops including the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Tallinn, Washington and Mexico. This year the high-carat seven-person jury (including the art- ist and photographer Paul Graham) received more entries than ever before. 8 winners were cho- sen from 115 entries from 40 institutions:

Karolin Back (*1980 Stuttgart, lives in Frankfurt am Main), processed the touristic photo motif of the Matterhorn to create an installative video projection in a dialogue with fictive colour scales.

Katharina Fricke (*1982 Rostock, lives in Finland) went looking for clues with her camera in the city district of Sennestadt in Bielefeld and created a series of 156 small-format photographs, typewriter pages and graphic implementations of Facebook posts.

Andrea Grützner (*1984 Pirna, lives in Berlin) used her camera to investigate an old country house in her homeland of Saxony, and created astoundingly graphic, at times even painterly views.

Marvin Hüttermann (*1987 Oberhausen) engages visually with death, steering our gaze to life- less bodies, the empty apartments of the deceased and the sacral culture in Germany. Stefanie

Stefanie Schroeder (*1981 Weimar, lives in Leipzig) spent eight years documenting the part-time jobs that allowed her to finance her studies.

Jannis Schulze (*1987, Berlin) took his camera on a journey to the homeland of his father, His- paniola, the Caribbean island shared by the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Kolja Warnecke (*1988, Hamburg spent six months following with his camera the life of Bea, a mid- dle-aged woman he met in a swingers' club and responded to her proximity by photographic means.

Eduard Zent (*1983, Orsk / Russia), lives in Bielefeld and Cologne) made portraits of young peo- ple moving between two cultures and achieved aesthetic solutions reminiscent of the portraits by the Old Masters.

Press Contact:
Sarah Niesel, presse@marta-herford.de

Opening: Sunday, 23 November, 11.30 am

Marta Herford
Goebenstr. 2–10
32052 Herford
Tue–Sun and on bank holidays 11 am – 6 pm
1st Wednesday of every month 11 am – 9 pm
Closed on Good Friday, December 24, 25 and 31
On New Year’s Day the museum is open from 1 pm – 6 pm
Adults: 8 Euro
Children:(under the age of 10) free of charge

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