Luise Schröder / Hannah Peterson
31 Oct 2014 - 18 Jan 2015
LUISE SCHRÖDER / HANNAH PETERSON
Talents 30 Re-Working the Myth.
31 October 2014 – 18 January 2015
Between 31 October 2014 and 18 January 2015, C/O Berlin will present the series Talents with the titel Re-Working the Myth with works by Luise Schröder and texts by Hannah Petersohn. The opening will be held on Thursday, 30. October 2014, at 7pm in Amerika Haus in the Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin. The Talents series showcases promising young photographers and art critics who have completed their studies and stand at the threshold of a career.
The pictures have been scorched by fire and stained by water. Buildings, facades, streets, people, and landscapes overlap and merge, breaking off abruptly and joining together in new combinations. They are fragments of the photographic record of the old and new city of Dresden—profoundly damaged, radically distorted, and only partially decipherable. What forces have been let loose upon them? And why? Luise Schröder embarks on a visual journey that takes her through current and historic, cultural and political layers of the city in a search for traces of the past. Her artistic practice engages the myth of Dresden between the bombing of 1945 and the “flood of the century” that engulfed it in 2002, addressing both the visual reproduction of this myth and its continued reproduction up to the present day. Dealing with the subject of Dresden’s history always means stepping out onto an ideological battlefield, a landscape that is constantly being occupied and shaped by different groups and forces. In her photographic series, Luise Schröder depicts this battlefield in precise and unsettling detail, calling into question the continuous, ongoing attempts at the reconstruction of a collective remembrance. The second part of the work—equally significant to the seven photographs in the series—is a video installation representing the process of destruction itself. In it, the artist is seen setting picture books, individual photographs, and books on a table.
Luise Schröder (b. 1982 in Potsdam) studied artistic photography and media arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Her work has appeared in exhibitions and projects in Sofia, Istanbul, Lithuania, Washington, Japan, and Murmansk. In 2012, her work was exhibited together with that of Anna Baranowski at the Seventh Berlin Biennale at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. She has received recognitions as a prizewinner in “gute aussichten—new german photography 2011/12,” in the BM Mediale 2009, and in the 2004 German Youth Photo Prize. Luise Schröder lives and works in Leipzig.
Hannah Petersohn (b. 1982 in Berlin) studied philosophy, cultural studies, and German linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris. She has worked as a freelance journalist for Der Spiegel magazine, ZDF television, RBB radio, Deutsche Welle radio, and the newspaper Freie Presse, and as the assistant to the artist Olaf Nicolai. In her master’s thesis, Petersohn studied the influence of Walter Benjamin’s writings on Jeff Wall’s staged photography. Since 2012, she has been studying to become an editor. Hannah Petersohn lives and works in Berlin.
Partner Deutsche Börse Group
Sponsor IBB – Investitionsbank Berlin
Supporter Goethe-Institut . Grieger DruckConcept . Dinamix
Talents 30 Re-Working the Myth.
31 October 2014 – 18 January 2015
Between 31 October 2014 and 18 January 2015, C/O Berlin will present the series Talents with the titel Re-Working the Myth with works by Luise Schröder and texts by Hannah Petersohn. The opening will be held on Thursday, 30. October 2014, at 7pm in Amerika Haus in the Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin. The Talents series showcases promising young photographers and art critics who have completed their studies and stand at the threshold of a career.
The pictures have been scorched by fire and stained by water. Buildings, facades, streets, people, and landscapes overlap and merge, breaking off abruptly and joining together in new combinations. They are fragments of the photographic record of the old and new city of Dresden—profoundly damaged, radically distorted, and only partially decipherable. What forces have been let loose upon them? And why? Luise Schröder embarks on a visual journey that takes her through current and historic, cultural and political layers of the city in a search for traces of the past. Her artistic practice engages the myth of Dresden between the bombing of 1945 and the “flood of the century” that engulfed it in 2002, addressing both the visual reproduction of this myth and its continued reproduction up to the present day. Dealing with the subject of Dresden’s history always means stepping out onto an ideological battlefield, a landscape that is constantly being occupied and shaped by different groups and forces. In her photographic series, Luise Schröder depicts this battlefield in precise and unsettling detail, calling into question the continuous, ongoing attempts at the reconstruction of a collective remembrance. The second part of the work—equally significant to the seven photographs in the series—is a video installation representing the process of destruction itself. In it, the artist is seen setting picture books, individual photographs, and books on a table.
Luise Schröder (b. 1982 in Potsdam) studied artistic photography and media arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Her work has appeared in exhibitions and projects in Sofia, Istanbul, Lithuania, Washington, Japan, and Murmansk. In 2012, her work was exhibited together with that of Anna Baranowski at the Seventh Berlin Biennale at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. She has received recognitions as a prizewinner in “gute aussichten—new german photography 2011/12,” in the BM Mediale 2009, and in the 2004 German Youth Photo Prize. Luise Schröder lives and works in Leipzig.
Hannah Petersohn (b. 1982 in Berlin) studied philosophy, cultural studies, and German linguistics at Humboldt University Berlin and the Sorbonne in Paris. She has worked as a freelance journalist for Der Spiegel magazine, ZDF television, RBB radio, Deutsche Welle radio, and the newspaper Freie Presse, and as the assistant to the artist Olaf Nicolai. In her master’s thesis, Petersohn studied the influence of Walter Benjamin’s writings on Jeff Wall’s staged photography. Since 2012, she has been studying to become an editor. Hannah Petersohn lives and works in Berlin.
Partner Deutsche Börse Group
Sponsor IBB – Investitionsbank Berlin
Supporter Goethe-Institut . Grieger DruckConcept . Dinamix