The Sprengel Museum in Hanover will be devoting itself to the concept of digitization from November 6, 2021. With True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the U.S., the museum will pick out three generations from the digital age and show how they deal with the new challenges of the era.
The subject of the new special exhibition at the Sprengel Museum Hannover is not simply plain contemporary photography. True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the United States, starting November 6, 2021, explores the transformation of the medium underway in the midst of the digital age. The exhibition illuminates how the pioneering role that photography from North America once held gradually receded from the 1980s onward in favor of global (technological) changes, and how it has forged new paths with the help of digital processes. In True Pictures?, more than 30 different Canadian and U.S. photographers from a total of three generations are given space to express their approach to digitization. The exhibition will focus less on the displacement of analog photography by digital and more on the resulting challenges, such as the avoidance of »image floods« or the conscious demarcation from the »digital age« phenomenon. In addition to their location in the digital era, a common point of contact between the three generations is their living through various serious political upheavals. From the '68 movement to the consequences of the Vietnam War and the AIDS crisis to the confrontation with systematic racism or feminist theories, the exhibits reveal narrative and political content on the one hand and pursue subjective and transmedial approaches on the other. True Pictures? thus forces relevant questions of the 21st century within the framework of contemporary photography. The exhibition can be visited until February 13, 2021.
True Pictures? is part of a series of exhibitions that will be continued at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. In this context, the museum in Wolfsburg is dedicated to the U.S. photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier, while in Braunschweig the process from document to concept is examined in greater detail.
Starting October 30, 2021, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present the first solo show of U.S. photographic artist LaToya Ruby Frazier in Germany. The exhibition True Pictures? LaToya Ruby Frazier focuses on her socio-critical focus and at the same time represents an embedding in the series True Pictures? Contemporary Photography from Canada and the USA, which continues at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig.
On the 500th anniversary of Jakob Fugger's death on December 30, the Schaezlerpalais is commemorating him as a patron of the arts: the wealthy merchant family commissioned numerous artists of their time. The exhibition Art’s Rich Heritage: Jakob Fugger and his Legacy runs until April 12, 2026, in Augsburg.
