Thomas Bonfert "Journal of work in the field"

Thomas Bonfert’s (1967) photographies result from his car rides through Vienna and Lower Austria. At first, he often took shoots without casting a glance through the view-finder. He then went on to refine his concept, and focused his interest on the car as the initial point and framework of the pictures which document his work in the field as a sales representative. www.thomasbonfert.at

(3) Fotopension

Carsten Dammann "Prostest announce"

Carsten Dammanns (1978) thesis “Protest announced” deals with the staging and medial exploitation of protest. In his work he generally does not intend to discredit protests and its use on street for democratic purposes. He rather questions of how much we got used to the daily protests and the permanently resembling pictures. Furthermore the work poses the question of continuous professionalisation of the protests. www.carstendammann.com

(4) Büro für Brauchbarkeit

Carsten Klein "Trip to inner space"

With what kind of equipment do parents release young people into the world, althoughparents themselves do not have answers to our life any more? This is the question Carsten Klein (1966) poses in his “Trip to inner space”. His work is a personal visual essay and selfreflection to his childhood and youth. The photographic art work shows inner emotions with the help of directly chosen symbols and selected real locations. www.photodesignbycarstenklein.com

(23) Rheinlandhalle

Margarete Klenner "Contemplation without solid ground"

The starting point of Margarete Klenner’s (1978) photo series is the issue of intuition and spiritual orientation. In this area of conflict between the rational and the irrational,
between the constructed and the subconscious, the born Pole does not intend to create a new reality, but to make the existing one visible. Reduction helps her attain symbolic grandeur. Gravity turns into absurd humour and ease. www.margareteklenner.de

(24) Rheinlandhalle

Frederic Lezmi "Next Level - Dubai"

Being the world’s second largest construction site after Shanghai, Dubai has mushroomed into a commercial hot spot, a junction where immense global streams of goods, money and people meet. This tremendous growth evokes a fascinating contrast between outer appearance and reality which Cologne photographer Frederic Lezmi (1978) explores with his camera.  His focus lies on seemingly urban places and loca- tions where the Traditional/Local meets the Imported/Global. Western values and Oriental tradition enter into a dialogue, but obviously also collide with each other. www.lezmi.de

(27) Galerie Lichtblick

Agata Madejska „Kosmos“

In her work “kosmos”, Warsaw-born photographer Agata Madejska (1979) focuses on aconcrete detail of urban surroundings, which is playground objects made of high grade steel. In order to show their “true faces”, she took all her photos of them during the last hours of the day. It’s always within these hours that a change takes place: Light goes, and darkness comes. This mixture makes the objects shine. With the light lowering, spatial surroundings are beginning to disappear. www.madejska.eu

(30) Spichern Höfe

Andreas Meichsner "Club Vacation"

Every year more than 50 million Germans go on vacation. By taking a closer look at tourism, it becomes evident that society’s desires and dreams are somewhat manifested in the specific choices of vacation. From this understanding, Andreas Meichsner (1973) has focused his attention on our society’s holiday and leisure-
time behaviours under the aspect of club vacation (e.g. Club Med). In “Club Vacation”, the Berlin based photographer steers his focus towards the causes that are responsible for our society’s need for this type of vacation, rather than in the holiday itsself. With his photos, Meichsner wants the viewers to be stimulated to reflect on their own social role, their own desires and wishes.www.andreasmeichsner.de

(33) Rheinlandhalle

Patricia Neligan "temporary"

In her photographic work “temporary”, Patricia Neligan (1977) starts from the observation of human beings in spatial surroundings. She comes upon impressions, collects them and by this describes people in transit, his or her going away and coming back, the temporary moment. Every photo is both detail screen and part of an associative journey. “My work is part of my moving in spaces. Space is a basic component of our conception of reality. The places are referential, and at the same they are not clearly located, in a geographic sense. Human beings appear as figures, as projection screens. It’s about episodes and paused moments which oscillate between movement and standstill.” www.neligan.de

(38) Edith

Eliane Rutishauser "Collagen"

Swiss artist Eliane Rutishauser (1963) picks out as her central theme human appearance, in the way it is adjusted, changed, optimized, controlled, tended and adapted. Contemplating her photographies, everyone can retrace the impulse, for the subject of appearance is constantly present. There is no explanation as to how the title “Collagen 2008” is to be pronounced – its ambiguity is intended www.elianerutishauser.com

(41)The New Yorker | Hotel

Sabine Schründer "intrude (intro)"

In her series “intrude(into)”, Berlin photographer Sabine Schründer (1973) deals with the subject “security” as an artistic construct. She plays with confusion, eliminates points of reference, defamiliarizes situations and removes objects from their natural surroundings in order to evoke associations in the people attending the exhibition which, from an objective point of view, are not contained in the images displayed. www.sabine-schruender.de

(43) Spichern Höfe - historische Halle

Daniel Stier "Man, Nature, Technologie"

Daniel Stier‘s (1966) photo series “Man, Nature, Technology” documents scientific laboratories in which experiments with human test subjects were carried out. All the pictures were taken in well-established North American and European universities and research institutes between 2005 and 2007. The photos show the scientists in their respective experimental setups. The range of the experiments covers many different
scientific disciplines like for instance space exploration, psychology, neurology and ergonomy. www.danielstier.com

(46) Simon & Renoldi