opening: Friday, September 26th, at 7:00 PM
exhibition: 26.09-31.10.2025
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partner:
place: Galeria Piekary
ul. Św. Marcin 80/82
CK Zamek, Dziedziniec Różany
61-809 Poznań
exhibition open Monday – Friday 10 AM – 6 PM
admission always free
The exhibition was created in cooperation with Białystok Interphoto, Photography and Multimedia Forum Association and Schupmann Collection Photography
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The full collection of Ingrid and Michael Schupmann’s photographs includes more than 700 prints that are not only representations of the visible world, but, above all, a fascinating story about the development of post-war West German photography – artists of the now-defunct German Democratic Republic are not represented here.
The collection, built up over 15 years, was created based on subjective choices, dictated by the personal need of its owners to establish an inner relationship with each acquired image and its creator. Although the Schupmanns are not professionally associated with art, their selections were not based solely on aesthetic indications. It was anchored by a deep knowledge of the medium of photography, gained from studying various books, publications, as well as direct meetings with artists and theorists.
Thanks to this approach, the Schupmann Collection, built from the need of the heart, provided the opportunity to construct an exhibition that perfectly expresses the ideas of iconographic analysis by Aby Warburg, for whom the development of culture was the spread of the energies of symbol and allegory, while at the same time showing the various artistic tendencies developing after World War II in the Federal Republic of Germany.
It should be noted that a very important part of the collection is represented by representatives of Subjective Photography and related currents, which deeply influenced the form of development of world photography. Artists such as Otto Steinert, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Siegfried Lauterwasser, Peter Keetman, Wolfgang Reisewitz, Toni Schneiders, Ludwig Windstosser, Kilian Breier and many others, examples of whose work we are pleased to present, have become an inspiration for subsequent generations of photographers, including in Poland.
The second important element of the collection is a assortment of works by artists who aim to purge photography of its iconographic and symbolic meanings, thereby moving it away from subject-matter and focusing on the ontological properties of the photographic process, of which the medium itself is the object. Activities of this type have been classified as part of the direction known in Germany as Konkrete Fotografie, and its representatives include Thomas Anschütz, Heinrich Heidersberger, Karl Martin Holzhäuser, Gottfried Jäger, Andreas Müller-Pohle, among others.
The collection also consist of works by internationally renowned artists representing such trends in photography as visualism, staged photography, conceptual photography, reportage, documentary or fashion photography. This allows us to present such high-profile names as André Glepke, Verena von Gagern, Peter Neusser, Dieter Appelt, Hermann Försterling, Jaschi Klein, Stefan Moses, Thomas Kellner, Floris Neusüss, Ruth Hallensleben, Barbara Klemm, Will McBride, Bernd & Hilla Becher, F. C. Gundlach, Charlotte March, Regina Relang, Horst Wackerbarth.
