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Press Release, June 2018
8th Festival for Photography f/stop Leipzig. Broken Bonds
Programme complete: Exhibitions, f/stop In Situ, f/stop Print,
f/stop Symposium, f/stop Film, f/stop Accomplices and Satellites
23 June – 1 July 2018, curated by Anne König and Jan Wenzel
Ludovic Balland, Lene Berg, Paula Bulling/Anne König, Christian
Borchert, Declan Clarke, Christiane Eisler/Silke Geister, Daphne
Dragona, Philipp Freytag, Christian Gesellmann, Ayşe Güleç, Assaf
Gruber, Forensic Architecture, Falk Haberkorn, Jonathan Horowitz,
Nicolas Giraud/Bertrand Stofleth, Matthias Hoch, Laura Horelli,
Agneta Jilek, Bertram Kaschek, Harald Kirschner, Alexander Kluge,
Susanne Kriemann, Ferdinand Kriwet, Ludwig Kuffer, Andreas
Langfeld, Josa Mania-Schlegel, Emanuel Mathias, Deimantas
Narkevičius, Rosalind Nashashibi, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Eva Pluhařová-
Grigienė, Anastasia Potemkina, Timm Rautert, Edgar Reitz, Elske
Rosenfeld, Andreas Rost, Miklós Klaus Rózsa, Erich Salomon,
Christoph Schäfer, Nicolas Siepen, Andrzej Steinbach, Bertrand
Stofleth, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Eyal Weizman, UBERMORGEN, Zenker,
Steffen Zillig, Andrea Luka
Zimmerman, a.o.
The news assigns relevance to a certain number of days. But this is an illusion. The events
8. lead an afterlife of their own. The year 1990, the lines of development of which were con-
Festival tinually being disrupted, has cast its shadow far into the present. The history of the NSU
für terror cell and the role that government officials played in this series of murders will not be
Fotografie
Leipzig fully understood until the year 2134 – in five generations. The German Federal Office for the
23. Juni
Protection of the Constitution has sealed the files for 120 years – a level of secrecy that goes
–1. Juli 2018 beyond that of military secrets or nuclear technology. The massive amount of trust in the
state that will be lost as a result of the decision to shroud this case in secrecy for so long
is having an effect on the present. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past. We detach it
from us and pretend it has nothing to do with us.” (Christa Wolf)
The 8th edition of the Festival for Photography f/stop Leipzig is titled “Broken Bonds”. The
festival’s curators, Spector Books editors Anne König and Jan Wenzel, see photography as
a tool for observing and reflecting on society. This technical storage medium holds time in
place and thus allows general societal dynamics to be explored in both their everyday mani-
festations and their lines of conflict. This year the main exhibition will be spread over three
different locations and will showcase the medium of drawing alongside photography as an
equally worthy artistic genre. As a corrective to photography and its counterpart, capable of
combining fact and imagination in a very different manner, the medium of drawing is assu-
ming increasing importance. f/stop Print will present two books that examine the everyday
operations of a hospital—a representative location for society. As in the past, this year the
festival will strike out into the city itself: the image-text essay “Exposing the Year 1990” with
photographs by Andreas Rost, text collages by Elske Rosenfeld and notes from the year
1990 by Christian Borchert will be put on display on Wilhelm Leuschner Square. A wide-
ranging programme including a symposium, artist talks and film series in addition to the
exhibition itself and the events of our f/stop Satellites and Accomplices will complement the
festival.
More information on the exhibitions: www.f-stop-leipzig.de/en/
Opneing f/stop In Situ: 19 June 2018, 7pm, Leipzig, Wilhelm Leuschner Square
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Opening Festival: 22 June 2018, 7pm, Leipzig, Spinnerei
f/stop Symposium, 23 and 24 June 2018 at Halle 14 / Spinnerei
On the Aftermath of Images. Plenum on political debate and visual
participation practices
Post-democratic crises require new spaces for political participation where opposing posi-
tions and movements can encounter one another. The plenum—or parliamentary full assem-
bly—is currently losing its significance in the political realm. Agreements are increasingly
being made behind closed doors and truth is being warped for the purposes of winning
votes.
The symposium of the 8th Festival for Photography f/stop Leipzig has been organized in
three plena and conceived as a space for public debate. It is closely connected to the ques-
tions posed in the festival exhibitions regarding the “broken bonds” of society and the role
of photography in communication and mediation processes. Artists, activists, sociologists,
journalists, representatives of grassroots organizations, etc. will come together on 23 and
24 June to debate with one another and with the audience. Focus will be placed on politi-
cal image practices, from work with archives, to digital image creation and distribution, to
artistic research with image documents as media of knowledge production, to photography
as a collective memory element and corrective, to strategies of visual and discursive partici-
pation.
Sa, 23. 6. 2018
Strategies of photographic action after 1989
2:00 – 2:15 pm Greeting: Krisztina Hunya, Anne König, Jan Wenzel
2:15 – 4:15 pm Plenum in German with Falk Haberkorn, Eva Pluhařová-Grigienė (moderator),
Elske Rosenfeld, Andreas Rost
4:45– 5:45pm Artist talk: Susanne Kriemann, Jan Wenzel
8. 6–7 pm Artist talk: Nicolas Giraud/Bertrand Stofleth, Krisztina Hunya/Sabine Weier, in
Festival English
für
Fotografie
Leipzig Su, 24. 6. 2018
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Lecture: Eyal Weizman/Forensic Architecture. In English
23. Juni
–1. Juli 2018 1:30 – 3:30 pm Producing knowledge. On participation, empathy and ignorance, plenum in
German with Mareike Bernien, Paula Bulling, Christian Gesellmann, Ayşe Güleç, Anne
König (moderator), Josa Mania Schlegel
4:00 – 6:00 pm Artistic interventions in the realm of the digital. Plenum in English with Daphne
Dragona, lizvlx/UBERMORGEN, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Zenker
More information on the Symposium and biographies:
www.f-stop-leipzig.de/en/symposium/
f/stop Film, 26, 27, and 28 June 2018, Luru Kino / Spinnerei
Because it’s better and easier to utilize individual parts than entire
structures
Lene Berg, Declan Clarke, Assaf Gruber, Laura Horelli, Alexander Kluge, Deimantas
Narkevičius, Rosalind Nashashibi, Edgar Reitz, Nicolas Siepen, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Dwelling on the boundary between classic documentary and so-called “fictional film”, the
works selected by Leif Magne Tangen and Sarah Schipschack for f/stop Film 2018 reveal
insights into the “broken bonds” of society, potentially initiating discussions that a society
needs in order to view itself critically and continue to develop. Three evening programmes
will explore different thematic domains. The first evening will examine political resistance,
2|9 enclaves, and social life under precarious conditions. The second evening will take an
unnostalgic look at the former East Germany. The past and future perspectives will be deba-
ted in what can be described as a kind of historicization of what once was and what might
be. The third evening will explore surveillance, espionage and weapons. Yet the subject mat-
ter of the three evenings will also overlap, as “it’s better and easier to utilize individual parts
than entire structures”, as Christa Wolfs put it in her first letter from the year 1990 in which
she refuses to speak publicly about Germany. Nicolas Siepen will be on hand on the final
evening to talk with the audience about films, the year 1990, Godard, Deleuze & Guattari,
and everything in between.
More information on the film programme: https://f-stop-leipzig.de/en/filmprogramm/
Workshop in Cooperation with the Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlun-
gen Dresden, 28 June 2018, 15:00–18:00
Exposing the Year 1990
This workshop will focus on the interim and transitional period after the collapse of the East
German state in autumn 1989 and the photographic traces that were left behind. Three
introductory lectures and a panel discussion with individuals involved in the historic events
will attempt to explore how photographers accompanied, recorded and helped process the
societal changes by means of images and other resources. At the centre of the discussion
is the question in what ways and to what extent photography can be utilized to render more
comprehensible the vast upheaval that began in 1990 and affected all areas of life for that
and succeeding generations. We will also consider the question as to what role photogra-
phic images and image archives can now play in understanding the causes, structures and
manners of dealing with present societal tensions.
More Information on the workshop: www.f-stop-leipzig.de/en/vermittlung/
8.
Festival
für
Fotografie
Leipzig Guided Tours in Cooperation with the Institute of Art History of the
23. Juni University of Leipzig
–1. Juli 2018
Under the direction of Prof. Dr. Tanja Zimmermann and in the framework of the project
module “Broken Bonds. Art and Democratic Processes”, students of the Institute of Art
History of the University of Leipzig will offer tours of the main exhibition. Participants in the
project group are Anna Magdalena Bohley, Jana Faro, Daria Frei, Sally Frey, Leonie Ken-
nedy, Adelina Lohaj, Isabel Matschoke, Therese Mausbach, Jan Eric Scheel, Marie Charlotte
Seidel, Lisa Wachter, Leo Wedepohl and Marie Christine Wickern. These students will also
write short academic texts that will later be published on this website. The texts will examine
above all social, ecological, ethical and politically engaged artistic positions.
More information on the guided tours and workshops on:
www.f-stop-leipzig.de/en/vermittlung/
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Various Leipzig-based organizations, project spaces, and galleries
enhance the festival with their own events: f/stop Accomplices at the
Baumwollspinnerei and f/stop Satellites in various locations within the
city.
f/stop Accomplices
HALLE 14 – Centre for Contemporary Art
Requiem for a Falied State. Nadja Buttendorf/Anne Baumann, Ariamna Contino/Alex Hernán-
dez, Susan Donath, Darsha Hewitt in Zusammenarbeit mit Sophia Gräfe, Tamami Iinuma,
Sven Johne, KLOZIN (Wilhelm Klotzek / David Polzin), Henrike Naumann, Carsten Saeger,
Malte Wandel, Katrin Winkler, Artist in Residence: Henry Bradley, Studierende des Seminars
„Unter dem Eis“ von Anna Voswinckel und Carsten Möller der Hochschule für Grafik und
Buchkunst Leipzig: Jane Beran, Katrin Esser, Eric Meier, Stefania T. Smolkina, Sarah Veith,
Brenda M. Wald
Eigen+Art
Luise Schröder: UNAMERICA
ASPN
Andrzej Steinbach, belit sag, Irma Blumstock, Katja Aufleger, Tim Heide: Extreme Rational
Operating System
Spinnerei archiv massiv
Walther Le Kon: How to Build an Exhbition
LADEN FUER NICHTS
Ronny Szillo, Marian Luft: SIMILAR MOODS
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Festival
für V
Fotografie Andy Kania: Die Anderen
Leipzig
23. Juni The Grass Is Greener
–1. Juli 2018
Daniel Müller Jansen: Still Hideous
Josef Filipp Galerie
Georg Brückmann: Bauhaus Dessau / Sebastian Gögel: @fantasticrealism vol. 1 / Thomas
Steinert: Wende Zeiten
Galerie B2
Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Anna Vovan: ∞
J REITER | Leipzig plus
Steffen Junghans, Falk Messerschmidt, James Nizam: significant details
f/stop Satellites
Museum der bildenden Künste
Karin Wieckhorst: Encounters
KV – Verein für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Elske Rosenfeld and Achim Lengerer in collaboration with Bakri Bakhit und Anna Voswinckel:
Unterbrechungen. Skripte, Proben, Gesten
G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig
Edgar Leciejewski und Oskar Rink: Den ganzen Tag am Strand
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Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Ibid.#8: Zwischen-Rede 1989. Dokumentation einer deutsch-deutschen Kulturdebatte
GfZK – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Gaudiopolis. Versuch einer guten Gesellschaft. Gabo Camnitzer, Uta Eisenreich, Alia Farid,
gruppe finger, Laura Fröhlich, Ryan Gander, Binelde Hyrcan, Bernd Krauß, Manuel Pelmus,
Michael Rakowitz, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Javier Téllez, Mona Vătămanu / Florin Tudor, Anna
Vovan, Anna Witt, architecture uncomfortable workshop, kuratiert von Franciska Zólyom in
Zusammenarbeit mit der OFF Biennale Budapest
MZIN
Tobias Neumann: Deux Sœurs/Two Sisters
Kunstverein Gegenwart
Doro Zinn, Stefan Bast and Paula-Marie Kanefendt: Future Kids
Galerie Drei Ringe
Sophia Kesting and Dana Lorenz: Asphalt, Steine, Scherben
Kunst der Freiheit
Cornelia Golz, Kristin Franke, Christoph Kainz: Endstation Endersstraße
Kunstraum PING • PONG
Paula Markert, Marcel Noack: PP#22
Kunstraum Ortloff
Nico Curian: am I not ridiculous
D21 Kunstraum
8. Xu Bing, Jacky Connolly, Mark Fridvalski, Kik Melone, Karin Michalski in collaboration with
Festival
für Ann Cvetkovich und ein Video von Mark Leckey: :(
Fotografie
Leipzig BB Labor
23. Juni Arina Essipowitsch und Isaak Broder: À Fleur de Peau
–1. Juli 2018
Kunstmuseum Moritzburg
Claudia Angelmaier, Sibylle Bergemann, Laura Bielau, Klaus Elle, Thomas Florschuetz, Grit
Hachmeister, Ingar Krauss, Karl-Ludwig Lange, Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler, Emanuel
Mathias, Florian Merkel, Stefan Moses, Floris M. Neusüss, Ricarda Roggan, Rudolf Schäfer,
Hans-Christian Schink, Katharina Sieverding, Oskar Schmidt, Erasmus Schröter, Michael
Wesely: Ins Offene. Fotokunst im Osten Deutschlands seit 1990
Mehr Information zu den f/stop Komplizen und Satelliten:
www.f-stop-leipzig.de/de/komplizen/
www.f-stop-leipzig.de/de/satelliten/
5|9The Festival
f/stop is one of the most important photography festivals in Germany. It was organized for
the first time in 2007 by the Centre for Contemporary Photography Leipzig and was held
annually until 2010. Since 2012 f/stop has taken place biannually. Exhibitions and symposia
conceived by guest curators offer a platform for artistic, curatorial and academic work that
explores social issues utilizing the resources and potential of photography.
Important Dates
19 June 2018, 19:00, Wilhelm Leuschner Square: Opening f/stop In Situ
22 June 2018, 11:00, Spinnerei, Halle 12: Press Conference
22. Juni 2018, 19:00, Spinnerei, Opening
22. Juni 2018, 21:00, f/stop Party in the garden next to Halle 12 and from 23:00 at V/Halle 16
with: Carlotta Jacobi (Feat. Fem), Kanne (IILW), Dorothy Parker (Cry Baby), CMD Q (KANN),
Qnete (777 Recordings)
Catalogue
A publication in the format of a newspaper will be available during the festival. Spector
Books, 64 pages, ger./engl., 5 Euro.
Journal
An online-based Journal will accompany the exhibition: www.f-stop-leipzig.de/de/journal/
Contact
Sabine Weier
Carlotta Jacobi
M: +49 (0)163 36 46 387
presse@f-stop-leipzig.de
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Festival
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Fotografie
Leipzig
23. Juni
–1. Juli 2018
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6|91–2 Nicolas Giraud, Bertrand Stofleth La Vallée 2013–2017
3 Ute Mahler Ibrahim Böhme, co-founder of the SPD in the GDR, candidate
for the Volkskammer, collaborator of the MfS/Stasi, Moscow, February 1990,
Russia
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Fotografie
Leipzig
23. Juni
–1. Juli 2018
4 Emanuel Mathias traders #36 from gold/traders 2012
5 Ludovic Balland New York, NY from American Readers at Home 2016
7|96–8 Elisabeth Neudörfl from the book In Hospital 2018
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Fotografie
Leipzig
23. Juni 9 Susanne Kriemann Gessenwiese, Kanigsberg 2018
–1. Juli 2018
10–12 Andrzej Steinbach Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei 2017
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Fotografie
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13–20 Andreas Rost untitled 1990
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