young german photography

January 18 - February 18, 2007

The exhibition to „gute aussichten 2006/2007 “, the nationwide competition for young up-and-coming talented photographers takes place for the third time in the house of photography.

For the first time „gute assichten 2006/2007“ is presented fully in its whole context, with all 136 motives of the artists. From January 18 till February 18, 2007 the exhibition is shown at the house hof photography/Deichtorhallen before it travels to Stuttgart and Berlin.

The Jury (Mario Lombardo, art director of SPEX, Dr. Ludger Derenthal, head of the Museum of Photography in Berlin, Juergen Teller, photographer, and Josefine Raab, initiator of „gute aussichten“) chose nine of the eighty-eight works entered for the competition.

As often the case, there are neither individual winners nor awards for individual artists, but only winners, whose works show an expressive cross section of young German photography.

History

In 2004, curator Josefine Raab initiated a new competition for young photographers in order to break through the rigid structures of the German art scene. Hence the idea of "gute aussichten" – new german photography is to create a link between still unknown photographers, the public, and potential sponsors of photographic works. The large number of more than 32,000 visitors who went to see the works exhibited by the young talents in Germany in 2005/2006 reflects the great interest in such a project. In its third volume in 2006/2007 the jury of gute aussichten consisting of Josefine Raab, Head of the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin Dr Ludger Derenthal, Mario Lombardo, Art Director of famous German popcultural magazine SPEX, which has been supporting the competition from its beginning, and the German photographer Jürgen Teller had to choose the winners out of 88 final projects handed in by graduates from 28 institutions. Nine winners were selected, whose works constitute a representative overview of photography having been produced in Germany over the last 12 months.

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