The next generation's responses to the pressures of the present are diverse. In 2024, the term "parasites" stands above all work, research, and experimentation. As an accusation from right-wing populist camps against artists and as an expression of deep incomprehension. With irony and intelligence/wit, the students of Ricarda Roggan's class at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart twist and turn the word until it loses its meaning. Their reactions and interventions are as multifaceted as our current reality is complex: Photography is used in analogue, digital and generated forms. It is expanded through performances and supplemented with sculptural objects.

In Mexico, for example, Leonard Elfert finds bizarre hybrid forms of vegetation and radio masts whose origins can hardly be clarified. Jerry Ahn withdraws to her room for three days and wraps everything she finds there in low-cost wrapping paper. And Fatih Cimdiken, as Centaur, takes us into the dramatic landscape of his origins and turns Turkish children's songs into sombre chants.

With the exhibition series "La jeune photographie allemande" the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation have been focusing on young photographers at universities in Germany and showing current trends in photography together with the Goethe-Institut Paris since 2018. Each year, we give the students of a selected university or academy the opportunity to present their work in an exhibition at the Goethe-Institut Paris.