The Berlin photographer Jörn Vanhöfen (*1961), has vividly formulated his artistic and social position with his extensive work AFTERMATH and the book of the same name. Like his older works from AFTERMATH, the current works again contain the discrepancy between beauty and horror: a theme that runs like a red thread through his entire photographic oeuvre. Images of the eternal cycle of creation and decay, enticing in their aesthetic beauty, frightening due to the underlying content, are the subject of his interest. The structures of the surface and its colourful texture seduce and impress. The narrative quality of his earlier works recedes. Beauty and fright continue to be the irritating poles that make up the fascination of his works.

Barbara Probst (*1964) is a German photographer living between Munich and New York. In 2000 she began taking multiple images of actors in a single scene, shot simultaneously with several cameras via a radio-controlled system. The resulting series convey a complex, playful, and darkly cinematic vision of people in time and space. Probst’s works span photographic genres: landscape, still life, fashion, portraiture, and street photography. Her multi-perspective approach results in quasi-three-dimensional views of her subjects while activating philosophical problems around the question of optical authority: what is visual truth when multiple perspectives are in play? Does more visual data result in greater realism, or less?

Barbara Probst studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. Her photographs have been exhibited widely in Europe and the USA, including in 2006 in the exhibition series "New Photography" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions at the Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen; Stills Centre for Photography, Edinburgh; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg; Rudolfinum, Prague; Le Bal, Paris; Kunsthalle Nürnberg; Triennale, Milan. Her retrospective "Subjective Evidence" was shown 2024 at Kunstmuseum Luzern, now at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and will be shown at Sprengel Museum Hannover.