Anna Lehmann-Brauns works with the medium of photography and addresses her own memories and issues relevant to her generation in her stage-like photographic compositions. On display are color photographs from various series, including her latest photographs, which were taken in Istanbul in 2020 during a cultural exchange scholarship. Anna Lehmann-Brauns deals with the topos of space as a place of subjective and collective memory. Her focus is not on documenting places or scenes, but on capturing moods and descriptions of states of being. Although people are almost always invisible in her large-format and fragmentary photographs, the images speak in imaginary traces of nothing more than their existence.

Kostas Maros (*1980) studied law at the University of Basel and worked in the legal profession for several years before turning to photography as a self-taught artist in 2013. Since then, he has worked in Switzerland and abroad for editorial, corporate, and advertising clients; he also pursues freelance reportage and art projects. Kostas Maros is represented by the agency 13photo for his commissioned work and by Galerie 94 and Galerie Wertheimer for his artistic work. His work has been recognized with awards including the Prix de la Photographie Paris, the VFG Young Talent Award, the Swiss Press Award, and the Swiss Photo Award. In 2018, Christoph Merian Verlag published his book “Hidden - Verborgene Orte in der Schweiz” (Hidden - Hidden Places in Switzerland), which was awarded the German Photo Book Prize. In autumn 2022, the same publisher released his new book “Cabaret Bizarre,” featuring photographs from a long-term project.

With his minimalist photographs, Jan Prengel looks behind the conventional notions of these terms and seeks to share his approaches and perspectives on the world. Where language and explanations usually reach their limits, his works aim to encourage viewers to break away from their material view of the world and create new perspectives on reality.

Patrik Fuchs is a photographic collector. He is fascinated by the visual common property of our living environments and by the trust we place in the familiar. In the “ordinary,” Fuchs searches for the typical, the aesthetic peculiarities, the beauty, and the fractures.

Born in Zurich in 1992, Sandro Livio Straube is an architect and photographer. Images as a medium were a constant companion during his studies at ETH Zurich and led to various photographic and artistic projects. Over a period of more than four years, he photographed the Val Lumnezia for his series “Berge bleichen” (Bleached Mountains). Limiting himself to an analog medium-format camera and a fixed focal length, as well as a strict geographical perimeter, led to a desired sense of confinement and thus to a more intense perception. The photographs show what would otherwise soon disappear again. As a silent observer, he dares to look reality in the eye for a fraction of a second—the moment the shutter is released. It is only when he later looks at the finished image that he is forced to face these realities again. This often leads to a shock at his feelings towards his own images and how they came about in the first place. His wanderings through his beloved valley follow an inner drive to muster the courage to really look.

The land of red earth is home to Zak van Biljon. Born in South Africa in 1981, the photographer spent his childhood and youth between Johannesburg and Cape Town. In 2003, he graduated at the top of his class from the National College of Photography in Pretoria. Ironically, he did so with a study of black-and-white prints, even though he was influenced by the colors of the Rainbow Nation. In 2004, he moved to Europe. In Rome, he discovered a different kind of sunlight, and in London, he was at the top of the booking lists for well-known underground model agencies. He continued his career as a commercial and art photographer in Switzerland, where he devotes every spare minute to his art projects.