Düsseldorf and Photography
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation
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• Exhibition opening: Schwellenräume / Liminal Spaces
  12 November, 7:00 pm
  Recent works from the classes of Prof Josephine Pryde and Prof Peter Piller at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

   

  The exhibition, on view from 12 November 2026 to 13 January 2027, presents works by eight students from the classes of Peter Piller and Josephine Pryde at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Rather than depicting liminal spaces, the works seek to activate the potential of such spaces in order to question subjective, social, architectural and other practices. They also examine the boundaries of what can still be defined as photography.

   

  Artists
  Camilla Angolini » Zihan Chen » Valerie Feldhaus » Joy Galli » Karla Kleinschmidt » Josephine Lehmann » Mathis Ratschinski » Charlotte Rupparth »

   

   

• Matinée Talk
  13 November, 11:00 am
  With Prof Josephine Pryde, Prof Peter Piller and Dr Jana Johanna Haeckel.

   

   

• A book stand presenting publications by artists featured at the Paris Photo fair stand Düsseldorf and Photography will be installed in the library of the Goethe-Institut Paris.

   

The exhibition “Schwellenräume / Liminal Spaces” features photographic works by eight students of Peter Piller and Josephine Pryde master classes at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.) Surpassing mere representations of liminal spaces, the works seek to probe subjective, social, and architectural practices, to spatial experiences at large. Each work pushes boundaries within its distinct realm, putting into question common notions of photography as a medium and art practice.

With the exhibition series "La jeune photographie allemande" Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation has 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.

Die Ausstellung zeigt vom 12. November 2026 – 13. Januar 2027 Arbeiten von acht Studierenden aus den Klassen von Peter Piller und Josephine Pryde an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Die Werke zielen nicht darauf ab, Schwellenräume abzubilden, sondern vielmehr darauf, die Potenziale solcher Räume zu aktivieren, um subjektive, soziale, architektonische und andere Praktiken zu hinterfragen. Ebenso werden die Grenzen dessen, was wir noch als Fotografie bezeichnen können, auf den Prüfstand gestellt.