Real Space Conceptual Space
Susanne Brügger » Thomas Demand » Heidi Specker »
Exhibition: 16 Jan – 14 Feb 2004
Muzeum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie
ul. Józefitów 16
30-045 Kraków
Museum of Photography
ul. Rakowicka 22A
31-510 Krakow
(48) (12)-634-59-32
To continue the exhibition series, 'Aspects of Contemporary German Photography', the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen now presents this show (curator: Ute Eskildsen) of German photo art from the 1990s. The title of the exhibition, 'real space-picture space', subsumes three different working methods, the common content denominator of which is public space. This interrelation is evident in the blurred, and thus abstracted, architectural images by Heidi Specker, the kind of disecting approach of Susanne Brügger, as well as in Thomas Demand's constructed interior views. The special emphasis on space in the title of the exhibition, in connection with the terms, 'reality' and 'picture', points to the specific analysis of a theme with the available means of expression, i.e. photography, which through reproduction transforms space and time into an image. The results of this pictorializing process is represented at the exhibition with eight black and white photos by Susanne Brügger, seven large-format colour photographs by Thomas Demand, and twelve colour prints by Heidi Specker.