"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you have never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground." Judith Thurman, Writer Travel to Naples with René Burri and Werner Bischof. To Rio with Thomas Hoepker. To Japan with Paul Cupido. To California with Philipp Keel. To New York with Willy Spiller. To the Mediterranean with Albarrán Cabrera and Max Kellenberger. To Los Angeles with Simone Kappeler. To Iceland with…

The group exhibition "Now You See Me" at Bildhalle, curated by Mirjam Cavegn and Daniel Blochwitz, marks the second anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s death and—in a homage to him and his life—brings together works by a number of exceptional photographers: Thomas Hoepker (*1936, Germany), Gordon Parks (1912-2006, United States), Steve Shapiro (*1934, American), Marvin Newman (*1927, United States), Flip Schulke (1930-2008, United States), Carl Fischer (*1924, Uni…

Thomas Hoepker is one of the last living legends from the golden age of photo­ journalism. He was the first German member of the Magnum photographic agency and the first ac­ credited photographer in the German Democratic Republic, where he worked for “Stern” magazine. It was a job from “Stern” in 1964 that gave him the opportunity to start shoot­ ing portraits of the boxer Muhammad Ali at regular intervals over a period of ten years. This resulted in a leg…

Die Bildhalle feiert ihr 2-jähriges Bestehen mit einer Jubiläumsausstellung. Sämtliche von der Bildhalle vertretenen Fotografen zeigen eine Kostprobe aus ihrem Schaffen. Wir treffen auf alte Bekannte – mit neuen Arbeiten von Künstlern, die bereits mit einer Einzelausstellung in der Bildhalle gewürdigt wurden. Und wir entdecken neue Talente – mit einem Einblick in die foto- grafische Arbeit von Fotografen, die erst im Jahr 2014 zur Galerie stiessen. Und beg…

Drive In is an exhibition about cars, showing the approach of this subject by numerous photographers, from the fifties to nowadays. When Elliott Erwitt, during and after the depression era, photographed those rolling dreams with his candid sense of humor and irony, cars, especially the very large and imposing ones, were already a landmark in the American landscape. When René Burri travelled to Brazil to document the building of modern cities, one of his most stunning photographs…