Exhibitions of Kurt Wyss at Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST |
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Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 MEN by MEN 14 Sep – 22 Nov 2024Eigentlich haben Männer auch ihr Gutes. Schließlich gelten sie gemeinhin als mutig, gelegentlich sogar als durchsetzungsstark. Männer sollen einem gängigen Vorurteil zufolge logisch-rational und mit Interessen für mancherlei Details ausgestattet sein. Andererseits müssen all diese Qualitäten nicht automatisch schon zum Guten gereichen. Schließlich hat schon Jean Paul-Sartre einst spitzfindig bemerkt, dass Gespräche mit Angehörigen des vermeintlich stärkeren Geschlechts auch furchtbar … Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 UNTITLED 29 Jun – 13 Nov 2021When the gallery doors open again after more than a year of Corona restrictions and lockdowns, the question arises: what have we missed the most? What have we suffered the most from?
Under the most modest of all titles, Johanna Breede's UNTITLED invites us to a concert of wishes that holds a whole grab bag of answers. Here "untitled" does not mean without a concept, but rather elevates the greatest possible freedom, for which we have longed for so long. It is the freedom of choic… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 MAGIC OF SILENCE / MAGIE DER STILLE 23 Feb – 29 May 2019It is the year 1969: In the French Church of St. Moritz, Herbert von Karajan, then Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducts Arthur Honegger's Symphony no. 2. The exact circumstances of the concert are not known. The only thing that remains is the silence. Robert Lebeck has sculpted them on a minimalist composition of light and shadow. But each before and after is cut off: only the genius and the great silence; the moment between two sentences, between two bars or two notes. … Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 FAVORITE IMAGES / LIEBLINGSBILDER 1 Mar – 30 Jun 2017
Love loves small things. Love doesn't seek big pathos or emphasis. Love hides in the profane; in the shiny shoes in which one has journeyed or in the perfect fold of a beautiful dress. The really big things often lurk in the smallest of details. "I believe," the American poet Walt Whitman once wrote, "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." It is a poetry of dignity and nuance. This is a credo about the interplay of all things and the reverberati… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 Vis-à-Vis 7 May – 8 Jul 2016
There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90th birthday celebration … Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 THE WINDOW - DAS FENSTER 21 Mar – 13 Jun 2015
We alone are the insiders of our interior worlds. Within ourselves we feel safe and yet often isolated and sealed off. At the same time, hope is almost always contained therein: evident itself in windows, in the gates of the eyes. Each window is a link, a step between the interior and the exterior. The window functions just as with the lens of a camera - it is the point between the camera obscura and the outside. The point where light breaks through and illuminates another world.
A… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 MEN / MÄNNER 18 Jan – 15 Mar 2014
It’s a man’s world. James Brown even sang a song about it. Men were the ones who had invented cars, trains and ships. Men were the born creators. The “King of Soul” failed to mention however that it was also men who invented photography; men, who first created artificial images from light and chemicals. Technically enthusiastic homo faber. It was small wonder that such types initially found themselves mostly behind rather than in front of their new inventions; where the… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 Begegnungen 19 Nov 2011 – 7 Jan 2012The work of the Swiss photographer Kurt Wyss (*1936 Basel) will be shown for the first time in Berlin at Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST.
Le merveilleux photographe Kurt WyssDe la population de Bâle j´ai une idée très arrêtée et c´est qu´elle est faite de gens singuliers. Je sais bien qu´il faut se garder de généraliser trop vite mais tout de même tous les Bâlois que j´ai connus (un cert… |
