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Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Julien MignotSo Far so close6 Jun – 13 Sep 2024Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jack DabaghianThe Sentinels18 Apr – 1 Jun 2024Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozChema Madoz29 Feb – 6 Apr 2024Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Eric BourretÉric Bourret11 Jan – 17 Feb 2024Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gemma PepperSilent Witness11 Jan – 17 Feb 2024Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Albarrán CabreraALBARRÁN CABRERA23 Nov – 23 Dec 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Léon HerschtrittLÉON HERSCHTRITT23 Nov – 23 Dec 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael WeselyMichael Wesely 28 Sep – 18 Nov 2023 Photography takes us back to the past. Pictures from our early years touch us emotionally ; we feel nostalgia as they refer to a time that is no more. German artist Michael Wesely, born in 1963 in Munich, is interested in this inexistent space where the future becomes the past. Since 2012, long, digital exposures from Michael Wesely have given birth to thousands and even millions of individual images which, unlike a film camera, are not placed one behind the other but one above the other. The r… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Aassmaa AkhannouchUn monde oublié 28 Sep – 18 Nov 2023 Aassmaa Akhannouch est née en 1973, elle vit et travaille entre Casablanca et dans le Lot. Son travail photographique se déploie autour de l'exploration de la mémoire. À travers ses images, et une attention particulière au tirage, elle raconte des histoires, des fragments de mémoire ouverts aux associations et aux émotions du spectateur. Du passé, elle tente d'extraire une empreinte intime, lyrique et intemporelle. more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Arthur TressArthur Tress31 Aug – 23 Sep 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Vincent BousserezAltered31 Aug – 23 Sep 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Elliott ErwittElliott Erwitt8 Jun – 29 Jul 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Carlos LealFearless8 Jun – 29 Jul 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jens KniggeJENS KNIGGE6 Apr – 17 May 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Nadezda NikolovaElemental Forms2 Feb – 25 Mar 2023Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Silence 24 Nov – 24 Dec 2022The exhibition "Silence" brings together the work of Didier Goupy, Catherine Henriette and Gert Motmans. The selected works are images of silence that are part of a universe marked by human absence. Although figures appear occasionally, they do not disturb the silent immensity that is at play in the works of these three artists. Far from being an emptiness, silence should be considered as the overflow of an inaccessible world, a music of the infinitely small that no one listens to, u… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thomas JorionNo Man's Time 29 Sep – 19 Nov 2022The photographer Thomas Jorion adds with the series "No Man’s Time" a chapter to a remarkable body of work. This work on the ruin invites us to question ourselves in front of the sublime of places whose history can only be read in their erosion and their abandonment. Devoured by the surrounding nature, the palaces, cinemas, factories are memento mori which proposes us a journey in which several temporal frames are linked. The ruin becomes the center of a wider reflection on our relationship t… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Kourtney RoyQueen of Nowhere 2 Jun – 15 Sep 2022Who is Kourtney Roy? By turns rebel woman, fatal beauty or overworked housewife, the photographer plays with stereotypes and enjoys taking on different roles to blur the lines in her colourful self-portraits. Born in Ontario, Canada, her father was a cowboy... it is not surprising that she conceives the world as a vast movie set ready to welcome her fantasy. Urban landscapes or desert expanses become a set waiting for the artist’s entrance. Quite an artist... Able to take on all the jo… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René GroebliPerspectives 24 Feb – 31 May 2022René Groebli, born in 1927 in Zurich, belongs to a generation of Swiss photographers who, after the Second World War, left their mark on the history of 20th century photography. As a student of Hans Finsler in the famous photography class at the Zurich School of Art, which was also attended by Robert Franck, Werner Bischof and René Burri, he freed himself from the research of the new objectivity of the 1920s. The young photographer made his mark by creating images rather than t… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Esprit Urbain 28 Oct – 18 Dec 2021"The city exists as a mass and is scattered in seeds, in gramen, but what raises and rouses these seeds, touches them, makes them spin, is the luminous palpitation of the beings who walk through it, these are the paths themselves". Jean-Christophe Bailly Each of the works in the exhibition "Urban Spirit" is like one of the seeds mentioned by Jean-Christophe Bailly: receptacles of germinating potential, urban experiences of ready to bloom. Through the works of twenty-one ar… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thread of Time 26 Aug – 7 Oct 2021Everything starts with the mountain and the quest to capture it in a photograph. Iris Hutegger and Xavier Dauny employ a traditional gelatin silver process to create their works. However, this quality of the familiar is broken either with embroidery or perspective of the shot. This metamorphosis conceives another vision of the landscape, poetic and sensitive, fed by reflection and imagination. Both artists work with rigorous frameworks of creative protocol, devoting lengths of time to the proc… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 25 May – 26 Jun 2021Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 GREEN THERAPY! 1 May – 9 Jun 2021As nature takes on the fresh hues of spring, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff would like to share a selection of photographs from the collection on the theme of the colour 'green' – to bring you air and to let you breathe deeply as everybody is waiting for better days. All works are available at the gallery. Come and discover them!more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thierry CohenCutting Edge 17 Mar – 30 Apr 2021Thierry Cohen's photographic work questions the relationship between humankind and its environment. After criss-crossing the planet nomadically for his highly acclaimed photographic series Darkened Cities, the photographer was forced to live in strict lockdown between 17 March and 11 May 2020, like billions of other human beings. During this time, he opened the drawers in his studio to find a box containing 19 arrowheads from the Neolithic period, entrusted to him by some friends a year earlier… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Albarrán CabreraRecent work 20 Jan – 13 Mar 2021Used to travelling, Spanish duo Albarrán Cabrera has adapted its pace to the exceptional situation we are all facing. It is in the intimacy of the studio and the laboratory, in this cocoon of quietness and introspection, that they have found the inspiration they need. In return, they generously nourish their audience on social networks, publishing their photographs, but also sharing quotes and references, books, films, artworks, that open windows in this time of isolation and confinem… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thomas JorionVeduta 3 Dec 2020 – 16 Jan 2021For 10 years, Thomas Jorion traveled the regions of Italy from north to south, from Lago di Maggiore to Sicily, in search of the palaces that were once the glory of this beautiful country. Most of these monuments have now fallen into neglect, into ruin. But they are falling gracefully. After his first two books ‘Silencio’ and ‘Remains of Empire’, French photographer Thomas Jorion continues his questioning of the buildings and places abandoned by humankind. "My work revolves around th… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Matière primaire 14 Oct – 31 Oct 2020The gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, which brings together two artists who seem, at first glance, to oppose each other, Jens Knigge and Didier Goupy. Their series tell two versions of the same story, that of the environment and that of calm. Didier Goupy's dark wood and silent forest are the source of life, eternal and renewed, planetary lung, in a deep and ancient relationship with humans. Jens Knigge's plastic objects, presented in sublime platinum-palladium prints, pr… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix HSBC de la photographie / Prize for Photography1 Sep – 10 Oct 2020Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Eric MarrianCarré Blanc 1 Jul – 1 Aug 2020We invite you to discover the work of our new artist Eric Marrian, to dive into a world of sensitivity and sensuality. His images are subtly filled with light - all we need after this lockdown! Graduated in architecture, Eric Marrian turned to photography in the 2000s. His "Carré Blanc" exhibition is part of the "Arles to Paris - 20 places, 20 photographic exhibitions" itinerary. To welcome you in the highest respect of the health recommendations, visits are by appo… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Maia FloreMaia Flore, d'îles en lune Extract from the book12 Mar – 18 Apr 2020"Maia Flore's artistic approach is part of a search for coincidences between reality and her imagination. Her universe, created from scratch, translates into moving and bewitching images which are an invitation to share a journey into sweet utopia. Of her encounter with Saint-Malo during the residence Territoire rèvé Bretagne, made with the poet Albane Gellé, Maia Flore has captured the impermanence of the place. What still exists? What remains in Time? The ever-c… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Stephen ShamesBronx Boys - Vintage prints 29 Jan – 7 Mar 2020For this first exhibition of the year, the Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is proud to present a selection of exclusive vintage prints by Stephen Shames, the renowned documentary photographer born in 1947. The young people that Stephen Shames photographed in the late 1970s, in the finest tradition of American documentary photography, were born poor in America, neglected by adults and institutions, plagued by the violence of society. The social and political commitment of Stephen Shames, who began his… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Albarrán CabreraSomeone lived this 24 Oct – 21 Dec 2019With Someone lived this, their first exhibition in Paris, the Spanish duo Albarrán Cabrera questions the reality of our memory. They invite us to think of works of art as the support of an imaginary journey, towards dreams, which allows the creation of fictional memories. These photographs are inspired by their travels, their readings, the artworks they love and which move them. In front of the beauty of landscapes, glittering light, subtle colours, the viewer also dreams of escaping tim… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Algerie 91 | 19 5 Jun – 27 Jul 2019"From 1991 to 2000 Michael von Graffenried took these "photographs of a war without images" (the title of his book published by Editions Hazan in 1998), in a country with no cameras. He became the only Western photographer to testify throughout Algeria’s black decade. Youcef Krache, who was only four years old at the time, is now working in a period of optimism where Algerians, every Friday protest, take millions of photos with their smartphones. The young people in the pict… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozChema Madoz 26 Apr – 29 May 2019Born in Madrid in 1958, Chema Madoz began self-taught photography and printing in the early 1980s, in the creative effervescence of Movida. He began exhibiting his work in 1983 while working as a bank clerk. In the early 1990s, he decided to stop photographing people and landscapes to focus exclusively on objects. The photographer picks them up in flea markets, shops or even garbage bins, randomly from his street errands. He says, “With photography, I discovered the possibility of highlig… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thomas JorionLes palais oubliés 7 Feb – 20 Apr 2019After his series Trace of Empire, where he froze the ruins of the French colonial empire, photographer Thomas Jorion offers with Veduta a view of Italy appearing from forgotten times. Palaces, gardens, masserias, summer houses, the photographer has traveled Italy from north to south for almost ten years to find these mysterious and silent precious places that nobody cares about anymore. The grandeur and the architectural splendor of these rich residences of the 18th and 19th centuries thus pers… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Isabel MuñozThe Anthropology of Feelings / Fragments L'Anthropologie des sentiments / Fragments25 Oct – 22 Dec 2018How not see a network of close interconnexions between several worlds in Su dance, Shiite rituals, Peul scari cations. The reduction of photography to the documentary form prevents access to a universe, that of a human community which turns sacri ce into the supreme act of knowledge. The exuberance and pleasure experienced in the solitude of pain pay tribute to the dead and the gods. Serenity and ecstasy are at the end of the journey of abandonment and violence. If it is true that these &ldquo… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Christian VogtThe longer I look 6 Sep – 20 Oct 2018“Since the late 1960s Christian Vogt has produced a photographic oeuvre impressive for its creative inventiveness and its unexpected twists. He is a master of the art of photographic haikus, and a virtuoso of associative story telling with pictures. To Vogt, photography is never a mere reproduction but always a speculation about the meaning of the story hidden behind the surface, a re ection on the subjectivity of the photographic eye, in the awareness that the actual picture only emerges … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Skin Deep 7 Jun – 14 Jul 2018Skin Deep Text by Carine Dolek « What is deeper in a man is the skin. As he knows himself » Paul Valéry, L’Idée fixe, 1931 Paul Valery, a mustachioed disciple of the mustachioed Mallarmé, is a claimed open source poet: « My verses have the meaning that one lends them ». They both support a formidable formal mastery and unlimited semantic virtuality. An original writer, and billions of possible meanings, all as legitimate as each other. Just… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Maia FloreAu lieu de ce monde 14 Mar – 2 Jun 2018To open our new season of exhibitions, we are happy to present Maia Flore’s latest works, where collage and drawing come and meet her photography. After winning the HSBC prize in 2015, she has been showing through numerous exhibitions a body of work defined by a search for bridges between reality and imaginary.In her art, she distorts, modifies or enhance the world, as to assert that she will notsubmit herself to its laws. Since the fall of 2017, Maia Flore has been pursuing her research … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gérard Musyl’oeil fertile 29 Nov 2017 – 3 Mar 2018With a passion for night and lust, Gérard Musy began to photograph in the late 70s. Between New York, London and Paris, he plunged into the excitement of these cities’ nightlife. In fashion shows backstage, at private parties and nightclubs that illuminated the 80s, or in the hidden mystery of the S/M scene, Gérard Musy transfigured desire, beauty and fantasy into vivid and vibrant photographs. With an everlasting enthusiasm, the photographer aspires to embody his subject and… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Photographic landscapes : reinventing reality Paysages photographiques : réinventer le réel24 Oct – 25 Nov 2017This autumn, the BnF (the French national Library) will hold a major exhibition, "Paysage français", une aventure photographique, 1984-2017, where two photographers of the gallery will show their works. Xavier Dauny, with his series Pylônes, methodically explores our environment and the traces left by human on the natural landscape. Guillaume Martial, who won the HSBC Prize in 2015, exposes "Parade", a series realized within the mission France(s) Territoire liq… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von GraffenriedRetrospective 1 Sep – 14 Oct 2017Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Elene UsdinThe Inhabitans / Les Habitants Painted photographs21 Jun – 13 Jul 2017Feuillate June night! And Seventeen! – You get tipsy. The sap’s champagne and blurs every feature... wander: you feel a kiss on your lips That quivers there, like some tiny creature...* Elene Usdin is proving that she is not only an excellent photographer, but that she can also handle the brush like the great classical masters. Last autumn at Paris Photo, the French artist exhibited in exclusivity some of her newly fresh and unique pieces from her latest series, Les Habitants (… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 13 May – 10 Jun 2017The Prix HSBC pour la Photographie, created in April 1995, is now in its 22nd year of accompanying young photographic creation and undertakes to support even more strongly the work of its Laureates with a fifth stage in the travelling exhibition and help in producing the works presented in this latest exhibition, thus providing a fresh impetus for the Laureates. An annual competition is open from September to November to any photographer who has never had their monograph published, with no age … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Guillaume MartialFootlights 4 Apr – 6 May 2017Like the ringmaster Monsieur Loyal, Guillaume Martial introduces us to his new show, a playful and offbeat universe of photography filled with the magic of movement and the illusion of reality. So - drum roll! - the red curtain opens up and we enter Footlights! Footlights is the title chosen by French photographer Guillaume Martial for this exhibition, which presents several of his recent series. It is also the original title of Charlie Chaplin’s only novel : it was unpublished during his… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 PutPutCoffee for Oppenheim 31 Jan – 25 Feb 2017Coffee for Oppenheim is the only Swiss-Danish joke in the world. And for there to be a joke, there must be a relationship, a neighborhood, a hatchet to be buried, two versions of an original language whose use, when it is done by the other, is so colorful. A “us”, a “them”, and a fence to trap, to move, to degrade, in order to test the elasticity of what connects us and separates us at once. A joke is a tug of war. To make a joke, it takes intimacy. One must respect the f… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Léon HerschtrittA life for photography! 6 Dec – 23 Dec 2016To celebrate the 80th birthday of the photographer, the gallery is happy to show a retrospective of his work. With a passion for photography from an early age, Léon Herschtritt studied at the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie. Sent to Algeria to teach photography, Leon Herschtritt spent his days in idleness, but met Nicole, who became his wife, and photographed children in the streets of Algiers. With Les Gosses d’Algérie, his first series published in the magazine Ré… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thomas JorionTraces of empire 18 Oct – 26 Nov 2016Traces of empire, the ruins of French imperialism, here is the new series of photographer Thomas Jorion, exhibited exclusively at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff and accompanied by the release of a book published by La Martinière. Well known for his work on abandoned places (published under the title Silencio in 2013), the French photographer has spent the last years travelling the world to realize his new project on colonial history. If one is easily charmed by the pastel colors of decrep… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René GroebliNudes 1 Sep – 8 Oct 2016In fall 2015, the gallery presented the series "The Eye of Love" and "The Magic of the Rail" by René Groebli (born in 1927). It was the first exhibition in France of this great Swiss photographer whose career runs through the entire second half of the twentieth century. His personal work thus follows with curiosity and versatility the history of photography. Nudes, issued this year by the Swiss publisher Sturm & Drang, reveals a magni cent study of the female bo… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Martin EsslLe Château Rouge 1 Sep – 8 Oct 2016"Le Château Rouge" is the first volume of a series of photographic essays conceived by the Austrian-born artist Martin Essl (he was born in 1982 and moved to Paris in 2012). Named after the Paris metro station, this work presents itself as a sensitive and urban fiction about the photographer’s daily life. The gallery had a huge coup de coeur on this beautiful book where the artist transforms a ordinary reality through the filter of photography. Each photograph chosen by… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von GraffenriedChanging Rio 22 Jun – 13 Jul 2016Known for his work on the civil war in Algeria and Sudan, his street installation for his series on drug in Switzerland and the city of Varanasi in India, and more recently for his series on the Oktoberfest in Munich (published as Bierfest by Steidl editions), Michael von Graffenried had traveled all around the world with the exception of South America. The Swiss photographer recently discovered this continent and this visual portrait of Rio de Janeiro is the result of several stays in the metro… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 201611 May – 18 Jun 2016Esther WoerdehoffCHGalerie Heuberg 24 +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Der Freie Körper Fotografien aus drei Epochen9 Jun – 18 Jun 2016Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Iris Huteggerwindstill. grün. 22 Mar – 30 Apr 2016"Above all, I am a sculptor" says Iris Hutegger." Although her work starts with a camera. Originally from Austria, she became an artist in her thirties. From a certain distance, her artworks look like colored pencil drawings. But as you get closer, you can perceive the grain of the black and white photograph, and also hundreds of threads, overlapping on the image. We can now understand that the color comes from the threads which embroidered the image and added a third dimension … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozRecent Works 26 Jan – 12 Mar 2016Born in 1958 in Madrid, Chema Madoz has been spending the last thirty years creating a body of work that manages to escape the trends of artistic photography while constantly honoring it with the most beautiful tributes. In the influence of Surrealism, the photographer becomes a sculptor, on a line stretched between the real and the imaginary. By transforming objects, often utilitarian, playing with collage, juxtaposition, reflections, he then brings chaos in everyday life and seems to allow … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Marc Sommer & Laurence Demaison 3 Nov – 19 Dec 2015Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is pleased to show the works of two photographers. Marc Sommer and Laurence Demaison, black and white for her and colors for him, a long-time acquaintance and a new discovery. Laurence Demaison, represented by the gallery for 20 years, introduced the gallery to Marc Sommer’s work. A long-time friend of Laurence Demaison and Patrick Bailly-Maître Grand, he also lives in Strasbourg. Laurence convinced him in showing his photographs for the first time to … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René GroebliEarly Works 15 Sep – 23 Oct 2015L'exposition présentera une sélection exceptionnelle de tirages vintage ainsi qu’une édition récente des photographies de ces deux séries, , mises à l’honneur par la publication du livre René Groebli, Early Works par les éditions Sturm & Drang. The exhibition will present a unique selection of vintage prints and a recent edition of these two series, showcased this Fall by the publication of the book René Groebli… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Finalistes du Prix PHPA des Hôtels Paris Rive Gauche2 Sep – 12 Sep 2015Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Eric BourretTimescape 15 Jun – 18 Jul 2015Eric Bourret is an "artist walker". His work has been influenced by English land artists and landscape photographers. Since the start of the 1990s, he has been travelling the world on foot, over every kind of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as "experiences of walking, experiences of the visible". Bourret’s expeditions can last for anything from a week to several months. But he always applies the same protocol. He superimposes a number of vi… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Elene UsdinFemmes d’intérieur 31 Mar – 2 May 2015The series Femmes d’intérieur by Elene Usdin only includes unicas, painted by hand on the photography. The artist, who is an illustrator and a visual artist as well as a photographer, reinterprets famous paintings from the history of classical or modern art (by Raphael, Ingres, Schiele, Balthus etc), all portraits of women painted by men. These figures of the past, princesses or muses, now pose as cut-out silhouettes within a domestic environment, modern and mundane. They seem to me… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gail Albert HalabanOut my Window, Vis à Vis 31 Mar – 2 May 2015Far from being a paparazza, the American artist Gail Albert Halaban invites herself in the intimacy of the inhabitants of New York or Paris - an elegant way to draw the portraits of theses two major cities and those who live there. The approach of the artist is to get in contact with the individuals she photographs through the phone book. Most of the time, they accept and allow Gail Albert Halaban to create links between those neighbors we usually only observe out the window or simply meet in th… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jacques PuginThe Knights of the Devil and Sacred Site 10 Feb – 14 Mar 2015The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present two series by photographer Jacques Pugin: The Knights of the Devil and Sacred Site. The exhibition features two parts, two views on the same subject, Africa: first a black and white work on the ruins of war and then luminous color photographs of traces from an ancient but lively culture. The Knights of the Devil How does one photograph war? Certainly not by repeating pictures of corpses, answers the author who decided to re-appropriate images … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von GraffenriedBierfest 5 Nov – 20 Dec 2014For this year’s edition ot the Mois de la Photo-OFF, the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present Michael von Graffenried’s new series "Bierfest". What does privacy look like nowadays? Do we find it in the private space, in the closedsphere? Or rather on the internet, especially on the social networks, those mixed areas in between public and private spaces where the invitation is too irresistible to the users to make public, in a continuous flow, their most intima… more Esther WoerdehoffFRPop Up - Galerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gérard MusyKALEIDOSCOPE Cornucopia 12 Nov – 15 Nov 2014The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is proud to present a recent series of images by Swiss photographer Gérard Musy, which will be exhibited in a pop-up venue located in the Marais area during Le Mois de la Photo Off. Gérard Musy’s Kaleidoscope series display a multiple and dynamic concept, celebrated by day and night. In this temporary Mois de la Photo Off space, Kaleidoscope will be presented in different ways: A slideshow will be projected on the gallery window, framed print… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Drive in 1 Oct – 31 Oct 2014Curated by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, 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. In the early fifties, when Swiss photographer Robert Frank, thanks to a Guggenheim fellow… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Amelie Chassary & Lucie BelarbiPrix photographique PHPA4 Sep – 27 Sep 2014Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Juliette BatesFictions 23 Apr – 12 Jul 2014Juliette Bates (France, *1983) During her participation to the PHPA prize in 2013, Juliette Bates won the Special Jury Prize with her piece The Swan. She came to photography after graduating with a Master degree in Art History, specialized in photography and the theme of carnival and freaks in the late nineteenth century. In her series Histoires Naturelles, a female figure dressed in black velvet invites us into a cabinet of curiosities where birds, insects and skull are staged and question the… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Arthur TressFictions 23 Apr – 12 Jul 2014Arthur Tress (USA, *1940) Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, Arthur Tress grew up near Luna Park in Coney Island and started photographing in the streets. Quickly, his images revealed a strangeness which he called himself “magical realism”: the appearance of the fantastic in a common world, as it would first seem. A girl catching goldfish in front of the Chateau de Breteuil, a boy with hands made of roots, or a man-silhouette emerging through smoke, ... although these photos-fictions used a … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Duane MichalsFictions 23 Apr – 12 Jul 2014Duane Michals (USA, *1932) Since the 1960s, Duane Michals’ work has been defined by a combination of text and photography. The American artist, who describes himself as “writer of photography”, tells stories and writes the “movements of the soul” in his shots. In exclusivity for the gallery, Duane Michals developed a series of unique pieces. From old anonymous photographs discovered at the parisian Galerie Lumière des Roses, the photographer became painter a… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozRecent works 12 Feb – 5 Apr 2014Esther Woerdehoff Gallery is pleased to present a selection of recent works by the Spanish photographer Chema Madoz. A bottle of night black ink, a tie acting as barrier or a swinging butterfly, these photographs describe a poetic inventory of reality, transformed by an illusionist photographer. Chema Madoz selects the size and edition he gives to each of these precious silver prints and the gallery presents for the first time his stunning large prints, where a giant butterfly becomes a bird … more Esther WoerdehoffFRPop Up Galerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 “l’ère vulgaire passera” 28 Nov – 21 Dec 2013Esther Woerdehoff Gallery presents an unconventional exhibition conceived by guest curator Patrik Schedler. The exhibition will be exceptionally hosted far from the fifteenth arrondissement in a pop-up space located in the Marais. The art critic Patrik Schedler has been managing the estate of the Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger, whose extraordinary portraits of young rebels in Zurich during the sixties were exposed several times at the gallery and in art fairs. With this exhibition … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René BurriImpossibles Réminiscences 6 Nov – 23 Nov 2013No need to introduce René Burri, the legendary Swiss photographer born in Zurich - his portraits of Che Guevara, Le Corbusier or Picasso are true icons ! However, there is still a lot to discover : Burri, who has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1959 and famous for his black-and-white photographs, always carried along at least two cameras. While shooting in black and white, he would always take color pictures. René Burri says : “I have led a double life as a photogr… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Simone KappelerThrough America 8 Oct – 2 Nov 2013Born in 1952, Simone Kappeler began taking photographs at the age of 11 year-old. After studying German literature and art history, she attended the School of Design Zurich in photography major. In 1981, she began a four-month journey through the U.S. driving an old Gran Torino. During her road trip, she took black and white and color pictures with toy cameras like a Diana. With these images, rediscovered only in 2010, we dive into a world of sensations, a personal representation of what the Uni… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Philippe MonselNew York 8 Oct – 2 Nov 2013Philippe Monsel New York The French photographer Philippe Monsel will present in parallel another vision of America, quite conceptual and contemporary. His triptych Mansour Coca-Cola is the result of a composition made of 300 photographs taken in New York City in August 2012. This immense piece reveals, in a very cinematic way, the day of a delivery driver in Manhattan in front of his red truck with the Coca-Cola logo. Allowing multiple levels of reading, this metaphor of the American dream jux… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix photographique PHPA 2013 – Carte Blanche à Ursula Kraft LE PRIX PHOTO D’HÔTEL, PHOTO D’AUTEUR6 Sep – 28 Sep 2013Daphne Rocou is the winner of the 2013 PHPA prize and the 2013 Virginie Clément prize! Greek photographer Daphne Rocou has won the two PHPA prizes for 2013. The jury of industry professionals that met on Wednesday 4th September at the galerie Esther Woerdehoff chose the same photo as the staff of HPRG, who cast their votes the day before. Daphné Rocou‘s photo tells an extraordinary story: In 1945, at the end of the Second World War and just before civil war broke out in Gre… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Christian TagliaviniCarte 23 May – 12 Jul 2013With Queens, Jacks, Jokers and Ace, Swiss photographer Christian Tagliavini plays cards in his new series, but the artist turns the usual faces into bigger-than-life paintings, full of symbols and aesthetic effects. The title given to each of theses Carte, as he calls this series of eleven photographs inspired by the whims of fortune, keeps the mystery of their Italian name: Regina di Fiori, La Matta Rossa, L’Amante or Lo Speziale. Originally an architect and designer, Christian Tagliavin… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gérard MusyLustres & Lamées 14 Mar – 11 May 2013Lustre and Lamées, the two series of the Swiss photographer Gérard Musy, plunge us back in the nights of the Sexy Eighties, tempting and fascinating. In his sophisticated black and white pictures, people, gender and classes merge into a cocktail of night energy. In Paris, the Fashion scene was making the law between the Palace and the Bains Douches, in New York bankers and taggers would finally meet in night clubs, and in London, Skin Two magazine introduced the world to Fetishism… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Laurence DemaisonOeuvres récentes 30 Jan – 9 Mar 2013Since the 1990s, Laurence Demaison's photographs have gone above and beyond the nature of self-portrait to offer a profoundly original vision and a body of work which has been diverse and extremely consistent at the same time. If the self representation remains for many artists a mirror which sublimes their authors, the distortions the photographer did to her body and her face rather refer to the creation of an alterity that would escape from her true image. The surrealism of the images an… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thierry CohenDarkened Cities/Villes eteintes 8 Nov – 22 Dec 2012Darkened Cities Thierry Cohen Exhibition: 8 November – 22 December 2012 Opening: Thursday November 8th, 2012, from 6 to 9 pm. The artist will be present. “In Thierry Cohen’s Darkened Cities, we see bright night skies over cities. Actually, what we’re seeing is the opposite. These are the skies that we don’t see. Before these pictures can exist, the sky from one place has to be superimposed upon cityscape from another. It is impossible to see this detail in the night sky above a c… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Carolle BenitahFéminité sans tabous 4 Oct – 3 Nov 2012Carolle BenitahFéminité sans tabous4.10. - 3.11.2012Vernissage: 4.10.2012, 18 hPhotos Souvenirs I started to be interested in my family pictures when I was leafing through my family album and found myself overwhelmed by an unexplainable emotion. These photographs were taken forty years earlier, and I could not even remember the moments they were shot, nor what preceded or followed those moments. But the photos reawakened an anguish of something both familiar and totally unknown, t… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Prix Photographique PHPA 6 Sep – 29 Sep 20126e édition du prix photo d’hôtel, photo d’Auteur (phpA) : Carte Blanche à Magnums PhotosL’exposition investira l’intérieur et l’extérieur de la galerie. outre les photos des 12 photographes concourant pour le prix PHPA, la Carte Blanche à Magnum Photos comportera 5 photos inédites de 5 photographes de l’agence (une photo par photographe).Julien Taylor Thibault de Puyfontaine Ronan Guillou Chiara Dazi Vincent Gout… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Frank SchrammLe Concorde : Paris - New York 25 May – 14 Jul 2012Frank Schramm, "Le Concorde : Paris - New York",qui débutera le 25 mai 2012 et se terminera le 14 juillet 2012.Vernissage : mercredi 23 mai 2012, de 18 à 21h.Frank Schramm est fasciné par les avions depuis sa plus tendre enfance. Armé de son Hasselbald, il décide, en 1989, lors d’un déjeuner dans un aéroport de la région parisienne, de photographier le ciel aérien et en particulier le Concorde. Ces incroyables machin… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael SchnabelRecent Works 21 Mar – 5 May 2012The Esther Woerdehoff gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Ursula Kraft and Michael Schnabel's recent works. The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The artists will be present.Michael SchnabelIn the series "Still Berge", Michael Schnabel photographs the Alps like gigantic, eternal monuments, lost in a quiet night. The night made it possible to see the other side, the mountain emptied of its tourist activity, phenomenon so insignificant on the ge… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Ursula KraftRecent Works 21 Mar – 5 May 2012The Esther Woerdehoff gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Ursula Kraft and Michael Schnabel's recent works. The opening reception will be held on Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The artists will be present.Ursula KraftThe German photographer will be presenting new works which continue et complete her Emerentia series and also pursue the questioning of dreams, metamorphosis, myth and the transition from childhood to adulthood. The artist uses landscapes along with the symbolism of fair… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Karlheinz WeinbergerThe Rebels 11 Feb – 17 Mar 2012Karlheinz Weinberger“The Rebels”Gangs in black jackets, poseurs dressed in blue jeans and big belt, girls with beehive hairdos, the young rebels photographed by Karklheinz Weinberger had for heroes James Dean, Marlon Brando, Elvis and Marylin. However, we are in the deep end of German Switzerland in front of a generation traditional and conservative society rejected and nicknamed the « Verlaustan » (covered of scum) while they like to call themselves the « Halbstark… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Philippe CalandreFiction Factory 10 Jan – 8 Feb 2012Embarqué a 16 ans comme mousse sur un bateau, Philippe Calandre sillonne les mers du globe avant de revenir en France pour raison de santé. Bloqué à terre, il trouve dans la pratique artistique et surtout dans la photographie un moyen de s’évader par la créativité. Il choisit de faire de la photographie son métier, alternant ses recherches personnelles et son travail de photographe de presse. En parallèle de ses séries … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jason LangerSecret City 10 Jan – 8 Feb 2012Prince of Darkness (excerpt)After an ongoing correspondence, Jason first came to work for me in 1989 when he had completed his photography studies in Eugene, Oregon. A hard worker and quick learner he was an excellent assistant and I was fortunate to benefit from his services for three years. He was, and still is, passionate about music and I would often hear jazz from the 1940’s and 1950’s in the background as he quietly got on with the day’s tasks. He introduced me to Miles D… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Philippe VermèsPortraits et icônes 20 Oct – 16 Dec 2011Philippe Vermès : "Portraits et icônes".From October 20th thru December 23rd, 2011Opening Reception : Thursday, October 20th, 2011 from 6pm-9pmThis exhibition will be composed of portraits of photographers taken by Philippe Vermès over the past 30 years always showed with an iconic photo by the artist who was portrayed.The list of photographers included in the exhibition are :Bruno Barbey, Edouard Boubat, René Burri, Philippe Calandre, Lucien Clergue, Denise … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Guillaume HerbautPrix Nièpce4 Oct – 18 Oct 2011Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René BurriBurri sans frontières!3 May – 16 Jul 2011Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jason LangerSolo Exhibition 7 Apr – 30 Apr 2011Prix PHPA / Guillaume Amat carte blanche à Patrick Tourneboeuf Jason Langer / Photographies La galerie Esther Woerdehoff a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de l'exposition le jeudi 7 avril, de 18 à 21 hmore Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozTravail récent 2 Mar – 3 Apr 2011Chema Madoz | Obras MaestrasVernissage: Wednesday, March 2nd, 6 pm - 9 pmExhibition: March 2nd - April 3rd, 2011Esther Woerdehoff gallery is pleased to present Spanish photographer Chema Madoz's recent work. The exhibition comes with the publication of his last monograph Obras Maestras by the edition “La Fabrica”. Like a poet assembles words, Chema Madoz realizes his photographs based on a vocabulary of objects that he combines, reprocesses, and opposes to finally obtain unexpec… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Mario Cravo NetoCorpo & Alma - Photographies, Vidéo Dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo 201021 Oct 2010 – 26 Feb 2011Mario Cravo NetoCorpo & Alma Photography, Installation/Sculpture, VideoExhibition Curator: Alban de La FonSon of a famous sculptor, Mario Cravo Neto was born in 1947 in Salvador, Bahia. Nurtured in the cultural setting of his native city, he began his first artistic experiences very early on: sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and video. Throughout his life, he did not pose any boundaries between the different orientations taken by his artistic activity. Thirty-five black and whit… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozTravail récent22 Sep – 16 Oct 2010Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Ursula KraftNymphalis antiopa 22 Sep – 16 Oct 2010Gallery Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition : Nymphalis antiopa / Traum-a, photographs by Ursula Kraft. Nymphalia Antiopia (2007/2008) A young girl’s body is lying, naked, still and frozen. Absorbed in the process of mutation, of metamorphosis, caught between childhood and womanhood, between the little girl and the little boy ; a figure of the indeterminacy that preceeds the becoming and the destiny of a human being. Abandoned, left alone, stretched… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Olivier MérielToscane 26 May – 3 Jul 2010Olivier Mériel was born in 1955 and is mainly known for his images of the French littoral. From Normandy to Ireland, from Iceland to Sicily, he managed to translate extremely different places into his own language. Starting from the early 70’s, he put together a coherent and homogenous set of images. He mastered to perfection the effects of light and shade, which combined with the exclusive use of long exposure techniques for frame size 20 x 25 cm or 30 x 40 cm bring together th… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von Graffenriedeye on africa5 May – 3 Jul 2010Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Loan NguyenMétéo et phénomènes naturels – travail récent4 Mar – 30 Apr 2010Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jalal SepehrWater & Persian Rugs9 Dec 2009 – 27 Feb 2010Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Marianne BreslauerParis 1926-193830 Oct – 5 Dec 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 ÉtincellesNouveaux talents de la galerie Esther Woerdehoff23 Sep – 24 Oct 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Sony World Photography Award 200914 Oct – 24 Oct 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Stéphanie LacombePrix Niépce 200925 Aug – 21 Sep 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Solo Exhibition21 May – 11 Jul 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Peter HebeisenBattlefields2 Apr – 16 May 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Terriblement beau - Terriblement faux5 Feb – 28 Mar 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Erwin BlumenfeldSolo Exhibition6 Nov 2008 – 17 Jan 2009Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von GraffenriedOur Town25 Sep – 29 Nov 2008Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael SchnabelPhotographies du Silence / Silent photographs25 Sep – 31 Oct 2008Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Jürgen NefzgerLauréat Prix Niépce / Winner Niépce Award 20083 Sep – 20 Sep 2008Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Laurence DemaisonSolo Exhibition9 May – 19 Jul 2008Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Elliott ErwittSeen & Unseen29 Mar – 10 May 2008Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Sabine Dehnelelswhere / ailleurs 8 Feb – 29 Mar 2008»Our assimilating eye links us with many alien elements and unconsciously combines them with the events of other, earlier glances. Everything that we look at repeatedly and longer than necessary eventually begins to speak within us. We want to hear this inner text, which is almost a self-commentary by our ever-receptive egos—it is the reward for our looking-work..«# Some of them have names, and are called Merle, Eva, or Frieda, but most of the people in Sabine Dehnel's large-format painting… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Magnum Photos 1947 - 2007 25 Oct 2007 – 26 Jan 2008Magnum Photos 60 ans - 60 photographies À l'occasion des 60 ans d'activité de la célèbre agence photographique Magnum, la Galerie Esther Woerdehoff montre un choix de 60 photographies qui en ont fait l'histoire. Chacun des tirages présentés, aux formats divers, représente un photographe de l'agence et un évènement historique. En fait, les images nous rappellent des moments qui ont marqué définitivement la mémoire collective, comme l'assassinat de John F. Kennedy : l'impressionnan… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René BurriClamor, grito y amor Cuba 1963-2007 5 Sep – 20 Oct 2007En 1963 René Burri rencontre Ernesto Guevara à Cuba. Une rencontre qui va marquer à vie son oeuvre. Pour le 40ème anniversaire de la mort du Che, la Galerie Esther Woerdehoff présente une exposition exclusive du photographe suisse et expose également, pour la première fois, ses collages inédits, créés exclusivement pour l'exposition. Les photos de René Burri du Che dans son bureau, le fameux cigare entre les lèvres, sont devenues des icônes dispersées partout dans le monde et re… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Lillian BirnbaumTransition7 Jun – 14 Jul 2007We are all of us emigrants from a country we can remember little of and we try to reconstruct it, but all that is most important about it escapes us. We feel that we have never been so happy since we left it or so miserable, but we can’t remember how the happiness felt or the quality of the misery : we watch our children’s eyes for hints. Knowledge has altered the taste of every emotion ... Graham Green, «The lost chilhood» Over five years the photographer Lillian Birnbum has followed you… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Solo Exhibition2 May – 2 Jun 2007Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Maarit Hohteri, Loan Nguyen, Carla van de Puttelaar, Signe Vad 22 Mar – 28 Apr 2007Lorsque l'on a pris conscience de la distance infinie qu'il y aura toujours entre deux êtres humains, quels qu'ils soient, une merveilleuse "vie côte à côte" devient possible: Il faudra que les deux partenaires deviennent capables d'aimer cette distance qui les sépare et grâce à laquelle chacun des deux aperçoit l'autre entier, découpé dans le ciel. Rainer Maria Rilke La distance dont traite Rilke, est la même qui nous permet de mesurer notre monde et celui de l!autre. Les artistes p… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Bestiarium 30 Jan – 10 Mar 2007La Galerie Esther Woerdehoff propose, du 30 janvier au 10 mars 2007, l'exposition collective Bestiarium. Elle met en premier plan la créativité et les rêveries des photographes contemporains sur le monde animal. C'est un panorama insolite et surprenant. Protagonistes sont, bien sûr, les animaux: pris dans leur environnement naturel, vus comme des jouets ou comme partie essentielle dans les cérémonies humaines. À l'interprétation donnée par les photographes représentés par la galerie… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Michael von GraffenriedGraffenried à la page2 Nov 2006 – 20 Jan 2007Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Marina GadonneixSolo Exhibition 5 Dec 2006 – 20 Jan 2007Le projet de Marina Gadonneix s'inscrit, selon ses propres termes, dans "l'observation du monde quotidien dans sa construction et sa mise en scène, faire du monde familier dans lequel on vit le lieu de l'artifice, avec sa part d'inquiétude, d'étrangeté et de mélancolie." Une des qualités de ce projet, outre sa réussite plastique, est également à trouver dans le degré d'explicitation qu'il se donne, et que l'on vient d'énoncer plus haut. Marina Gadonneix s'intéresse au monde des m… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Mario A.The World Is Beautiful 14 Sep – 31 Oct 2006The World Is Beautiful est le voyage, en 13 images photographiques couleur de 70 x 110 cm, de Bijutsuko ("l'enfant des Arts"), une jeune fille japonaise qui a quitté le temple de Sanzen à Kyoto pour s'embarquer vers Tokyo. C'est à la fois un parcours physique et métaphorique à travers le Japon. Si, au début du voyage, elle pose encore à la façon des cartes postales traditionnelles sous les cerisiers en fleur du parc Inokashira, nous la retrouvons à la fin dans une chambre du Park Hya… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Laurence DemaisonSolo Exhibition30 May – 15 Jul 2006Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Gérard MacéLe livre et l'ombrelle 9 May – 27 May 2006Le livre et l'ombrelle L'Éthiopie, pour les archéologues et les historiens, c'est le territoire de notre ancêtre Lucy. Pour le lecteur de poésie, c'est la dernière destination de Rimbaud. Mais l'Éthiopie est aussi une civilisation au confluent du Nil et de la mer Rouge, dont l'histoire est écrite depuis l'Antiquité. Or la civilisation, en Éthiopie comme ailleurs, c'est ce qui a résisté aux invasions, aux massacres, aux politiques désastreuses, aux épidémies, aux famines et mêm… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Xavier DaunySolo Exhibition6 Apr – 6 May 2006Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Daniel FrasnaySolo Exhibition 14 Feb – 2 Apr 200614 février au 2 avril 2006 Daniel Frasnaymore Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Chema MadozSolo Exhibition 27 Oct 2005 – 28 Jan 200627 octobre au 28 janvier Chema Madozmore Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Loan NguyenSolo Exhibition 15 Sep – 22 Oct 2005Biographie Loan Nguyen 1977 née le 27 août, nationalité suisse 1996-2000 Ecole d'Arts Appliqués, section photographique, Vevey Expositions personnelles à venir: "Galerie Esther Woerdehoff" (septembre 05) "Galerie SPHN", Berlin (du 11.11-20.12.05) 2004 Cycle photographie de mode, Galerie Partikel, Lucerne, Suisse Espace "Entretemps", Le Bon Marché, Paris "10 designers", Festival International des Arts de la Mode de Hyères Expositions collectives 2004 "Vague 2", Hommage et Digression… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Face cachée 12 May – 13 Jul 2005Ce visage vieux comme le monde, visage de vieux bouffon qui joue avec les nuages Et cette face de lune au sourire pâle qui joue avec nos ombres: ce sont des leurres, des masques posés sur la tête de mort qui nous sert de dieu lare. Gérard Macé "La cité avait été gouvernée jadis par des princes qui portaient le visage découvert; mais dès longtemps s'était levée une longue horde de rois masqués. Nul homme n'avait vu la face de ces rois, et même les prêtres en ignoraient la r… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Connie Imbodentravaux récents 31 Mar – 30 Apr 2005Rêve, réalité ou encore cauchemar… D’où viennent ces images ? Elles semblent sortir tout droit de l’imaginaire. Mais pour passer de l’esprit à un support (la photographie) il faut bien une part de réalité. Il est vrai qu’a l’époque actuelle avec le numérique tout semble possible, comme elle aurait aussi très bien pu faire des montages au laboratoire lors du tirage. Mais non, elle les crée dès la prise de vue, ces images que vous avez sous les yeux sont celle qu’elle v… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Pascal LoubetFaces 31 Mar – 30 Apr 2005Pascal Loubet fabrique à partir de quatre visages réels des portraits totalement artificiels. La photographie, au départ destinée à représenter une réalité, est ici détournée de sa fonction originelle en ce sens que Pascal Loubet crée à la fois l’objet photographié et sa représentation. Ces photographies sont ensuite combinées sous forme de film où chaque visage passe lentement à un autre, reproduisant la fascination exercée par les images qui nous environnent aujourd’hui … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Antoine PetitprezSolo Exhibition10 Feb – 26 Mar 2005Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Louis StettnerToday and Yesterday 7 Dec 2004 – 5 Feb 2005Est-il nécessaire de présenter Louis Stettner ? Ses photographies sont désormais des icônes et des symboles de la photographie contemporaine, des images qui ressentent à la fois de la photographie straight américaine et de la photographie européenne. Stettner découvre la photographie par ses protagonistes : Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Wegee et Brassaï. C’est ce dernier qui lui apprend qu’une vision personnelle peut transformer une chose ordinaire en quelque chose d’extraordina… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Normandie et Rügen: Paysages archéologiques Mois de la Photo26 Oct – 27 Nov 2004L’exposition présente deux chapitres bien distincts de l’histoire allemande. Ici, ce sont les plages du débarquement, photographiées par Matthias Koch avec la grande chambre installée en haut de l’échelle de sa voiture de pompier. Les images agissent comme des témoins, autant de traces architecturales, comme ces bunkers abandonnés par les envahisseurs et ces cratères créés par les bombardements laissés par la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans ce paysage normand si généreux. Là, … more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Mario A.ma poupée japonaise 23 Sep – 23 Oct 2004Femme ou poupée, être vivant ou jouet, à la fois enfant et objet de désir, la "poupée japonaise" de Mario A., artiste allemand installé au Japon, est photographiée dans différentes mises en scènes qui jouent sur toutes ces ambiguïtés, en faisant référence à la culture japonaise et au rôle de la femme dans cette société. Sachiko est une poupée ou peut-être une femme. Visage impassible, yeux largement écarquillés, Sachiko regarde dans le vide. Parfois, son regard semble attir… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Clark & PougnaudClark et Pougnaud 8 Apr – 12 Jun 2004Virginie Pougnaud et Christophe Clark mettent en scène des personnages dans des univers qu'ils créent de toute pièce. Dans des cadres urbains, des intérieurs bourgeois, ou des décors fantastiques, souvent ces personnages se retrouvent face à eux-mêmes, dévoilant leur solitude et leur intimité. Virginie Pougnaud est peintre et Christophe Clark photographe, ils mêlent leurs univers depuis 1998. Virginie conçoit des maquettes qui sont photographiées en studio par Christophe. Décors et… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 René Burri50 Years in Photography15 Jan – 6 Mar 2004Born in Zürich in 1933, René Burri belongs to the great photographers of the second half of the 20th century. His body of work covers almost all major events of the last five decades, beginning with the Suez conflict in the 50ies, the crisis in Cyprus, the last communist revolution in San Marino. Burri photographed in Corea and Vietnam, he covered Cuba and Latin America. Again and again he went to the Middle East, travelled in China and Japan, or visited South Africa. René Burri saw the world… more Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Solo Exhibition25 Nov 2003 – 10 Jan 2004Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Leonard FreedNude and Naked9 Oct – 22 Nov 2003Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Georges DussaudSummer show2 Jul – 16 Jul 2003Esther WoerdehoffFRGalerie Esther Woerdehoff +33(0)9-51 51 24 50 galerie@ewgalerie.com Wed-Sat 12-19 Thierry CohenŒuvre de confinement |
