ARIS KALAIZIS

Posted on October 15, 2024 by katharina guenther

Delivered today: Aris Kalaizis, Aris Kalaizis and Ralf Heipmann (eds.), Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2024, to which I contributed a short text on the New Leipzig School painter’s recent work Novus Mundi. Check it out!

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CONFERENCE “SPACE – OBJECT”

Posted on July 23, 2024 by katharina guenther

Temporary exhibitions and permanent collection displays and the objects shown in them are inextricably linked with the spaces, buildings and places they are shown at. I conceptualised and organised the conference “Space – Object. Exhibitions and Collections in their spaces” (30./31. August) for Klassik Stiftung Weimar to discuss the tight relationships between them from diverse angles ranging from practical, curatorial, ethical, historical and political perspectives, taking into account ideas and methods from, for example, curatorial studies and spatial humanities.

Emerging from the research group “Space” of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association it will also be discussed how and in what form this exchange can be continued in the future.

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UNIVERSITY HALLE-WITTENBERG

Posted on July 1, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last week I had a wonderful time talking about Francis Bacon to students and colleagues at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. I especially enjoyed the great questions and the discussion after my guest lecture ,One’s always hoping to renew them‘ – Francis Bacons fotografische Bildvorlagen (26/6/2024).

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AUGMENTED REALITY IN FINE ART

Posted on May 4, 2024 by katharina guenther

Augmented Reality is an insubordinate medium. Read in my latest essay how it pushes the physical boundaries of the museum space and defies conventional ideas of exhibitions, ownership and power in the art world. You can read the text with the title Systemsprenger – Augmented Reality in der zeitgenössischen Kunst open access in the edited volume Wohnen – Sammeln – Erinnern – Visualisieren. Raumpraktiken gestern und heute which has just been published at Wallstein. Download the text here.


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LEE MILLER BLOG POST

Posted on April 15, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last Thursday, 11 April, marked the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. I wrote a little something on Lee Miller‘s photographs of the first funeral procession to mark this day. You can read it on Klassik Stiftung Weimar‘s blog. It is there interlinked with my previous text on Miller for their magazine, klassisch modern. In case you have not read this one, here is the direct link.

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KUNSTTEXTE

Posted on April 3, 2024 by katharina guenther

SPREAD THE WORD: Jule Schaffer and I just founded a new section on photography within the German open access journal kunsttexte. For the first edition, which we are planning to launch towards the end of the year, we just published an open call for papers. The deadline is 31st May 2024.
Anyone with original perspectives on photography please apply. All topics are welcome: research on a single photographer or a genre, photo theory, media-related thoughts, formal and aesthetic issues … surprise us! We look forward to your texts, preferably in German.
Call for Papers

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RETHINKING PHOTOGRAPHY

Posted on April 3, 2024 by katharina guenther

I talked to Andy Scholz about Francis Bacon and photography for his fantastic podcast Fotografie Neu Denken (Rethinking Photography), and specifically about my research on the painter’s photographic references, published as Francis Bacon – In the Mirror of Photography (De Gruyter 2022) winning a gold medal at Deutscher Fotobuchpreis (German Photo Book Awards). Among many other things, my work shows how powerful and influential the medium of photography is even beyond its own boundaries.
You can listen to the interview, for example, on Spotify

And while you are there, check out all the other amazing episodes with photographers and photo experts such as Boris Eldagsen, Hubert Locher, Wolfgang Ullrich and Adam Broomberg!

FOTOGRAFIE NEU DENKEN. DER PODCAST

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LEE MILLER IN KLASSISCH MODERN

Posted on March 28, 2024 by katharina guenther

Very proud to have contributed to the latest issue of klassisch modern, the annual magazine of Klassik Stiftung Weimar, with fantastic texts by Peter Neumann, Anna Stiede and Nancy Hünger, amongst others. I wrote, once more, about Lee Miller‘s Buchenwald photographs – and found out where the famous picture of her with “the essentials of life”, namely wine, cigarettes and gasoline was taken, and when exactly she arrived in Weimar. Curious? Order the magazine free of charge here

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BACON AND EPHEMERAL ART

Posted on January 29, 2024 by katharina guenther

Bacon’s working material was not meant to last. In fact, the decay of the torn leaves, paint-spattered photographs and newspaper clippings was a pivotal element in his art – both for his iconography and on a conceptual level. In that it shows strong parallels to ephemeral art, which emerged around the same time that Bacon established his studio practice in 7 Reece Mews. I am exploring these coherences in my latest essay Vom Leben und Sterbenlassen in Reece Mews. Francis Bacons fotografisches Arbeitsmaterial, that was just published in the proceedings of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association’s midterm conference “Verschwinden” Vom Umgang mit materialen und medialen Verlusten in Archiv und Bibliothek.

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DIGITAL COLLECTION RESEARCH

Posted on January 25, 2024 by katharina guenther

Last year we asked “Is digital better?” at the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association’s end-term conference at Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The conference proceedings have just been published by Wallstein Verlag, with essays discussing topics from how digital methods can help in the culture of remembrance to the challenges for standardized classification and controlled vocabulary in the light of unusual items such as wine labels and the shifting perception of objects from colonial contexts. Edited by yours truly and Stefan Alschner. Many thanks to all the contributors!
Order the book here.

Favourably reviewed here: Das Historisch-Politische Buch, Vol. 72, Iss. 3-4, February 2025.

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