discussing photography
may 2010
central week
17–22 may
Costis Antoniadis is professor for Photography at the Department of Photography and Audiovisual Arts of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. He co-founded the Photography Center of Athens and curated since 1979 numerous photographic exhibitions in Greece as well as international festivals. From 2003 to 2005 he was director of the Photography Museum of Thessalonica.
Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Photography Museum of Thessalonica
Dorothee Böhm studied art history and history in Cologne and Hamburg.
PhD in 2007. Research Assistant at the art historical institute of the Ruhr University, Bochum. Coordinator of the postgraduate program ‘Art Criticism & Curatorial Knowledge’, Academic Director of the ‘Archiv Ulrich Rückriem’ of the art collection at the Ruhr University, Bochum, and freelance curator.
www.kunstgeschichte.rub.de/beta, www.kunstgeschichte.rub.de/kusa (Campusmuseum)
Susanne Brügger studied visual communication at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund and photography at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Post-gradueted studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Since 1985 she is working as a photographer and artist and in 2002 she became professor for photography and new media at the University of Applied Sciences Dortmund.
www.susannebruegger.de, www.fh-dortmund.de
Gisela Bullacher studied art at the the University of Fine Arts
Hamburg. Since 2004 professor for photography, Department of Art, Folkwang University, Essen
Hervé Charles is a photographer and visual artist, lives and works in Brussels. He explores the ambiguity of representation, mainly through pictures and videos of landscapes. Hervé Charles has a degree in “Arts Plastiques” from the “Institut St-Luc” (Tournai, B) and a masters degree in “Arts et Sciences de la Communication” from the “Université de Liège”. Since 2003, he leads the Photography department of the “Ecole de la Cambre” (Brussels).
Pierre Fantys lives and works in Lausanne. After studying photography in Vevey he started his career as a photographer 1985. Since 1996 he is professor for Photography at the ECAL. Since 1999 he is head of the Photography Department.
Hendrik Folkerts has studied Art History and Aesthetics at the University of Amsterdam (M.A.) He publishes regularly in such magazines as Metropolis M and Tubelight. In 2009 he initiated Troublemakers, a platform for research on contemporary feminism at the intersection of art, academia and society. He currently works at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam as co-ordinator of the Curatorial Training Programme and additionally, at the University of Amsterdam as a research assistant.
www.troublemakers.nl
www.deappel.nl, www.metropolism.com
Antonello Frongia teaches History of photography at the Università Iuav,
Venice and at the Università degli studi Roma Tre. He has curated several
exhibitions on the work of contemporary artists, including Lewis Baltz, Marina
Ballo Charmet, and Guido Guidi.
Matthias Herrmann lives and works in Vienna and Riparbella. For more information: www.herrmann-studio.com. Since 2006 Hermann is directing the class of Art and Photography at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Vienna.
www.kunstundfotografie.at, www.akbild.ac.at
Viktor Kolář born in Ostravia – an industrial city of coal mines and foundries located near the borders of Poland and Slovakia. For most of his creative life Ostrava is the central theme of all of photographic work. His father, who was self-taught photographer and filmmaker himself passed his interest in photography on his son at the age of thirteen. Also his father´s library, particularly the books on photography, encouraged his interest in photography. Kolář is professor at the Department of Photography, FAMU Prag.
www.viktorkolar.com, www.famu.cz
Harri Laakso is professor of visual culture and head of department at Aalto University, Department of Art and Media Pori in Finland. He is a researcher, artist and curator and has published numerous texts on contemporary art and photography in Finland and abroad.
Peter Pilller lives and works as a freelance photographer in Hamburg. From 1993 to 2000 he studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Since 2006 he is a professor at the Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig
www.peterpiller.de, www.hgb-leipzig.de
Russell Roberts is a curator and writer. He studied in London before joining the Department of Photography at the Victoria & Albert Museum as an intern from 1990-92. From 1998-2006 he was Head of Photography at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television (National Media Museum). As a curator he has worked on projects for festivals and venues such as Arles, Photoespana and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Tate Britain, Moderna Museet and the Finnish Museum of Photography amongst others. In 2006 he joined the CPR at University of Wales, Newport, in a unique partnership with Ffotogallery, Cardiff, to work on developing a national centre for photography in Wales.
Johannes Schwartz lives and works in Amsterdam.
Beate Söntgen is professor for art history at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She studied art history, philosophy and German literature in Marburg and Berlin, PhD in 1996. 2009 Flaubert-visiting-professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Publications dealing with art and art theory of the 18.–21. century.
www.kunstgeschichte.rub.de/beta
