face-to-face

Stuttgart. Thomas Kellner displays the exhibition "face-to-face, Das Menschenbild" at the collection of photographers:network 2004 - 2013 in Stuttgart.
Duration of the exhibition: June 5 to July 27 2014

2013 marked the tenth anniversary of the "photographers network" project, which was founded by freelance artist Thomas Kellner. With the aim of building a network among colleagues, creating mutual support and development as well as an ongoing exchange between artists, he has been investing a great deal of commitment into his project for ten years now. And successfully so.

The annual meetings, to which Kellner invites his colleagues from all over the world, have already produced some surprisingly fresh and unusual exhibitions. An expert jury consisting of journalists, gallerists and curators selects the best works, awards a portfolio prize and nominates a solo exhibition. This way, the participants gain notoriety and benefit from each other's experience and wealth of ideas.

To mark the anniversary of his project, Thomas Kellner looks back on the last ten years and considers whether his project has left its mark. What effect has the project had on his colleagues, on their work? How is such an accumulation of creativity and the diversity of ideas expressed in the work itself? This year's exhibition features the best works of the last ten years. The focus is on the human being, an emotional being in whose face you can read the traces of life, the traces of the past: "face-to-face".

Exhibiting artists: Mariette Pathy Allen, Lili Almog, Marco Ambrosi, Bill Armstrong, Pascal Baetens, Marc Baruth, Niki Berg, Richard Bram, Patrizia Casamirra, Pedro David, Max de Esteban, Diane Ducruet, Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Blake Fitch, Lucia Ganieva, Chrystel Garipuy, Judy Gelles, Andrew Z. Glickman, Lorena Guillen Vaschetti, Michael Hallett, Daniel Handal, Dirk Hanus, Jolana Havelková, Johannes Hepp, Olga  Hoffman, Nicolai Howalt, Qiu Jun Song, Véronique Kolber, Liu LiJie, Emily-Jane Major, Ana Lucia Mariz, Rania Matar, Andrea Mendes, Charles Mintz, Katharina Mouratidi, Wolfgang Müller, Wawi Navarroza, Dan Nelken, Suzanne Opton, Udayan Sankar Pal, Kitty Paranagua, Nicolas Pascarel, Inger Lise Rasmussen, Ken Rosenthal, Frank Rothe, Michelle Sank, Diana Scherer, Jutta Schmidt, Daniel Schumann, Gregory Scott, Evzen Sobek, Ursula Sokolowska, Leslie Starobin, Ludmila Steckelberg de Santana, Urszula Tarasiewicz, Guy Veloso, Rebecca Webb, Johan Willner, Peng Xiangjie, Qiu Zhen.

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