The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is opening the exhibition “New Works. 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse” in The Cube, Eschborn/Frankfurt. On show are new acquisitions for the Art Collection Deutsche Börse from 2018 and 2019. The works by 14 different artists offer an in-depth look at the Collection for contemporary photography’s development. “New Works” marks the end of an extensive programme celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Art Collection. The exhibition is on display from 22 November – 22 February 2020 and can also be visited for the first time on two open Saturdays without prior registration.
The Art Collection Deutsche Börse currently comprises more than 1,900 works by around 130 artists from 27 nations and is growing continuously. New artistic positions broaden the scope of the Collection, while additions to groups of work by artists already represented in the Art Collection provide further depth. The central theme remains the contemplation and exploration of the “condition humana”, the conditions of human existence and of people’s ways of adapting to their environment.
The new pieces acquired over the last two years also deal intensively with forms of co-existence, different lifestyles, and the question of social identity. In her series “Prince Street Girls”, the American photographer Susan Meiselas portrays a group of girls in the streets of New York in the 1970s. With his long-term documentation the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen draws authentic portraits of the guests of the Hamburger pub “Café Lehmitz”. In the series “TTP”, Hayahisa Tomiyasu captures the partly absurd happenings around a table tennis table.
Further aspects in the ongoing development of the Collection are the discovery and acquisition of young talents. In the exhibition, works by young artists such as Jana Bissdorf, Malte Sänger and Weronicka Gesicka assert themselves alongside photographs by renowned artists such as Henry Wessel, Harry Gruyaert or Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer.
Artists list “New Works”: Jana Bissdorf, Christian Borchert, Weronicka Gesicka, Harry Gruyaert, Pieter Hugo, Susan Meiselas, Gabriele und Helmut Nothhelfer, Anders Petersen, Hsu Pin Lee, Malte Sänger, Hayahisa Tomiyasu, Henry Wessel, Ulrich Wüst.
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation : New Works. 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse
30 November 2019 and 18 January 2020
The Cube
Mergenthalerallee 61
65760 Eschborn/Frankfurt
www.deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org
