The 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022 engages with the theme of Currency from multiple angles and perspectives, investigating how value and meaning are attached to photographic images. Until September 18, an exhibition parcours in the major museums and art institutions in Hamburg reflects on the polyphonic ways in which photographs are produced, circulated and interpreted.
Within this thematic framework and in cooperation with FUTURES European Photography Platform, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel presents But I’m Awake. Identity, Vulnerability and Empowerment, a major exhibition of positions of young photography. Opening on August 10, the exhibition shows works by five artists that deal with exclusion, belonging and empowerment from systems of oppression: With her photographs, Maria Babikova proves to be a precise observer of Russian society, its conventions and dualisms. With his surreal (self-)portraits and depictions of the body, the artist David Uzochukwu deals with belonging and resilience, isolation and security. Photographer Julie Poly, who lived in Kiev until recently, deliberately blurs the boundaries between documentary and staged photography in her search for the visual and cultural codes of everyday Ukrainian life. Agnieszka Sejud uses different media to explore the components of human identity and the idea of individual freedom. The artist Euridice Zaituna Kala explores different ways of dealing with memory, questioning the access to history.
The presented artists are part of FUTURES, a photography platform and program supported by the European Union that started in 2017 with an annual program to nurture emerging artists who are selected by museums and festivals throughout Europe. FUTURES’ goal is to increase the ca- pacity, mobility and visibility of its selected participants and to bridge the gap between emerging and established artists.
Out Now: The editorial touchstone of the exhibitions, projects and related activities staged on the occasion of the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg is Lucid Knowledge: On the Currency of the Photographic Image. The publications gathers the core contributions of the symposium Lucid Knowledge, the Triennial’s discoursive forerunner event in September 2021. It presents key essays on the subject by Akinbode Akinbiyi, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Natalia Brizuela, Antawan I. Byrd, Tina M. Campt, Robin Coste Lewis, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Maaza Mengiste, Elias Sanbar, and many more. Available at the museum shop of the Deichtorhallen Hamburg as well as in regular book stores (Hatje Cantz, 280 pages, English and German, 28 euros).
8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022
12 Exhibitions in Hamburg
May 20-September 18, 2022
Opening weekend: May 20-22, 2022
Festival and launch Triennial Expanded: June 2-6, 2022
All additional information at: www.phototriennale.de
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8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022
Kampnagel Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
August 10, 2022 to September 30, 2022
