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artists & participants
AES+F,
Nobuyoshi Araki,
Thomas Demand,
Götz Diergarten,
Elger Esser,
Günther Förg,
Andreas Gursky,
Klaus Heider,
Candida Höfer,
Sherrie Levine,
Peter Lindbergh,
Robert Mapplethorpe,
Hans Op de Beeck,
Thomas Ruff,
Hans-Christian Schink,
Thomas Struth,
Wolfgang Tillmans,
Wim Wenders
curators
press release
LICHTEMPFINDLICH. Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler 15.04.2018 - 06.01.2020
Contemporary photography from the Schaufler Collection will be on display from September 2017 at the SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen. The museum will link this show to the LICHTEMPFINDLICH exhibition of 2011, which had presented the large collection of this medium to the public for the first time in the impressive space of the former high rack warehouse in the SCHAUWERK. This lofty storage space inspires with its revolving ramp, which extends over 15 metres upward: an exhibition place par excellence for photography, with spectacular visual axes for viewing from near and afar.
The classic genres of photography—nude, portrait, landscape, architecture, or industry—are mirrored in the works, but are often citations or stages of conceptual processes. Most of the protagonists within the context of this collection have left behind the conventional framework of photography.
Along with major works from the first exhibition, LICHTEMPFINDLICH 2 will also display photographs that previously haven’t been shown, so that a more comprehensive representation of the contemporary photography collection can occur. The main interest of the collectors Peter Schaufler and Christiane Schaufler-Münch is not directed toward the medium and its history per se, but leans more toward the fascination that arises from certain motifs, pictorial inventions, and their formal transformations.