Thomas Florschuetz, Are you talking to me

BALTIC presents Berlin-based photographer Thomas Florschuetz’s first major exhibition outside Germany. Are You Talking To Me? includes works spanning a 10 year period from the nineties and the beginning of the 21st century, shown in BALTIC’s Ground Floor and Level 2 art spaces from 31 July – 19 September.

Considered one of the most significant fine art photographers of his generation, this exhibition is a perfect demonstration of the artist’s unusually expressive range of photography, and comprises large scale colour prints often produced and hung together in series.

The artist’s subject matter often derives from an interrogation of his own physicality through close-up photographs of parts of his own body. In these works Florschuetz himself is the subject matter and he very decidedly presents body fixated photographic selves - insuring his own physical existence. Other series of works in the exhibition focus on iconic modern architectural details, for example the Bauhaus staircase or a mies van der rohe building or public school buildings from Oscar Niemeyer in Rio de Janeiro. Despite their large scale, the works presented in this exhibition are intimate and personal images.

Open to motifs and themes, Florschuetz systematically poses questions that revolve around photography’s limits and its potentialities. At the same time he indirectly opens up the medium to new ways and defines photography as a pictorial art that need not fear any comparison with painting. Florschuetz’s work demonstrates an interest in form and colour, but there is an underlying tension or implication that perhaps something less certain and more troubling lies beneath the surface. Thomas Florschuetz was born 1957 in Zwickau, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue produced by Kunstmuseum Bonn, which will be available from the BALTIC shop at a special exhibition price for the duration of the show. Pressetext

Thomas Florschuetz: Are you talking to me?
Ground Floor & Level 2

Kooperation: BALTIC und Kunstmuseum Bonn