This year’s first exhibition at 2/3 Gallery brings to the fore the works of artists Mihai Șovăială, Nico Krebs & Taiyo Onorato, Sebastian Stumpf and Vladimir Florentin. 2/3 Gallery will present the works of artists Mihai Șovăială and Nico Krebs + Taiyo Onorato, and the Goethe-Institut will exhibit the works of artists Sebastian Stumpf and Vladimir Florentin.
This exhibition series, entitled “With/ Against the Flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions (Part I)”, aims to answer some essential questions of the photographic environment, starting from the premise of the artist-creator of new images: “Imagine that you are a photographer and you have to go out into the world to create new images. But what does outside mean these days, and what makes the images new? How effective is photography still as an artistic medium in an age where everything has already been photographed and an endless stream of connected images floods everything? What questions need to be addressed today? And how?.
The exhibition “With/ Against the Flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions” presents, through the lens of individual and collective artistic practices, artists living in Germany alongside Romanian artists redefining photography as a medium. They critically explore perspectives on contemporary urban life using photography, video, photo-objects and installation. The form of the intervention unites these artistic positions: either directly on the materiality of the photographs or directly in the external reality specific to the photographic image. The project is part of a traveling program organized by the IFA – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, curated by Florian Ebner and Christin Müller.
The series “With/ Against the Flow. Contemporary Photographic Interventions” presents artistic positions in which performative interventions play a central role. The photographs and video works by Sebastian Stumpf and, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs explore different types of interventions on the image. While Sebastian Stumpf positions his body in relation to urban space and natural landscape, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs use pyrotechnics and wooden constructions, which become an integral part of real architecture through the rules of optical perspective.
The two exhibitions can be visited until March 23, 2025. Admission is free.
