Contemporary artists and photographers now move freely between different digital platforms, still and moving images, exhibitions, and publications. Do they still relate to the same visual language as artists working with lens-based media did in the late 1990s, even though everything is different today? What are the trends in today’s photography? Why photography? Where will photography be tomorrow?

We have invited experts, curators, and artists in the photographic field to share their insights on the past, the trends they have seen, and their predictions for the future.

REGISTRATION

Free admission to the symposium with registration required.
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PROGRAM

14.15 Welcome and introduction by Anna Tellgren, Curator of Photography, Moderna Museet, and Kristyna Müller, Director, Center for Photography (CFF).

14.30 Felix Hoffmann: On Foto Arsenal Wien

15.00 Artist talk with Laia Abril

15.30 Break

16.00: On the Past, Present, and Future of Photography: Panel discussion with Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Lotta Antonsson, and Kent Klich.

Moderator: Kristyna Müller

17.00 End

Supported by Goethe-Institut Schweden and the Spanish Embassy in Stockholm.

PARTICIPANTS

Laia Abril (1986, Spain) works investigatively with photography, text, video, and sound. Her works tell intimate stories that reveal uncomfortable and hidden realities, focusing on biopolitics and gender equality. One of her long-term projects, A History of Misogyny, includes award-winning books On Abortion (2018) and On Rape (2022).

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (1988, Nigeria) works with both lens-based and non-lens-based photography, expressed in installations, performance, and graphics. At the heart of her practice is an examination of material processes that explore new ways of using established techniques. She has exhibited in Sweden and internationally and is represented in the Moderna Museet collection.

Lotta Antonsson (1963, Sweden) belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s and were inspired by postmodern art and theory. Antonsson’s work reflects a fascination with the late 1960s and 1970s, where the distinction between the documentary and the fictional is blurred, and where she creates a meeting between social and sexual revolutions. Her collages are in the collections of Moderna Museet and Hallands konstmuseum.

Felix Hoffmann is an art historian, curator, and the first artistic director of Foto Arsenal Wien, a new center for photography and lens-based media in Austria. From 2005 to 2022, he was Chief Curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation. In addition to publishing a large number of books, he has curated exhibitions such as Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe (2010), Gordon Parks (2016), and The Last Image: Photography and Death (2018).

Kent Klich (1952, Sweden) is a photographer and educator who works with both photography and film. He uses collaborative methods for image creation and representation. Some of his long-term projects are Beth’s Book (1988) and Gaza Photoalbum (2009), the latter of which has been exhibited at the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg and at the National Museum of Photography, The Royal Library in Copenhagen.

The symposium is organized by Moderna Museet and the Center for Photography (CFF) in Stockholm in connection with the Center for Photography’s 25th anniversary.

ENGLISH:

Since the invention of photography changes in technology, style and content have been the norm. For the past two decades these changes have concerned digital tools, communication strategies, authorship, and different types of automatizations in creating images. It has led to a fundamentally different world for all sorts of picture making. Contemporary artists and photographers now move freely between various digital platforms, still and moving images, exhibitions and publications. Even if everything is different, do they still relate to the same visual language as artists working with lens-based media did in the late 1990s? What are the tendencies in today’s photography? Why photography? Where is photography tomorrow?

We have invited experts, curators and artists within the field of photography to share their insights on the past, what tendencies they have seen and what predictions they might have for the future.

REGISTRATION

Free entrance to the symposium, registration requiered.
REGISTER HERE

PROGRAM

14.15 Welcome address and introduction by Anna Tellgren, Curator of Photography Moderna Museet and Kristyna Müller, Director Centrum för fotografi (CFF).

14.30 Felix Hoffmann: On Foto Arsenal Wien

15.00 Artist Talk by Laia Abril

15.30 Intermission

16.00 On the Past, Present and Future of Photography: Panel discussion with Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole, Lotta Antonsson and Kent Klich.

Moderator: Kristyna Müller

17.00 End

PARTICIPANTS

Laia Abril (1986, Spain) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video, and sound. Her work tells intimate stories that reveals uneasy and hidden realities focusing on biopolitics and gender equality. One of her long-term projects A History of Misogyny includes award-winning books On Abortion (2018) and On Rape (2022).

Diana Agunbiade-Kolawole (1988, Nigeria) works with both lens-based and non-lens-based photography through installations, performance and printmaking. At the core of her practice is an investigation of material processes that explores new ways of using established techniques. She has exhibited in Sweden and internationally and her work is represented in the Moderna Museet collection.

Lotta Antonsson (1963, Sweden) belongs to a generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s and was inspired by postmodern art and theory. Antonsson’s work reflects her fascination with the late 1960s and 1970s, in a style where documentary and fiction blur in a merging of social and sexual revolution. Her collages can be found in the collections of Moderna Museet and Halland Art Museum.

Felix Hoffmann is an art historian, curator and the first Artistic Director of the Foto Arsenal Wien, a new center for photography and lens-based media in Austria. From 2005 to 2022, he served as the Chief Curator of the C/O Berlin Foundation. In addition to publishing numerous books, he has curated exhibitions such as Nan Goldin (2009), Robert Mapplethorpe (2010), Gordon Parks (2016) and The Last Image: Photography and Death (2018).

Kent Klich (1952, Sweden) is a photographer and educator working within the fields of photography and film, using collaborative methodologies of image-making and representation. Some of his long-term projects include The Book of Beth (1988) and Gaza Photoalbum (2009), which has been exhibited at The Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg and The National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen.

The symposium is organized by Moderna Museet and Centrum för fotografi/The Centre for Photography (CFF) in Stockholm in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of The Centre for Photography.

With support from Goethe-Institut Schweden and Embassy of Spain in Stockholm.