Artist talk, Samtal
At Home With
In a pilot project, the Center for Photography wants to create a meeting place for our members in Västra Götaland. During the year, our members will open their studios for visits and conversations.
2025
April 15 – Cornelia Schmidt
On April 15, Cornelia Schmidt invites you to an at-home visit to her own photo studio in Partille. Cornelia, a portrait photographer from Switzerland, started photographing in her young days and pursued it as a hobby until she moved to Sweden in 2000 and then acquired her first photo studio and company in Gothenburg. In addition to her regular work with family/children/corporate portraits, she started her life project Just People in 2012. Since then, she has exhibited in Sweden, Germany, Italy and Ireland. The project has evolved over the years and has changed her life.
Read more about Cornelia Schimdt here.
During the visit, we will learn about Cornelia’s work where she talks about her long-term project Just People and see images from the project. We then move on to a workshop where we discuss how to work with longer photo projects!
When: April 15, at 16.30
Where: Partille
If you are interested in participating, email emma.sandstrom@centrumforfotografi.se
The Center for Photography supports members who live outside the Gothenburg area with travel compensation.
Photo: Sayalee Chaudhary
Would you like to participate in at home with during the spring of 2025? Then send an email to emma.sandstrom@centrumforfotografi.se
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2024
June 12 – Studio Pilot
On June 12, we visited Studio Pilot. Studio Pilot is a newly established studio at Bangatan 62 for artists working with photography and moving images; a place for dialogue, exhibitions and experiments. @studiopilot
The participants brought their own photograph in any size and technique. Then a “Speed Dating” was carried out with the image as a starting point.
About Studio Pilot:
Nina Mangalanayagam explores belonging, hybridity and decolonial narrative forms through photography and moving images. She is interested in how dominant narratives can be interrupted and changed with artistic methods. She is currently working on a three-year artistic research project – Colouring-in-Sweden – with funding from the Swedish Research Council. Nina participates in exhibitions nationally and internationally, which includes several in the UK where she lived and worked for nearly 20 years. www.ninamanga.com
Helga Härenstam works with chance and storytelling, often with images in combination with text. She has published about ten artist books/photo books. Her working method as an artist/photographer involves looking for and creating connections, meaning, and stories, based on events, people and objects that she encounters in her everyday life. Since her MFA degree (HDK-Valand) she has exhibited at institutions in Sweden and abroad. www.helgaharenstam.se
Anna Sofia Jernryd examines conventional ideas regarding representation, identity and classification as well as the meaning of “belonging”. She is interested in renegotiating the boundary between inside and outside, inclusion and exclusion, and “I” and “you”. Jernryd works conceptually with photography, moving images, text and sound to create imaginary/immaterial as well as physical spaces. www.annasofia.jernryd.com
Mercè Torres Ràfols works primarily with photography at the intersection with other materials such as text, ceramics and found objects. She is interested in issues relating to heritage, place and tradition – how knowledge is passed on and how we can understand something anew. Ràfols asks these questions in a specific environment, and examines how a place has gained charge over time by society. mercetorres.cargo.site
May 27 – Rat Studio
On May 27, we visited the studio collective RAT STUDIO
RAT STUDIO: Rat studio is a newly opened studio collective in Johanneberg. Rat Studio shares a basement space that they hope in the future can become a room with space for discussions, workshops and exhibitions. Rat studio consists of Jaana Sundström, Josefin Cedervall, Jo Ranva Velling, Sunniva Hestenes, Merlin-Jon Bresinski, Eli Eli Eli, Ida Kaae, Runa Rosgaard and Nanna Hammer Tiittanen.
During the evening, we got to take part in the artists’ ongoing projects and mingled!
April 29 Joanna Helander
On April 26, we visited photographer Joanna Helander in her studio at Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. During the afternoon, Joanna showed images from her project together with director Bo Persson.
Joanna Helander, photographer, filmmaker, author and translator raised in Poland. She was early active in the democratic opposition in Kraków and emigrated to Sweden in 1971. Her first photo book “Kobieta – a book about women in Poland” was published in 1978 in the series Aktuell Fotografi. Since then, she has published several photo books including “Gerard K” and “If She from Poland Were Here” – about and with Nobel laureate in literature Wisława Szymborska. Recently, her photo album “Ladies Looking – photographs 1976–2012” was published. Her latest feature film “Watching the Moon at Night – about terrorism and anti-Semitism” which she has made together with director Bo Persson has been shown in many countries and recently had a high-profile re-premiere in Sweden.
Joanna Helander with Szymborska, Photography: Barbara Kubska
You can see Joanna Helander’s exhibition Wisława Szymborska 101 years at Gothenburg City Library until April 28.
Read more about Joanna Helander here
