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Christoph Bangert, Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2010 © Christoph Bangert

Gregor Sailer, Suzdal IV, Vladimir Oblast, Russia, 2016, from the series The Potemkin Village

Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong, Beicheng Xin Cun, Pingyao, Shanxi Province, 2004, aus der Serie History Images (2002–2005) © Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong

Guy Tillim, Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008 © Guy Tillim. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg

Anne Heinlein, Groß Grabenstedt, 2008, from: "Wüstungen" by Anne Heinlein and Göran Gnaudschun © Foto: Anne Heinlein

EXTREME. TERRITORIES

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation
25 May – 28 September 2018
Opening:  24 May 2018

The EXTREME. TERRITORIES exhibition shows regions whose residents are exposed to exceptional conditions as a result of political and economic developments. The focus lies on the traces and shifts that mark the landscape, bearing witness to uprooting, separation and alienation. They arise as a consequence of political conflicts and upheavals but also through the negative side of rapid economic growth. The works by the five selected artists reflect this in diverse and impressive ways. The project Wüstungen (Devastations) by Anne Heinlein (*1977 DE) and Göran Gnaudschun (*1971 DE) shows photographs and archive material from border areas that were razed to the ground in the former East Germany. The banishment of long-term residents associated with the former is also the subject of the History Images series by Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong (*1970 MX/GB/US), addressing the radical architectural changes resulting from the economic upswing that have transformed the urban landscape in Chinese cities.

In Hello Camel, Christoph Bangert (*1978 DE) explores the extreme life circumstances caused by war. He shows how soldiers stationed in war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan strive for a bit of normality in the exclusion zones created for them there. Gregor Sailer (*1980 AT) travelled to extremely different regions around the world to show how bizarre these and other settlements hermetically sealed off from the outside world appear or even are simulated in his two series Potemkin Village and Closed Cities.

And Guy Tillim’s (*1962 ZA) Avenue Patrice Lumumba series paints a touchingly poetic portrait of sometimes seemingly morbid post-colonial buildings in African cities. The shown monuments contain both visions of political liberation and reflections of failure.

Deutsche Börse
Photography Foundation
The Cube, Eschborn

Mergenthalerallee 61, 65760 Eschborn

Opening Hours
The exhibition, after prior registration, can be viewed free of charge. Dates and registration to the public tours here.

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