Black and white image of the aurora borrealis in a rondelle
 

artist talk : jens knigge & witho worms

March 16, 2024 | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, NY

We invite you to join us Saturday March 16th, 1pm at the gallery for a conversation about these two landscape photographers’ practices. Their work is part of New York Public Library’s upcoming The Awe of the Arctic : A Visual History exhibition (March 15- July 13), curated by NYPL’s Robert B. Menschel Curator of Photography Elizabeth Cronin. Worms is also included in the Asia Society’s Coal + Ice exhibition (February 13 – August 11).

To attend, please RSVP here


EXHIBITION: The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History

March 15 - July 13, 2024 | New York Public Library, New York, NY

For centuries, what lies above the Arctic Circle has been a source of intrigue and fascination for those who live below its border. NYPL's exhibition, drawn almost exclusively from its rich collections is a large, multipart survey of how the Arctic has been visually depicted, defined, and imagined over the past 500 years. Ranging from 16th-century explorers to contemporary artists, the works on view - which include the photographs of Jens Knigge and Witho Worms  - invite us to consider how this history relates to our current understanding of the Arctic. 


 

Collection du Centre Méditerranéan de la Photographie

February 16 - March 23, 2024 | Musée de Bastia / Museu di Bastia, Corsica, France

This group presentation offers an aesthetic approach to landscape, portrait and reportage in a photographic style specific to each of the photographers exhibited. The CMP has a considerable photographic heritage, which contains works by artists of different styles and origins, relating to Corsica, the Mediterranean and beyond. “Whether on a documentary, photojournalistic or visual level, through offbeat or more classic visions, the aim here is to focus on the aesthetic fields that make up a collection, but also to show that these different photographic attitudes participate in the construction of the gaze” explains M.ichel Fortini. This exhibition presents the photographs of Jane Evelyn Atwood, Letizia Battaglia, Stéphane Couturier, Joan Fontcuberta, Constantine Manos, Bernard Plossu, Reza, among many others.


 

SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN|Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World

Opening March 29, 2024 | Michelin Design Gallery, V&A, Dundee, Scotland

This group exhibition, exploring the way we experience our cities, will showcase Konttinen’s photograph Girl on a Spacehopper from the Byker series about a neighborhood of Newcastle upon Tyne where she lived and photographed from 1969-1976.

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COAL + ICE : Inspiring climate action through art and ideas

February 13 - August 11, 2024 | Asia Society, New York

This is the third venue (following the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco) for this immersive photography and video exhibition. From deep within coal mines to the melting glaciers of the greater Himalaya, across the globe rising sea levels and extreme weather events are wreaking havoc. Work by JOHN DAVIES, WITHO WORMS and 50 others from China elsewhere aid in visualizing the causes and consequences of the climate crisis and foregrounds creative solutions.

A series of related programs will accompany the exhibition.

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MIKAEL LEVIN |Critical Places: Sites of American Slave Rebellion

melrose, Natchez National Historical Park, Mississippi

January 26 - April 1, 2024

Exhibited in a former enslaved cabin on Melrose estate are three sites/stories from Levin’s ongoing photographic project. One of these, The Second Creek Conspiracy of 1861, took place in the county presenting the work. The Newton Revolt of 1708 which took place in Queens, NY and the Lin Uprising of 1859 in Lewis County Missouri which are also on view illustrate the varied nature and broad geographic range. In celebration of Black History Month, this exhibition encourages reflection on how revolts of the enslaved in the United States are remembered or not remembered in the landscape.

The Alluvial Collective - an organization which engages in a participatory dialogue using deep listening, storytelling and community building - is a co-sponsor and will facilitate discussions about the exhibition and its themes both at the outset of the exhibition and at its conclusion.

Artist Talk: Jan 25, 6:30 at the Historical Nachez Foundation
Artist Reception: Jan 26, 2-5pm at Melrose south slave cabin
Dialogue Circle: Jan 27, 2pm at Nachez Association for the Preservation of African American Culture

PRESS:

To read Press Release click here

The Natchez Democrat (front page) read here

The Natchez Democrat Opinion: read here


JACQUES SONCK |PORTRAITS 1977-2019 

January 18 - March 31, 2024 | Fondation A Stichting, Brussels, Belgium

This solo exhibition presents more than forty years of portraits which Sonck has made of every day characters and very unique fellow Belgians.

To read article in De Morgen click here

For installation views click here


JANE EVELYN ATWOOD | Jane evelyn atwood

January 11 - April 6, 2024 | Le Parvis Espace Culturel E.Leclerc, Pau, France

Revealing the humanist side of JANE EVELYN ATWOOD’s work, this solo exhibition spotlights her series on blind children and another on Paris’ trans community dating back to the late 1970s. Below is an interview from French television with Atwood in the exhibition space.

To watch TV spot click here

To read more click here

To read La Rép des Pyrénées article click here


Bob Dylan: MIXING UP THE MEDICINE 

Book by Callaway Arts & Entertainment, 2023

At over 600 pages, this richly illustrated and deeply researched volume is the ultimate reference on America's most groundbreaking, influential and enduring artists.  Musician/photographer/filmmaker/writer/folklorist JOHN COHEN encountered the younger musician shortly after Dylan’s arrival in New York.  Among the precious nuggets in the book, is a little known interview Cohen had with Dylan, published in the Oct 1968 issue of Sing Out magazine which accompanies photos Cohen took of him in 1962 and 1970. 

More images of book here

SING OUT interview read here


A STORY OF IMAGES

December 16th, 2023 - March 3rd, 2024 | Musée De Grenoble, France

The exhibition is the first assessment of the photographic collection, donated to the museum by French collector Antoine de Galbert and his foundation. Through the works of 95 photographers, including JANE EVELYN ATWOOD, SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN, Sammy Baloji, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Luc Delahaye, Dorothea Lange, Martin Parr, and Wiktoria Wojciechowska, this exhibition and accompanying book offer an impressive panorama of our time and the determining role played by photography in the shaping of our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.

PRESS:

Le Journal des Arts article here

Les Inrockuptibles article here