The awakening of adolescence has been a recurring theme that has always fascinated a great many visual artists; conflicts of identity, physical metamorphosis, psychological instability (more…)
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Eman Mohammed
Photographer
Eman Mohammed a Palestinian photojournalist & reporter based in the Gaza strip. She has been covering events in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian-Israel conflict since 2006.
Recent highlights of my work include photographing the aftermath stories of war in Gaza and the rise and formation of armed militant groups in the strip and the face-offs and firefights between the different political and militant groups.
Publications include The Guardian, Washington post, Mother Jones, Le Monde, Geo International, Haaretz and others.
AWARDS include PDN 30 2010, Judges’ Special Prize, Carmignac Gestion 2009, 2nd Prize, “Daily Life” category, Local Testimony 2009, 2nd Prize, “Nature & Environment” category, Local Testimony 2009, Honorable Mention, UNICEF Photo of the Year 2009, New Media Award, UK, for war coverage in Gaza 2008-2009, “Outstanding Journalists” Honoring Ceremony, PCHR and OHCHR in Gaza, Nomination, Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Nomination, UNICEF POY 2009, 2010.
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Eman Mohammed has exhibited internationally, including Frames of Reality workshop 2008, New York, U.S., April 2009, Beware the Cost of War, London, UK, October 2009, Where are the Human Rights?, Montreal, Canada, McGill University, March 2009, World Press Photo 2008 & Local Testimony 2009 joint exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel, Defending Hope in Gaza, Filmbase-Curved Street, Temple, Dublin, Ireland, January 2009, Elsewhere Exhibition, Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel, March 2010, Generation 9/11, September 10 – October 30, 2011, Den Haag, The Netherlands, Women on the Verge, Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai 2012. British Museum 2012, “This is also Gaza !” Amman / Jordan 2012.
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Ingel Vaiklaartist / filmmaker
Ingel Vaikla is a visual artist and filmmaker from Estonia. She studied photography in Estonian Academy of Fine Arts (BA) and film in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent (MA). In her work she questions the relationship between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. (more…)
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Lars TunbjörkPhotographer
Whether creating an acid portrait of Sweden, representing the nightmarish world of business offices, tapping into the desolate uniformity of petrified, petit-bourgeois neighborhoods, Lars Tunbjörk has totally forgotten his black and white beginnings.
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Jean-Philippe LebéePhotographer
Born in Northern France, Jean-Philippe Lebée is a photographer and director who is passionate about life and traveling. After his audiovisual and cinema studies, Jean-Philippe Lebée started to study photography at the school Gobelins in Paris. (more…)
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Lise SarfatiPhotographer
Born in 1958 in Oran, Algeria Lise Sarfati lives and works between Paris and Los Angeles and is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery, NY, Rose Gallery, LA, La Galerie Particulière, Paris.
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Joseph Beuys / 100!Apr 18 – Aug 8, 2021
Joseph Beuys was honored at the Kestner Gesellschaft in 1975 and 1990 with two comprehensive solo exhibitions. The exhibitions were curated by our former director Carl Haenlein in collaboration with Joseph Beuys’ long-time companions, Joseph and Hans van der Grinten. (more…)
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Max BeckmannArtist / Painter
Max Beckmann (1884–1950) was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement. (more…)
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SclavanieUnwanted, Forgotten Promised Land
I re-discover parts of my cultural heritage, portraying the different facets of the life of mountain villages in between the Italian and Slovenian borders. What I found was a community of survivors. (more…)
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More Sweetly Play the DanceWilliam Kentridge
William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg) has been making art for more than four decades. Anchored in the practice of drawing, his extensive oeuvre encompasses filmed animation, performance, theatre and opera. (more…)
