Janine Mizera
Photographer
Janine Mizéra is a graphic designer and photographer currently living in Hamburg, Germany.
She first started her journey into photography while travelling through Europe, mixing a clear even graphic approach to landscape and architectural photography with a love for detailed shapes and eroded structures. Increasingly her passion for nostalgia and silent colours influenced her work until she became intrigued with portrait photography in 2010.
Photography is my way of dreaming; A tiny door to escape the daily routine and grey skies of the mind. I go through the world searching for beauty in every domain, finding it in the melancholic voice of music and the freckles of a face. During the process of creating a picture, I fall in love with the person captured. At this moment I don’t care for technology and perfectly sharp pictures, but for what a photo has to say, what it makes you feel. Photographs should cause you to understand the true nature and character of objects and persons. Art, music and the way people were living in the past have always been deeply fascinating to me. To be enveloped into a world of faded memories is my obsession. A photo to me is something magical: a door to another world, capturing the fleeting nature of time on a piece of paper for all eternity.
Janine Mizera
Photographer
Janine Mizéra is a graphic designer and photographer currently living in Hamburg, Germany.
She first started her journey into photography while travelling through Europe, mixing a clear even graphic approach to landscape and architectural photography with a love for detailed shapes and eroded structures. Increasingly her passion for nostalgia and silent colours influenced her work until she became intrigued with portrait photography in 2010.
Photography is my way of dreaming; A tiny door to escape the daily routine and grey skies of the mind. I go through the world searching for beauty in every domain, finding it in the melancholic voice of music and the freckles of a face. During the process of creating a picture, I fall in love with the person captured. At this moment I don’t care for technology and perfectly sharp pictures, but for what a photo has to say, what it makes you feel. Photographs should cause you to understand the true nature and character of objects and persons. Art, music and the way people were living in the past have always been deeply fascinating to me. To be enveloped into a world of faded memories is my obsession. A photo to me is something magical: a door to another world, capturing the fleeting nature of time on a piece of paper for all eternity.
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Samia Henni: Performing Colonial ToxicityOct 8, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024Between 1960 and 1966, the French colonial regime detonated four atmospheric atomic bombs, thirteen underground nuclear bombs and conducted other nuclear experiments in the Algerian Sahara, whose natural resources were being extracted in the process. This secret nuclear weapons programme occurred during and after the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). (more…)
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Joan JonasMar 17 – Jul 6, 2024Joan Jonas creates meditations on bodies, space, time, and nature. As she has explained, “The performer sees herself as a Medium: Information passes through.” The most comprehensive retrospective of Jonas’s work in the United States, this exhibition provides new insights (more…)
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Max BeckmannArtist / PainterMax 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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Ines Doujak: Every Courageous Life Is A Song To The FutureSep 30 – Dec 17, 2023In the beginning of her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants Robin Wall Kimmerer recalls the story of the Skywoman, shared by the Indigenous peoples throughout the Great Lakes region in North America. In the legend, the falling Skywoman is being carried down by a goose and lands on the back of a turtle. Where she lands is only darkness, water and water animals. A muskrat gives its life in order to bring her a small handful of mud which she spreads across the shell of the turtle. (more…)
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Ulrike Ottinger: La vie quotidienneAug 26 – Oct 15, 2023Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present rarely shown works from Ottinger’s early years in Paris in their new gallery space in Basel. These are not only stunning works of her own pictorial language, they also foreshadow Ottinger’s later cinematic idiom, which launched her on an impressive worldwide career as a film artist. (more…)
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Alfredo Jaar: the 11th Hiroshima Art PrizeJul 22 – Oct 15, 2023Established in 1989 by the City of Hiroshima, site of the first atomic bombing in human history, the Hiroshima Art Prize aims to appeal to a wider world about the “Spirit of Hiroshima,” which seeks everlasting world peace through contemporary art. (more…)
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30 Under 30 Women Photographers / SubmitDeadline Dec 31, 2023Artpil announces the call for entries for the annual 30 Under 30 Women Photographers. Deadline for consideration for the 2024 group is December 31, 2023. (more…)
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On the Peripheryby Sinziana VelicescuSinziana Velicescu’s work is a minimalist and abstract approach, a modern chronicling of a quiet land surveyor, completely separated of sentimentality. The publication of her series is a documentation of time, bracketed in images of framed surfaces of space. (more…)
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Walker Art CenterMinneapolis, USAThe Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Focusing on the visual, performing, and media arts of our time, the Walker takes a global, multidisciplinary, and diverse approach (more…)
