Lecture by Matthias Flügge

”Sibylle Bergemann and Photography in the GDR – Between Documentary and Production of Reality ”
Lecture by Matthias Flügge

Wed 12 Oct 2011, 6 pm
Goethe

From Goethe Institut:
“It seems as if the photographer wanted to bring to light something, which, in being present, is absent.”

On Wednesday the 12^th of October 2011, the German art historian and curator Matthias Flügge will give a lecture attendant to the exhibition of Sibylle Bergemann’s photographs. He defends the statement, that photography has been the most agile, independent and also the most critical kind of visual arts in the GDR.

As a companion of the photographer he describes her in the preface of the catalog “Sibylle Bergemann – Photographien” as one of the most important photographers of her own time, who represented individualistic ideals within an “apparently controlled, pseudo-egalitarian society” and who transferred them into the language of images. Her photography is a direct communication between her personal point of view, the captured subject and her environment. She brings to light a piece of truth. It seems as if there is first just a shadow of it, which will reveal itself as soon as the observer becomes more aware. Bergemann took pictures of Berlin without showing Berlin. She took pictures of her counterpart’s inside without revealing it. What came to existence is a collection, which characterizes a time of change towards a new awareness of the subject that represents a whole movement.

Languages: German with simultaneous translation into Vietnamese

Free admission.