German photos at Antara

German photos at Antara

JAKARTA (JP): An exhibition of photography by German Silke Grossmann is scheduled to take place at Antara Journalism Photography Gallery, on Jl. Antara, Central Jakarta, from April 15 to 30.

The Orte Gesichter Bewegung (Places, Faces and Movement) exhibition is the second in a series of such exhibitions held under the theme of Aspects of Contemporary German Photography, jointly organized by Antara Gallery and the German cultural center, Goethe Institut. The series features new trends developed by talented photographers, including Grossmann, in Germany.

Grossmann, a graduate of Hamburg's Academy of Fine Arts, who is also a filmmaker, has developed a narrative form in her photographs that doesn't follow any linear story. Her photographs do not offer any fixed definition of their contents, but rather they attempt to maintain a certain detachment from known and often used explanations.

Grossmann has also displayed her photographs in New York, Bern, Berlin, Hamburg and Essen.

A discussion on German Contemporary Photography will also be held at the same venue on April 22 by the gallery's curator Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo. (als)