Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On September 13, the Goethe Institute of Tashkent, together with the Bonum Factum Gallery, opens the photo exhibition “Image | Presentation ”of the Institute of International Relations (ifa), which will feature ten positions of contemporary German photography.

Many of the artists represented lived and worked in West and East Germany. The current scene of photographic art cannot be assigned to a region, style, or educational institution. Instead, the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts is becoming increasingly important along with the previously dominant Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf with Bernd Becher and his students.

The transition from analog to digital photography also creates a new understanding of the means of its reliability. Photographers reflect a changed situation through a deliberately subjective construct of authenticity. Their work covers the entire spectrum of modern photography. They break away from traditional documentation. Images fluctuate between the idea of ​​the world and the artistically grounded idea of it, which is expressed in individual artistic inventions and consciously admits doubt.

The exhibition is a cross section and brings together groups of ten photographers, including the work of Heidi Specker, Peter Piller and Wibke Lopera. Digitally created works stand next to a series of paintings created in the tradition of author photography. Thomas Weski, professor of “Curatorial Cultures” at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig, is responsible for curation.

The exhibition will be held from 13 September to 12 October 2019. Entrance to the exhibition is free.