NEWS

The Kunstmuseum Bonn presents the first retrospective of the American photographer in a German art museum. Numerous loans from private and public collections in the USA, Switzerland, France, Belgium and Germany make it possible to show a broad overview of an important artist of the recent photographic history. The opening will take place on Wednesday 10th May 2012 by 20 pm. The exhibition runs until 2nd September 2012. Further information: www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de

Gabriele and Helmut Nothhelfer are the winners of the Octavius-Hill-Medaille 2012, which was announced by Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (DFA). Selected works will be presented at Galerie Altes Rathaus Musberg. Further information: www.dfa.com and www.altesrathaus.de

We are pleased to inform you that Michael Kimmelman wrote an article about Mitch Epstein's new series of photographs in the New York Times. Please find the article as well as a slideshow of the work via the following links: www.nytimes.article.com and www.nytimes.slideshow.com

The National Gallery at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin shows seven works by New York artist Anthony McCall from April 20 to August 12 2012. This is his first solo exhibition in a german museum. Further information: www.freunde-of-nationalgalerie.de

We are pleased to inform you that works by Lothar Baumgarten will be shown at Museum Folkwang, Essen up from 26 November 2011. The exhibition Abend der Zeit -  Señores Naturales Yanomami lasts until 27 May 2012.
The collection of works, shown in part here for the first time, are ethnological objects, drawings, films and sound recordings.
Lothar Baumgarten lived in the late 1970s among the Yanomami of the
Upper Orinoco in the forests of the watershed between Venezuela
and Brazil, shared life with the Indians and accompanied them.
The exhibition tells of an appearance, meeting and exchange in an
only thirty years earlier period. Further information: www.museum-folkwang.de