go Europe: the kaleidoscope eye

The exhibition "goEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye" was conceived and organized jointly by the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, Germany, and the magazine European Photography, Göttingen.

Thirty-three curators in thirty-three european countries were invited to nominate each one young photographer from their country, to represent his / her country with a contemporary - at most three to four-year-old work.

This procedure is one wich harbours both opportunities and risks, but which in any event results in a colorful and surprising mix. It originates a mosaic of varying techniques, aesthetics and ideas, that reflects the situation of the medium photography at the turn of the millennium and besides that the characteristics of Europe.The exhibition "goEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye" was conceived and organized jointly by the Museum für Photographie in Braunschweig, Germany, and the magazine European Photography, Göttingen.

Thirty-three curators in thirty-three european countries were invited to nominate each one young photographer from their country, to represent his / her country with a contemporary - at most three to four-year-old work.

This procedure is one wich harbours both opportunities and risks, but which in any event results in a colorful and surprising mix. It originates a mosaic of varying techniques, aesthetics and ideas, that reflects the situation of the medium photography at the turn of the millennium and besides that the characteristics of Europe.


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Die Ausstellung "goEurope: the kaleidoscopic eye" ist enstanden in Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Museum für Photographie und der Zeitschrift "European Photography".

Dreiunddreißig Kuratorinnen und Kuratoren aus dreiunddreißig Ländern Europas wurden eingeladen, für ihr Land je einen jungen Fotografen / eine junge Fotografin vorzuschlagen, der / die das Land mit einem aktuellen - höchstens drei, vier Jahren zurückliegenden - Beitrag repräsentiert.

Das ist ein Verfahren, das Chancen, aber auch Risiken birgt, doch in jedem Fall zu einem bunten, überraschenden Mix führt. Es läßt ein Mosaik disparter Techniken, Ästhetiken und Ideen entstehen, daß die Situation des Mediums Fotografie um die Jahrtausendwende, aber auch den Charakter Europas widerspiegelt.

Ausstellungskonzept: Ulrike Lahmann, Andreas Müller-Pohle
Ausstellungsarchitektur: Norbert Koch
Internetpräsentation: Andreas Freund