Intimacy and Resistance
An intergenerational dialogue on photobooks from South Africa with additions from Sub-Saharan Africa, including books and extracts from Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Drum, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Jansen van Staden, Eric Gyamfi.
The exhibition is curated by John Fleetwood.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Aarhus
Nadja: A Portrait of a City
This thematic exhibition offers a rereading of one of the most significant works of art of the twentieth century—the book Nadja by the French Surrealist André Breton. The exhibition focuses on Breton’s use of photography and on his artistic methods and strategies, as expressed in his representation of the city and the urban.
The exhibition is curated by Anne Elisabeth Toft.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 25. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 6, the library
Per Bak Jensen Books and Catalogs
This exhibition celebrates the photography of the Danish photographer Per Bak Jensen. Throughout his lifetime, as an existentially seeking thinker engaging with imagery, he has created a highly personal body of work. The exhibition collects his entire photographic oeuvre in book form.
The exhibition is curated by Anne Elisabeth Toft and Jesper Rasmussen in collaboration with Per Bak Jensen.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 25. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 3
Kassel Photobook Dummies
Each year, Fotobookfestival Kassel invites photographers to present their as-of-yet unpublished photobooks to an international public and to eminent experts. The best dummies have been shortlisted by a jury and will be exhibited at international photo events in, among other places, Istanbul, Moscow, Rome, Dublin, Aarhus, Sofia, Zagreb and Lodz.
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Photobooks from Norway
This exhibition, which continues our geographical focus on Northern Countries, will show the diversity of Norwegian books and publications with an emphasis on photography.
From the sketch book to the unique artist book.
The handmade book. And the democratic multi publication.
Books that are self published and in small editions and some that are published in large scale internationally.
Norwegian photo books through times and today.
Presenting fact, science and fiction.
Featured books will include Mariken Kramer’s “The Eyes That Fix You in a Formulated Phrase” published by Multipress, 2018; Terje Abusdal’s “Radius 500 metres”, Journal, 2015; and Sara Skorgan Teigen’s “Fractal State of Being”, Journal, 2014
The exhibition is curated by Nina Worren
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Best of Photobook Belge
This exhibition will feature some of the highlights of Photobook Belge 1854-Now, a groundbreaking exhibition and publication covering a period of more than 150 years of book-making in Belgium. This show marks a before and after; as hardly any research had been conducted on the theme before, Photobook Belge was able to fill this gap by providing an overview of the evolution of the Belgian photobook from the mid-19th century to today.
The exhibition is curated by Tamara Berghmans
Thursday 1. October – Sunday 4. October 2020
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, Aarhus School of Architecture, Nørreport 20, 8000 Aarhus
Books and Boxes on and of Marcel Duchamp
In 2015, the artist Mathieu Mercier recreated Marcel Duchamp’s famous Boîte for Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. With 81 objects (Version G: a reduction of 6% to avoid any confusion with the original), and by increasing the edition to 3,000 copies, at an affordable price; Mercier made the “portable museum” by Duchamp, the inventor of the ready-made, available to as many people as possible. The promotional text reads: “The edition is based on an idea by Mathieu Mercier. The design and construction will be approved by the estate of Marcel Duchamp once its quality has been examined, with the desire of making ‘The Museum in the Box’ accessible to everyone. The facsimile of the “portable oeuvre catalogue” complies with the artist’s working methods”.
This exhibition will showcase some of the most prominent books published on and around the subject of the boîtes, including two of Mercier’s facsimiles.
Venue: Photobook Week Aarhus, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, level 6, the Library
