GATHER TOGETHER – this online exhibition features photographers and filmmakers working in collaboration with Sammlung Walter and Studio CNP.
In a series of photos, collages, and films, it is a project that shows the interplay between photographers and a textile object by Merle Richter. The title refers to the variable outcomes when people come together and when they separate, and the ways in which connection and solitude elicit contrasting emotions and feelings.
In GATHER TOGETHER, Richter investigates the relationship between people and objects and their power to create connection or create distance. With this central question, she explores the contrasting nature of the human experience: the individual’s place in society. Solitude and belonging in direct confrontation and the reckoning that results. As a textile artist, Richter uses soft materials to put in context the human body and its relationship to space. Collaborating with other artists is an important part of her practice, and it allows Richter to react to new perspectives while provoking the audience to consider new points of view.
GATHER TOGETHER is the result of this collaborative process. A plush pillow, photographs, and films combine for a multi-sensory experience: digital and analog, private and public.
With artistic positions by Meike Männel, Lea Gugler, Marie Déhé, Barbara Proschak, Simon Schmidt and Luca Werner.
The artists’ works will be published on a delayed schedule.
The pillows are made in an edition of 30 pieces each.
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Through photography, Meike Männel seeks to preserve the ephemeral. Her motifs deal with the longing for distance, the uncertainty and the question of survival. In loud and softer colors she presents a world that often lies unnoticed in front of us and whose aesthetics one takes for granted, without recognizing what is special about it.
Text: Anna Hofmann. Models: Antje, Klaus, Sabrina, Philipp, Anna.
Hug I
Meike Männel
Photography
Nuremberg, September 2020
Through photography, Meike Männel seeks to preserve the ephemeral. Her motifs deal with the longing for distance, the uncertainty and the question of survival. In loud and softer colors she presents a world that often lies unnoticed in front of us and whose aesthetics one takes for granted, without recognizing what is special about it.
Text: Anna Hofmann. Models: Antje, Klaus, Sabrina, Philipp, Anna.
Hug II
Meike Männel
Photography
Nuremberg, September 2020
Through photography, Meike Männel seeks to preserve the ephemeral. Her motifs deal with the longing for distance, the uncertainty and the question of survival. In loud and softer colors she presents a world that often lies unnoticed in front of us and whose aesthetics one takes for granted, without recognizing what is special about it.
Text: Anna Hofmann. Models: Antje, Klaus, Sabrina, Philipp, Anna.
Hug III & Hug IV
Meike Männel
Photography
Nuremberg, September 2020
Through photography, Meike Männel seeks to preserve the ephemeral. Her motifs deal with the longing for distance, the uncertainty and the question of survival. In loud and softer colors she presents a world that often lies unnoticed in front of us and whose aesthetics one takes for granted, without recognizing what is special about it.
Text: Anna Hofmann. Models: Antje, Klaus, Sabrina, Philipp, Anna.
Hug V
Meike Männel
Photography
Nuremberg, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
Deliberately decided against a photographic education, Lea Gugler has been trying to find her place in the creative/fashion industry for several years. Recently she has started working in casting and has been dealing with the current changes that are taking place in the selection of models as well as in the visual environment.
In her photographic work she focuses on an honest and raw approach. Often she breaks with the inhibiting heaviness of excessively proportioned importance of fashion and beauty through deliberate over-staging and her fundamentally rather playful approach.
But not at the expense of constructive collaboration with other artists and the collective development of common ideas — because this is the most important aspect of Lea's work.
The stylist involved in this project is Marcel Mander. He is mainly guided by intuition and tries to take up and treat topics rather subtly. His work often focuses on interpersonal intimacy and gender.
Models: Nela & Blanka. Special thanks to designer Mina Bonakdar (top woren by Nela) and SHUELLER DE WAAL (blouses woren by Blanka).
Muttertier
Lea Gugler
Analog Photography
Berlin, September 2020
It started with a need for solitude, an urge for space and time to myself. After months of being at home, never alone, always together. This pillow was made for two or more people, it doesn’t matter; I’ve made it mine but not really. Its own existence and purpose.
Side by side.
My body on its own.
— Marie Déhé
Marie Déhé is a London based photographer. Her practice is tied to her intimate environment: everyday life gestures and details, self representation, familiar and personal patterns. She recently published a photo and poetry book with the writer Haydée Touitou and Art Paper Editions, called WE HAVE BEEN MEANING TO.
Un coussin à soi / A Pillow to oneself
Marie Déhé
Collage of inkjet printed photographs
London, September 2020
I explore and examine. I collect, fill my archive, combine, reproduce and distill my photographs and found objects in the laboratory.
Through the drawing editing of the material, my search for existence and images is intensified, also about my occupation with the human body and thus my own body in space. The individual procedures and results interweave. A network of inner and outer influences is created, which can contract and expand in the interaction.
– Barbara Proschak
Seite-Mitte-Seite, Seite-Seite-Mitte-...
Barbara Proschak
Collage of color photography and touch-up pen
Leipzig, November 2020
I explore and examine. I collect, fill my archive, combine, reproduce and distill my photographs and found objects in the laboratory.
Through the drawing editing of the material, my search for existence and images is intensified, also about my occupation with the human body and thus my own body in space. The individual procedures and results interweave. A network of inner and outer influences is created, which can contract and expand in the interaction.
– Barbara Proschak
Seite-Mitte-Seite, Seite-Seite-Mitte-...
Barbara Proschak
Collage of color photography and touch-up pen
Leipzig, November 2020
I explore and examine. I collect, fill my archive, combine, reproduce and distill my photographs and found objects in the laboratory.
Through the drawing editing of the material, my search for existence and images is intensified, also about my occupation with the human body and thus my own body in space. The individual procedures and results interweave. A network of inner and outer influences is created, which can contract and expand in the interaction.
– Barbara Proschak
Seite-Mitte-Seite, Seite-Seite-Mitte-...
Barbara Proschak
Collage of color photography and touch-up pen
Leipzig, November 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Photography: Marika Kochiashvi
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
Distanced Wanderlust — In a time and place where traveling and escaping has become almost dangerous, we are faced with the inner journey of being content with what we already have. Freedom becomes luxury. Being with others becomes exclusive. The only one who has to swim against the waves crashing into the seaside is your mind.
Simon Schmidt is a German raised and London based Photographer, Art Director and Digital Media Consultant. He crafts stories that centre around momentum and movement. Simon always places human form at the heart of his creative, drawing on his former background as a dancer. His work is driven by inherent inquisitiveness and appreciation for the relationship between human and object.
Distanced Wanderlust
Simon Schmidt
Analog Photography
London, September 2020
A train is passing by, a woman takes a walk. It seems that we are all not too far away from each other. A suburban city seen by a boy from his home.
Talent: Lucan Song
Music: Severin Werner
Luca Werner is a Munich based filmmaker and photographer.
„I can see you from home“
Luca Werner
16mm Video
Fürstenfeldbruck, November 2020