SHIFTING FOCUS Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin. July 2016

Shifting Focus is a group show of international artists primarily focusing on photography. The participating artists first met in 2012 when taking their Masters Degree in Photography course at the University of the Arts London and at the Royal College of Art in London. Since then, they have remained in close artistic exchange, working actively on the planning of a touring exhibition which will culminate in this first exhibition in the Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin.

The group show provides a deeper insight into their personal positions toward the photographic medium and juxtaposes them. The artists aim to inform of their engagement with the expansion of photography into other materials and conceptual territories in response to new challenges present in the field of photography. This is met with a certain degree of transversality much akin to the changes within painting when encountered with the rise of photography; a conceptual shifting of focus and an intermingling with other disciplines in order to secure its position within the Fine Arts.

ARTISTS

MARIANNE BJØRMYR, MARCELO DEGUCHI, KAROLINA MARIA DUDEK, JOACHIM FLEINERT, NATHALIE JOFFRE, UTE KLEIN, WAGNER KREUSCH, ESPEN KRUKHAUG, FEDERICA LANDI, SARA MORALO, SIMONE PADELLI, BIANCA SALVO, SONJA TRABANDT, NICK WILTSHIRE

During the ten days of the exhibition a full programme of lectures, workshops and guided tours was provided. The highlight of the programme was the Photobook Market introducing the undiscovered and 'up and coming' of the photobooks.