Harvey Benge: Frontiers of another nature - Contemporary photographic art from Iceland

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Frontiers of another nature - Contemporary photographic art from Iceland

Opening next week at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, "Frontiers of Another Nature - Contemporary Photographic Art from Iceland". The show is a considered selection of emerging and established Icelandic photo-media artists, artists who draw from unique Icelandic landscape and environment in their work.

The photographers are, Bára Kristinsdóttir, Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Haraldur Jónsson, Hrafnkell Sigurðsson, Icelandic Love Corporation, Ingvar Högni Ragnarsson, Katrin Elvarsdóttir, Pétur Thomsen and Spessi.

Curated by Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and Christiane Stahl, Director of the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung in cooperation with Inga Lára Baldvinsdóttir, Curator of Photography, National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík and María Karen Sigurðardóttir, Director of the Museum for Photography, Reykjavík.

A bilingual catalogue accompanies the exhibition, edited by Celina Lunsford, Christiane Stahl, and Kristján B. Jónasson, with a text by Christiane Stahl. Published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, August 2011.

The Exhibition is a production of the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt in cooperation with the Frankfurter Kunstverein. It is part of the arts and culture program "Fabulous Iceland - Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011". www.fkv.de

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Steinernes Haus am Römerberg, Markt 44, 60311 Frankfurt / Main, Germany