Discover with Yana Belskaya, Art historian M.A., our current Exhibition ›Technoscapes‹.

Guided tour free of charge

The Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 2020 The Lives and Loves of Images will be ceremoniously opened on Friday, February 28th at 7 p.m. at the Kunsthalle Mannheim.

On Sunday, the opening of individual exhibitions will take place at the venues in Mannheim and Heidelberg.

Guided tour with Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie’s curator David Campany and artist Sebastian Riemer through the exhibition „Yesterday’s News Today“.

David Campany (*1967, London) lives and works in London as a writer, curator, artist and lecturer in photography. Most recently, he curated the exhibition ALEX MAJOLI: SCENE at Le Bal, Paris. His publications include So Present, So Invisible – Conversations with Photographers (Contrasto, 2018), Walker Evans (Aperture Masters of Photography Series, Aperture, 2015), A Handful of Dust (MACK / Le Bal 2015) and essays for museums and magazines such as MoMA New York, the Tate, the Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum, the Jeu de Paume, Frieze, Aperture, and Source. Among Campany’s awards as a writer are the ICP Infinity Award, the Royal Photographic Society’s award for writing and the German Photobook Prize.

Sebastian Riemer (*1982, Oberhausen) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2017 he won a Cary & Dan Bronner Residency in Tel Avi. His works have been internationally exhibited among others in Paris, Munich, Vienna, Düsseldorf and Beijing.

Guided tour with David Campany, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie’s curator.

David Campany (*1967, London) lives and works in London as a writer, curator, artist and lecturer in photography. Most recently, he curated the exhibition ALEX MAJOLI: SCENE at Le Bal, Paris. His publications include So Present, So Invisible – Conversations with Photographers (Contrasto, 2018), Walker Evans (Aperture Masters of Photography Series, Aperture, 2015), A Handful of Dust (MACK / Le Bal 2015) and essays for museums and magazines such as MoMA New York, the Tate, the Centre Pompidou, Stedelijk Museum, the Jeu de Paume, Frieze, Aperture, and Source. Among Campany’s awards as a writer are the ICP Infinity Award, the Royal Photographic Society’s award for writing and the German Photobook Prize.

During the Lange Nacht der Fotografie the Heidelberger Kunstverein opens its doors, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., to the visitors who can visit the current exhibition „Yesterday’s News Today“.