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Conferences / 2025

2025 DFA Winter Conference | Kunsthalle Erfurt

The German Photographic Academy (DFA) is holding its winter conference on 6–7 December at the Kunsthalle Erfurt. Susanne Knorr will present the work of the Kunsthalle, while Andrzej Steinbach will offer a preview tour of his exhibition, which opens on 12 December. Contributions will come from Christoph Tannert (‘Artistic Photography and Subculture in the Accession Area’), Thomas Gust on Thomas Hoepker's colour photographs from the GDR (1972–1990) and Erfurt-based photographer Nora Klein, among others. A portfolio walk, book table and a city tour with a focus on photography are also planned.

06-07.12.2025 — Erfurt

Exhibitions / 2025

FLOATING SPACES – GUDRUN KEMSA

DFA photographer and professor Gudrun Kemsa presents several projects in Siegburg, Düsseldorf and Krefeld, including the FLOATING SPACES exhibition, her participation in PERSPEKTIVWECHSEL (CHANGE OF PERSPECTIVE) and the URBAN PLACES symposium at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. Kemsa's photographs and video installations offer a disconcerting and contemplative view of familiar urban and rural spaces, encouraging viewers to question their own viewing habits.

06.09.2025-01.01.1970

Guest Curators

The DFA regularly invites international guest curators to select from the entire pool of members’ works. This selection is evaluated by the guest curator and publicly made available on the Academy's website. For contemporary photographers, new avenues of public interest can be opened up in this way, including opportunities for their work to become the subject of current public debates.

Verena Kaspar-Eisert

curator

Verena Kaspar-EIsert has been chief curator of the MuseumsQuartier Wien since October 2022. Previously, she was curator at KUNST HAUS WIEN from 2014-2022 and curator of the FOTO WIEN photo festival from 2019-2022. She specialises in contemporary photography and art that deals with ecological issues.

25.12.2022

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