Short Bio
Dr Jule Hillgärtner has been director at the Kunstverein Braunschweig since 2014. She studied theatre, film and media studies in Frankfurt am Main and did her doctorate on war reporting in embedded journalism (2010). Before working in Braunschweig, she taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She realised exhibitions on contemporary art at the F/Stop Festival in Leipzig (2010), for RAY photography projects in 2012 and 2015, among others, was active at the Museum für Moderne Kunst as well as at the Kunstverein in Frankfurt and at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. For the program she was responsible for at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, she focused on the performative arts. Most recently, her exhibition on Anton Wilhelm Amo (2020), co-curated with Bonaventure Ndikung, received particular attention.
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Curatorial Statement
'A range of positions that tends to include questions of architecture - inside and outside - urban and private - partly in interaction with nature. I am concerned with the possibility of the different perspectives that can be captured by the camera. Where can we look? How far can we see? What attracts attention? What structures, patterns, colourfulness become visible through the focus of the camera that would otherwise be overlooked? When does the photograph become an image? When does the picture become a narrative?
In my selection, the human being appears only marginally: Both as a legacy of those who live in the various architectures and of those who look at them through the camera, i.e. the photographer. The person behind the camera does not really remain invisible, but is present at the moment the picture is taken, which manifests itself in the photo. She or he inscribes himself or herself in the picture, leaves a trace.'
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