Strange? Remarkable! Photographs from the BLMK Collection at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus
Date and Time
Artist
Location
About this Event
Mood
Venue Type
Photography that tips over from the ordinary: Strange? Remarkable! at BLMK Cottbus
At the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art, the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus, this exhibition leads into a visual world of irritation, perception, and aesthetic experience. Strange? Remarkable! brings together photographs from the BLMK collection and focuses on works that do not smoothly confirm the gaze, but challenge it. The exhibition opens a precise view of the medium of photography as an art form between reality, staging, and intellectual friction.
Photography as a disturbance of the ordinary
The works presented employ overexposures, blurs, long exposures, multiple exposures, collages, photomontages, and digital distortions. This is precisely where their power lies: The seemingly familiar begins to tip, the image gains depth, tension, and open meaning. The exploration of the works thus becomes a silent, intense search for truth, deception, and visual memory.
A collection that connects generations
The exhibition showcases photographic positions from different generations and makes visible the versatility of the BLMK collection. Artists represented include Claus Bach, Gerd Bonfert, Kurt Buchwald, Klaus Elle, VALIE EXPORT, Thomas Florschuetz, Andreas Gefeller, Stefan Heyne, Matthias Leupold, ORLAN, Hans-Christian Schink, Erasmus Schröter, and Klaus Wittkugel. Their common denominator: They break viewing habits and condense the everyday into images with high emotional presence.
Curating with educational depth
The exhibition is closely linked to the photographic collection of BLMK, which has been unfolding art historical relevance at the Cottbus site for years. The presentation invites a differentiated engagement with photography as documentation, experiment, and artistic construction. Especially appealing is the connection of collection, curation, and cultural education: Here, not only is showing done, but also explaining, questioning, and contextualizing.
The venue: Diesel Power Plant Cottbus
The Diesel Power Plant provides an appropriate framework for this exhibition: factual, open, and accessible. The exhibition rooms are accessible via elevators; the museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm. Thus, the visit is suitable for both a concentrated afternoon of art and an in-depth exploration of the works in the calm rhythm of a museum visit.
Conclusion
Strange? Remarkable! is an exhibition for all who want to experience photography not just visually, but in its cultural and art-historical depth. Those who engage with these images discover irritation as a moment of insight and collection art as a living present. A visit to Cottbus is definitely worthwhile.
Official channels of BLMK:
- Instagram: No official profile found
- Facebook: No official profile found
- YouTube: No official profile found
- Website: https://www.blmk.de/
