Strange? Remarkable! at BLMK Cottbus: Photography as Artistic Experience
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When Photography Provokes: An Exhibition that Sharpens the Gaze
With Strange? Remarkable! Photographs from the BLMK Collection, the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus presents an exhibition that makes seeing itself the theme. Photographs from the collection do not appear here as mere images, but as image spaces of irritation, wonder, and reflection.
Photography between Reality and Alienation
The selection brings together works that deliberately subvert our viewing habits: unusual perspectives, extreme close-ups, absurd compositions, overexposures, multiple exposures, blurrings, and digital interventions open a space between reality and construction. This tension gives the artistic experience in the exhibition space a special intensity.
Featured are works by Claus Bach, Gerd Bonfert, Kurt Buchwald, Klaus Elle, VALIE EXPORT, Katja Eydel, Thomas Florschuetz, Andreas Gefeller, Stefan Heyne, Joachim Jansong, York der Knöfel, Matthias Leupold, Ulrich Lindner, Steffen Mertens, ORLAN, Marc Räder, Michael Schade, Hans-Christian Schink, Erasmus Schröter, Klaus Wittkugel, and Edwin Zwakmann. The photographic positions range from staged photography to collage to conceptual image strategies.
A Museum with a Strong Collection and Clear Profile
The BLMK, with its locations in Cottbus and Frankfurt (Oder), is one of the significant institutions for modern and contemporary art in Brandenburg. According to the museum, the collection includes over 45,000 works and is considered the most comprehensive museum collection of art from the GDR and its subsequent artistic traditions worldwide. At the Diesel Power Plant, this collection expertise meets an architecturally striking industrial shell, which adds additional atmosphere to the exhibition visit.
The presentation makes clear how photography, as a medium, condenses social questions, questions norms, and shapes memory. Those who engage in this examination of works not only experience images but a precisely curated confrontation with deception, truth, and productive doubt about the visible.
Accompanying Program, Tours, and Cultural Education
The exhibition context includes an accompanying program with tours and art mediation formats. According to museum offerings, the BLMK regularly works with short tours, workshops, and offerings for different target groups. This makes the exhibition not only a place for viewing but also a space for cultural education and aesthetic experience.
Especially appealing is the connection between the collection display, museum pedagogy, and a building that itself breathes history: the former Diesel Power Plant today represents a place of transition where industrial memory and contemporary art meet.
Conclusion
Strange? Remarkable! is an exhibition for all who want to experience photography not as a mere reflection, but as an intelligent, sometimes disturbing, and always stimulating art form. This show promises concentrated viewing, new perspectives, and an artistic experience with resonance. A visit to the BLMK is definitely worth it in person.
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