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This Is Me, This Is You. The Eva Felten Photography Collection

Museum Brandhorst

Munich | Germany

19 Oct, 2023 - 07 Jan, 2024

With her generous donation, Munich collector Eva Felten enriches Museum Brandhorst鈥檚 holdings with well over 400 works by more than 140 artists from the 1930s to the immediate present. Iconic and poignant photographic works by Diane Arbus (1923鈥�1971), Isaac Julien (*1960) and LaToya Ruby Frazier (*1982) fit into the museum's collection like a missing puzzle piece.

The exhibition 鈥淭his Is Me, This Is You鈥� provides a first-time ever look at this collection of internationally significant photographs, that has grown over four decades. Since the beginning of her passion for collecting in the late 1980s, Eva Felten has focused in particular on the depiction of people鈥攁 focus that she has consistently continued in recent years, and which makes the collection unique in this form. What unites the photographs is a sensitive view of the individual, of different ways of life, political attitudes, and inner conflicts, revealing a diverse panorama of images in the overall show.

In seven thematic chapters and a selection of around 140 works from the collection, the exhibition presents touching portraits, well-known works of street photography and socially critical photography, as well as conceptual works and important positions of Appropriation Art. The show deals with the complex visual relationships that are inscribed in photography and, above all, in the photographic representation of people. Our personal view significantly shapes our perception, interpretation and contextualization of images. Accordingly, it is not only about the physical point of view and the visual perspective at the moment the photograph was taken, but also the social and political position of the photographers themselves. The encounter with the photographs in the exhibition thus means both an encounter with the people depicted, as well as with the creators of these images.