Deutsche Börse opens the special exhibition “Be here now”
Release date: Mar 29, 2012
First exhibition in the RAY 2012 photography festival
As the partner of the RAY 2012 photography festival in Frankfurt, Deutsche Börse is presenting the first event of the festival's programme with the special exhibition “Be here now”, opening on 29 March 2012. The exhibition shows around 80 photographs from Art Collection Deutsche Börse, acquired between 1999 and 2011. Photographies by a total of 20 well-known artists from the collection will be presented, including works from Anna and Bernhard Blume, Geert Goiris, Jitka Hanzlová, Candida Höfer, Jürgen Nefzger, Ricarda Roggan, Stephen Shore and Erwin Wurm.
“Be here now” looks at the special relationship of bodies, time and space in contemporary photography. The special exhibition shows works which expose the anachronism between objects and space in which objects suddenly seem alive or almost human even, and also photographies in which artists include themselves attempting to blend invisibly into a selected background. Things from daily life are queried as symptoms of their time.
The exhibition's curator is Anne-Marie Beckmann. The vernissage will take place on Thursday, 29 March 2012 from 6.30 p.m. in Deutsche Börse's company headquarters, The Cube, in Eschborn.
After the opening, the exhibition will be open for viewing through guided art tours until 30 June 2012.
Please register by phone at +49 (0)69 2111 3283 or by e-mail on art@deutsche-boerse.com.