RIVALS

The exhibition questions the limits and possibilities of conventional photography and AI-generated images. Works by outstanding photographers and artists, including members of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie (German Photographic Academy, DFA), are on display. The presentation is structured thematically: Photography as a school of seeing, with Torsten Schumann and Kurt Buchwald, Peter Truschner und Peter Neusser; The photographic portrait as interpersonal interaction with Ursula Kelm and Laurence Chaperon; The documentary photo as authentic testimony, represented by Patrik Budenz und Thomas Knoefel; while Claus Bach focuses on The photo as a historical document. Linn Schröder, Jackie Baier and Matthias Leupold guide us through Photography as an experience, while Claus Stolz, Klaus Elle, Gottfried Jäger and Jiří Šigut explore the topic Photography = light x matter. Boris Eldagsen’s The Electrician (2022), an AI-generated image, and Miles Astray’s Flamingone, a photograph, mark the transition to promptography, a new discipline of AI art. In promptography, new realities are created through AI. The Invention of New Bodies shows works by Clint Enns, Placenta Shake and Arik Weiszmann. In No Humans Have Been Harmed in the Making, AI.S.A.M and Wuh.ey presents their work. In Promptography as a School of Ideas, Kevin Abosch, Emi Kusano, Andreas Müller-Pohle, Vitaly Komar, and the group "Plus, Minus, Comma", along with Rosemberg, Marat Guelman, and Jason M. Allen, present their perspectives. Engaging with the inner world, we encounter Infrarouge, Sabine von Bassewitz, and Merzmensch. Finally, Text as the Source of the Image features Vladimir Sorokin. This exhibition invites you to reflect on photography and its role in contemporary image production, as well as the so-called “truth of the moment” in comparison to AI-generated images. Keep the illusion real!