Member Preview of Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017

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Aperture, in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, requests the pleasure of your company at an exhibition preview on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2017, featuring works by the shortlisted artists Sophie Calle, Awoiska van der Molen, duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs, and this year’s winner, Dana Lixenberg, who was awarded the prize, worth £30,000 GBP, in May of this year. This marks the first exhibition of the prize in the United States.

6:30 p.m. – Remarks by Chris Boot, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation; Andreas Preuss, Deputy CEO of Deutsche Börse AG; Brett Rogers OBE, Director, the Photographer’s Gallery

7:00–8:30 p.m. – Public opening

The twentieth iteration of the prize, one of the most prestigious international arts awards, celebrates established photographic narratives alongside experimental and conceptual approaches to documentary, landscape, and portraiture. All of these artists investigate questions of truth and fiction, doubt and certainty, what constitutes the real and ideal, and the relationship between observer and the observed.

A jury including Susan Bright, curator; Pieter Hugo, artist; Karolina Ziębińska-Lewandowska, curator of photography at Centre Pompidou, Paris; Anne-Marie Beckmann, director, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation; and Brett Rogers, director, The Photographers’ Gallery, as the non-voting chair, selected the four finalists featured.

The opening of this exhibition, at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, began an international tour of the show that went on to exhibit at the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, and subsequently at Aperture Foundation.

This year’s exhibition is curated by Anna Dannemann, curator, The Photographer’s Gallery.

For more information about the exhibition and the four shortlisted artists, see here.