Exhibition »Albrecht Kunkel: QUEST. Photographs 1989–2009«

11.12.2016 - 30.04.2017

From the bird's eye view you can see a city with river and many houses. The picture is in red and purple.

The QUEST exhibition presents an overview of the photographical work of Albrecht Kunkel (1968–2009) for the first time. Kunkel was a seeker, who systematically dedicated his creative work to the fundamental issues of human existence. His photographs focus on landscapes and areas of special historical, cultural or social importance and trace the cultural practices encoded in them. The themes range from the earliest ritual cave and rock drawings to the present-day multimedial mass of images. The artist also integrated other photo material into his work, including topographical aerial images or historic archive footage, and explored the conditions and possibilities of the photographic medium on the cusp of the digital age. Among other places, Kunkel studied at Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) with Thomas Struth, with Bernd and Hilla Becher and was a master student with Katharina Sieverding. He lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. His photographical estate was donated to the collection of the ZKM | Karlsruhe in 2013.