PRESS RELEASE

PHOTO EXHIBITION AT GALERIE KERNWEINE
ALEXANDER BINDER
ENZYKLOPÄDIE

25th January - 5th April 2020
at Cottastraße 4-6, 70178


INVITATION TO THE OPENING ON JANURY 25TH, 8PM AT GALERIE KERNWEINE


Surreal perception worlds

Each person perceives the moment differently, remembers it differently and treats it differently. Photographer Alexander Binder's exhibition Enzyklopädie, which will be shown from January 26th until April 5th 2020 at Galerie Kernweine, questions the (everyday) reality we experience and dissolves the narrow frame of reference within our perception. The photographs appear obscure, blurred - it is a matter of our inner interpretation of what we have seen.

The works in the exhibition Enzyklopädie openly make use of the attitude and themes of symbolism of the late 19th century: nature, mysticism, and mythology form a mysterious cosmos that one must engage with emotionally rather than rationally "understand". On the contrary, the photographs seem like bursts of thought that only fill themselves with details within the viewer's imagination - in order to unfold their very own life.

In Binder's exhibition, the Enzyklopädie is seen as a work of reference to his own memories: Flora and fauna are vaguely recognisable and appear partly in bright colours and partly in black and white. The pictures consciously escape our conceptual-structured thinking and our tendency to want to locate things spatially and temporally with exactitude. 

The photographs were taken in the Black Forest, Italy, England and India. However, the period in which the works were created remains undefined: Binder often only revisits photographs years later, in order to place them in a completely different frame of context. Spirituality and cult in their (sur-)real forms, form an overarching framework.  

Alexander Binder (*1976 in Pforzheim) lives and works in Stuttgart. His work is characterised by the combination of digital and analog photography - Binder combines modern SLR cameras with old and homemade lenses. The resulting images are characterised by blurring, glare and impromptu reflections. In this way, the works escape the high-tech world of today's camera systems, that strives for perfection. In recent years he has published in numerous art, photography and lifestyle magazines, solo and group exhibitions (including in Warsaw and Montréal) as well as participated in festivals, such as "Voies Off" in Arles, which contribute to his artistic practice.


Galerie Kernweine Foto und Raum is a place for contemporary photography, visual media and discourse. Affiliated to the gallery is our gk shop with a focus on limited photo editions, books, magazines and other selected products. In the backyard of the gallery is the gk-Café & Bar. 




Selected Exhibitions

Solo

2019	META, Space Place, Nizhny Tagil, Ural, Russia
2018	Talisman, Aesthetik01, Berlin, Germany
2017	Kristall ohne Liebe, Aesthetik01, Berlin, Germany
2016	Kristall ohne Liebe, Oberwelt, Stuttgart, Germany
2014	Nur Bilder – keine Wirklichkeit, Hermann Hesse Museum, Calw, Germany
2013	Das Innere, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012	Golgatha, Galerie Nowhere, Montréal, Canada
2011	Stuotengarten, Schauraum Waschstrasse, Stuttgart, Germany
2010	Äon, GEZ Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Group

2019	Wort im Bild Award, 43. German Language Literature Festival, Klagenfurt, Austria
2018	Hunger, Photographic Museum of Humanity, phmuseum.com (online)
2018	TALISMAN at Screen 2018 / La Nuu Festival de Fotografía, Barcelona, Spain
2017	The Bridge, Galerie KUB, Leipzig, Germany
2016	A Great Sum (In Parts), Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013	ICP TRIENNAL, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
2012	Where does time go, PH Space/The Newbridge Project, Newcastle, UK
2012	Dream Divers, Lookout Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2012	Black Thorns in the White Cube, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA
2011	Dreamcatcher, Feinkunst Krüger, curated by Till Gerhard, Hamburg, Germany
2011	Altar, Belfast Platform for the Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2011	Sunny Side Up, Margate Photo Festival, Margate, UK
2011	Kłusownicy, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, Poland
2011	Nofound to New Documents, Viktor Wynd Fine Art, London, UK
2010	New Work New York, Levi’s Photo Workshop, New York, USA
2010	Get well soon, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2009	You Can’t Always Get What You Want, The Printspace, London, UK


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• GALLERY & SHOP
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SAT/SUN	09.00 – 18.00 
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MON	CLOSED
• CAFÉ & BAR
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SAT/SUN	09.00 TILL LATE
MON	CLOSED

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