Exhibition

About 350 bunkers were built before the outbreak of the Second World War along the border between Italy and Austria, on the disputed territory of South Tyrol. A huge system of fortifications was decommissioned by the army in 1993. In a preview for Foto Forum Bolzano, the photographer presents a selection of 31 photographs taken in South Tyrol between 2018 and 2021.

Foto Forum Bolzano presents Stanze by Viviane Sassen, an exhibition bringing together images from – Flamboya, Parasomnia, Pikin Slee, Umbra and Of Mud and Lotus.
Works from different chapters in the artist’s oeuvre intertwine in configurations prompted by affinity of shapes, colours and oneiric atmospheres; the gallery walls are each a self-contained visual poem, a stanza in which the images are words and sequences have their own distinct rhythm.

For many years I have tried to narrate a valley where I was born and where I’ve spent a lot of time since when I was a child even if I grow up in a big city like Milano. This valley is a place that I loved and hated, a place I’m tied to by an emotional link that involves me, my father passed away when I was fifteen and my mother disappeared few years ago.

It is simply about a key providing access to a universe. About preventing us from becoming blind and indifferent, about keeping our senses alert. About the simple, generous gift to a world that is capable of unfolding itself as soon as we know how to attach ourselves to it, that is to say, to pay attention. Christian Cajoulle writing on Léonie Hampton work

Silvia De Giorgi is an artist and photographer who lives and works between Bolzano, Italy and Oslo, Norway. In her practice, she frequently explores the relationship between people, landscapes and memories. Her works are based on her own experiences of the natural environment and are often connected to the landscapes of South Tyrol, her home region, as well as to locations visited on journeys abroad.

Opening: 22.2.2022, 7 pm Exhibition: 23.2. – 26.3.2022   A Sensitive Education explores, through the figure of bird educator Tristan Plot, the possibilities of empathy between different natural species. The narrative, far from being a naturalist documentation, is rather focused…

The photographs of Perckhammer (1895-1965) are the same time a subjective account an individual destiny and a valuable historical documentation of time and space. Half a century after his death, in a kiosk in South Tyrol, Ingrid Hora (born 1976) finds a yellowed postcard depicting a colourful collage. Intrigued, she decides to find out more about who took the picture and discovers Perckhammer’s rich body of work.

Zizola’s sea is a sea of subtraction, in which signs, analogies and things that recall other things emerge. The sea becomes sky and thus becomes a constellation that refers to archetypes at the origin of time.
Drawings, human figures, ancient representations, signs in the night, distant images of a powerful nature in close contact with man all appear in his photos.

There are few countries in Europe where such deeply entrenched stereotypes of women are as widespread as in Italy. Young women in skimpy costumes and heavy make-up have been lasciviously dancing their way through the evening TV program for the past 65 years or so, and only rare exceptions among them have not had cosmetic surgery. The mother is an icon yet on average a woman is murdered every three days in this land of cavaliers and charmers, most often by her intimate partner.

WINNER OF FotoRoomOPEN 22.9.2020 Open doors with artist: 3-6pm Opening: 7 pm (by reservation: info@foto-forum.it) Exhibition: 23.9. –  22.10.2020 Stefanie Minzenmay – Protected Privacy and Selfie in Arles Under its SELFIE hashtag, Instagram currently offers 427 million hits. Number One in…

SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF A SPECIAL TIME BY VERY SPECIAL AUTHORS   “I was born little and i’ll remain little with little ideas; there’s no need to be big” – Maria Giacomelli  The collection of images here portray the quarantine experience…

Opening: 28.1.2020, 19.00 Exhibition: 29.1. – 22.2.2020 Roberta Segata’s photographic project features the storm known as ‘Vaia’ that struck on 29th October 2018, and its aftermath for the ‘Magnifica Comunità’ of Fiemme and much of the Eastern Alps. That day…

Marilù Eustachio is a unique personality. She comes from Rome. She speaks Roman and thinks Roman, she moves in a Roman circle of friends and ambiance, but, idiosyncratically enough, she feels like a Tyrolean Roman. Not just because she was born in Merano: she spent years of her childhood in the Vinschgau region, her mother came from Malls, and until quite recently she came every year to South Tyrol, to Ums bei Völs.

The Realpolitik project was born in the form of fanzines published by Cesura Publishing, the editorial brace of the internationally renowned collective of photojournalists among which Santese is one of the founders and Valli is a member, with the aim of thinking, in an ironic and grotesque way, about the iconography that the Italian political class of the so-called third Republic attributes to itself and feeds daily through images published on social media.

Opening: 21.9.2019,  11:00 Exhibition: 24.9. – 26.10.2019 “Borders” belongs to the 00A cycle of works, a series of a ten-year long project in which the artist uses photography as a means, purpose, or witness to express themes important to him….