Jan 11 – Feb 9, 2025
Projektbüro DFI e.V.
Exhibition in cooperation with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Klasse Piller:
You were always on my mind
Eiskellerberg 1-3
40213 Düsseldorf
Opening:
FRI, Jan 10, 6 pm
Opening hours:
Every Sunday from 3–6 pm
Feb 5 – 9, 1–7 pm
Which artworks captivate us and are truly "always on our minds“? How do they influence us? Can an artist explore this, or is there a risk of becoming entangled in reproduction, creating copies, or overshadowing one’s own ideas?
In the winter semester of 2024/2025, students of Peter Piller’s class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf specifically addressed these questions. Together, they developed a concept for a group project in which everyone contributes in the same format of 20 × 30 cm and follows the same principles. Only newly created works are shown, which not only reflect each artist's individual working style but also utilise photography as a medium of reproduction with its documenting and explanatory qualities.
The idea arose to photograph artworks by other artists that are appreciated by the respective students. These photographs – although depicting the work of someone else – clearly reveal each student's unique photographic signature. The goal is neither the supposedly accurate reproduction of the works that are "always on our minds" nor the mere visualisation of personal preferences. Rather, it is an attempt to explore essential questions of authorship posed at the beginning of the project.
Text: Ines Rüttinger
The class of Prof. Peter Piller:
Ye Li & Antonia Hermes, Micaela Alaniz, Valerie Feldhaus, Valentin Vernon Musialik, Paul Schraa, Tom König, Anton Menzel, Friedrich von Ahn, Jonas Bengi-Akyürek, Frederico de Moura Theophilo Neto, Alissa Ritter, Maria Batyunya, Karla Kleinschmidt, Anna Jocham, Nikita Sereda, Charlotte Rupprath, Ruth Magers, Camilla Angolini, Helene Kuschnarew, Camille Batteux, Kai Krause, Michael Broschmann, Mathis Ratschinski, Franziska Schmitz, Kai Gieseler, Sohyun Kim, Anna-Lena Kokoska
Ausstellungseröffnung im Projektbüro DFI e.V. Foto: Anna Jocham
Works
Ye Li & Antonia Hermes
Medardo Rosso
La Rieuse
1901
Micaela Alaniz
Alberto García-Alix
De donde no se vuelve
2009
Holly Blakey
Phantom
2021 (stills from the video work)
Valerie Feldhaus
Silke Schönfeld
Die Unvorzeigbarkeit dessen, was nie hätte geschehen sollen
2024
aus der Ausstellung im HMKV Dortmund
Valentin Vernon Musialik
Jürgen Blum & Christoph Maria Musialik
Transzendment
1982
Paul Schraa
Rolf Binder
Rostvita
1984
Tom König
Gustav Metzger
Earth from Space
1965/2013
Anton Menzel
Unbekannt
Mumienbinde
3.-2. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
Friedrich von Ahn
Oliver Helbig
pool
1997
Jonas Bengi-Akyürek
Hans Hollein
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg
1982
Frederico de Moura Theophilo Neto
Lygia Clark
baba antropofágica
übers.: anthropophagischer Geifer
1969
Alissa Ritter
Jeff Koons
Amore
1988
Maria Batyunya
Do Ho Suh
Portal
2015
Karla Kleinschmidt
Carolin Geyer
objects of desire
2024
Anna Jocham
Max Beckmann
778 Vampir
1948
Nikita Sereda
Jupp Rübsam
Mahnmal für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus
1958
Charlotte Rupprath
Charlotte Posenenske
Vierkantrohre Serie D
1967/2020
Ruth Magers
Kopf der Braut Deidameia
Westgiebel des Zeustempels
470-456 v. Chr.
Camilla Angolini
Agnès Varda
Ulysse
1983
Helene Kuschnarew
Irving Penn, Robert Graves and his children, 1960
Sally Mann, three generations, 1991
Gordon Parks, Portuguese family, 1943
Thomas Struth, family portrait, 1977
Christian Borchert, Familie M., 1993
Camille Batteux
Arnold Böklin
Die Toteninsel
1883
Kai Krause
Marianne Strobl
Hochquellleitung, Parteiführer und Accordant
1909
Herkunft: Photoinstitut Bonartes
Michael Broschmann
Paul Cézanne
Still-Leben mit Birnen
um 1895/1900
Mathis Ratschinski
Birgit Werres
Ohne Titel #26 #202020
2020
Franziska Schmitz
Ibrahim Shaddad
Jamal / A Camel
1981
Kai Gieseler
Rupprecht Geiger
Metapher Zahl
1985-1989
Sohyun Kim
Pascal Mourgue
Lune D’argent Stuhl
1985
Anna-Lena Kokoska
Lazar Lyutakov
1 Million Random Numbers
2023
repro photography: Kai Krause
Talks
11 am Gerhard Theewen
3 pm Wiebke Elzel
11 am Anna Voswinckel
3 pm Niklas Taleb
photo: Anna Jocham
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In cooperation with Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Kindly supported by:
Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf