Grande Hotel, Beira, Mozambique, 2008. © Guy Tillim

Appropriated Landscapes

Exhibition on view:
June 16th, 2011–May 13th, 2012

The Walther Collection:
Reichenauerstrasse 21
89233 Neu-Ulm / Burlafingen
Germany
+49 731 1769 143

The Walther Collection’s Appropriated Landscapes is a group exhibition focusing on contemporary landscape photography. The exhibit explores a wide range of issues—including war, colonization, and ideology—and their effects on the Southern African landscape. Appropriated Landscapes attempts to expand the definition of  “landscape” beyond geographical or physical space, by looking at it as a mental and social construct that influences individual and cultural identity. The exhibit features fourteen artists, including three photographers who have been previously published in Aperture: Mitch Epstein, Mikhael Subotzky, and Guy Tillim were featured in issues 168, 188, and 193, respectively.

Guy Tillim, Adrian Pacasi, Pedro Gitali and Jose Arao, 2002

The Walther Collection opens today with an exhibition of work by African and German artists. “Events of the Self: Portraiture and Social Identity” is comprised of four projects, shown in nine different galleries. The group exhibition in “the White Box” will include photographs by Guy Tillim, featured in Aperture magazine, issue 193. The galleries are open by appointment only.

The Walther Collection:
Reichenauer Straße 21
Neu-Ulm, Germany