>>Current exhibitions:

Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
PAARE / COUPLES
June 1, 2024 – January 26, 2025

Couples are omnipresent in photography. Two people arrange themselves, look into the camera, adopt a certain pose and control their facial expressions. By having themselves photographed in this way, they reveal how they wish to be perceived as a couple. Compared to these idealised images, photographs in which couples do not look into the camera are more fascinating. Here, the couples seem to be genuinely themselves, and strangely detached: playing and courting, enamoured and intoxicated, desperate and clinging. Whether they consent to being photographed is no longer clear. Such photographs are either taken secretly, or the couple is so well acquainted with the person behind the camera that they allow him or her to photograph them as a matter of course.

In 2015, filmmaker Iwan Schumacher began collecting photographs of couples who are not looking into the camera. Peter Pfrunder, director of Fotostiftung Schweiz, had long been planning an exhibition of couple pictures from the institution’s archives and collections. Together, they developed the project Paare /Couples. It brings together a very wide variety of photographs, in which something happens between two people. Each individual image is an excerpt from a story that always remains enigmatic and leads to speculation or projection. This exhibition is a playful associative presentation, in which the single moments combine to form a new narrative.

In cooperation with Edition Patrick Frey, a publication is being released to accompany the exhibition.

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>>New Publication: Multi Multi - Photoworks Annual #31 (UK)

Multi Multi, Photoworks’ 31st Annual Publication, is a deep dive into image replication. “…the mass reproduction of photographic images in books only became possible in the very specific conditions of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century…” Michelle Henning, Photography: The Unfettered Image

Multi Multi (Photoworks Annual # 31) gathers contemporary artists working with replication, in 23 projects by image-makers from around the world. Mixing projects made with cutting-edge technology with works created with the oldest analogue processes, it suggests that image replication is nothing new. In doing so, Multi Multi suggests image replication is intrinsically linked to the culture in which it was born, at the start of industrial capitalism. Multi Multi continues the project begun with Photoworks Annual 30, The Thing, which considers how images extract and commodify; it just asks what happens when they’re mass produced.

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>>New Publication: European Photography 116 (DE)

Berlin Experience – Artificial Intelligence. Berlin is Indescribable, by Christoph Tannert | Portfolios by Helmut Newton, Barbara Wolff, Michael Ruetz, Robert Herrmann, Thomas Florschuetz, Andreas Gehrke, Spyros Rennt, and Rafael Medina | Photo Location Berlin, by Boris von Brauchitsch | Berlin Photo Guide | Toward a Generative Museum, by Lev Manovich | AI portfolios by Clément Lambelet, Andreas Müller-Pohle, and Ben Millar Cole | Book Reviews: Stephanie Kiwitt, Peter Weibel, Robert Adams, Corinne Vionnet, Peter van Agtmae, Japanese Women Photographers | Editor’s Pick: Kurt Caviezel: Watching the World – No. 116, vol. 45, issue 2, winter 2024/2025. Berlin: European Photography, 2024. 24 x 30 cm, 80 pages, German/English

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>>New Publication: Luna Córnea 39, (MX)

A partir del pensamiento de Guy Debord en «La sociedad del espectáculo» (1967), Luna Córnea ofrece un panorama de cómo las ideas del filósofo se han manifestado en la era digital, destacando la fusión de lo personal con lo comercial, el aumento de la vigilancia corporativa y estatal, y la reevaluación de la privacidad. Aborda también temas como la transformación del espectador en producto o espectáculo, la mercantilización de la violencia, la obsesión por los famosos, la autopromoción a través de selfies, así como las implicaciones sociales y políticas de estas dinámicas. De esta forma, esta edición invita a una reflexión sobre cómo la sociedad del espectáculo ha evolucionado para adaptarse a la era de la hiperconectividad.

Luna Córnea 39. La sociedad como espectáculo
Dirección: Alejandra Pérez Zamudio.

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>>New series: "PUTIN'S JAIL"

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>>American Selfies:

Watch and follow the series American Selfies, a current report about the USA, on Instagram.

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>>A text about surveillance pictures:

From the panopticon to the privatization of control: surveillance cameras are everywhere, recording images non-stop, becoming the "eye of God".
But who is really "looking" there - and for what purpose? A little school of automated seeing (including some thoughts about my work) by the Swiss author Thomas Hermann.

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>>New Project:
"WATCHING THE WORLD, The Encyclopedia Of The Now"


A project about photography, art, AI, big data, cctv, surveillance, the moment and the whole world. >>(download pdf)

Read the reviews:
Le Figaro, France, (fr)
Le Temps, Switzerland, (fr)

In collaboration with ZHAW (Zurich University of Applied Sciences).

Follow this project on Instagram

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>>New series: "PUBLIC HIDING"

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>>THE ILLEGAL FILM / DER ILLEGALE FILM
a film by Martin Baer and Claus Wischmann
A film, among others, about Kurt Caviezel

Can one own a view?
Who will control the image of the world once reality
is completely „augmented“?

Trailer: watch here
Film website is here

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>>New series: "BLACKSPOT"

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>>INTERVIEW:
Wolfgang Brückle and Mark Durden in a
conversation with Kurt Caviezel

The interview is also published in ArchivoZine 19, "New Media, In the Age of Visual Culture"

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>>Article:
WIRED.com is featuring my
work "THE PHOTOGRAPHERS",
by Laura Mallonee

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>>Article:
About "PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET" the premiere exhibition
at the new ICP Museum, New York: Newsweek and New York Times

 

CURRENT:

• Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur (CH)
  PAARE / COUPLES
  June 1, 2024 – January 26, 2025
  

 

PAST:

• IG Halle, Rapperswil (CH)
  ARS TERMINI
  August 25 – November 3, 2024
  
  
• Bellevue, Ort für Fotografie, Basel (CH)
  LICHTBLICK
  March 9 – June 16, 2024
  
  
• Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (USA)
  MACHINE VISION
  March 3 – April 29, 2023
  

 

• Fundación MAPFRE, KBr Photography Center, Barcelona (Spain)
  RESONANCES
  Curator: Joan Fontcuberta
  26. May 2022 - 04. Sept. 2022

 

• Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu (China)
  BUILDING ILLUSIONS
  4. 12. 2021 - 28. 02. 2022

 

• Le Lavoir Numérique, Gentilly, Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre, Paris (France)
  VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, SUR-PRISE DU VISIBLE
  22. Oct. 2021 - 9. Jan. 2022

 

• Foto Colectania, Barcelona (Spain)
  Panoràmic 2020 Festival, PUBLIC - PRIVATE - SECRET
  4. - 29. Nov 2020
  
  
  
• Lianzhou Museum of Photography, Lianzhou (China)
  Lianzhou Foto Festival
  A CHANCE FOR THE UNPREDICTABLE
  30. Nov. 2019 - 3. Jan. 2020
  
  
  

• Alt.+1000, Le Locle (CH)
  Festival de photographie
  1. - 22. Sept. 2019
  
  

• Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao (Spain)
  Never Real / Always True
  Curator: Iván de la Nuez
  March 14. - September 22, 2019
  
  

• Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
  AUTOPHOTO
  20. April - 24. Sept. 2017
  
  
• Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (IT)
  TIME MAPS. Memory, Archives, Future
  5. Mai - 9. July 2017
  
  
• International Center of Photography (ICP Museum), New York
  PUBLIC, PRIVATE, SECRET
  curated by Charlotte Cotton
  23. Juni 2016 - 08. Jan 2017
  
  
• Centre de la Photographie,
  Geneva (CH)
  CAMÉRA(AUTO)CONTRÔLE
  Triennial 50JPG — 50 Days for Photography in Geneva 2016,
  1. Juni - 31. Juli 2016
  
  
• NRW Forum, Düsseldorf (D)
  EGO UPDATE. Die Zukunft der digitalen Identität
  19. Sept. 2015 - 17. Jan. 2016
  
  
• Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen (NL)
  Data Rush
  23. Aug. - 11. Oct. 2015
  
  
• Soloshow
  Foto-Forum, Bozen (IT)
  The Encyclopedia of Kurt Caviezel
  Opening 12. Mai, 19h
  13. Mai - 20. Juni 2015
  
  
• Kunstmuseum Olten (CH)
  Ich. Du. Die Anderen
  Portraits
  15. Juni bis 5. Oktober 2014
  
  
• Musée d'art de Pully, Pully (CH)
  Do You Speak Tourist?
  Quand les photographes décodent les clichés
  6. März - 11. Mai 2014
  
  
• Fridericianum, Kassel (D)
  Monitoring, Dokfest Kassel
  Kasseler Kunstverein
  12. - 17. November 2013
  
  
• Villa Merkel,
  Esslingen (D)
  Crossing Media 2013
  19. Juli - 06. October 2013
  
  
• Helmhaus Zuerich (CH)
  Werk- und Atelierstipendien der Stadt Zuerich
  20. Juli - 8. September 2013
  
  
• Art Basel (CH)
  Swiss Art Awards
  11. Juni - 16. Juni 2013
  
  
• Soloshow
  Centre de la Photographie,
  Geneva (CH)
  GLOBAL AFFAIRS
  18.3. - 5.5 2013
  
  
• Arts Santa Monica,
  Barcelona (ES)
  FROM HERE ON
  Curated by Joachim Schmid, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Clément Chéroux and Martin Parr.
  22. 2. - 13. 4. 2013
  
  
• K11, Shanghai (CN)
  Get It Louder Exhibition
  8. Dez. 2012 - 26. Jan. 2013
  
  
• Sanlitun Village,
  Beijing (CN)
  Get It Louder Exhibition
  4. Nov. - 20. Nov. 2012
  
  
• Fotomuseum Antwerpen (BE)
  FROM HERE ON
  22. Juni - 30. September 2012
  
  
• Festival, Bieler Fototage, Biel (CH)
  7. - 30. September 2012
  
  
• Festival IMAGES, Vevey (CH)
  8. - 30. September 2012
  
  
• Soloshow
  Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Kreuzlingen (CH)
  PUBLIC DOMAIN
  24. März - 29. April 2012
  
  
• RENCONTRES d'ARLES PHOTOGRAPHIE, Arles (F)
  FROM HERE ON
  curated by Joachim Schmid, Joan Fontcuberta, Erik Kessels, Clément Chéroux and Martin Parr.
  4.7. - 18.9. 2011
  
  
• Soloshow
  FOTOSTIFTUNG SCHWEIZ, Winterthur (CH)
  GLOBAL AFFAIRS - Erkundungen im Netz
  26.2 - 15.5.2011