>>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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IG Halle, Rapperswil (CH)
ARS TERMINI
August 25 – November 3, 2024

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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:

• IG Halle, Rapperswil (CH)
  ARS TERMINI
  August 25 – November 3, 2024

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

 

PAST:

• 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