Nadine Wietlisbach

Nathalie Herschdorfer

Guest-Room

Guest Room is a monthly online exhibition with open submissions curated in real-time by personalities from the international photography scene.

Nadine Wietlisbach

Curator - March 2018

Nadine Wietlisbach devises exhibitions, publications and other discursive formats in the fields of contemporary photography and art. She is Director of Fotomuseum Winterthur since January 2018. From 2015 till 2017 she was the Director of Photoforum Pasquart Biel/Bienne, following her post as a curator at the Nidwaldner Museum in Stans, where she was responsible for all contemporary art exhibitions and publications, as well as presentations of the museum’s collection from 2012 till 2015. In 2015, she won the Swiss Art Award 2015 (critique, publication, exhibition section) and was curator in residence at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. She also founded the independent art space Sic! Raum für Kunst in Lucerne in 2007. Besides her interest in the diversity of photographic media, she is particularly interested in the rapidly expanding nature of photographic technology and its discourse.

Nadine Wietlisbach asked for submissions that relate to the topic of „social interaction“.

Selection by Nadine Wietlisbach

March 22, 2018

Kirstine Fryd 03, Copenhagen , DK 2017

Piotr Pietrus embrace, Czech Republic , CZ 2013

1/2 Kirstine Fryd 03, Copenhagen , DK 2017

2/2 Piotr Pietrus embrace, Czech Republic , CZ 2013

Thank you „Der Greif“ for inviting me!

I appreciated the richness and variety of photographic languages and moving stories!

My experience was shifting between the pleasure of discovery and great ambivalence throughout the process of looking at the photogrpahs and making selections within the provided framework.

It is crucial to my (curatorial) understanding of the photographic and how we work with images today, to be aware of contexts.

When and where was an image taken? Was there a dialogic process between the photographer- their machine – and the person who is being

photographed? The realm of shape, form and texture is seducing, like in any other visual domain. But this means having to completely neglect the context of the pictures. To mix and combine various geographical, political and social contexts within one selection (per day) felt slightly alien at times.