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EXHIBITION
LOVE, LUST & FREEDOM Kunstmuseum Brandts, Odense, Denmark 23.3.24 - 5-1.25 THE STORIES OF PHOTOGRAPHY LOVE, LUST & FREEDOM is the first major Danish-produced exhibition with a focus on photography as a focal point for stories about living authentically as a queer. The artworks tell multifaceted stories that are about caring for yourself as the person you are, standing up for yourself, your desires and your desires and not least fighting for the right to love who you want - and how you want. Based on historical material, the exhibition will unfold a wide range of both young and established photographers' depictions of queer love life in all its diversity; from touching coming-of-age stories and quiet glimpses of everyday life to poetic accounts of loneliness and dive into underground cultures that cultivate the uncompromising appetite for life and liberation. The exhibition shows works by, among others: Mengwen Cao, MC Coble & Louise Wolthers, Samet Durgun, Nan Goldin, Marvel Harris, Florian Hetz, Clifford Prince King, Julie Lauerberg, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sven Marquardt, Rafal Milach, George Nebieridze, Niels Nedergaard, Ralf Obergfell, Tero Puha, Laurence Rasti, Mary Steen, Christer Strömholm, Dónal Talbot, Birk Thomassen and Wolfgang Tillmans.
SHORT FILM
ASCENSION
2023
ASCENSION is a new short film by Antonio Urquijo de Simon and Jean-Marc Joseph - produced by Ralf Obergfell.
It tells the story of a brave teenage boy (Jakob Obergfell) who embarks on a journey into the heart of the Great Forest in search of answers.
ASCENSION is a coming-of-age tale about facing the fear of change, learning to observe rather than see, and truly listening rather than simply hearing. It's also a tale of hope in a world that, for many, feels increasingly bleak and in decline.
OFFICIAL SELECTION, AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
2023 Best Cinematography Award at Dubai Independent Film Festival
2023 Best Cinematography Award at Santa Ana Independent Film Awards
2023 Cinematography Achievement at Hawaii International Film Awards
2023 Semi Finalist at Tokyo Short Film Festival
2023 Original Score Nominee at Bucharest ShortCut CineFest
2023 Official Selection at Msff - Milan Shorts Film Festival
2023 Official Selection at Short to the Point - Bucharest Film Festival
2023 Official Selection at Lisbiff - Lisboa Indie Short Film Festival
2023 Official Selection at Barbiff - Barcelona Indie Short Film Festival
2023 Official Selection at HollyShorts - Hollywood Monthly Screenings Festival
2023 Official Selection at Bicycle - New York City Film Festival
EXHIBITION
EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Berlin beruehrt: BERLINER IKONEN & HEIM@LOS Kuenstlerkollektiv TeamWO=H (Steffi Weiss, Ralf Obergfell, Raidar Huber) Galerie Strassenfeger 012, Berlin 02-31.03.2023 The Strassenfeger O12 Gallery reacts to the widespread, rapidly progressing change that’s been underway in Berlin for several years with two exhibitions that serve as snapshots in time: Berlin Icons by Steffi Weiss and Ralf Obergfell is an ‘unheard’ journey of discovery through old Berlin, seen from today’s perspective. These are portraits of the city’s unsung heroes who have been shaping Berlin for decades. They’ve all done their part to make Berlin an exciting, tragic, diverse and tolerant city, attributes that only live on in certain areas today. The exhibition pays homage to this legend. The project heim@los by Raidar Huber – originally Heimatlos unter Brücken (Homeless Beneath Bridges) – shows the brutal everyday life of rejection homeless people face as they struggle to create a small amount of normality by setting up a temporary place to live. The transformation of a desolate underpass into an organized living space touches us: this is where everyone living indoors can make contact with socially rejected people.
BOOK RELEASE
New Queer Photography 2021 Edited by Benjamin Wolbergs Kehrer Verlag
