In light of the increasing concerns and rapidly changing developments related to Covid-19, The Walther Collection closed its doors to the public in March 2020 – our priority being the safety of our visitors and staff worldwide.
Due to major construction work, the Museum Campus in Neu-Ulm will remain closed until Summer 2022. The exhibition Side by Side: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt has been postponed until further notice.
In April 2022, the largest presentation of The Walther Collection’s holdings to date will take place in the main exhibition spaces at K21 of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. Inspired by the Collection’s inaugural exhibition Events of the Self, curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2010, the retrospective will present important aspects to Collection’s holdings while re-examining the critical developments that have taken place in photography and the Collection’s history. It will place works by African artists from three generations in a dialogue with works by modern and contemporary Western photographers. This reveals disruptions and gaps, but also continuities and parallels in a diverse history and practice of photography.
In July 2022, our Museum Campus in Neu-Ulm will reopen with Samuel Fosso: A Retrospective, the first comprehensive presentation of Fosso’s prolific oeuvre.
Additionally, we have some updates to our growing publication program. In 2020, a total of four books were published in collaboration with Steidl Verlag: two monographs dedicated to the work of Samuel Fosso, SIXSIXSIX and Autoportrait; our latest catalogue Imagining Everyday Life: Engagements with Vernacular Photography; and Photographs 1980s – now, the first major publication to present a selection of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. In November, the French edition of Autoportrait will be published to coincide with the opening of Samuel Fosso: A Retrospective at Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
A new book series is currently being established that will focus on individual volumes highlighting important socio-cultural matters of our time, and relevant art historical topics that form the basis of our exhibitions. Each volume will include essays by renowned curators and scholars. The Walther Collection Books series will publish its first volume, Beyond the Binary: Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt, this year.
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We are looking forward to welcoming you at the reopening of our Museum Campus in Neu-Ulm, in Summer 2022!
Artur Walther
Sophie-Charlotte Opitz
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