SAVE THE DATE! FORMAL OPENING OF THE FOTOFESTIVAL

On Thursday, September 17, 2015, at 7.00 p.m. the opening of [7P] - [7] Places [7] Precarious Fields will be celebrated at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen.
The Kunstverein Ludwigshafen will be open until 10.00 p.m

On the following two days the Festival cities Mannheim and Heidelberg are at the focus of the festivities:

FOKUS HEIDELBERG
Friday, 18.09.2015 at 7 p.m. at the Heidelberger Kunstverein
Likewise open until 9.30 p.m.: Sammlung Prinzhorn (A shuttle bus will be organized between Heidelberger Kunstverein and Sammlung Prinzhorn between 8.00 p.m. and 9.30 p.m.)

FOKUS MANNHEIM
Saturday, 19.9.2015
11 a.m. | Port25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst
5.00 p.m. | ZEPHYR - Raum für Fotografie
6.30 p.m. | Kunsthalle Mannheim

You will find an overview of the events in the context of the opening weekend from 17 to 20 September here.

Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg and curator Urs Stahel cordially invite you and your friends. We are looking forward to welcoming you!

Artist Lectures

With the Artist Lectures, the Fotofestival presents an exciting format in the context of the opening weekend. Internationally renowned artists will hold lectures and, in this way, provide compelling insights into their artistic work.

Thursday | 17.09.15 | Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
4.30 p.m. | JULIKA RUDELIUS
5.30 p.m. | THOMAS HIRSCHHORN

Friday | 18.09.15 | Heidelberger Kunstverein
4.30 p.m. | RICO SCAGLIOLA & MICHAEL MEIER
5.30 p.m. | GEORGE LEGRADY | Language: English

Saturday | 19.09.15 | Port25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Mannheim
1.30 p.m. | JULES SPINATSCH
2.30 p.m. | ILIT AZOULAY | Language: English
3.30 p.m. | PAOLO WOODS & GABRIELE GALIMBERTI | Language: English

Admission to the Lectures is free!

THE SUPPORTING PROGRAMME FOR [7] PLACES
[7] PRECARIOUS FIELDS

On our homepage you can now find comprehensive information on the events in our supporting programme, which will take place during the period from 17 September until 15 November. In addition to the regular mediation range by the [7] participating institutions, we are offering exclusive guided tours with experts from different fields of expertise, the directors of the art venues and museums as well as with the Fotofestival's curator - Urs Stahel. You can download the published programme booklet as a PDF from our website.

In parallel to, and throughout 6th Fotofestival, OFF//FOTO is taking place for the first time this year. Mannheim and the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region have become an important hub as a location for artistic and scientific photography discourse. Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg is showing internationally renowned artists, while exhibition spaces on the independent scene are putting young trends on display.
www.off-foto.info

EDITION SALE - 49 Unique Pieces by Artist Jules Spinatsch

First come, first served!

As a special highlight, this year a series of unique pieces from the oeuvre of Swiss artist Jules Spinatsch will be on offer! 49 single images from the work created for the Fotofestival in the Rhine-Neckar region. Tanzboden 1 is exclusively provided by the artist for sale at the Festival. These single images will appear only once in this form and are exclusively available from us. So it pays to be quick! (The artist reserves the right to offer all images in package form as an Edition.)

You will shortly find all further information on the images and promotion on our website.

Title: Tanzboden 49 | 39 x 26 cm | signed |Price: 250 Euro

MONOPOL FESTIVAL TICKETS RAFFLE

To mark the opening of the Fotofestival our media partner Monopol, the magazine for art and life, is raffling 2 x 2 Festival passes. With the passes, all exhibitions at the participating venues can be visited throughout the Festival duration. To take part in the raffle, all that applicants need to do is send an e-mail with "Fotofestival" in the subject bar, their name and postal address, by Sunday, 6 September, at 15:00 to info@monopol-magazin.de. The lucky winners will be informed via e-mail. All decisions are final.

http://www.monopol-magazin.de/Monopol-verlost-2x2-Festivalpaesse-fuer-das-Fotofestival-Mannheim Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg points out the following CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS BY THE 9TH DARMSTÄDTER TAGE DER FOTOGRAFIE:

Proposal for participation on the supporting programme and for the Merck-Award Entry

Theme: Projection - Photographic Assertions

Deadline: 06.11.2015 | Information: www.dtdf.de/bewerbung Image: © Ad van Denderen, Oran, Algeria, 2007. Lunchrooms, the places where young lovers meet each other. Girls can smoke cigarettes and boys and girls can touch each other - pleasures that are forbidden in the outside world, from the series So Blue So Blue, 2004-2007 Should you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, please use the following link:
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