Exhibitions

Polona Demšar is presenting a new project in the way of sculptural works in glass / plastic with the application of the photographic medium. With her new project for an answer to the eternal question of Who we are, where did we come from, where do we go...

Photocartoons are a blend of scanned and digital photo-material. In terms of style, photocartoons are a mixture of comic strip and caricature, reflecting current moods and contemporary spirit. The individual and autonomous aesthetic exterior can be compared to the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and, accordingly, understood as a quotation.

Jeffrey Silverthorne’s photography is riveting and beautiful, however also gruesome and shocking. They are set in a place many of us have never been. They allude to the deep mystery of death and the corporeal at its most basic, revealing word of prostitutes, illegal immigrants, border bars, cheap motel rooms and the dead.

Trine Søndergaard and Gina Zacharias belong to the younger generation and more eminent representatives of contemporary photography and art scene in Denmark, although they are both working in broader international art world. Trine Søndergaard deals mostly with the portrait and landscape photography. In the series Hesitating Silence of Gina Zacharias we could interpret particular works as “fragments of reality” or as images containing some hidden meaning.

In the last decades, centres for art photography have been established in many European countries. Some started out in the field of amateur photography and others developed in the context of fine art. Their efforts resulted in the fact that photography is finally being considered and respected as artistic expression.

Photon Gallery is presenting solo exhibition Deep Surfaces of Aniko Robitz, one the most pervasive and important protagonists of new Hungarian and European photographic and contemporary art scene.