Marlene Apmann | Roberta Bergmann | Thomas Blume | Gerald Borchers | Andreas Bormann | Uwe Brodmann | Herbert Döring-Spengler | Jan Ehrich | Michael Ewen | Bernd Farny | Klaus-Henning Foerster | Dirk M. Franke | Jan Gäbler | Andreas Gießelmann | Axel Grüner | Sebastian Günther | Irene Heimsch | Birte Hennig | Jörg Hennings | Martin Hoffmann | Timo Hoheisel | Roelf J. Janssen | Ulf Jasmer | Henrike Junge-Gent | Andreas Kirchner | Manuela Karin Knaut | Mira Lenk | Volker Linnemann | Ansgar Marx | Anna-Maria Meyer | Helge H. Paulsen | Robert L. Philipps | Lina-Maiken Preuß | Karl-Stéphane Rossignol | Yvonne Salzmann | Bernd Schubert | Iris Selke | Norbert Skibinski | Vivien Slopianka | Volker Veit | Veronika Werner

From December 15, 2018, to January 13, 2019, the Museum of Photography Braunschweig presents an exhibition entitled "Members Only," featuring contributions from 41 members of the museum association. These members include artists, photographers, and individuals with diverse interests in photography, extending beyond the city limits of Braunschweig. Presented as an open invitation, the project unites various thematic areas in the submitted works, which are displayed in the museum's two gatehouses. The artists' engagement with photography varies, ranging from documentary and abstract works to experimental development processes and digital interventions that alter the photographic medium.

A central theme of the exhibition is the collection of photographs taken during travels around the world. Ansgar Marx, Lina-Maiken Preuß , and Andreas Kirchner, for example , capture street life in various Asian countries. Critical perspectives are offered by the photographs of Sebastian Günther , whose series Pašteta addresses the consequences of landmines in Kosovo, and by Manuela Karin Knaut , who documented the social environment surrounding the teenager "Shotgun" in the Ponte City high-rise slum in Johannesburg . The works of Marlene Apmann also illuminate social issues in other cultures by examining the role of women in Indian society.

Bernd Farny 's photographs in his series Chromatic Life show abstracted landscapes with painterly qualities , in which he photographed the abstract, bacteria-generated colors of the soils in Yellowstone National Park, while Anna-Maria Meyer creates spaces of association reminiscent of scientific or space photography.

The exhibited images not only showcase a wide range of content but also diverse presentation styles: In a single photograph by Andreas Bormann, the different levels of a house are revealed through a side view, while Timo Hoheisel's photograph "Heimatleuchten" (Homeland Lights) explores the phenomenon of light pollution. In contrast, there are serial works such as Thomas Blume 's series " Wartehäuser/Bus-Stopp " (Waiting Shelters/Bus Stop) or photographs by Henrike Junge-Gent from L'entroterra , the Ligurian hinterland of Italy. A multi-part visual narrative by Jörg Hennings was also created in Italy, specifically in Venice, while Birte Hennig 's conceptual work " 1.2.3. …" captures the sky outside her kitchen window as an abstract landscape, photographed daily.

program:

Advent Special: December 15, 2018, 12-6 pm: Photobook Shop – Photobooks at special prices, mulled wine & waffles

Dialogic leadership: 16.12.2018, 16 clock
with Franziska Habelt
in dialogue with Gerald Borchers, Andreas Bormann, Jan Gäbler, Sebastian Günther and Ulf Jasmer (photographers of the exhibition)

Public guided tours: December 30, 2018 and January 6, 2019, both at 4 p.m.

Happy Thursday! January 3, 2019, until 8 p.m.
Free admission and curator-led tour at 19 pm

Family tour: January 6, 2019, 3 p.m.

Finishing: 13.01.2019, 16 p.m.,
Guided tour of the exhibition with Franziska Habelt
in dialogue with Marlene Apmann, Irene Heimsch, Timo Hoheisel and Helge H. Paulsen (photographers of the exhibition)