The Walther Collection Project Space - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Walther Collection Project Space. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents Taking Stock of Power: An Other View of the Berlin Wall, a project developed by photographer Arwed Messmer and writer Annett Gröschner, both based in Berlin, following several...More »
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“Day After Day RongRong and the Beijing East Village” Exhibition
The Walther Collection, with Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Beijing presents Day After Day: RongRong and the Beijing East Village. The exhibition features RongRong’s seminal photographs from 1993–1998,...More »
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“Destruction and Transformation: Vernacular Photography and the Built Environment” Exhibition
The Walther Collection is pleased to present Destruction and Transformation: Vernacular Photography and the Built Environment, an exhibition that examines the decisive role of vernacular photography in...More »
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“Mistaken Identities: Images of Gender and Transformation” Exhibition
Mistaken Identities: Images of Gender and Transformation considers how photographic representations reinforce or subvert prevailing roles of gender and sexuality. In particular, the exhibition looks at...More »
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“Imagining Everyday Life Aspects of Vernacular Photography” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents a multi-year series of exhibitions entitled “Imagining Everyday Life,” focusing on historical and contemporary uses of vernacular photography. These exhibitions aim to define...More »
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Yang Fudong “East of Que Village The Ends of Nature”
A site-specific installation by Chinese artist Yang Fudong, East of Que Village (2007) is a six-channel video work that draws inspiration from Yang’s distinct childhood memories of a village in Hebei,...More »
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“Body, Self, Society Chinese Performance Photography of the 1990s” Exhibition
Body, Self, Society: Chinese Performance Photography of the 1990s highlights some of the most significant examples of Chinese performance-based photography from 1995 to 1999, the exhibition features works...More »
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“Acts of Intimacy: The Erotic Gaze in Japanese Photography, Araki, Moriyama, Yoshiyuki” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents a yearlong exhibition series devoted to contemporary photography and video art from Asia, to be presented in thematic exhibitions in New York over the course of 2017. Stemming...More »
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“Recent Histories New Photography from Africa” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents the third exhibition in its multi-year series on contemporary photography and video art from Africa and the African Diaspora. Presented thematically and surveying a varied...More »
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“Who I Am Rediscovered Portraits from Apartheid South Africa” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents Who I Am, a selection of rediscovered studio portraits from apartheid South Africa. Capturing an astonishing array of individuals and appearances, these black-and-white...More »
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“Close to Home New Photography from Africa” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents the second installment of its multi-year exhibition series on contemporary photography and video art from Africa. Presented thematically from 2015 to 2017, and expanding...More »
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“The Lay of the Land. New Photography from Africa” Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents the inauguration of a new multi-year exhibition series on contemporary photography and video art from Africa, to be presented in thematic exhibitions in New York from 2015...More »
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Santu Mofokeng “A Metaphorical Biography”
The Walther Collection presents a solo exhibition of photographs by Santu Mofokeng, bringing together six remarkable series of poetic and resonant images by one of South Africa’s most important artists....More »
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Samuel Fosso Exhibition
Since the mid-1970s, Samuel Fosso has focused on self-portraiture by transforming his body through performance, envisioning variations on African identity in the postcolonial era. His early experimental...More »
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Christine Meisner “Disquieting Nature”
The Walther Collection presents Disquieting Nature, the first US exhibition by the German artist Christine Meisner. A meditation on blues music and the Delta region in Mississippi through video and works...More »
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Martina Bacigalupo “Gulu Real Art Studio”
The Walther Collection presents Gulu Real Art Studio, an installation of 90 studio portraits collected by the photographer Martina Bacigalupo from the Gulu Real Art Studio in Gulu, Uganda. Edited from...More »
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"Poetics and Politics" Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents "Poetics and Politics," the third and last exhibition in the series Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, curated by Tamar Garb. "Poetics and Politics"...More »
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"Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive" Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents Part II of Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive, a three-part exhibition series curated by Tamar Garb. "Contemporary Reconfigurations" offers new perspectives...More »
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"Distance and Desire Encounters with the African Archive Part I: Santu Mofokeng and A.M. Duggan-Cronin" Exhibition
The Walther Collection presents the beginning of a three-part series of exhibitions on photography from Southern Africa, Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive. The exhibitions, curated...More »
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode "Nothing to Lose"
Marking the first solo exhibition of the artist's photographs in New York, Rotimi Fani-Kayode: Nothing to Lose showcases approximately a dozen large-scale color and black-and-white portraits drawn from...More »
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August Sander and Seydou Keïta "Portraiture and Social Identity"
The Walther Collection unites the portraiture of two modern photography masters, August Sander and Seydou Keïta, whose images vividly capture the rapid social transformations of the twentieth century through...More »