Cora Pongracz "8 erweiterte portraits" with: Paul Niedermayer
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Dec 07, 2025 — Jan 25, 2026
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The third dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with works by artist Paul Niedermayer, whose practice ties in with Pongracz’s media-reflexive approach and places questions of image production itself at the heart of her aesthetic strategy. While Pongracz’s 56-part series 8 erweiterte portraits, 1974, takes up the established photographic genre of portrait photography in order to literally stretch its conventional parameters through dialogical positing, Niedermayer, with her series Wildlife, 2025, builds on the equally codified photographic genre of wildlife photography – already implied in the title. Both artistic positions thus operate at the interface between photographic tradition and its critical revision.
The thirteen photographs from Niedermayer’s series Wildlife, 2025, which repeatedly inscribe themselves into the empty spaces and int…
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Cora Pongracz "8 erweiterte portraits" with: Paul Niedermayer
Kunstverein für Mecklenburg und Vorpommern in Schwerin•Dec 07, 2025 — Jan 25, 2026
Press Release
The third dialogical presentation expands Cora Pongracz’s series and exhibition of the same name, 8 erweiterte portraits, with works by artist Paul Niedermayer, whose practice ties in with Pongracz’s media-reflexive approach and places questions of image production itself at the heart of her aesthetic strategy. While Pongracz’s 56-part series 8 erweiterte portraits, 1974, takes up the established photographic genre of portrait photography in order to literally stretch its conventional parameters through dialogical positing, Niedermayer, with her series Wildlife, 2025, builds on the equally codified photographic genre of wildlife photography – already implied in the title. Both artistic positions thus operate at the interface between photographic tradition and its critical revision.
The thirteen photographs from Niedermayer’s series Wildlife, 2025, which repeatedly inscribe themselves into the empty spaces and int…
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