GalerieEstherWoerdehoff Press release Michael von Graffenried

Press release
Exhibition:
22.06 – 13.07.2016
Opening reception:
Wednesday June 22nd 2016, from 6 to 9 pm, the artist will be present
Michael von Graffenried, Changing Rio
We are pleased to present Changing Rio the new series by Michael von Graffenried.
Known for his work on the civil war in Algeria and Sudan, his street installation for his
series on drug in Switzerland and the city of Varanasi in India, and more recently for his
series on the Oktoberfest in Munich (published as Bierfest by Steidl editions), Michael
von Graffenried had traveled all around the world with the exception of South America.
The Swiss photographer recently discovered this continent and this visual portrait of
Rio de Janeiro is the result of several stays in the metropolis during the last two years.
As Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second city with its 12 million inhabitants, is now preparing
to welcome the Olympic Games this summer after hosting the World Cup two years
ago, and whereas the country is suffering from a political crisis linked to an important
corruption scandal, the photographer captures the transformation of the metropolis and
its population within its diversity. Construction workers hurrying to build the Olympic
city - but also new highways and subway lines - children playing in the favelas (where
nearly a third of the population lives), forceful interventions by the police and soldiers
or cariocas enjoying the beach, as usual the photographer places the people at the
center of his pictures. He describes a city of contrasts, melting pot and social stratas, a
city firmly committed to modernity, where festivals and religion play a major role, where
lush nature is never far from concrete. The young population is dominant, violence is
common but the beach and carnival always manage to bring together a fragmented
society. The city is supposed to radiate a bit of its old power and beauty, just like back
then, when it had been Brazil’s capital until 1960. A policy of pacification has been
introduced to the favelas in order to finally shake off the reputation of a city that is
separated into rich and poor: the «Cidade Partida». For quite some time now, Rio has
been the negative example of social inequality. Will this city of millions end up as
a modernized and peaceful winner after the Olympic Games? Or will one only have
memories of a big international event ? Will nothing have otherwise changed ?
The photographer Michael von Graffenried has used these transformations as a point of
departure for his concentrated view on a metropolitan area with millions of inhabitants.
The fascinating result ? Large-format, double-page panorama photographs from a Rio
de Janeiro in the zero hour.
This exhibition is accompanied by the publication of the book Changing Rio by Slatkine
editions. A book signing will be held at the opening reception.
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
For any inquiries, please contact Sabine Guédamour by email at
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Press Images
Michael von Graffenried, Changing Rio, 2014-2016, #62
Archival pigment print, 42 x 104 cm (edition of 7) or Lambda print 124,5 x 284,5 cm (edition of 3)
Michael von Graffenried, Changing Rio, 2014-2016, #20
Archival pigment print, 42 x 104 cm (edition of 7) or Lambda print 124,5 x 284,5 cm (edition of 3)
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
www.ewgalerie.com
[email protected]
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Press Images
Michael von Graffenried, Changing Rio, 2014-2016, #19
Archival pigment print, 42 x 104 cm (edition of 7) or Lambda print 124,5 x 284,5 cm (edition of 3)
Michael von Graffenried, Changing Rio, 2014-2016, #50
Archival pigment print, 42 x 104 cm (edition of 7) or Lambda print 124,5 x 284,5 cm (edition of 3)
The use of images is exclusively reserved for promotion of the exhibition and valid up to
three months after the end date of the exhibition.
Obligatory mention : © Michael von Graffenried, Courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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Biography
Artist
Michael von Graffenried
Michael von Graffenried was born in Bern, Switzerland in 1957. Now living and working
between Paris, New York and Switzerland, he started as a self-taught photojournalist
in 1978, travelling the world for numerous publications and now works on long term
projects using different kinds of media frames, such as outdoor campaigns on public
billboards or film. His documentary film War without Images, produced together with
Mohammed Soudani, was first screened at the Locarno filmfestival in 2002. He has
exhibited his pictures widely in Switzerland and France, as well as in New York, Algiers,
Hong Kong and Beirut. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Swiss
Foundation for Photography, Winterthur, Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Bibliothèque
Nationale in Paris and several other major European collections. His work appeared in
many books, such as Sudan, a forgotten war (Benteli 1995), Naked in Paradise (Dewi
Lewis 1996), Inside Algeria (Aperture 1998), Cocainelove (Benteli 2005), Eye on
Africa (2009), Bierfest (Steidl, 2014) or Changing Rio (2016). Michael von Graffenried
was given the title of Chevalier des Arts et Lettres of the French Légion d’Honneur in
2006 and the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society of Photography 2010. He
is the third Swiss photographer to obtain this award after René Burri and Robert Frank.
Solo exhibitions
2014
Bierfest, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
2012
On the Edge, Varanasi, India
Shoreditch Stories, London
Inside Cairo, Parker’s Box, New York
35 mm Film, Leica Gallery, New York
2010
Eye on Africa, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Outing, Retrospective, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
2009
Eye on Africa, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland
2008
Photographies d’une guerre sans images, Hangar - UMAM, Beirut, Lebanon
2007
Our Town, Musée du Kornhausforum Bern, Switzerland
Panoramas 1997-2007, Galerie Bernhard Bischoff & Partners, Bern, Switzerland
Inside Cairo, Sur le toit d’un immeuble du Downtown au Caire, photography
installation, Egypt
2006
Graffenried à la page, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Mois de la Photo à Paris
New Bern, Bank of the Arts, North Carolina, United States
2005
Rosanna, Astrid, Peter und die andern, Landesmuseum Zürich, Switzerland
Rosanna, Astrid, Pierre et les autres, Musée national Château de Prangins,
Switzerland
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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2004
Rosanna, Astrid, Pierre et les autres, Kornhausforum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2003
Michael von Graffenried - Panorama du monde, Library of the city of Bordeaux,
France
Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts), Bern, Switzerland
2002
Helveticum 02, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Algérie, photographies d’une guerre sans images, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
photographies panoramiques, Galerie O, Schaffhouse, Switzerland
2000
Algérie, photographies d’une guerre sans images, National Library El Hamma, Algiers
Du Jura au vaste monde parcours d’un photographe, Ferme-Asile, Sion, Switzerland
Paris une comédie humaine, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris
Panorama del mundo, Autumno fotografico (Biennial), Sala Diego Chiesa, Chiasso,
Switzerland
1999
Weltpanorama, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Weltpanorama, Galerie Arlecchino, Lucerne, Switzerland
Jura, visages d’une jeune république hors image, St Ursanne cloister, Switzerland
Algérie, photographies d’une guerre sans images, Usine à chaux, St Ursanne,
Switzerland
1998
Soudan, L’abbaye de l’Epau, Le Mans, France
Algérie, Centre National et Musée Jean Jaurés, Castres, France
Algérie, photographies d’une guerre sans images, Mois de la Photo, Pavillon
Delouvrier, Parc de la Villette, Paris
1997
Naked in Paradise, Witkin Gallery, New York
Soudan, Fnac, Troyes, France
Galerie Scalo, Zurich, Switzerland
Soudan, Fnac Avignon, France
Galerie Kabinett, Bern, Switzerland
Museum Zündorfer Wehrturm, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris
Museu Nogueira da Silva, Braga, Portugal (encontros da imagem, mai de la Photo)
Nu au Paradis, Montpellier Photovision, Montpellier, France
Soudan, Fnac, Saint-Étienne, France
Nu au Paradis, Galerie Focale, Nyon, Switzerland
1996
Soudan, Fnac Lyon-Part-Dieu, France
Soudan, Fnac Versailles Parly II, France
Soudan, Fnac Rennes, France
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
1995
Algerien zwischen Demokratie und Gottesstaat, Völkerkunde-Sammlung, Lübeck,
Germany
Un photographe au coeur de l’Algérie d’aujourd’hui, Arche de la Défense, Paris
Soudan, Gruner & Jahr, Hamburg, Germany
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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[email protected]
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Soudan, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Soudan, Kornschütte, Lucerne, Switzerland
Algérie. Le rêve brisé de la démocratie, Archives départementales, Montpellier, France
Soudan, Fnac Cnit La Défense, Paris
Algérie. Le rêve brisé de la démocratie, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France
Algérie. Le rêve brisé de la démocratie, Centre des glacis, Belfort, France
Algérie, Sénat, Paris
1994
Hong-Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
1993
Saint-Gervais Photographie, Geneva, Switzerland
1991
Centre Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
Swiss Institute, New York
Zappeion, Athens
Les Suisses, Visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France
Palais de la Culture, Algiers
Witkin Gallery, New York
1990
Swiss Image, Centre Culturel Suisse (during the Mois de la Photo), Paris
1989
Swiss Image, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
1988
Scènes suisses, Cenre Culturel Suisse, Paris
1987
Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland & Galerie Schauspielhaus, Nuremberg,
Germany
1985
Galerie Nikon, Zurich, Switzerland
Casino de Montbenon, Lausanne, Switzerland
1984
Galerie de la Treille, Sion, Switzerland
Group exhibitions
2014
Drive In (with Galerie Esther Woerdehoff), Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006
En français sous l’image, Espace Electra, Paris
2002
Big is beautiful, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2000
La grande illusion, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
1999
Afriques, Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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1998
Le sport, Galerie du Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France
Summer group show, Witkin Gallery, New York
1997
Weltenblicke - Reportagefotografie und ihre Medien, Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland
1996
Ein Fenster zur Schweiz, Kiev, Ukraine
1995
Magic moments Leica, travelling exhibition, Germany, France, USA
1993
Havana (Cuba), Miami, Atlanta (USA)
A la recherche du père, Espace Photographique de Paris, Paris
La Slovénie au quotidien, Bank of Slovénia, Ljubljana, Slovénia
La Syrie au quotidien, Institut du monde arabe, Paris
1989
World Press Photo 1989 - travelling exhibition
1988
Photos d’artistes soviétiques en Perestroïka, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
1986
Photokina, Cologne, Germany
1984
Berner Photogalerie, with René Burri
Portraits d’artistes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Berner Galerie, Bern, Switzerland
Palais des arts, Paris
Awards and grants
2010
Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society of Photography
2006
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture, France
1989
Prix World Press Photo
1987 et 1985
Federal grant for applied arts, Kornhaus, Bern
Collections
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Fotostiftung Schweiz (Swiss Foundation for Photography), Winterthur, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Bern (Museum of Fine Arts), Bern
Collection Charles-Henri Favrod, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Fondation World Press Photo Holland, Amsterdam
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Collection of the City of Geneva, Switzerland
The Pilara Foundation, San Francisco, USA
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Films and books
2016
Changing Rio, Slatkine
2014
Bierfest, Steidl
2012
35mm - El Gran Teatro del Mondo, Benteli Verlag, Bern (EN, DE)
2010
Michael von Graffenried, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maison Européenne de la Photographie
(EN, FR, DE)
2009
Eye on Africa, Schwabe Verlag (EN, FR, DE, IT)
2005
Cocainelove, Benteli Publishers (EN, FR, DE, IT)
Risk, Contact Netz Nerg
2003
Journal d’Algérie, 1991-2001, éditions Autrement, Paris
Im Herzen Algeriens, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Benteli Verlag, Bern
2002
Swisspanorama, mvgphoto.com, Paris
Im Herzen Algeriens, Museum für Gestaltung Zurich and Benteli Verlag
2001
War without Images, feature movie, 35mm, 90‘
1998
Freie Sicht aufs Bundeshaus, Benteli Verlag, Bern, Der Festakt, 150 Jahre CH
Inside Algeria, Aperture, New York (EN)
Algérie, photographies d’une guerre sans images, éditions Hazan, Paris (FR)
Algerien, der unheimliche Krieg, Benteli Verlag (DE)
Weltpanorama, Weltwoche-ABC Verlag, Zurich (DE)
1997
Nu au Paradis, éditions Falguière - Inter art Paris (FR)
Nackt im Paradies, Benteli Verlag, Bern (DE)
Naked in Paradise, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, England (EN)
1995
Soudan, Benteli Verlag, Bern and éditions Falguière - Inter art Paris
1993
Algérie. Le rêve brisé de la démocratie / Algerien, der Traum von der Demokratie,
Benteli Publishers, Bern
1991
Swiss People, Photo Poche, Jean Genoud, Lausanne
1989
Mich trifft keine Schuld, Ringier Verlag Bern and Tribune éditions, Geneva
GalerieEstherWoerdehoff
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris - France
Tel : +33 09 51 51 24 50
mar. - sam. 14h - 18h
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1987
Liebe zu Kaufen, Stemmle, Schaffhouse
1986
Der Blaue Berg, Literatur in der Schweiz, Der Blaue Berg Verlag, Bern
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