Panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Christiane Lange, Jorge Ribalta, and Jeff Wall
A distinguished panel featuring Prof. Dr. Christiane Lange, Director of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie; Spanish curator Jorge Ribalta, who has curated three innovative exhibitions on the subject at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid; and acclaimed artist Jeff Wall, will explore the associations between the New Objectivity movement, which emerged in Germany after World War I, and the development of what we now refer to as "documentary photography."
Prof. Dr. Christiane Lange has been a curator of the gallery at the Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, and additionally held the position of director there from 2006–2012. She has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich since 2003 and received an honorary professorship in 2011. Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Lange has been serving as director of the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart.
Jorge Ribalta is an independent curator, editor, and researcher who served as the head of public programs at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) from 1999 through 2009. He has curated numerous photographic exhibitions including a 2005 survey of Jo Spence’s work for MACBA as well as A Hard, Merciless Light: The Worker Photography Movement (2011) and Not Yet. On the Reinvention of Documentary Photography and the Critique of Modernism (2015) for the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Jeff Wall is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale, backlit Cibachrome photographs and art historical writings. Early in his career he helped define the Vancouver School and he has published essays on the work of his colleagues and contemporaries Rodney Graham, Ken Lum, and Ian Wallace. Wall has contributed significantly to the establishment of photography as an autonomous medium and is regarded as a progenitor of “staged photography.” He currently has a solo exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland until 21 April 2024.