TALKING BOOKS Special
With Jochen Lempert . Artist / Kathrin Schönegg . Head of Photography Department, Münchner Stadtmuseum / Ina Kwon and Helmut Völter . Graphic Designers
Moderation Katharina Täschner . Junior Curator, C/O Berlin
Venue Café C/O Berlin x Barkin'Kitchen
Language German
Admission free. First come, first served
C/O Berlin is dedicating a special edition of TALKING BOOKS to the new book Natural Sources by Jochen Lempert. The artist's book, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König in 2024, is the result of a series of exhibitions, including the 2023 exhibition Jochen Lempert . Lingering Sensations shown at C/O Berlin in 2023.
Jochen Lempert has been creating a unique photographic oeuvre for over 35 years. With astonished curiosity, he looks at the cultural fascination for flora and fauna. He is interested in the phenomena of perception and their translation into images, life forms and their analogies to his own creative process. For all their photographic minimalism, his images are full of poetic power and profound knowledge about the natural sources of our existence.
In this talk, Jochen Lempert guides us through the publication together with Kathrin Schönegg, author and curator of the Berlin exhibition, and designer Helmut Völter. Together they will discuss the creation of the book, conceptual and design decisions and the significance of the photo book in Lempert's artistic practice.
Books can be purchased on site at the C/O Berlin Bookshop.
Jochen Lempert is a studied biologist. Between 1979 and 1989, he was a member of the experimental film group Schmelzdahin, which explored the combination of chemical processes and celluloid film. Since the 1990s, he has been exploring the dialog between nature and man in the medium of photography. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Kathrin Schönegg is a photo historian and head of the photo collection at the Münchner Stadtmuseum. She was co-program director at C/O Berlin until 2023. Most recently, she curated the thematic exhibitions Songs of the Sky . Photography & the Cloud (2021) and Send Me an Image . From Postcards to Social Media (2021) as well as numerous solo exhibitions by Anna Ehrenstein, Felicity Hammond, Jochen Lempert, Peter Miller, Farah Al Qasimi and Sophie Thun, among others.
Ina Kwon and Helmut Völter are graphic designers and artists from Berlin. Together they designed the books Postures/ Haltungen. Menschen des Centre Pompidou – nach August Sander by Andreas Langfeld and Florian Ebner and L'Image et son double / The Twofold Image by Julie Jones (ed.).