2011 - HIJACKED 2: Australia/Germany
HIJACKED 2: Australia/Germany /13 May – 01 July 2011
Image: Narelle Autio, Untitled 4 (from the series 'Not of This Earth'), 2001, pigment print, 100 x 66 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany builds on the very considerable success of the inaugural exhibition, Hijacked 1 – Australia and America, and its internationally celebrated and hugely successful book. This new exhibition effectively considers two socially disparate nations, Germany and Australia, through an expansive photographic anthology of fascinating works, juxtaposed to suggest connections.
Hijacked 2 has been curated by Mark McPherson and Ute Noll and showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of thirty contemporary German and Australian photographers. With a focus on the depiction of the young, the boundary-riding, and the fringe-dwelling, Hijacked 2 is evocative, confronting, dreamlike and rousing.
A substantial 412-page publication accompanies the exhibition with texts by Uta Daur, Bec Dean, Alasdair Foster, Bill Kouwenhoven, Katja Melzer, Daniel Palmer and Katrina Schwarz.
Featured artists from Australia are: Narelle Autio, James Brickwood, Michael Corridore, Andrew Cowen, Tamara Dean, Suzie Fox, Lee Grant, Derek Henderson, Rebecca Ann Hobbs, Ingvar Kenne, Bronek Kózka, Georgia Metaxas, Polixeni Papapetrou and Louis Porter.
From Germany the artists are: Johanna Ahlert, Natalie Bothur, Jörg Brüggemann, Thekla Ehling, Albrecht Fuchs, Jan von Holleben, Karsten Kronas, Anne Lass, Jens Liebchen, Myriam Lutz, Julian Röder, Josef Schulz, Oliver Sieber, Ivonne Thein, Olaf Unverzart and Sascha Weidner.
Image: Louis Porter, Abbotsford, 2005, pigment print, 101.6 x 76 cm. Image courtesy of the artist.
Image: Jörg Brüggemann, Nam Song River, Vang Vieng, Laos, December 2007, 2007, c-type print, 69 x 57 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Ostkreuz.
Image: Olaf Unverzart, Untitled (from the series ‘Fallen Kann Ich Auch Alleine’), 1999, pigment print, 56 x 38cm/125 x 85 cm. Image courtesy of Oechsner Galerie.
Image: Ivon Thein, Untitled 07 (from the series 'Thirty-Two Kilos'), 2006, c-type print, 55 x 80 cm. Image courtesy of Galerie Voss.
