Press Release
With Annette Kelm (*1975 Stuttgart), the Kestner Gesellschaft introduces a significant artist who advances the photographic approach of the Düsseldorf School, associated with figures such as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Candida Höfer, or Thomas Ruff, while simultaneously being connected to the conceptual art of the American West Coast. Encompassing still lifes, portraits, landscape, and architectural photography, Kelm creates unique visual worlds of modern everyday culture, employing the means of object photography. Objects are staged in isolated forms with uniform illumination, thereby acquiring new meanings.
