curated by Barbara Hofmann-Johnson in collaboration with the artist.

With Marcel van Eeden (*1965), the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig presents an internationally renowned artist who has already been honoured with several awards. His work comprises series of drawings that always move between fact and fiction and, as suggestive pictorial narratives, construct historical moments like in a film noir. Reproduced image and text material created before the artist’s birth in 1965 becomes the starting point. In addition to his series of drawings with photographic and textual references, he has also been creating photographic works based on the gum bichromate printing process from the early days of photography for several years. Taken in the present, the motifs of these seemingly painterly photographic works, like the drawings, appear as artistic interpretations of historical moments. Here and there, Marcel van Eeden undermines an uncritical belief in historical factuality and uses the power of suggestion and imagination in combination with actual historical moments.

The exhibition at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig is the first cooperation with the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. Series of drawings and photographic works realized especially for the exhibition with references to Braunschweig and Goslar, among other places, will be presented at both venues.

Museum für Photographie Braunschweig 
Helmstedter Straße 1
D-38102 Braunschweig
Germany

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