Kornelia Boje, photography
Colours and forms. Magic. Dance?
The photographic artist Kornelia Boje shows us dance as we’ve never seen it before. The magic of her works stems from an unusual composition of colour and movement. Her work confirms yet again the highly subjective nature of how we experience dance and movement.
The artistic rendering of dance into image is in Boje’s blood. Her father, the photographer Walter Boje, tried in the 1960s to translate the fascination of dance into the language of the image using a free combination of colour and form. Boje extended her father’s understanding of photography and dance, adding her own modern spin through the interplay of film and digital image editing.
About her work she says: "Photographing dance is a way for me to give novel expression to my own yearning for movement?very much in the spirit of my father, who, particularly in his dance photography, uses colour as a form of expression."
The exhibition FARBEN – ÜBERTRAGUNGEN ("Colours and Transferences") marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between the German Dance Archive Cologne and Werft 11. The goal of the cooperation is to present exhibitions of contemporary dance photography as well as other medial studies of dance and movement.
The German Dance Archive Cologne
The archive was founded in 1948 by the dancer and teacher Kurt Peters. After it was acquired by the SK Cultural Foundation of the Cologne Commercial and Savings Bank, it was opened to the public in joint sponsorship with the city of Cologne. The archive now serves as a centre for information, documentation, and research.
It contains a library, a video collection, an archive (over 200 literary estates from dancers, choreographers, teachers, and ballet critics), and a photograph collection (some 160,000 images and 117,000 original negatives).
The archive also hosts exhibitions, many of which are devoted to the history and present of dance photography.
Opening
Sunday, 25. October 2009 from 12:00 to 16:00
Press kit
press.farben-uebertragungen.zip
