Backlight2005  The 7. International Photography Triennial in Tampere / Finland

                         02.09.2005 - 15.01.2006

                         Central Celebration Weekend: 14.-16.10.2005

First Info:

In co-operation with the major museums in Tampere, supported by national and international partners and funded by the European Union, the team of Backlight05 succeeded to realize a serial of four outstanding exhibitions together with 60 international artists and 14 artists from Finland, presented on more than 3.000 m2.

As an overture, starting at September 3rd 2005, Backlight05 will present two exhibitions realized in a close co-operation with NRW@FI:

Frontal 7 - Düsseldorf Photography,
a presentation with five artists from the Thomas Ruff master-class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, enriched with images of the Masters themselves: Thomas Ruff  &  Bernd and Hilla Becher, in Photographic Centre Nykyaika in TR1.
 
Überblick - Survey- Katsaus,
for the first time in Finland a representative collection with paintings and photographs of the former Professor of the Düsseldorf Art Academy and recent world star of photography: Gerhard Richter, in Sara Hilden Art Museum

The two central exhibitions of Backlight05 will be opened at October 14th 2005,
Untouchable Things - in the Museum Centre Vapriikki and
Spells of Childhood - in the Tampere Art Museum

This circle of four outstanding exhibitions, together with an International Symposium will be completed by smaller presentations and events in independent galleries in town.

The keynote of Backlight2005 is on Contemporary European Photo-Art beginning with the 1970th, enriched i.e. by historical works of August Sander, 1930th-, Lewis Carroll, 1870th- and extended by contemporary documentaries on the theme of Childhood and Youth from Iran, Israel, USA and Mexico.

Spells of Childhood, by its many-sided challenging art positions puts into discussion as well the aspects of magic and dream as they are related to memory and imagination of childhood and youth in European culture, but also the tough realities of childhood in contemporary global context. In Spells of Childhood we install a visual dialogue of 21 well known specialists  from Europe and from overseas.

Untouchable Things will be represented in a series of artworks of 45 artists from around the globe, dealing with aspects of Migration and Search in the global home: Migration between the different cultures and Search for the - natural or constructed - individual self, both, by intercultural communication and personal memory.

As in 1999 and in 2002, also in 2005 Backlight will realize an actual inventory of contemporary art with photography, its socially and culturally rooted content, its pictorial language and its aesthetic expression.

An independent juror will be invited to choose the most interesting artwork for the Backlight05 Award.

Timetable and locations:
03.09.2005 - 16.10.2005
Sara Hilden Art Museum and Photographic Centre Nykyaika / TR1

15.10.2005 - 15.01.2006
Museum Centre Vapriikki and Tampere Art Museum

14. – 16.10.2005
Symposium with artists, curators, performance, lectures, portfolio review and meetings.

For further details, exhibitions and updates, please visit our web pages or contact the festival office:  backlight&backlight.fi

Organizer: Photographic Centre Nykyaika/Tampere

Project Manager: Ulrich Haas-Pursiainen M.A.

You are all very much Welcome to Tampere to enjoy the dialogue of the images!