Month: January 2025

“OUT OF FOCUS” Exhibition Lenbachhaus, Munich

“OUT OF FOCUS” Exhibition Lenbachhaus, Munich

“OUT OF FOCUS”, Leonore Mau and Haiti,

The upcoming exhibition at the Lenbachhaus is an artistic development of the research project “Out of Focus” by Dora Imhof and the artists’ collective U5 at the University of Zurich. Together with the cultural anthropologist and artist Gina Athena Ulysse, the artist and filmmaker Madafi Pierre, the houngan (priest), musician, and director general of the Bureau National d’Ethnologie in Port-au-Prince Erol Josué, and other scholars and artists, the exhibition develops a dialogical, critical, and productive approach to Mau’s images. The photographs will be shown at the Lenbachhaus in a multimedia, sensual environment. An essential component is an event program (during the exhibition period) in which the previous dialogues in and with the public are continued through performances and discussions. “Out of Focus” is a collaborative examination of Leonore Mau’s photographs taken in Haiti. The exhibition seeks a decolonial approach to these images and asks how working with this archive can contribute to changing the image of Haiti, which is still characterized by stereotypes today.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive four-language publication edited by Dora Imhof, Gina Athena Ulysse, and U5, published by Hatje Cantz.

Cooperation partners: S. Fischer Foundation, bpk-Bildagentur, Berlin

With generous support of Förderverein Lenbachhaus e.V.

Link: Lenbachhaus – Out of Focus