NEW WORKS ART COLLECTION - DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION
30 JUNE - 25 SEPTEMBER, 2022
Deutsche Börse AG, The Cube, Eschborn
Die Ausstellung „New Works“ präsentiert aktuelle Neuerwerbungen für die Art Collection Deutsche Börse aus den vergangenen 24 Monaten. Sie zeigt, wie diese Positionen das kuratorische Konzept der Sammlung erweitern und gleichzeitig vertiefen. Diese umfasst mittlerweile über 2.200 Fotografien von rund 150 Künstler*innen aus 30 Nationen.
FINANCIAL TIMES
PHOTO LONDON
12 MAY - 15 MAY, 2022
Location:
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Booth number G7
Opening hours: 13:00–21:00
NEWS
© Jamel Shabazz, Church Ladies, Harlem NYC, 1995, Silver gelatin print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP
60 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in.)
JAMEL SHABAZZ: EYES ON THE STREET
06 APRIL- 04 SEPTEMBER, 2022
"Starting at the young age of fifteen, Brooklyn born photographer Jamel Shabazz identified early on the core subject of his lifelong investigation: the men and women, young and old, who invest the streets of New York with a high degree of theater and style, mixing traditions and cultures. Despite following a celebrated tradition of street photography that includes Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander, it is to his credit that Shabazz has been one of the first photographers to realize the joyous, infectious potential of youth culture in neighborhoods such as Red Hook, Brownsville, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Harlem, Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the Grand Concourse section of the Bronx. A formidable archive of New York’s communities in the outer boroughs, this exhibition pays homage to Shabazz’s illustrious career of over forty years documenting the vibrant interaction of New Yorkers with their neighborhoods."
The exhibition has been organized by the Bronx Museum’s chief Curator Emeritus Antonio Sergio Bessa.
The show is part of Our Stories, Our Voices––a year-long series of exhibitions and public programs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. These exhibitions are organized around the idea that visibility is a tenet of social justice.
NEWS
© Andre D. Wagner for The New York Times
THE NEW YORK TIMES - JAMEL SHABAZZ: PROUD STREET CULTURE ON DISPLAY
06 APRIL, 2022
"He chronicled the fashion shifts of stylish young Black New Yorkers in the 1980s and ’90s in photographs celebrated at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. […]"
written by Arthur Lubow
UPCOMING FAIR
ART DÜSSELDORF
08 APRIL - 10 APRIL, 2022
LOCATION:
AREAL BÖHLER
HANSAALLEE 321
40549 DÜSSELDORF
BOOTH NUMBER A01
OPENING HOURS:
08 April, 2022
12-7 pm
09-10 April, 2022
11-7 pm
NEWS
JAMEL SHABAZZ - GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION / STEIDL BOOK PRIZE 2022
"A legendary New York photographer, Jamel Shabazz has created portraits of the city’s communities for over forty years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Shabazz began photographing people he encountered on New York streets in the late 1970s, creating an archive of cultural shifts and struggles across the city. His portraits underscore the street as a space for self-presentation, whether through fashion or pose. In every instance Shabazz aims, in his words, to represent individuals and communities with “honor and dignity.” This book—winner of the second Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize—will present, for the first time, Shabazz’s work from the 1970s–90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that functioned as portable portfolios."
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
MIRON ZOWNIR Berlin/New York
11 March - 03 July, 2022
'Upcoming exhibition “MIRON ZOWNIR Berlin/New York” from March 11th until July 3rd as part of the photography double exhibition alongside “WOLFGANG SCHULZ. Live / Life” at Turm zur Katz in the city of Constance.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Galerie Bene Taschen and was created in collaboration with students studying literature, art and media studies at the University of Konstanz under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bernd Stiegler and the curator of the Turm zur Katz, Anna Martinez Rodriguez.'
Turm zur Katz
Kulturzentrum am Münster
Wessenbergstr. 43
78462 Konstanz
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
© Jamel Shabazz: Brother Man, Flatbush, NYC 1981, Chromogenic print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP, 35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
Jamel Shabazz - Photographs by Jamel Shabazz: 1980–1989
23 March - 05 June, 2022
OPENING:
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 4 - 6 pm
Moltkestr. 81 50674, Cologne
The upcoming solo show Photographs by Jamel Shabazz: 1980–1989 brings together mostly unseen works from this era. Shabazz was one of the first photographers to document the emerging youth culture, along with his own experiences, in neighborhoods across East Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, downtown Brooklyn, up to Times Square.
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
© Jamel Shabazz: Help Me, Brownsville, Brooklyn, NYC 1980, Chromogenic print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP, 35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
JAMEL SHABAZZ - LOS ANGELES
25 February - 04 March, 2022
Jamel Shabazz - Los Angeles
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN POP UP
9045 Nemo Street,
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Hosted Future DMND Gallery
February 25 — 27, 2022 / 11 — 5 pm
March 1 – 4, 2022 / 11 – 5 pm
And by appointment
GROUP EXHIBITION
Jamel Shabazz: Celebrating the City - Recent Photography Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something
OPENING 18 February, 2022
10am - 6pm
Celebrating the City: Recent Photography Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something highlights a gift that has dramatically advanced the Museum’s already exceptional photography collection. Juxtaposing striking recent images with work by some of the 20th century’s most important photographers, including the Museum’s first images by Robert Frank and William Klein, the exhibition is a moving celebration of the power of photography to capture New York and New Yorkers.
NEWS
© Jamel Shabazz: Caught in between, Manhattan, NYC 2000, Chromogenic print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP, 35 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
BBC Reel: Jamel Shabazz - The iconic images capturing the magic of the 80s
"The vibrant photos from Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz capture the magic of life underground in the New York City subway, finding fashion, joy and love in surprising images.
Shabazz’s work aims at showcasing positive portraits of the African American community during a time of high crime, drugs and violence."
Video by Brandon Drenon & Madeline Johnson
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
'SHAPESHIFTERS' - JAMEL SHABAZZ
05 February - 31 July, 2022
KUNSTLINIE, Esplanade 10, 1315 Almere, Netherlands
The group exhibition presents "the sheer boundlessness creativity that street- and urban art holds. Every room is dedicated to a style, and within each style we’ll visit different forms of art. The (inter)national artists in the exhibition vary in where they are in their careers, but no matter how green or well-known they are: all of them are boundary-pushing shapeshifters."
UPCOMING EXHIBITION
Karl, 2021, Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm (31 x 39 in.)
OPENING: CHARLOTTE TROSSBACH - the city & the woman
05 February 2022, 12 am - 7 pm
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19, 50674 Cologne
NEWS
JAMEL SHABAZZ- REFLECTIONS OF A PEOPLE
28 January - 06 March, 2022
photographs from the archive of Jamel Shabazz
at Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
curated by Dexter Wimberly
offering a glimpse into a past time and place, capturing moments of Black life for future generations
NEWS
Salvation: A State of Being
14 - 21 January 2022
curated for BAM by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Guest Curator at Large
art by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Genevieve Gaignard, Jamel Shabazz, Frank Stewart, Roscoè B. Thické III., Deborah Willis, and Joshua Woods
NEWS
© Jeff Mermelstein, NYC, 2016
Archival pigment print
WINTER BREAK 2021/22
Our office will be on winter break from December 23, 2021 to January 6, 2022. We are looking forward to welcoming you in the new year again. The exhibition JEFF MERMELSTEIN - HARDENED will also be on show through January.
All the best,
your gallery team
NEWS
Video display at R13, 34 Howard Street, New York, NY 10013
CITY METRO RELEASE AND VIDEO DISPLAY AT R13 - JAMEL SHABAZZ
NOVEMBER, 2021
Jamel Shabazz’s signed release of “City Metro” is accompanied by an immersive video display at R13 - 5 massive monolithic screens feature some of Shabazz’s most iconic imagery.
EXHIBITION
© Jamel Shabazz: Trio, Brooklyn, Chromogenic print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP, 35 x 28 (14 x 11 in.), 76 x 60 cm (30 x 24 in.)
a2 - Jamel Shabazz
10 SEPTEMBER 2021 - 10 NOVEMBER, 2021
a2 is a new "public art" initiative created through access to a storefront window on the edge of New York City’s Soho and Chinatown. Developed by anonymous gallery, with support from R13, each presentation will feature one artwork from renowned artists who are known for often making challenging and thoughtfully conceptual statements. Working in close association with artists, estate representatives, and collaborators, the project seeks to not only highlight a singular example of artwork, but to inform a passing audience of the artists’ history and significance through various online and in-person activations. Exploring each artists’ contributions to the history of art, fashion, music, architecture, and the city at large, a2 is an opportunity for unexpected discovery and engagement.
a2 is proud to announce its first installation featuring a significant work by the legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz. Courtesy of, and in collaboration with Galerie Bene Taschen, the artwork will be installed and available for public viewing - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from September 10 - November 10, 2021 outside of 34 Howard Street, New York, NY 10013.
PAST FAIR
© Joseph Rodriguez, TAXI Series: 220 West Houston Street, 1984, Silver gelatin print, Edition of 10 plus 2 AP, 30 x 40 cm (12 x 16 in.)
ART COLOGNE
17 NOVEMBER 2021 - 21 NOVEMBER, 2021
Kölnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln-Mülheim
Hall 11.1 Booth B-043
Featured works by:
Joseph Rodriguez
Sebastião Salgado
PAST FAIR
© Jamel Shabazz, Man and Dog, The Lower East Side, NY 1980 Chromogenic print, Edition of 9 plus 2 AP, 61 x 76 cm (24 x 30 in.)
PARIS PHOTO
11 NOVEMBER - 14 NOVEMBER, 2021
Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris
Our booth features works from:
Gregory Bojorquez
Arlene Gottfried
Larry Fink
Jeff Mermelstein
Joseph Rodriguez
Sebastião Salgado
Miron Zownir
NEWS
CONVERSATION WITH JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ AND JAMEL SHABAZZ
14 OCTOBER 2021
"Legendary photographers Jamel Shabazz and Joseph Rodriguez each present and talk about their photography exploring communities close to them including in New York and Los Angeles, and will also discuss their insights on making documentary images today. Moderated by Lisa DuBois"
Jeff Mermelstein, NYC, 2016, Archival pigment print, Ed. of 10 plus 2 AP, 43 x 56 cm (17 x 22 in.) // Ed. of 6 plus 2 AP, 76 x 101 cm (30 x 40 in.)
OPENING: JEFF MERMELSTEIN - HARDENED
15 OCTOBER 2021, 6-9 pm
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Cologne
We look forward to your visit.
FESTIVAL OPENING
Joseph Rodriguez, Family going to church on a Sunday morning, NY, 1984, Silver gelatin print
PHOTOVILLE 10TH ANNIVERSARY JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ PRESENTS: TAXI EXHIBITION
20 SEPTEMBER, 2021
"A Fantastic opening night evening what a line up!
Photoville’s 10 Under 10 featuring presentations from The New York Times, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Abrons Arts Center, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Indigenous Photo, United Nations Women, Joseph Rodriguez, The Darkroom Masters, and National Geographic featuring live music from Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project.
Joseph Rodriguez discusses his experience photographing TAXI: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987, a portrait of the gritty chaos and community of New York in the 1970s. The book is composed of photographs captured from the driver’s seat of documentary photographer (and cab driver) Joseph Rodriguez’s taxi—including scenes of night workers getting off their shifts, children jumping through the spray of open fire hydrants in the summer, and S&M partiers leaving clubs, zipped in leather, in the early hours of the morning."
EXHIBITION
Jamel Shabazz, Undercover, Lower East Side Manhattan NYC, 1988, Chromogenic print
WEAR THE RIGHT THING - JAMEL SHABAZZ, MOHAMED BOUROUISSA & SARA SADIK
15 SEPTEMBER - 23 OCTOBER, 2021
"Does wearing a tracksuit nowadays define one’s origins and generation or gives others an idea of how one envisions the world?
The Wear the Right Thing exhibition translates this notion into contemporary art through the lens of three artists from different generations, Jamel Shabazz, Mohamed Bourouissa and Sara Sadik, all of whom show, preserve and document the culture and style of diverse communities.
As part of this exhibition, designs by Balenciaga and apparel and accessories contributed by private fashion collectors from across the world will be on display, adding to the spirit of freedom and irreverence of streetwear."
NEWS
The paraná connecting the Rio Negro with the Cuyuní River. In Portuguese, paranás are lake-like bodies of water connected to major rivers by canals called furos (punctures). During floods, the two often merge as if the river were widening. State of Amazonas, 2019, Silver gelatin print, 28 x 35 cm (11 x 14 in.), 40 x 50 cm (16 x 20 in.), 50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 in.), 60 x 90 cm (24 x 35 in.), 90 x 130 cm (35 x 50 in.), 130 x 170 cm (50 x 68 in.)
PRAEMIUM IMPERIALE AWARD FOR SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
14 SEPTEMBER, 2021
"Internationally acclaimed photographer, Sebastião Salgado’s powerful black and white works are instantly recognizable, works that put a spotlight on the dispossessed and exploited, the beauty of nature and the fragility of the world and its inhabitants. As political refugees, he and his wife Lélia moved to France from Brazil in 1969. Initially trained as an economist, he took up photography full time in 1973. He works thematically, using only natural light, his photos posing serious questions about the imbalance of wealth and the impact of wars and disasters. Sahel captured the famine in Africa, Workers, the realities of manual labor, Migrations, the realities of migrants and refugees while Genesis is an homage to the Earth’s natural beauty. Since the 1990s, Salgado has been actively involved with environmental and reforestation issues through the Instituto Terra, an organization that he established with his wife in his home in Brazil. His latest work, Amazônia, is a seven-year exploration of the Amazon ecosystem and the way of life of its indigenous people. The book, Amazônia, was published in May 2021 and an accompanying exhibition is currently touring the world."
NEWS
© Tamara Lorenz, Gallery Installation View, Lindenstraße 2021
INAUGURATION: SECOND GALLERY SPACE
10 SEPTEMBER 2021, 6-9 pm
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19, 50674 Köln
We look forward to welcoming you in our new and second gallery space. The event starts at 6pm.
NEWS
TAXI Series: Union Square, NY 1984, Silver gelatin print, Edition of 10 plus 2 AP, 30 x 40 cm (12 x 16 in.)
OPENING HOURS DURING DC OPEN GALLERIES
03 SEPTEMBER 2021,
11-10 pm
04 SEPTEMBER 2021,
11-8 pm
05 SEPTEMBER 2021,
11-6 pm
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Köln
With the start of the art season in fall, galleries in Cologne and Düsseldorf will present their program and start new exhibitions.
Galerie Bene Taschen presents a solo-exhibition on Joseph Rodriguez' series TAXI.
NEWS
© Larry Fink, Pat Sabatine's Eighth Birthday Party, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania, April 1977, Silver gelatin print, 55 x 43 cm (22 x 17 in.)
SUMMER BREAK
16 AUGUST - 01 SEPTEMBER, 2021
We wish a great holiday time and look forward to welcoming you back in September.
EXHIBITION
Miron Zownir in Palermo - DER POET DER RADIKALEN FOTOGRAFIE
21 MAY - 31 JULY, 2021
Curator: Gaetano La Rosa
The Centro Internazionale di Fotografia presents the exhibition „Zeitwirdknapp | Non c'è più tempo – Retrospektive 1977–2019“, comprising the complex œuvre of Miron Zownir, the poet of radical photography.
The show will be on view in Palermo until July 31, 2021.
EXHIBITION
Jamel Shabazz - Prospect Park: My Oasis in Brooklyn
on view in Prospect Park near Lefferts Historic House, NY
until December 1, 2021
"Who knows how long the man had been fishing by the edge of the lake in Prospect Park, standing near a thicket of lush trees and staring blankly at someone behind him: Jamel Shabazz, a photographer who took the man’s photo in 2010. For Shabazz’s latest exhibition, 'My Oasis in Brooklyn', there are 25 more images like this one. […] Captured over decades, the shots honor the park’s legacy at a time when its most cherished building, Lefferts Historic House, is being restored."
EXHIBITION
Salgado Amazônia - Philharmonie de Paris
20 MAY 2021 - 31 OCTOBER, 2021
Curator and scenographer: Lélia Wanick-Salgado
Original musical soundtrack for the exhibition: Jean-Michel Jarre
Exhibition in collaboration with the Geneva Ethnography Museum
"For seven years, Sebastião Salgado immersed himself in far corners of the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the forest, rivers and mountains, and the people who live there. On his journeys deep into this realm—where the immense power of nature can be felt as in few places on earth—his photographer’s eye captured striking images, most being shown here to the public for the first time.
Accompanied by an original soundtrack—a ‘symphony-world’ created by Jean-Michel Jarre using concrete sounds from the forest—the exhibition also gives voice to the indigenous communities photographed, via their testimonies."
INTERVIEW
In the Gallery with: Bene Taschen
July 5, 2021
By Miss Rosen
“Art was always a part of my life,” says gallerist Bene Taschen, the son of world-renowned German book publisher Benedikt Taschen. “Growing up [in Cologne], I was surrounded by photographers and met great artists working with my father, like Helmut Newton. It was a blessing to have this as a part of my daily life. It was inspiring to be surrounded by art in any form.”
NEWS
Fotos aus dem New Yorker Taxi
June 22, 2021 - June 24, 2022
Journalist: Leonie Wedekind
"Das Leben schreibt ja bekanntermaßen die besten Geschichten. Für Joseph Rodriguez bietet es auch die besten Motive. Zehn Jahre fuhr der US-Amerikaner Taxi. Hinter dem Steuer dokumentierte er als "fahrender Flaneur" in den 70er und 80er Jahren den rauen Alltag der New Yorker. Nun hat der gefeierte Dokumentarfotograf jene Fotos zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht. In der Galerie Bene Taschen in Köln sind die Werke bis Ende Juli zu sehen."
ARTICLE
THE DRIVER-TURNED-PHOTOGRAPHER WHO SHOT 80s NEW YORK CITY
June 21, 2021
Joseph Rodriguez captured the many different corners of the city from the window of his cab.
"To drive a cab back then, you either had to have a death wish or come to the job with a biography that inured you to the danger or graced you with such intuitive empathy/curiosity that to see and hear and sometimes engage with the cavalcade of humanity sliding in and out of your backseat trumped the nightly game of Russian roulette."
The writer Richard Price penned these poignant words that open photographer Joseph Rodriguez's book and show, Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987, currently on display at Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, Germany.
EXHIBITION
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
June 19 - July 25, 2021
Künstlerhaus Dortmund presents a group exhibition with participating artists: Thaddé Comar, Constantin Grolig, Lois Hechenblaikner, Sabine Springer, Julia Steinigeweg and Miron Zownir.
"Our life is currently being questioned in almost every area. Traveling, flying – we may have to change our habits. But how do we redefine ourselves, how do we find a new identity? First it was changing locations and now even interpersonal contacts have mutated from essential to dangerous. We no longer experience ourselves as nomadic and interacting, but rather as solitary. We are separated from places of longing, also from people we long for. An imagined after is the time onto which we project our longings. Whereby the wish for the future is often enough for it to be the same as it was in the past. The exhibition tries to present these aspects of yesterday, which are supposed to fill and enrich our future, and to question their suitability. Forms of physical closeness, joint ventures and dissolute living, as well as political commitment for a better future: the new old proximity is being put to the test."
ARTICLE
FT Weekend Life & Arts
June 12/ June 13, 2021
"Taxi" (1984) by Joseph Rodriguez — Cheyenne Darko
"Prior to picking up a camera for the first time at the age of 20, Joseph Rodriguez spent time in prison and was addicted to drugs. The native New Yorker would later say that taking up photography saved his life. Becoming a taxi driver in 1977, Rodriguez spent the next decade exploring New York from the front seat of his cab, capturing the mood of the city in one of its most troubled periods. From families en route to church to sex workers in the Meatpacking District, Rodriguez’s camera doesn’t discriminate. As the photographer says: 'There are a million stories here in New York. Everybody’s got a story.'"
NEWS
Miron Zownir
June 8, 2021
The article of Artribune informs you about the complex œuvre of Miron Zownir as well as the current exhibition "Zeitwirdknapp/ Non c'è più tempo" at the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Palermo curated by Gaetano la Rosa. As the first great retrospective in Italy, this show comprises over seventy middle- and large-sized works which were produced around the world between 1977 and 2019.
EXHIBITION
Jamel Shabazz at Rockefeller Center - Aperture
March 27 - April 30
An outdoor exhibition, initiated by Aperture and Rockefeller Center, comprises a convolute of New York City street and subway photographs by Jamel Shabazz, who has methodically created street portraits throughout the city for forty years.
LOCATION
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Wed - Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
or by appointment
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
or by appointment
Phone +49 (0)221 1690 5505
LOCATION
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Wed - Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Sat 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
or by appointment
GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19 • 50674 Cologne • Germany
Fri: 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
or by appointment
Phone +49 (0)221 1690 5505