Consisting of photographs of Heidi Specker, Susanne Brügger and Thomas Demand, the exhibition 'Real Space Picture Space' is realised in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Istanbul, and IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen).

The exhibition will run from February 14 to April 6, 2013 at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery.

This exhibition brings together different readings of 'Real Space Picture Space' of three independent photographers.

With this exhibition, three views of contemporary German photography are presented. In these works, the authentic character of a photograph is not being questioned, but rather the precondition of an artistic discourse with photographic means: an interest for public space is the common content denominator in these works. This interrelation is evident in the blurred, and thus abstracted, architectural images by Heidi Specker, the kind of a disecting approach by Susanne Brügger, as well as in Thomas Demand's constructed interior views.

In the last ten years, digital technology which competes with traditional photographic recording method has been attracting a growing interest of the art market which tremendously affected the artistic practice of photography. It may be said that the orientation of the younger generation has been changed because of this evolution. Today, the artists whos are using technical mediums on photography with different reflections, different artistic intentions and methods, maintain still a binding substantive point of departure, regardless of which established German school they received their education from, and receive interest of the audience.

The special emphasis on 'space' in the title of the exhibition, in connection with the terms 'reality' and 'picture', points to the specific analysis of a theme with the available means of expression; photography, which through reproduction transforms space and time into an image. German photographers no longer prefer to access real space or space in the sense of visual localization through transported experience but rather through the constructed worlds they create by using different interventions and manipulation processes.

In Heidi Specker's works, the computer is a medium used for design. What she is interested in is not the changing relation between the producer and viewer through the possibilities offered by electronic media; but the analogue picture / time-relation of the photographic process 'sketched' by a new technology.

In comparison to the conventional use of a photograph; the difference in this kind of transformation is more than the different degrees of abstraction, it is the creation of specific possibilities through color transitions and contrast shifts. Her works suggest the conversion of a large fabric of urban realities into an X-ray image or to a resolution of external appearance. During this conversion, the photographic recording of thecharacteristics of the images is kept until such a point where the media-related record of the architecture remains observed.

For Thomas Demand, 'real' space is a pre-determined information. He does not shoot in connection with a real context, but uses already published photographs to serve as 'role models'. These serve as research points for the transformation of the picture into a new picture. Thus said Thomas Demand photographs are images reconstructed from published images that are widely accessible. This process of artisanal construction marks his position on generic photography. Contrasting to reproducibility characteristic of photography, regardless of its real and media reality, Thomas Demand is examining the convertibility of photographic information into a picture.

Susanne Brügger starts working in a traditional way first; she photographs birdview images of a city. Also for her, as with Thomas Demand, the question of dimensions and photographic scale is the central problem. At first glance, she gives the impression as if she is applying a scientific procedure by dissecting an image taken in birdsuens orienting the viewer to experience such an assessment or reading systems. Her artistic application brings us to question a scientific verification method (which has shaped our understanding of the world) but at the same time she is being ironic with the media of photography as it is a medium of cognition.

A photographic image refers basically to the relationship between the image and the possibilities offered by the technical mediums used by the photographers. This is especially valid for the photographs in this exhibition. The use of this technical medium and its form are basically socially determined, and are not only a supposedly authentic character of photography but also of the emerging by conventions of photographic mediums shown in this exhibition.

This IFA exhibition will run from February 14 to April 6, 2013 at Milli Reasürans Art Gallery.