Photography versus Contemporary Art

Until December 15 the curator, writer and professor Ekaterina Degot will explore some of the paradoxes inherent to the complex relations between photography and so-called contemporary art.

Ekaterina Degot

Ekaterina Degot is an art writer and curator, Artistic Director at the Academy of Arts of the World, Cologne, and professor at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography. Her present curatorial projects include: Report to an Academy, a Non-Academic Symposium, Performative or Otherwise, Pluriversale I, Cologne, 2014 (with David Riff); What Did the Artist Mean by That?, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2014 (with Yuri Albert), Monday Begins on Saturday, First Bergen Assembly, Bergen, Norway, 2013 (with David Riff). 

1. Photographers versus Artists: A Colonial Story?
2. Photographs versus Contemporary Art: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
3. Photography versus Contemporary Art: The Case of the Lecture Performance
4. Photographers versus Contemporary Artists: Whose Crisis Is Deeper?
5. Photography versus Contemporary Art: What’s Next?