Lab by Der Grief

The ways photographic images are being produced, distributed and perceived have changed rapidly in the past years and this affects not only our way of looking at images, but also our ways to “use” them, constantly shifting between contexts.

Der Greif workshop provided experimental approaches to working with digital photographic archives, to editing and sequencing single photographic images.  The workshop transfered aspects of DER GREIF’s artistic photographic practice. The team of DER GREIF looked for a dialogue in which both parties – participants and directors – received new impulses. The goal of the workshop was to create opportunities for every participant to develop a different view onto his own work and onto photographic images in general. DER GREIF wants encouraged the participants to collaborate and exchange in order to create new approaches to working with and thinking about photographic images.

Der Grief

Der Greif is an award-winning organization for contemporary photography. It is print-publication, online-publication, curatorial team and joint project all at once. The artistic core and root of the project is the ad-free print-publication. It combines and presents the works of photographers and authors of different origins in a holistic piece of art. The website is exhibition-, communication-, and information platform for participants and anyone interested in contemporary photography. It connects the digital and the analogue, exploring and expanding the borders and limits of image-distribution and -reception in the digital era. All Der Greif-projects connect virtual, physical and / or print-spaces. Since its inception in 2008, the project is involved with contemporary issues like the changing perception of authorship, de- and recontextualization of images, appropriation, artistic approaches to photographic archives and the rise of the remix culture.

Der Greif has worked with institutions such as FOAM, Aperture Foundation, C/O Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur and published works from about 1.000 photographers and artists in printed publications as well as online.

Jump Trump

One of the big bets that year was to schedule an interactive and playful activity for the general public to enjoy. That's why Jump Trump was selected, an installation created by artists Erik Kessels and Thomas Mailaender in collaboration with the Dutch festival Unseen. This irreverent installation offered the cathartic opportunity to take revenge on the most influential man on Earth by jumping from a trampoline onto a mat with a giant portrait of Donald Trump.

Over four days, more than 500 participants jumped and the installation was visited by 3,000 people. However, the greatest impact was in the media, as major international news outlets such as The Washington Post and Euronews reported on the event.

Beds

Camas is a pop-up cinema—in its original version—where beds replace the usual seats for a week. In our ongoing search for different ways to approach content, this “new” format emerged, which had already been running for four years. For several consecutive nights, viewers, armed with blankets and pillows, were able to enjoy the documentary film Faces and Places (Visages, villages) by Agnès Varda and JR from the double beds installed in the Punta Begoña Galleries for the occasion. The more than 300 seats available sold out several days in advance.

Marmitako

As in previous years, more than 150 people attended the special visit to tour all the Festival exhibitions, guided by the curator and the artists who came to Getxo to present their work. After the large and sunny visit to the facilities, a picnic was organized where the chefs from Txoko Bidebitarte prepared a spectacular marmitako for all attendees. A real treat.