Collective Minds - Port25, Mannheim

The exhibition Collective Minds presented at Port 25 is part of From Where I Stand, the exhibition program I curated for the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie 👇

In our networked society we use, share, and communicate with images in order to get and feel connected. To photograph and film oneself is a powerful tool to express one’s identity and to search for like-minded people. Social media platforms offer spaces to present and find support for lifestyles which deviate from mainstream views. 

The artists presented in Port25 have created networks on- and offline with young people from a multitude of backgrounds working as creative entrepreneurs in Senegal or being part of queer communities in South Africa. The works selected for Collective Minds are situated in fashion, sports, and popular music spheres, in which identity plays a central role. In doing so, the artists bring forward modes of living together and create collective minds across borders and beyond prejudices. 

Through this collective effort, the exhibition Collective Minds evokes a vibrating energy, in which the process of making the works becomes tangible. 

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📷 1,2,3 Kelebogile Ntladi, Cobra, 2016 

📷 3,4,5,6 Anna Ehrenstein, Tools for Conviviality, 2018 

📷 7,8,9,10 Anouk Kruithof, Universal Tongue, 2018 

All images Miriam Stanke, except for 1,5 Lys Y. Seng

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