De-Constructed Collective Photography Exhibition Photography Exploration Project X B-Part Exhibition What potential does photography have to question, deconstruct, and rethink reality—in an age when social, personal, and visual structures are characterized by continuous transformation? The concept of deconstruction is at the heart of the fifth collaboration between PEP (Photographic Exploration Project) and B-Part Exhibition. PEP is a platform founded by Bénédicte Blondeau to promote contemporary positions in photography. In an international call for submissions, PEP invited artists to submit works from their photographic practice that engage with this concept—the deconstruction of the medium of photography and its physical and social environment. The B-Part Exhibition provides the platform for the Collective Photography Exhibition, organized in collaboration with PEP. The participating artists approach the theme from different perspectives. Some examine architectural and urban environments as spaces of transformation, while others turn to the changing terrain of identity, family ties, and societal or political structures - capturing moments of vulnerability, transition, and renewal. Other works, in turn, address questions rooted in the natural world and the geological layers of the earth, exploring how physical landscapes can also represent places of deconstruction and historical sedimentation. Experimental approaches push the boundaries of the photographic form and reflect the fragmentation of contemporary experience. Through deconstruction and reinterpretation, the photographic works invite viewers to rethink the narratives and frameworks that shape our understanding of the world. In order to reflect the diverse range of issues addressed in the submissions, the jury, composed of curators from the Photographic Exploration Project and the B-Part Exhibition, selected works by the following 47 artists: Maria Ahmed and Sarah-Jane Field (GB), Sina Al-Bayati (DE), Kathleen Alisch (DE), Miia Autio (FI), Rebekah Burgess (US), Yuxing Chen (CN), Yiding Chen (CN), Francesca Comune (IT), Margaux Corda (CH), Francesca Cugno (IT), Edoardo De Falchi (IT), Harold Delhaie (BE), Kristin Dimitrova (BG), James Dobson (GB), Christine Elfman (US), Sami Farra (CH), Barbara Salomé Felgenhauer (BE), Menyhért Hivessy (HU), Maryia Karneyenka (BY), Elena Khazina (RU), Michael Koch (DE), Maximilian Koppernock (DE), Mateusz Kowalczyk (PL), Hakbong Kwon (KR), Sungchul Lee (KR), Barton Lewis (US), Tianjun Li (CN), Christopher Littlewood (GB), Christine Lorenz (US), Claira Matheson (GB), Powell May (US), Agata Mendziuk and Hania Siecinska (PL), Ellie Nguyen (US), Zeynep Yesim Özkanca (TR), Dalmonia Rognean (RO), Ashutosh Shaktan (IN), Bernardo Shor (BR), Cornelia Stefanescu (RO), Theresa Stritzinger (AT), Áron Tóth-Heyn (HU), Odysseas Tsompanoglou (GR), Raïs Van de Velde (BE), Marc Verbeek (BE), Tianyu Wang (CN), Virginia Were (NZ). An exhibition catalogue featuring the artists' works will be published on the opening day.The B-Part Exhibition space accompanies the future development of the Urbane Mitte Am Gleisdreieck with artistic autonomy and thus at the same time enters into a dialogue with the overarching themes of the overall project - forms of New Work, Co-working, Culture and Sport - and creates synergies between artistic, cultural and social approaches. The artistic director of the B-Part Exhibition is Rüdiger Lange (loop - raum für aktuelle kunst).
