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Other Spaces

Collective Photography Exhibition

Photography Exploration Project X B-Part Exhibition


Anikó Antalfi, Valeria Arendar, Mervyn Arthur, Ūla Aukštaitytė, Christian Badach, Tobias Becker, Giacomo Bianco, Guglielmo Cherchi, Francesca Cugno and Gaia Maggio, Martina Ferrari, Leonardo Flores Parés, Yorgos Kapsalakis, Cinzia Laliscia, Alessandra Leta, lom-of-LaMa, Luca Marianaccio, Stephanie O'Connor, Alessio Pellicoro, Dalmonia Rognean, Arhant Shrestha, Maria Siorba, Ellen Smeets, Will Staley, Natthaya Thaidecha, Simon Vansteenwinckel




How does a space influence our attitude and perception, and how does it participate in the plurality of our identity? The concept of “Other Spaces“ is the theme of the fourth collaboration between the PEP (Photographic Exploration Project) and the B-Part Exhibition. PEP is a platform founded by Bénédicte Blondeau to present contemporary positions in photography. In an international open call, artists were invited to submit works of their photographic practice that deal with this concept - the exploration of “Other Spaces“. The B-Part Exhibition provides the platform for the Collective Photography Exhibition organised by PEP.

How are “Other Spaces“ situated? In addition to the streets and landscapes that we encounter every day, there also exist “heterotopias“ that societies and cultures tend to produce, such as cinemas, museums, libraries, clubs, train stations or offices - a plurality of parallel realities, each influencing our behaviour in written and unwritten ways. By delving into these different microcosms, the exhibition intends to explore the characteristics that belong to a specific space, through which we investigate the contrast between the familiar and the other, the real and the unreal.

The overarching theme of the exhibition is inspired by Michel Foucault's concept of “Other Spaces“, which aims to explore “the different modes by which, in our culture, human beings are made subjects“. As the French philosopher stated in 1967: “we are in the epoch of juxtaposition, the epoch of the near and far, of the side-by-side, of the dispersed“.

In order to mirror the wide range of diverse approaches in the submissions, the jury, made up of the curators of the Photographic Exploration Project and the B-Part Exhibition, selected works by the following 26 artists:


Anikó Antalfi, Valeria Arendar, Mervyn Arthur, Ūla Aukštaitytė, Christian Badach, Tobias Becker, Giacomo Bianco, Guglielmo Cherchi, Francesca Cugno and Gaia Maggio, Martina Ferrari, Leonardo Flores Parés, Yorgos Kapsalakis, Cinzia Laliscia, Alessandra Leta, lom-of-LaMa, Luca Marianaccio, Stephanie O'Connor, Alessio Pellicoro, Dalmonia Rognean, Arhant Shrestha, Maria Siorba, Ellen Smeets, Will Staley, Natthaya Thaidecha, Simon Vansteenwinckel.
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Der Ausstellungsraum B-Part Exhibition begleitet die künftige Entwicklung der Urbanen Mitte Am Gleisdreieck mit künstlerischer Autonomie und tritt somit zugleich in einen Dialog mit den übergeordneten Themen des Gesamtprojekts – Formen des New Work, Co-working, Kultur und Sport – und schafft Synergien zwischen künstlerischen, kulturellen und sozialen Ansätzen. Künstlerischer Leiter des B-Part Exhibition ist Rüdiger Lange (loop – raum für aktuelle kunst).