Laura El-Tantawy // Beginnings & Endings: Photography from Concept to the Wall

• Workshop 30.5. – 22.6.2023 // Brühlsche Galerie 
• Artist Lecture 14.6.2023 // Aktsaal 18 Uhr 
• Exhibition Opening 22.6.2023 // Brühlsche Galerie 19 Uhr 
• Exhibition 23.6. – 2.7.2023 // Di – So 11 – 18 Uhr 

Laura El-Tantawy will take on the first international guest professorship for photography at the HfBK Dresden in the 2023 summer semester Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and Portraits Hellerau e.V. support new guest professorship at the HfBK Dresden

The renowned British-Egyptian photographer Laura El-Tantawy will take on the first international guest professorship for photography at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK) in the summer semester of 2023. This professorship is made possible by the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in cooperation with the Dresden-based association Portraits Hellerau e.V. Laura El-Tantawy is also appointed to the jury for the PORTRAITS – Hellerau Photography Award 2023.

The common goal of the three partners is to expand artistic teaching at the HfBK Dresden in the field of photography through this new international guest professorship. The previous range of courses at the HfBK Dresden will be supplemented by a project-based workshop for master students and advanced students, which Laura El-Tantawy will lead. An exhibition in June 2023 in the rooms of the academy will show the artistic works created by the students during the workshop.

In her works, Laura El-Tantawy (*1980) focuses primarily on themes that include the search for identity, belonging, ecological aspects and social issues. In doing so, she combines documentary to painterly-abstract photographs. In 2005 she moved to Cairo and started her most famous photo book In the Shadow of the Pyramids (2015). This deals with the Arab Spring in Cairo from 2011-2013; here she combines old family photos, testimonies, portraits of demonstrators and street scenes. Her work has already received numerous awards, including the artist being shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2016.

A joint jury from the three partner institutions made the decision on the award of the guest professorship. The workshop and exhibition as well as the inclusion of the guest professor in the jury of the PORTRAITS - Hellerau Photography Award 2023 are intended to give the students new impulses and strengthen Dresden as a place for contemporary artistic photography.

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