Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography

Bombas Gens Centre d’Art presents Timm Rautert and the Lives of Photography, a comprehensive retrospective of photographer Timm Rautert that spans five decades of his artistic production. The exhibition begins with Rautert’s experimental early work as a student of Otto Steinert, passing through some of his most emblematic series, collages and recent works. The exhibition will include works belonging to the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, among others. This selection illustrates the thematic and methodological versatility of Rautert’s oeuvre, that can also be read as a reflection and consolidation of the photographic canon over the years and its journey into the museum context.

Timm Rautert (born 1941 in Tuchola, then West Prussia) is considered one of Germany’s most preeminent contemporary photographers. Over the decades he has succeeded not only in anticipating the most important trends in photography, but has also played a major role in shaping them: as a studio photographer for galleries, as a photojournalist, as a chronicler of changing working environments, and finally, as a university lecturer, undoubtedly influencing ensuing generations and current photography movements.

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Exhibition in cooperation with Folkwang Museum (Essen, Germany).

Timm Rautert, Crazy Horse I, 1976. Per Amor a l’Art Collection © Timm Rautert