The theme of the 23rd Biel/Bienne Festival of photography will be revealed in January 2019. Image: © Mathieu Merlet Briand, #Blue-Screen, 2018

Over the past decade, Lukas Hoffmann has developed a large photographic corpus examining urban and unremarkable landscapes. His photographs, of acute precision and almost irritating formal perfection, are as many quests for correspondences between images and the visible world, which the artist intuitively elaborates without preconceived rules or themes. A coproduction with the Kunsthaus [...]

Matheline Marmy's work can be described as a series of speculative studies on the forms of landscape, which result in photographs as well as sculptures and installations. Her work is willingly experimental, both in terms of its forms and its materials: photograms on concrete, sometimes made out of bacteria or chlorophyll, repetitions and degradations [...]

Our relationship with photography continues to expand and multiply. The frenetic creation of images is sometimes answered by an equally unrestrained consumption, marked by pleasure as well as compulsion or obsession, on which the exhibition focuses. Schaulust is a cooperation with the Fotomuseum Winterthur in the context of SITUATIONS.