October 24, 2014 – January 18, 2015
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art, Duisburg

With Barbara Klemm and Stefan Moses, the Foundation for Art and Culture at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle presents two photographers who have each accompanied political and contemporary events, life in Germany and elsewhere in their own unique way over decades. Barbara Klemm spent 40 years working for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which she decisively shaped with her photographs. Stefan Moses reached a wide audience through his reports for Stern, Neue Zeitung and Magnum. Both focus on people; portraits are their supreme discipline.

The double exhibition at the MKM brings together around 200 works each by Klemm and Moses, deliberately avoiding a direct juxtaposition. Rather, it emphasizes the differences in the photographic approach. Barbara Klemm’s pictures focus on a large group of artist portraits, including several artists who are also represented in the Ströher Collection at the MKM: Joseph Beuys, K.O. Götz, Candida Höfer, Anselm Kiefer, Imi Knoebel, Gerhard Richter and others. In addition, groups of works on the theme of “People in the Museum” and “Works of Art” are on display. The selection of works by Stefan Moses focuses on the one hand on his impressive series of emigrants with over 100 portraits of personalities who had to leave their homeland after 1933 for fear of the terror of the National Socialists. On the other hand, this group of works is supplemented by photographs of people taken shortly before and after reunification on several trips through the GDR.

Credits: Klemm/Moses, MKM 2014 © Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Photo: Georg Lukas