TILL BRÖNNER. MELTING POTT

July 3 to October 6, 2019
MKM Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art Duisburg

Germany’s No. 1 jazz musician can be experienced in his first comprehensive museum exhibition: For over a year, Till Brönner explored the Ruhr area with his camera and experienced it as an enormously diverse and ambivalent region. Under the title “Melting Pott”, a selection of around 200 pictures can be seen, showing Brönner’s personal view of people and identities, industry, architecture, natural and cultural landscapes, traffic and urban life, chance encounters and familiar faces, as well as the colorful coexistence and juxtaposition of different nations and religions in Germany’s largest conurbation.

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Press reviews

WDR Westart, 24.06.2019
Radio report Deutschlandfunk, 03.07.19
Video WAZ Gelsenkirchen, 03.07.19:
Schalke’s trumpet Willy plays with world star Till Brönner
Radio report WDR 5 Scala, 04.07.19
Kunstgebiet Ruhr, 24.07.19: Interview with Till Brönner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckb_uG17mWo

From LA to the Ruhr region
How does an artist who was born in Viersen and commutes as a cosmopolitan between Los Angeles, Berlin and international tour stops, i.e. who is not regionally rooted, approach the Ruhr region? What access routes does he choose? How does he bring past and future together? How does he react to the much-vaunted structural change and its consequences? “From the moment I decided to stop searching and to photograph what I encountered, the knot suddenly burst and I gained access to something that I always put above everything else – even in music: people.” This encounter with different personalities, who all help to shape the Ruhr region in their own way, was ultimately the decisive door opener: from pigeon fanciers to district celebrities, from chance acquaintances on the street to fans and stars in the soccer stadium. In its omnipresence and symbolism, the outgoing coal mining industry, which is of the same fundamental importance for the history of the region as it is for its present and future, also made a lasting impression on Till Brönner.

The exhibition
“I have understood that there is no such thing as a single image of the Ruhr region,” summarizes the artist. The motifs he has captured in black and white and color are correspondingly diverse. The exhibition develops along the main groups of motifs, which are not to be understood as separate areas, but rather merge into one another: People and identities / Life and work / Structural change: coal and steel yesterday and today / Architecture and infrastructure / Structures – grids – aggregate states / Nature on the Rhine and Ruhr / Life paths and destinies / Commitment and sympathy / Studio portraits of familiar faces.

As different as Till Brönner’s photographic approach is in detail, all the pictures reveal a great sympathy for the Ruhr region and its people. At the same time, they manage without artificial staging or subsequent embellishment: “I don’t show anything in this exhibition that doesn’t exist. I leave everything as it is, otherwise I glorify something that should remain tangible.” The result will premiere at the MKM Duisburg on July 2.

Till Brönner, Self-portrait, 2019, © + courtesy Till Brönner

The artist
Till Brönner (*1971, Viersen) is a convinced cosmopolitan. He lives in Berlin and Los Angeles and tours the world as a musician. He has also been a successful photographer for ten years. His photo book “Faces of Talent” (teNeues) with sensitive b/w portraits of fellow musicians and other prominent personalities brought him considerable media interest in 2015. More at www.tillbroenner-photography.com. The “Melting Pott” exhibition at Museum Küppersmühle is Brönner’s most extensive photography presentation to date.

Catalog
The exhibition catalog has been published by Wienand-Verlag (224 pages). The museum edition costs 35,- €.
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Picture gallery opening

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Organizer / Organization
“Melting Pott” is a joint exhibition of the Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn and the Brost-Stiftung at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg. The curator is Eva Müller-Remmert.