Hanover Lower Saxony - exhibition tip for photographic art by Barbara Probst
Barbara Probst "SUBJECTIVE EVIDENCE" - a sculptor models with the camera and creates new levels of perception
Sprengel Museum Hannover - photography exhibition by Barbara Probst from December 11th, 2024 to March 9th, 2025
Hanover. Her photos show, like classical sculptures, different perspectives and levels of perception. While the viewer usually wanders around a sculpture in order to grasp it as a whole, Barbara Probst's photographs take over the viewer's movement and show a motif from many sides. The photographing sculptor makes it easy for the art viewer: they can train their perception of art and experience new ways of seeing in the form archived in the photo. But: in the photo he only has a preselection of the viewer in front of him. A perspective that the artist provides. The exhibition “Subjective Evidence” by the photographer Barbara Probst was created in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, the Contemporary Arts Center from Ohio and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.
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| New Town Hall - Hanover, nearby on the banks of the Maschsee is the Sprengel Museum, photo: Waess |
The artist Barbara Probst
She was born in Munich in 1964. From 1984 to 1990 she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
As a photographer, Probst has earned an international reputation in art with her post-conceptual photography. Her photography series introduce new perspectives and play with the perception of reality within the photographic image. In photographs taken at the same time, the same rooms and scenes are shown from ever new perspectives.
Barbara Probst appears to be playing with the strategies of representation. Apparently trivial motifs such as a taxi or an apple are seen in a new way in multi-faceted representations and perspectives.
The artist lives and works in New York and Munich.
The exhibition title “Subjective Evidence” highlights the central theme of Probst’s approach
It's about the subjectivity of perception. In exciting dramaturgies, the artist reminds us that photography does not reflect objective reality, but always purely subjective perceptions that are inspired by the image and selected by the photographer.
Probst questions the “objectivity” of photography and points to a critical path to reflecting on the medium in our time.
Her series of images create a sequence of reality. We are reminded of different photographic genres. The exhibition is therefore also a journey through portrait photography, traditional still life, classic landscape photography and professional studio photography or practical photography.
Barbara Probst plans her serial works elaborately using graphic sketches
Before the photo comes the thought, the drawing, the plan and the selection of subject, light and location. Everyone sees the same scenes differently and - depending on their level of experience - perceives them differently. Probst photographs show the simultaneity of perspectives, which are visualized with technical precision.
Probst's conceptual approach and those hyper-staged realities have an aesthetically independent effect on the viewer and challenge playful, intellectual perception.
Her works stand between the complexity of perception, the relativity of "reality" and the actual form of the object in the subjective reality of photography.
Barbara Probst "SUBJECTIVE EVIDENCE"
- from December 11, 2024 to March 9, 2025
Sprengel Museum Hanover
Kurt Schwitters Square / Kurt Schwitters Platz
30169 Hanover
Opening hours
- Tuesday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m
- Wednesday to Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m
- Closed on Mondays
From the main train station you can reach the Sprengel Museum Hanover in fifteen minutes
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| Equestrian statue in honor of the sovereign of the former Kingdom of Hanover, King Ernst August. Created in 1861 by Albert Wolff and installed on Ernst-August-Platz in front of the main train station in the Lower Saxony state capital, photo: Helga Waess |
