Copenhagen Photography Festival 2025. - ‘Fremkaldelser – Towards the Light’

 One of my photographic work was selected for the open call exhibition “Vil du udstilles”.This is one of the exhibitions that will be held during the :

Copenhagen Photography Festival 2025.

‘Fremkaldelser – Towards the Light’

June 12–18, 11:00–20:00

Royal Danish Theatre – Gamle Scene

Kongens Nytorv 9, Copenhagen, Denmark

With the festival theme ‘Fremkaldelser – Towards the Light’, we focus on everything worth seeing. Memories and moments from peoples past and present are now invited to shine. We encourage everyone to submit a photo that means something special to them. Something hidden, or perhaps newly discovered. A photo that tells a story, captures an emotion, or reflects their sensitivity.

6th International ExLibris Competition Varna 2025

6th International ExLibris Competition Varna 2025

06/06–01/07/2025

Opening 06/06/2025 – 18.30 h

Monday - Friday: 10:00 -18:30 /mSaturday: 11:00 - 15:00

Largo Art Gallery, 8 Han Krum Str., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria

The exhibition also shows my Exlibris (bookplate) works. The organizer of the prestigious graphic forum is the Jordan Petkov Art Foundation in partnership with the Largo Gallery. The competition is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the Culture Fund of the Municipality of Varna.

 

johannesgerard-artworks

https://johannesgerard-artworks.jimdosite.com/

On this new website, I present a selection of my paintings on canvas and paper, as well as my graphic works. Since I work in an interdisciplinary and multimedia manner as an artist, the paintings and prints reflect only a small part of my entire oeuvre. To provide a better, separate overview of all my works and avoid an overloaded presentation on a single website, I decided to create a separate website dedicated exclusively to these paintings and works on paper. Therefore, this website serves only as a brief summary and additional information about my paintings and works on paper. 

 

Towards the Other

A contribution of mine with text and one photographic work entitled "you get so alone at times it just makes sense" is published in the book "Towards the Other"- Arts, Ethics and the boundaries of the Self

Towards the Other

Arts, Ethics and the boundaries of the Self

editor Aldobranti

edizioni Fosco Fornio, Petersfield, Hampshire, UK, 2025

ISBN 978-1-9995847-7-1

Artist of the space between the self and the Other

The question of how the self encounters the other - how it recognizes, resits or transforms in relation to that strangeness-has become ever more pressing. What once may have seen an abstract or philosophical preoccupation now lies exposed across the structures of daily life, where political frontiers grow rigid and conversations falters across lines of differences. The shrinking space for disagreement ,for unfamiliarity, for difference itself, is symptomatic of a broader ethical contraction-a retreat into sameness. at stake is the refusal of encounter, and with it, the foreclosure of relation.

The contribution 

The work “You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense” is a self-portrait with autobiographical elements. Autobiographical elements that reflect my inner self and my view of the world and the social environment around me have been prominent in my work since 2023. However, my work reflects these elements in a metaphorical and symbolic style. The work contains more than one interpretation. First, how I see myself if I were sitting in front of myself. A stone, without emotions, without charisma, without giving anything back, immobile ... and yet this stone can be unpredictable, a projectile, a weapon against myself, others or the world. The second interpretation is how I see others or, better, how I am connected to the other in a broader sense. Regardless of social aspects and the connection with other people or dimensions that are spiritual or touch the soul. For many years I have been struggling with my mental and social disorders. In addition to this, there is hearing damage and tinnitus. Since childhood, I have found it difficult to establish or maintain social contacts or to communicate my thoughts and feelings well. Part of the other has become loneliness over time. For me, however, being alone is not always painful, but it can be complex and challenging. I may be in a phase of longing for company and change, but I also have to ask myself if the process of longing and belonging to a social environment has begun or if I end up deliberately avoiding any belonging and attachment to anyone.

 

“Unruly Publishing”

A work by me "4xme/4xich" in a completely different technique (scanner/photocopy art) will be shown at

“Unruly Publishing”

M.F.F - The Museum of Photocopying / Museum für Fotokopie

16/05/2025 – 29/06/2025

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 48, 45468 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany

The M.F.F. Museum of Photocopying is celebrating 40 years of “Unruly Publishing”. The exhibition tells and shows the motivation and stories of the people behind unruly forms of publishing, from copy & video art to zines and pirate radios. Part of the exhibition will show how artists, designers, photographers, and anyone interested in the subject have redefined the concept of the portrait in the context of scanner art. 

 

LAUSCHSALON - [ˈapɡəˌfakt]

Two of my sound art works “Voices in my Head” and “ornaments of empty times” will be presented and played at

Lauschsalon - (artspring 2025)

[ˈapɡəˌfakt] – something is broken here"!

16.05.2025 (starting 19:00 h).

Theater unterm Dach

Danziger Strasse 101, 10405 Berlin, Germany

Lauschsalon is part of artspring festival

For the first time in the festival's history, artspring Berlin is placing a focus on sound art this year under the name artspring Klangkunst. Also known as sound art, this interdisciplinary art form, which uses sound and noise as its central material, will be the focus from 07/05 - 01/06/2025. Two curated exhibitions and an event program will be staged in cooperation with Pankow-based initiatives and practitioners of the genre and its border areas. A temporary radio studio will also be set up to report on and with art and artists, broadcast radio art, and accompany the events of artspring berlin. Let us hear what you connect acoustically with this year's theme "[ˈapɡəˌfakt] – something is broken here"! A curated selection of the contributions will be presented in the Theater unterm Dach on 16 May 2025 in the Lauschsalon event format and/or played on the festival radio. 

www.artspring.berlin

 

#6 DinA (<)

Three small graphic works of mine ("stay or follow" / Following The Arrow" / Moving into the unknown) are exhibited in Leipzig, Germany

#6 DinA (<)

Kunstfestival / Art Festival. This years theme is “Move”

01.05.2025 – 04.05.2025

Pöge-Haus

Hedwigstrasse 20, Leipzig, Germany

"Move!" This means movement, the opposite of standstill. It can also be associated with vibration, dance, endeavor, encounter, initiative, action, change of position, and a call to action.

“DIN A [<]“ reflects the limitation of the artworks’ format which should not exceed DIN A4 in dimension. The artworks from 38 European artists include graphic works, prints, photography, painting and small sculpture pieces. The art festival is accompanied by concerts and performances