8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022. until September 18, 2022. Hamburg – Germany

12 exhibitions present their interpretations of the Triennial’s theme of Currency to explore the many ways in which photographs are produced, circulated, and interpreted. Conjuring the initial inspiration for the curatorial framework, artistic director Koyo Kouoh remarks, “After more than a century of living with photography, we have learned to perceive the world ‘photographically,’ with many of us seeing the world in image formats shaped by the media platforms that disseminate them. While images themselves are unstable forms, the mental repository we build through this prosthetic mode fundamentally shapes how we engage with the world around us. The present day is therefore a ‘retinal era’; one that requires a different grammar for looking, reading, and responding to images beyond this saturated condition.”

Initiated by F. C. Gundlach, the Triennial of Photography Hamburg has taken place every three years since 1999 federating Hamburg’s major museums, art spaces, cultural institutions, galleries, and foundations. Since 2014, the Triennial’s organization has been led by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg GmbH. The artistic director of the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2022 is Koyo Kouoh, who appointed an international curatorial team consisting of Rasha Salti, Gabriella Beckhurst Feijoo and Oluremi C. Onabanjo. The eighth edition is funded by the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Behörde für Kultur und Medien, with further support from BMW Niederlassung Hamburg, Otto Group, Stroer, White Wall and Zeit-Stiftung (Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius).

The following museums and exhibition houses are participating: the Bucerius Kunst Forum, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg with the House of Photography, the Hall for Contemporary Art and the Falckenberg Collection, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Jenisch Haus, the Kunsthaus Hamburg, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the MARKK – Museum am Rothenbaum. World Cultures and Arts, the Museum der Arbeit, the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G). Additional cooperation partners in Hamburg are the Friends of the House of Photography, the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, the Filmfest Hamburg, Imagine the City, and Kampnagel.