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12:00 PM-5:30 PM

Dwelling on Uncertain Ground: Essayistic Encounters between Fact and Fiction

Exhibition|KG+ / KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026

  • Goethe-Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto

  • Price Admission free

Image: Julia Mejnertsen Image: Julia Mejnertsen

Image: Julia Mejnertsen Image: Julia Mejnertsen

Curated by German photographer Fabian Hammerl (Hamburg), Christopher Sand-Iversen (SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen), and Staffan Boijeaf Gennäs (Copenhagen) this transnational research and exhibition project explores essayistic approaches in photography and film. The exhibition delves into the shifting boundaries between fact and fiction, cultural identity, and the layered interplay of memory, perception, and truth.

Featuring photographic and film works by artists from Germany, Denmark, and China, a curated photo book library, films from the curators' archives and a special live performance by the German artist Jakob Sinn aka NNIS.

Exhibiting artists: Chen Chuanduan, Katharina Duve, Tina Enghoff, Fabian Hammerl, Julia Mejnertsen, Carsten Rabe, Jakob Sinn, 

With books by: Simon Brugner, Yuki Jungesblut, Kevin Malcolm, Inuuteq Storch & more