We have been working on ‘Cartographie Dynamique’ since 2017, focusing on the transformation of the city. The current chapter, ‘La Ville Invisible’, deals with the question as to whether major events such as the Olympic Games or EXPO can be accelerators of urban change. To what extent they contribute to changing the understanding of private and public space. Do ideas of coming together, of exchange, of sporting competition still play a central role or are the arenas and pavilions just more ruins of the future? ‘La Ville Invisible’ consists of a portfolio of more than 150 photographs from Paris, Tokyo, Seoul and Sarajevo, which are split into separate chapters, including ‘Dream Island’, ‘Ruins of the Future’, ‘The Fragile City’, ‘Station to Station’ and ‘Who owns the Cities?’The book will be published by Böhm Kobayashi in autumn 2024. A first exhibition was shown in summer 2024 at the Maison Heinrich Heine / Fondation de l’Allemagne in Paris.

Katja Stuke (*1968, DE) and Oliver Sieber (*1966, DE) live and work in Düsseldorf. They have been working abroad regularly since 2005, including in Osaka, Tokyo, Paris, Chicago, Chongqing and Sarajevo. Stuke and Sieber were awarded the Art Prize of the Museum Ostwald in Dortmund in 2024 and the ‘Regards du Grand Paris’ in 2023. In 2017, they won the ‘LUMA Dummy Book Award’ in Arles. Works by Stuke and Sieber can be found in public and private collections. Their joint works were recently exhibited at the ‘Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie’ Mannheim 2023, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen 2020, Kunsthalle Gießen 2019, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2019, ‘Krakow Photomonth’ 2018, Fundació Foto Colectania Barcelona 2016, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago 2015.

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