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Posted: Sunday, 2 September 2007 Group exhibition - Youth in the Countryside

Benja Weller - from Youth in the Countryside

Neunplus presents Youth in the Countryside, a group exhibition of new work.

Vernissage/Opening: Friday, 14th September 2007, 7pm, at Neunplus.
Duration: September 15th-30th, 2007

Youth in the Countryside is an international photography project in which different collectives and photography schools from all over Europe are working together on one theme.

Youth in the Countryside touches on numerous current questions and discussions that play an important role both across borders and in each individual country. One aspect is the difference between town and country life, with the different lifestyles and development opportunities in each; another is the encounter between young and old, in which the wishes of youth and the experiences of old age often contrast. Furthermore, there is the confrontation between preservation and change, which can be observed in the constantly renewed potential for conflict between local traditions and global innovations.

With the increasing popularity of the Internet and electronic media in the last decade, a global media, entertainment and product culture has arisen which on the one hand makes such cultural differences and idiosyncrasies more apparent, and on the other increasingly homogenises them. Young people are confronted with a media reality whose images and promises are often in stark contrast to their own environment.

The following photographers will be shown at the exhibition at Neunplus:

Nóra Bánkúty (Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary)
Ádám Cuhorka (Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary)
Gergely Timá (Kaposvár University, Kaposvár, Hungary)
Conny Höflich
Alexander Janetzko (Ostkreuzschule, Berlin)
Klaus Muenzner (Neunplus)
Benja Weller (Neunplus)

The exhibition will be supplemented with a slideshow of the overall project.