Vernissage | Johannes Raimann & Fynn Ribbeck 07.03.2025

In the organizer's words:

SETAREH X is pleased to announce Consequences, the upcoming duo exhibition by Johannes Raimann and Fynn Ribbeck. We cordially invite you to the opening on Friday, March 7, from 6 - 8 pm at SETAREH X on Hohe Straße 53, Düsseldorf.

Consequences features works by two artists who deal with photography as a dispositive and examine its technological-material conditionality and political implications (Reimann), as well as its significance as a reservoir of collective memory and the question of the (in)culpability of images (Ribbeck).

Johannes Raimann addresses the components of the recording technique itself and shows them as ideologically interwoven, historically conditioned materializations that regulate our perception.

Fynn Ribbeck's starting point is photographs from the publicly accessible Stasi archive, which he digitally manipulates and sculpturally overlays in such a way that the photographs appear in a twilight state in which public and private imagery slide into one another.

For both artists, the sensual-tactile nature of the materials and their immediate affective effect play a decisive role - qualities that have sculptural connotations, which means that it is means outside of photography itself that are used to examine the extent to which this reality is capable of depicting.

Johannes Raimann

studied Philosophy at the University of Vienna from 2012 to 2016 and Fine Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 2013 to 2017. He then continued his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2017-2021). He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Paderborn since 2023. Johannes Raimann's work explores the ideological and material aspects of photography and how photographic processes shape our perception and reflect cultural and political influences.

Fynn Ribbeck

studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Rebecca Warren, Marcel Odenbach and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, where he later became a master student of Gonzalez-Foerster. His work often deals with the manipulation of photographs and their relationship to memory, identity, and the merging of public and private realities, for example by digitally altering archival images to create a sense of ambiguity and transformation.

German text by: Melissa Blau | @melissa_blau
English translation by: Yana Schwannecke

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SETAREH X is excited to announce Consequences, an upcoming duo exhibition of Johannes Raimann and Fynn Ribbeck. We warmly invite you to the opening reception on Friday, March 7th, from 6 - 8 pm at SETAREH X, Hohe Straße 53, Düsseldorf.

Consequences features two artists who engage with photography as a dispositif and examine its technological-material conditions and political implications (Raimann), as well as its role as a reservoir of collective memory and the question of the (un)biased innocence of images (Ribbeck).

Johannes Raimann thematizes the tools and inner components of recording itself, presenting them as ideologically influenced, historically conditioned materializations that regulate our perception. Fynn Ribbeck's starting point is photographs from the publicly accessible Stasi documents archive, which he digitally manipulates and sculpturally superimposes so that the images appear in a twilight zone where the public and private image worlds blend together.

For both artists, the sensual-tactile nature of the materials, and their immedi-ate affective impact, play a crucial role in disentangling experience, reality, and representation. The question of how capable photography is of capturing reality is examined through outside means that are sculpturally and physically laden with connotations.

Johannes Raimann

studied Philosophy at the Universität Wien in Vienna (Austria) from 2012 to 2016, before pursuing Fine Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Austria) from 2013 to 2017. He continued his studies in Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf (Germany) from 2017 to 2021. Since 2023, Raimann has been serving as a guest lecturer at the Universität Paderborn (Germany). Johannes Raimann's work explores the ideological and material aspects of photography, examining how photographic processes shape our perception and reflect cultural and political influences.

Fynn Ribbeck

studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Rebecca Warren, Marcel Odenbach, and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, where he later became a Master's student of Gonzalez-Foerster. His work often explores the manipulation of photographs and their relationship to memory, identity, blurring public and private realities, such as by digitally altering archival images to create a sense of ambiguity and transformation.

German text by: Melissa Blau | @melissa_blau
English translation by: Yana Schwannecke