Kris Scholz - Longing for Paradise

In the organizer's words:

The title of the exhibition is a color photograph from the eponymous series Longing for Paradise from 2008. Part of the concept of the exhibition is that not only aesthetic contrasts are in harmony with each other, but that different social concepts of a desired image or ideal state are concealed behind the image motifs like a metaphor. In the work of photographer and Becher student Kris Scholz, for example, romantic landscapes meet brutalist monumental buildings.

The continuing topicality of the theme of paradise is an attempt and a longing for a place where the deficits of real life are to be resolved. The exhibition also shows how ideal images and dreams of paradise create different images and realities in different cultures and social systems.

The question always remains as to who defines what an ideal state is.