RAY Festival

The 2024 RAY Triennial of Photography will kick off with three festival days from 3 to 5 May. On this festival weekend, international artists, curators, and specialists from interdisciplinary fields are invited to discuss and exchange ideas on the theme of Echoes in lectures and talks. This time, the events will take place on a decentralised basis at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, and the MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST Frankfurt.

The RAY Festival is supported by the Heinz and Gisela Friederichs Foundation.

Friday 3 May 2024 10:30 am – 4:20 pm

MUSEUM MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST

10:30 am Welcome and Introduction

Susanne Pfeffer (MMK) and Alexandra Lechner (RAY curatorial team, moderation)

10:40–11:10 am Lecture

Beyond Evidence.Image forensic search for traces between individual and collective memory, Mira Anneli Naß (art historian and photography theorist, University Bremen)

11:15 am-12:30 pm RAY Artist Presentation and Talk (en/de)

Johanna Schlegel and Maisie Cousins will present their work and talk with Anne-Marie Beckmann (RAY curatorial team, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation)

12:30–1:30 pm

Lunch break

1:30–2:30 pm RAY Artist Presentation and Talk (en)

Anton Kusters with Ruben Samama (sound/video artist) about their work on The Blue Skies Project

2:35–3:15 pm RAY Artist Presentation and Talk (en)

Joy Gregory – about her work and her current publication Black Women Photographers of the 80s and 90s in Britain. Introduction: Celina Lunsford (RAY curatorial team, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt) (en)

3:20–4:30 pm Talk

Hans-Michael Koetzle (author, journalist), with Celina Lunsford and Sabine Seitz (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt) - 40 years FFF

6 pm Opening Partner-Project

Gaëlle Choisne, Temple of Love - To Hide in the Villa 102, KfW Stiftung, Bockenheimer Landstraße 102

Saturday 4 May 2024 10:30 am – 4:00 pm

Museum Angewandte Kunst

10:30 am Welcome and Introduction

Alexandra Lechner (RAY curatorial team, moderation)

10:40-11:10 am Lecture

Sophie-Charlotte Opitz (curator, author) about individual and collective memory dynamics

11:15 am–12:30 pm RAY Artist Presentations and Talk (en)

Mónica Alcazár-Duarte, Dinu Li and Inuuteq Storch will present their work, talk with Celina Lunsford (RAY curatorial team, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt)

12:35–1:15 pm Talk with the RAY curatorial team

Sophie-Charlotte Opitz (curator, author) with the RAY curators Anne-Marie Beckmann (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation), Celina Lunsford (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt), Alexandra Lechner (independent curator)

1:15–2:15

Lunch break

2:15–2:45 pm RAY Artist Talk (en)

Jesper Just and Alexandra Lechner (RAY curatorial team)

2:50–3:20 pm RAY Artist Talk (de/es)

Diego Moreno and Cornelia Siebert (Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation)

3:25–4 pm: Lecture (de)

Simon Lovermann, Caroline von Courten (Der Greif) about contemporary photography

Saturday 4 May 2024 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

5:00–6:30 pm: Gallery Talk at Braubachstraße 30-32

Celina Lunsford (Fotografie Forum Frankfurt) and the RAY Echoes. Identity artists Mònica Alcàzar-Duarte, Joy Gregory, Dinu Li and Inuuteq Storch

7:00 pm–2:00 am Night of the Museums

at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, the Museum Angewandte Kunst with guided tours of the RAY Master Class, the MMK, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation

Sunday 5 May 2024

1:30 Walk to the RAY Plus galleries

Meeting point FFF Braubachstr. 30-32

3:30 pm Walk to the RAY Plus galleries

Meeting point Galerie Bernhard Knaus Fine Arts, Niddastr. 84

4:00 Opening Partner-Project

MILLI BAU. 5000 km to Paris at the Kunstforum der TU Darmstadt

4:30 pm Artist Talk

With Teona Gogichaishvili und Lara Micheli, Alte Schmelze, Gutleutstr. 294