Hat die Neue Nationalgalerie Gefühle?
The Kunsthalle Bremen has opened "Remix. Photographie – Fiktion und Wahrheit," an exhibition drawn from its permanent collection that explores the tension between reality and artifice in photography. The show traces a lineage from Heinrich Zille’s unvarnished turn-of-the-century street scenes to the objective industrial typologies of Bernd and Hilla Becher, eventually moving into the postmodern manipulations of the Düsseldorf School, including works by Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.
By framing these historical works against the contemporary backdrop of AI-generated imagery, the exhibition questions whether the "crisis of truth" in photography is truly a new phenomenon. It highlights how technology has always mediated our perception of the world, suggesting that the current anxieties surrounding digital manipulation are part of a long-standing artistic struggle with the impossibility of pure realism.