photographer, media artist, engineer
Berlin, 2007
walkscreen is a group of artists who focus on photography and media art. In 1997, Ruthe Zuntz and Michael Reitz founded the company as an interface between art, culture and politics, and that serves as a platform for collaborations with institutional, commercial, and artistic partners throughout Europe and across the world.Expand horizons and view the world from different perspectives. The walkscreen artists combine photojournalism, artistic photography and an unquenchable curiosity about people and places. Passionate about the details that matter, they delve into each scene before capturing any motifs. Eventually, sensor-controlled installations tell stories that reach the heart of the matter - and under the skin. Visitors to walkscreen's collages of picture stories don't simply watch; they are immersed in the stories.
tokyo
china
Actual Project Challenging Walls
wall devided photography: Israel / Palestine, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Germany
Jerusalem / Abu Dis in the day ... and in the night
Challenging Walls (CW) is an art-peace project that shares the vision of bringing together the diverse communities of people living within the parameters of physical and mental walls in Israel and Palestine. Using the language of visual images as a vehicle for peace and understanding, CW wishes to articulate stories of people who live their lives as man, woman, child, par¬ents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, neighbours, friends within and beyond the confines of the concrete wall dividing their regions.Conceived by Berlin-based Walkscreen: Ruthe Zuntz and Michael Reitz together with Anat Moshe-Ostrower, a generation of artists who have had the experience of growing up and living in an environment of wall divided societies, this project is a genuine plea for peaceful and mutual co-existence. The project embraces four regions with history of walls and segregation: Germany, Cyprus, Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine.CW envisions the creation of an all access zone between the concrete cement separating both the geographical spaces and people in the process of documenting the daily rituals, practices and ways of life. Empowered by a firm belief in art as a universal language that can touch and appeal to people's hearts and minds, CW would like to share and offer to the greater audiences, multiple and parallel realities by providing a view to oneself and that of the other.Installation with 16 videobeamers at the wall
with Photographers from
Cyprus:
Nicolas Iordanou
Kadir Kaba
Germany:
Sibylle Bergemann
Michael Reitz
Northern Ireland:
Christopher Heaney
Frankie Quinn
Palestine / Israel:
Steve Sabella
Ruthe Zuntz
