Trepanation, 1944, Gelatin silver print, 30 x 22.8 cm, Münchner Stadtmuseum © Herbert List Estate, Hamburg, DeutschlandTrepanation, 1944, Gelatin silver print, 30 x 22.8 cm, Münchner Stadtmuseum © Herbert List Estate, Hamburg, Deutschland

Präuschers Panopticon: A Photo Book by Herbert List

Exhibition

20.05. – 18.09.2022

Friday, 20 May 2022

Tue – Sun: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm; Thu: 10.00 am – 9.00 pm
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Präuschers Panopticon: A Photo Book by Herbert List
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg
20.5. – 18.9.2022

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On the occasion of the 8th edition of the Triennial,  the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) takes a new look at two work complexes by the Hamburg photographer Herbert List (1903–1975). The exhibition Präuschers Panopticon: A Photo Book by Herbert List presents List’s book to the public for the first time. The second part of the exhibition is devoted to Herbert List’s photographs of sculptures and young men, which have been rediscovered since the 2000s as bellwethers of a queer gaze—a visual language that challenges gender stereotypes and their associated power relations. The two themes are linked by the interest displayed by the openly gay photographer in pop culture and kitsch, and in eliciting in the viewer a visceral reaction to his subjects. The exhibition features around one hundred photographs by List from the 1930s and 1940s, as well as magazine articles, individual wax figures and their models from art history, and the original book layout for Präuscher’s Panopticon.

Curated by Dr. Esther Ruelfs, Sven Schumacher.

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