Franziska Stünkel – COEXIST
Franziska Stünkel – COEXIST
Since ten years, the internationally acclaimed film director and photo artist Franziska Stünkel has been traveling through Asia, Africa, Europe, and America in search of natural reflections in shop windows, which, in their concentration, tell of the coexistence of human life. Charged with the utmost complexity, her photographs are the visualization of the similarities and contrasts that exist in our multifaceted, networked world.
The artist completely dispenses with the digital post-processing of her photographs. The result is a multi-layered view of the highly topical question of coexistence in our present time, supplemented with texts by well-known authors and scientists from various fields on the topic of coexistence, for instance, artificial intelligence, biology, psychology, happiness studies, linguistics, culture, and anxiety research.
The book Coexist has been published by Kehrer Verlag to accompany the exhibitions around the world. The photographs are supplemented by texts by various authors and scientists who, from their point of view, shed light on the concept of coexistence
About the Author
Franziska Stünkel is a German artistic photographer and movie director. Following her studies in the film class and artistic photography class at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and the Hochschule f̈ur Bildende Kunst Hannover, she became a masterclass student under Prof. Uwe Schrader.
Franziska Stünkel’s photographic works are exhibited in renowned galleries and exhibition venues and are represented in private and public collections. The Audi Art Award and the BerlinHyp Kunstpreis have been among the distinctions for her works of photography.
Her films have been shown in 19 countries and at more than 100 international film festivals and have received multiple prizes, including the Best New Director Award of Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival in New York and the Otto Sprenger Regiepreis.
Franziska Stünkel examines sociopolitical issues in her movies. The photographic series Coexist depicts her globe-encompassing search for peaceful coexistence.
