An exhibition in cooperation with Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, supported by Kunststiftung NRW. For many years, the artist Bogomir Ecker has been collecting historic photographs with an unconventional, artistic eye: from 19th-century landscape photos from all over the world to classic 20th-century press and sensational photography from the USA.

The Netherlands Museum of Photography will present the exhibition entitled Supersonic Youth. The exhibition draws attention to several individual, talented photographers who are primarily engaged in current, contemporary realms of influence. They display modern developments in photography while questioning the attitude of a generation that is growing up with internet and digital means of communication.

A tastemaker and provocateur, Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946–1989) ranks as one of the great photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. His highly stylized explorations of gender, race, and sexuality became hallmarks of the period and exerted a powerful influence on his contemporaries.

An extremely rare collection of Man Ray contact prints from a private collection goes on display at ATLAS Gallery on February 21st, including some of the artist’s most celebrated images alongside rarely seen portraits of Hemingway, Picasso, Braque and James Joyce. Scheduled in tandem with the Man Ray retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery this February, this extensive collection of approximately 150 prints gives an unedited view of the Man Ray archive.

The gallery OstLicht is located on the former campus of the Anker Bread Factory, i.e. at a location that was used industrially for a long time, its original use having changed over the past years. With its exhibit Industrie (Industry), OstLicht commemorates the history of its own location, offering an examination of aspects of industrial production by presenting fifteen contemporary artistic positions ready to be explored.

Aging today is a disease that is swept under the rug in the plastic surgeons office or is tucked away in the psychiatrist's drawer. The advertising and fashion industries breed classifications that distort private and public perception of female identity, often placing the mature, single, childless and ‘fameless’ woman on the very margin of society.

Fotografi i Fokus’ Sixth Biennial – Great photographers recognized nationally as well as internationally are shown in conjunction with Sweden’s by far largest Photo Biennial: Nobuyoshi Araki » Sven Augustijnen » Dave Hullfish Bailey » Nick Brandt » Dawid (Björn Dawidsson) » Tina Enghoff » JH Engström » Lauren Greenfield » Alfredo Jaar » Ville Lenkkeri » Robert Mapplethorpe » Helmut Newton » Thomas Ruff » Mario Testino » ...

Luke Skywalker, Anakin Skywalker, and all the unforgettable characters of Star Wars™ like never before! How did Luke and Anakin become such different people, despite growing up on the same planet and sharing a similar genetic makeup? Don't miss the world premiere of this unique travelling exhibition, which looks at the characters of Star Wars™ —and you— in an exciting new way. Visitors of all ages learn the components of human identity in this character-driven adventure that explores what makes us who we are.

See the first major exhibition in Australia by celebrated artist Anish Kapoor this summer as part of the Sydney International Art Series. Kapoor has created some of the world’s most ambitious and recognisable contemporary artworks, including, Orbit (2012), a 115-metre-high tower created for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Leviathan (2011) for the Grand Palais in Paris, Cloud Gate (2004) in Millennium Park, Chicago, Sky Mirror (2006) for the Rockefeller Centre in New York and Marsyas (2002) for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

The exhibition curated by Giovanni Faccenda presents 80 works including the new series Concepts – manually elaborated ink-printed paper. Silvio Balestra’s work stands out for the use of photography and computer graphic as main way of expressing his art. His studies on abstract and conceptual photography has brought him to create series like Antithesis which represents the summary of his art, presenting the black and white/ the light and shadow juxtaposition.

This exhibition of 120 black and white photographs by British photojournalist Don McCullin traces the artist’s journey from working class England to the world’s most notorious conflict zones, including Cyprus, the Congo, Biafra, Vietnam, Lebanon and Ireland. McCullin is part of the tradition of humanist photography and war art associated with names such as Goya, Dix and Capa.

In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists—Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia, and Robert Delaunay—presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork, tracing the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media.

Perhaps more than any other 20th-century painter, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) has been closely linked to the history of the Guggenheim Museum. Hilla Rebay—artist, art advisor, and the museum’s first director—promoted nonobjective painting above all other forms of abstraction. She was particularly inspired by the work and writing of Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstraction, who believed that the task of the painter was to convey his own inner world, rather than imitate the natural world.

Zarina: Paper Like Skin is the first retrospective of the Indian-born American artist. Born in the northern Indian city of Aligarh, in 1937, Zarina Hashmi, who prefers to identify by her first name, has spent the majority of her life outside of her native country. Her largely abstract aesthetic is woven together with an acute political consciousness, originating in early recollections of Indian Independence and the 1947 partition demarcating the border between India and Pakistan, which resulted in the violent displacement and deaths of millions of people. Zarina’s oeuvre explores themes of diaspora, nostalgia, and memory.

Anja Jensen (1967) considers the main characteristic of her work to be the deep connection of the photograph and the place of its origin. Exploring local environments and experiencing their rules and terms, regarding society, history and individual stories, constitutes the basis of her photography and installation projects. Her goal is to uncover every single facet of places by using locals, their story and connection to a specific spot.

Throughout her life, Imogen Cunningham embraced the development of photography and the liveliness of the changing times she lived in (1883–1976). The San Francisco based artist chose at an early age to become a photographer and a working woman outside of the home: for her generation two unusual choices. Known for her versatility of subjects and finding beauty in the commonest things, Cunningham photographed the life around her, her family, nature, still-lives, street scenes, nudes, made experimental compositions and supported herself as a portraitist until her death at 93 years of age.

The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor: This exhibition, covering the period from 1910 to today, offers a critical reassessment of photography's role in the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde movements—with a special emphasis on the medium's relation to Dada, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Constructivism, New Objectivity, Conceptual, and Post-Conceptual art—and in the development of contemporary artistic practices.