ASHMOLEAN NOW: BETTINA VON ZWEHL IN CONVERSATION

Fri 25 Oct, 2–3pm

At the Museum and Online

The onsite event will take place in the Headley Lecture Theatre

The online event is via Zoom. Details below

Booking is essential

With Bettina von Zwehl, artist, and Katy Barron, Director of Photo Oxford

During this in-conversation event, contemporary artist Bettina von Zwehl will discuss her photographic work and objects in the forthcoming Ashmolean NOW exhibition, The Flood.

The exhibition explores the artist's response to the Ashmolean founding collection based on her residency at the Museum in 2022/23.

The Flood reveals the artist's use of the museum as an artistic medium, her complex relationship with photography as a language and material and the Wunderkammer phenomenon in the context of ecological imbalance and environmental collapse.

Black and white image of artist Bettina von Zwehl in her studio surrounded by some of the objects in her photographs

Bettina von Zwehl (Studio), 2024. Portrait by David Robinson

Von Zwehl will delve into the thought processes and techniques behind her work and reflect on her unique photographic installations that move between portraiture, silhouetted fragments, still-life, monumental and miniature elements.

The conversation will be chaired by Photo Oxford's director, Katy Barron. After the discussion there will be time for questions from the audience.