International Festival of Photographic Images in the City Gallery: Experience FACT/FAKE in Regensburg

FACT/FAKE in Regensburg: When Photography Dances Between Truth and Illusion

The City Gallery in the Empty Pouch opens an intense art experience with the International Festival of Photographic Images: A main exhibition, accompanied by a symposium, panel discussions, and partner exhibitions, examines the credibility of the photographic image in the digital age. Between factuality, staging, and fashionable poses unfolds an aesthetic experience that connects seeing, thinking, and discourse.

Artwork Examination: Surfaces, Traces, Constructions

Precise curation directs attention to contemporary positions of Isabelle Borges, Christine Erhard, Antonia Gruber, Andrea Grützner, Estefania Landesmann, Sabine Meier, and Pola Sieverding. The groups of works unfold an interplay of light, materiality, and spatial effect: Architectures become backdrops, bodies become signs, patterns become vibrating fields. This creates an exhibition atmosphere where perception is constantly sharpened and every image surface becomes readable as a stage of assertion.

Art Historical Context: Photography as Mirror, Stage, and Laboratory

The exhibition discusses photography as a medium of trace and fiction at the same time. Along the line of documentary tradition to post-photography, the works demonstrate how image politics and regimes of gaze shape our visual judgment. The question of the authentic versus the constructed intersects with current discourses on AI-generated visualities and media competence: What still guarantees the evidence of an image today?

Discourse and Education: Symposium, Panel, Photo Book

In the three-day symposium FACT/FAKE, experts from research, collection, and curation will discuss image truth, materiality, and societal impact. A panel discussion deepens the perspectives; the award ceremony of the German Photo Book Prize as well as the Photo Book Living Room featuring award-winning volumes from 2017–2024 open further horizons for artwork examination and cultural education.

Spatial Experience: The Gallery as Resonance Space

The City Gallery in the monument-protected Empty Pouch consolidates sight axes, natural and museum lighting, and clear arrangements into a concentrated route. The reduced color dramaturgy of the house makes the image surfaces corporeal; staircases and halls rhythmize the attention between close-up and panorama.

Conclusion

Those who want to experience photography as a living form of art and thought will find a dense exhibition atmosphere of images, theory, and communication here. Regensburg demonstrates how photography questions our present – come, examine your seeing, and discuss.

Official Channels of the Festival of Photographic Images:

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• Website: https://festival-fotografischer-bilder.de/

Sources:

• International Festival of Photographic Images – Official Website
• City of Regensburg – Cultural News: The International Festival of Photographic Images
• City of Regensburg – Event Calendar
• Main Exhibition 2025 – Festival of Photographic Images
• fotoMAGAZIN – FACT/FAKE: Festival in Regensburg
• City Gallery in the Empty Pouch – City of Regensburg