HIJACKED 2: Australia/Germany

Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art

Friday 13 May 2011 to Friday 01 July 2011
Hijacked 2: Australia/Germany builds on the very considerable success of the inaugural exhibition, Hijacked 1 – Australia and America, and its internationally celebrated and hugely successful book. This new exhibition effectively considers two socially disparate nations, Germany and Australia, through an expansive photographic anthology of fascinating works, juxtaposed to suggest connections.

Hijacked 2 has been curated by Mark McPherson and Ute Noll and showcases the diverse talents and perspectives of thirty contemporary German and Australian photographers. With a focus on the depiction of the young, the boundary-riding, and the fringe-dwelling, Hijacked 2 is evocative, confronting, dreamlike and rousing.

A substantial 412-page publication accompanies the exhibition with texts by Uta Daur, Bec Dean, Alasdair Foster, Bill Kouwenhoven, Katja Melzer, Daniel Palmer and Katrina Schwarz.

Artist: Ingvar Kenne. Title: Nick Cave, 2001
© All rights reserved Ingvar Kenne 2011 Australia
C-type print, 100 x 100cm, courtesy of the Artist.
Artist: Olaf Unverzart. Title: Untitled (from the Series ‘Fallen Kann Ich Auch Alleine’), 1999
© All rights reserved Olaf Unverzart 1999 Australia
Pigment print, 56 x 38cm/125 x 85 cm, courtesy of Oechsner Galerie.
Artist: Narelle Autio. Title: Untitled 4 (from the series ‘Not of This Earth’), 2001
© All rights reserved Narelle Autio 2011 Australia
Pigment Print 100 x 66cm, courtesy of the artist.