23 June - 29 August 2010 Many people are familiar with the outstanding Russian avant-garde in photography, as well as the standardized products of socialist realism when Stalin seized power and eliminated the avant-garde, replacing it with art and photography whose only function was to praise the regime. During these decades there was only silence and oppression. It was only with the advent of Perestroïka that non-offical art re-emerged, produced by an underground culture. The individual gradually took over from the collective, and everything had to be invented anew: new forms, new themes, new ways of showing. It became urgent to shrug off the old ideological trappings, to look at the real face of Russia and to record it in pictures. This exhibition spotlights the extraordinary diversity and vitality of contemporary Russian photography. Part of the France-Russia Year 2010, in collaboration with the Multimedia Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow with support from the Federation of Russia Culture Ministry and CulturesFrance.
			23 June - 29 August 2010 Since the 1970s, Anna & Bernhard Blume have been organizing "photographic actions", sets of images in which they appear themselves, pretending to document paranormal events. This work mainly takes the form of large black and white prints in which the artists explore the notions of perception, nature and truth. This exhibition showcases a hitherto little-known work featuring a series of Sx70 Polaroids. At once banal and precious, intimate and off-the-wall, they are organized into intricate little sketches that have no less artistic power than the corresponding monumental black and white photos, and which undergo their own stylistic developments.
			23 June - 29 August 2010 Aki Kuroda moves between two cultures, between East and West, between the pure tranquility of zen and the colourful chaos of graffiti, between soul and body, between ancient myth and a future that remains to be invented, and between all the arts: drawing, painting, engraving, sculpture, frescoes, photography, interior design, installations, set-making, etc. The exhibition presents his photographic work, a less well known but equally important aspect of his very diverse activity, here shown alongside a new series of drawings. This work on New York can be seen as a kind of travelogue, an intimate visual diary that reflects the vital energy flowing through the city, its lights, signs and advertisements forming a kind of urban hieroglyphics that captures the limitless magic of New York.
			23 June - 29 August 2010 This exhibition presents the work of Cyril Porchet, who graduated in 2009 from the visual communication department (photography section) at the ECAL art school, Lausanne. Cyril Porchet has taken a systematic series of frontal shots of the choirs of ten baroque churches in Germany, Spain and Austria. He chose these churches for their exuberant style, but also for the arrangement of their ornamentation, composed of decorative, figurative and symbolic elements. He photographed them in order to produce an impression of visual saturation where a dizzying surfeit of marvels ultimately troubles the senses. This approach, in an elliptical, critical way, draws a parallel between the baroque exuberance of these churches and the obsession with spectacle characteristic of contemporary society. As Guy Debord pointed out in his seminal work "The Society of the Spectacle", the world is in a permanent state of representation, desires are channelled into images, and reality is thus falsified.
			23 June - 29 August 2010 Designed specially for the interior of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Holger Trülzsch's installation is made up of seven previously unseen videos, as well as photographs and painted Polaroids. As an introduction, the artist offers this quote from Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge: "I prayed to get my childhood back, and it came back, and I sense that it is still as hard as before, and that getting old has done me no good at all". Born in Munich in 1939, Holger Trülzsch is a sculptor, a musician, a painter, a photographer and a video maker. In 1969, along with Florian Fricke, he founded the experimental music group Popol Vuh. In 1984, he co-founded the DATAR, a state-funded photography project to record the landscapes of France.