ECHT JETZT focuses on what moves young people: their questions, their relationships and their perspectives. In a time of change, the exhibition opens a space for reassurance, exchange and pausing.
In 40 works, ECHT JETZT paints a picture of how young people shape their present. The exhibition offers insights into the facets that shape their lives today: it tells of empathy and curiosity, of solidarity and community, of fragmentation and cohesion, of faith and hope. It shows the simultaneity of social and private struggles and makes the richness of young people's perspectives visible.
At the same time, ECHT JETZT shows how great young people's trust in images is, and what power they attribute to them to give expression to their own themes and concerns. Photography is tested and used in its full range here: documentary and artistic, analogue and digital, with historical processes and the smartphone, in moving images, single images and series, in chance and staging.