The Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden presents Barbara Proschak's first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany. The exhibition provides an insight into her artistic work over the last fifteen years and also shows new works that are being exhibited publicly for the first time.

Barbara Proschak's work is among the most distinctive in contemporary photography. The artist does not view photography as a finished individual image, but rather as an open space for thought and research. Collecting, organizing, and rearranging form the core of her practice: thousands of photographic notes give rise to dense constellations of images in which bodies, nature, studio, object, and pictorial space enter into relationship with one another. In doing so, Proschak combines photography with drawing, glass, object arrangements, and natural history forms of presentation.

Proschak's process-oriented working method is at the heart of the exhibition. Her images are layered, concealed, shifted, exaggerated, and recombined. In display tables, picture boxes, and edited photographs, a conscious interplay between visibility and invisibility unfolds. Meaning does not arise in the individual image, but in relationships, interstices, and empty spaces. Thus, the exhibition shows photography as something mobile, changeable, and physical. What we see is an open image system that questions our perception as well as our everyday use of images.