LADENTISCHE

In the organizer's words:

Counters are offers: What is on the table is on display and is sold. Wherever it is climatically possible, the counter marks the boundary between inside and outside. Inside are sellers, outside are buyers, in between are the goods. Regardless of culture, gender, economic form, politics and religion, counters are a central tool of trade, an interface for supply and demand. As an ensemble, counters are also an equally old and fascinating architectural theme.

Since 2004, Cologne-based artist Anja Schlamann has photographed store counters on five continents with a large-format analog camera.

The result is an extensive ethnographic-sociological photographic-artistic documentation. The diversity of the global store counters encourages reflection on similarities and differences. In Anja Schlamann's stringent collection, the store counters also present themselves as visually seductive offerings for the eye.