VIKTORIA BINSCHTOK
“EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH”

Saturday, August 22, November 28, 2026 and March 6, June 5, 2027, 10 am–5 pm

The masterclass was designed as a four-part workshop series and can only be booked in full.

Subjects

Experimental methods, conceptual, presentation, materiality

Masterclass structure

Session 1: Introduction, discussion of participants’ submitted works or interests, and assignment of “tasks” for the next meeting

Preparation

Please bring portfolios or examples of your previous work
Consider your interest in photography and what drives your artistic practice—we will discuss this in the first session

Equipment

Any device is suitable: camera, smartphone, etc.

If available: a laptop for transferring, reviewing, and editing images.

Location

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt

Language: German

Price members: 600 EUR

Price non members: 800 EUR

Number of participants: Min. 8 / max. 10 persons

Registration deadline: June 8, 2026

Duration: 4 days, one public lecture

The masterclass Everything but the Truth focuses on photography as an open artistic medium. Rather than documenting the world, participants translate ideas into images. Together with Viktoria Binschtok, participants will explore cross-disciplinary approaches to photography, develop individual concepts, and guided through potential forms of presentation.

Participants are encouraged to experiment with analogue, digital, or AI-based methods. We will discuss artistic strategies such as image appropriation, as well as questions of authorship and shifting meanings. The workshop fosters an open and confident approach to photography — detached from notions of truth that have been attributed to the medium since its invention.

Viktoria Binschtok (*1972 in Moscow) grew up in Minden, Westphalia. From 1995 to 2002, she studied photography and media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. In her photographic work, she reflects on the complex field of photography in the age of digital reproduction and circulation. In addition to her own photographs, she uses images sourced from the internet and other media archives, which she appropriates in diverse ways.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Museum Folkwang in Essen, 2012 RAY Triennial, Centre Pompidou in Paris and Metz, Fondazione Prada in Milan, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Kunstmuseum Bonn, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. Upcoming presentations of her work: the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig and C/O Berlin, and from October 2026 at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2002.

Viktoria Binschtok (Website)

For this event the access is limited and a previous registration is necessary.

After the submission of your data we will send you a confirmation by e-mail. This e-mail also includes the bank information for the transfer of the workshop fee. Your payment should reach our account fourteen days before the start of the workshop and is necessary for the participation. In the event of your absence without prior notice of at least 14 days we can unfortunately not refund the fee of the workshop.

With your registration you will confirm that you have read and understood the PRIVACY POLICY of Fotografie Forum Frankfurt.

Do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail at anmeldung@fffrankfurt.org or telephone at 069 291726 if you have any questions regarding workshop schedule, registration or payment.

Thank you for your registration. We will contact you shortly.

VIKTORIA BINSCHTOK“EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH”

VIKTORIA BINSCHTOK
“EVERYTHING BUT THE TRUTH”