Image and Power. Zooming into Zeppelin Photography
How do images serve power interests? How do they shape history? How do they manipulate us? When do images turn into propaganda? On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the first ascent of a Zeppelin airship, the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen is opening an extraordinary exhibition: Image and Power. Zooming into Zeppelin Photography. Running from June 6, 2025 to April 12, 2026, it is the first exhibition to explore the Zeppelin as both a visual and symbolic motif in photography.
Informations
Duration
6.6.2025-12.4.2026
Place
Temporary exhibition areas on the ground floor and second floor
The airship LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin over the shipyard in Friedrichshafen, 1938 © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over the Columbus Column in Barcelona, early 1930s © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
The airships LZ 129 Hindenburg and LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin over the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, March 28, 1936 © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Work in progress: comissioned works
Christelle Oyiri at the Zeppelin Museum © Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen
Aziza Kadyri, mock ups of AI generated images based on a dataset of Zeppelin images from the Zeppelin Museum, work in progress (2024)
Ebb.global & Neïl Beloufa, mock ups of AI generated images based on a dataset of zeppelin images from the Zeppelin Museum, work in progress (2024)
Christelle Oyiri, An eye for an I (2024), installation for MMK Frankfurt. Photo: Frank Sperling
Aziza Kadyri, Don't Miss The Cue (2024). Venice Biennale Uzbekistan Pavilion. Photo: Ivan Erofeev
Ebb.global & Neïl Beloufa, mock ups of AI generated images based on a dataset of zeppelin images from the Zeppelin Museum, work in progress (2024)
Lotte Eckener: LZ 129 Hindenburg under construction, circa 1935
