Framing - Medien Macht Bilder

This exhibition deals with the question of how media-mediated images influence our perception of society, history, and politics. Images have always been instrumental in shaping people’s view of the world. Supposedly immovable historical, power political or religious truths were codified and proclaimed through images. In the twentieth century, with new possibilities of widely sharing images through films, newspapers, magazines and posters, the techniques of propaganda and public relations, and thus the influence of opinions, became more and more differentiated – and also more powerful.