"POOL POSITIONS" Exhibit Features Gallery Photographer Anna Boyiazis
October 1, 2026 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography
Via Kunstkreis Gräfelfing e.V.
October 8 – November 1, 2026
The exhibition features site-specific works by 30 renowned international artists inside a defunct indoor swimming pool. The installations, sculptures, and paintings inherently focus on themes of bathing, water, human body culture, and spatial perception.
The exhibit includes a special installation in the water, an interactive photographic series, videos in niches and adjoining rooms, photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture and objects.
In this way, the walls, shower rooms, lockers, changing rooms, stairs and corridors of the place can be experienced by visitors as new experience spaces.
Vernissage
Thursday, 08.10.2026From 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
Opening hours
every Thursday to Sunday from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
on Thursday, October 8, the exhibition opens with the vernissage at 6 p.m.
Exhibition Venue
Old swimming pool in the Lochham primary school
Adalbert Stifter Platz 1
82166 Gräfelfing
Anna Boyiazis is a documentary photographer working between Southern California and East Africa. Her work focuses on conservation, human rights, public health, and women and girls, drawing on long-term, community-embedded storytelling.
The Zanzibar archipelago, where the pictures were taken, is economically and spiritually closely linked to the sea. But half of its population does not dare to go into the water for fear of drowning!
While many boys acquire basic swimming skills by the age of 10, girls have so far been discouraged from learning to swim because there were no swimsuits to cover the body. Swimming lessons also challenge a patriarchal system that prevents women from engaging in activities other than domestic tasks.
Thanks to some grassroots organizations that provide full-body swimsuits and promote swimming lessons, women and girls are now taking to the water. The participants are thus empowered to teach others, creating a cycle that makes the sea accessible to all.