Photobattle

The Böhm Tradecenter was an online-exhibition space created by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber. Using virtual shipping container as a modular exhibition space. Between 2005 and 2010 they showed 28 virtual exhibitions. The first Trandecenter was actually exhibited in a physical container as part of PhotoEspaña in 2005.

From Japan they invited Hisako Nakagawa, who came as ArtEx artist from Osaka to Düsseldorf and Ryudai Takano (for the very first time).And also an installation by Antenna Group, whom they met in Osaka in 2006. Antenna Group where just got the award for emerging artists Osala and together with Kenji Yanobe they exhibited toe collaborative show Mori de aimashō (See you in the forest). Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber met Kenji Yanobe briefly at that time and could attend one of his performances inside the Tower of the Sun inside the EXPO commemorative park, an experience which became relevant years later.

Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber where invited to propose Japanese videoartists to the team of the Videonale 9 in Bonn. Antenna Group where selected and invited to participate at this great Video-Biennale in Bonn 2007.

Exhibited artists between 2005 and 2009:
Herbert Perl, Thomas Wiegand, Sabine Schründer, Vera Hofmann, Mirko Martin, Awoiska van der Molen, Stefan Panhans, Jerome Pflüger & Dominik Hebestreit, Nick Haymes, Bertien van Manen, F.R.Stuke, Kai Kraatz, Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya & Olga Egorova aka Gluklya & Tsaplya, Joseph Dadoune, Petra Warrass, Yuri Nagawara, Anika Potzler, Ryudai Takano, Otto Snoek, Ieva Jerohina, Antenna, Miles Collyer, Adam Etmanski, Pat de Caro, Frederik Busch, Hisako Nakagawa
Exhibitions by guest curators Avraham Eilat: »Photography from Israel« with works by Adi Nes, Daniel Tchetchik, Sagit Zaloof Namir, Miki Kratsman, Didier Ben Loulou, Pavel Wolberg, Avraham Eilat, Boaz Tal, Gilad Ophir, Hanna Sahar, Micha Bar-Am, Nathan Dvir: Yuka Yokoyama: »Gaming« with works by Nina Katchadourian, Tiffany Sum, Warren Sack and Sawad Brooks, Matt Ortega, Francis Lam.)