“No Place like Home. Italian photography since the 1980s” is an exhibition by IKS Photo Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen and the Draiflessen Collection Mettingen. For the first time in Germany, four institutions are jointly exploring the influences of Italian photography on the development of European photographic history since the 1980s within the exhibition “No Place like Home”. On display will be up to 340 works by around 40 photographers, including works by Guido Guidi (1941), Gabriele Basilico (1944 - 2013) and Luigi Ghirri (1943 - 1992). In the early 1990s, the economic development of advanced capitalism and the first effects of globalisation led photographers such as Marina Ballo Charmet, Paola De Pietri, William Guerrieri and Paola Di Bello to take an interest in urban spaces, the loss of identity of places and social issues. “No Place like Home” is the first major survey exhibition to present the development of the medium of photography in Italy since the 1980s and shows how Italy, which emerged from the economic boom of the post-war period, has found its own credible photographic representation. The exhibition is curated by Ralph Goertz, director of IKS Photo Düsseldorf, and will be realised in close collaboration with the exhibiting partner institutions. The richly illustrated exhibition catalogue is published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, with an introduction by Svenja Frank, Ralph Goertz, Leòn Krempel and Corinna Otto and texts by Nicoletta Leonardi and William Guerrieri.