The State of the Art Photography exhibition investigates emerging practice in photography.

The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf asked Andreas Gursky, Thomas Weski, Klaus Biesenbach, Udo Kittelmann, FC Gundlach, Thomas Seelig, Andrea Holzherr, and Werner Lippert to propose photographers to be included.

The artists in the exhibition are: Peter Ainsworth, Olaf Otto Becker, Laura Bielau, Miriam Böhm, Elina Brotherus, Bianca Brunner, Stefan Burger, Asger Carlsen, Katalin Deér, Martin Denker, Jan Paul Evers, Daniel Gordon, Alexandra Grein, WassinkLundgren, Harry Gruyaert, Oliver Helbig, Ulrich Hensel, Stefan Hostettler, Pepa Hristova, Sanna Kannisto, Annette Kelm, Jeremy Kost, Mischa Kuball, Edgar Leciejewski, Tim Lee, Maziar Moradi, Armin Morbach, Andreas Mühe, Taiyo Onorato / Nico Krebs, Alex Prager, Rico Scagliola / Michael Meier, Anja Schori, Jeremy Shaw, Arne Schmitt, Jacob Aue Sobol, Kathrin Sonntag, Heidi Specker, Mikhael Subotzky / Patrick Waterhouse, Pinar Yolacan, Anna Vogel, and Moritz Wegwerth.