Nan Goldin. Berlin Work
Photographs 1984 to 2009
Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Nan Goldin: Bea with the blue drink, O-Bar, West-Berlin
1984 © Nan Goldin / Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
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Nan Goldins photographs are pictures of her life. In inexhaustible fullness and a shimmering play of colour, they show Goldins family her friends, acquaintances and admirers. Since leaving the family home at the age of 14, she has inhabited a subculture scene of drag queens, transvestites, homosexuals and transsexuals first of all in Boston, then from 1978 in Lower East Side New York and from 1991 to 1994 mostly in Berlin. Since then she has revisited the city repeatedly.
With 80 photographs, some of them never shown before, the exhibition gives a comprehensive view of the works created by the artist in Berlin. Four picture tableaus, which go by the name of grids, supplement the photographs in the form of narrative sequences and make an important contribution to the understanding of Goldins Berlin. These artists portraits and self-portraits, interiors, still lifes and street scenes give the visitor to the exhibition insights into the person and environment of the artist, while showing Berlin as a place of creation and transition.
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Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Nan Goldin
Curator(s)
Dr. Thomas Köhler
Duration of the exhibition
20.11.2010 - 28.03.2011
Vernissage
19.11.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Mi-Mo 10-18 h
Location
Berlinische Galerie Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969 Berlin
T 0049 30 78902600
Public transport connections
U1, 6 Hallesches Tor
U2 Spittelmarkt, Märkisches Museum
U6 Kochstraße
U8 Moritzplatz
Bus M29, 248
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