Newkölln Photographics
A district reinvents itself
Creativ-Centrum Neuköllner Leuchtturm
Michel Di Moro: The Empty Museum
1994 © Michel Di Moro
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The Neukölln district forms a conglomerate of 160 different cultures, where the artist appears as a bearer of hope. This urban living space has been a stimulus for the six international photographic artists exhibiting here, who themselves form part of the process of change in Neukölln. Time in its many different aspects is the critical theme of interest, so the works exhibited show how 650 years of history interweave with the present. The everyday image of the streets is shifted into an unfamiliar perspective beauty is wrested from the ordinary. This view of life in the Neukölln district is partly documentary, partly a staged presentation. The process of self-recall, of coming to be at home by means of photography, is thematic. The family, as the germ of society, is confronted with the camera in portrait shots, while abandoned living areas are shown as bearing the traces of human destiny. The human being appears as a nomad contradictory at the moment of departure, hopeful but without having anywhere to go.
Theme
Urban Lifestyles
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Artist(s)
Ulrike Eickers, Michel Di Moro, Martin Gruttadauria, Alain Riviére, Bernhard Thieß, Simone Wasner
Duration of the exhibition
10. - 26.11.2010
Vernissage
6.11.2010, 19 h
Opening times
Mi-Fr 14-19 h
Location
Creativ-Centrum Neuköllner Leuchtturm
Emser Straße 117
12051 Berlin
T 0049 30 39505376
Public transport connections
U8 Hermannstr.
U7 Neukölln
S41, 42, 45, 46, 47 Hermannstr., Neukölln
Bus 277
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