Events – Friday 19.10.
6:00 pm
The Alchemist Heinz Hajek-Halke. Late Photo-Graphics
Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4 10117 Berlin www.adk.de
7:00 pm
In Transit
The project IN TRANSIT situates the ‘View of the Other’ in a discourse with our societies of today, and stimulates a ‘dialogue of views’. Works by professional and art photographers enter into a dialogue with images submitted by members of ...
und.Institut, S-Bahnhof Ostkreuz, Markgrafendamm, 10245 Berlin, intransitfoto.wordpress.com
7:00 pm
The Century of Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was one of the most famous photographers in history. His black and white photographs recorded the momentous events of the twentieth century, from the liberation of Paris in 1944 to the communist takeover in China in 1949, ...
Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin www.gropiusbau.de
Vernissages – Friday 19.10.
6:00 pm
Berlin Slaughterhouse, 1986 – 88
On 16th December, 2011, three days after his forty-ninth birthday, Knoefel unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Just the week before we had agreed to show Schlachthaus (Slaughterhouse) in my gallery as part of the major exhibition on photography in ...
Loock Galerie Invalidenstraße 50/51 Halle am Wasser 10557 Berlin www.loock-galerie.de
6:00 pm
Fantasy and Dream
Heinz Hajek-Halke
Johanna Breede presents Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898 – 1983), one of the great photography pioneers of the 1920s and early 1930s in Germany. He was one of the first to experiment with superimposed images and montages, to leave the documentary aspect ...
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST Fasanenstraße 69 10719 Berlin www.johanna-breede.com
6:00 pm
On Desire
Carina Linge
As in her previous works, Carina Linge draws on the allegorical iconography of the Renaissance and the Baroque, yet at the same time she refers to the present. Impressions, shadows and the residual heat of people or things are depicted ...
Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner Invalidenstraße 50/51 Halle am Wasser 10557 Berlin www.jarmuschek.de
6:00 pm
Open Shutter
Michael Wesely
Since the early 1990s, the photographer Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques using extremely long exposures to take uniquely compelling photographs. Using filters and an aperture that is very small, yet common with professional camera lenses, he is ...
Fahnemann Projects Fasanenstraße 61 10719 Berlin www.fahnemannprojects.com
6:00 pm
Pipeline Landscape & Cruel Generations
Al Fadhil
These images are selected findings of my visual research on the modern history of Iraq. These images deal with visual memories of the place, memories that stay with me as a traumatic and dramatic experience. The photos mainly deal with ...
Kunstverein Wedding Buttmannstraße 16 c/o Rohde 13357 Berlin www.kunstverein-wedding.de
6:00 pm
»Meta-Icon«
Marc Bonnetin, Frank Eickhoff, Heike Gallmeier, Mirko Martin, Noé Sendas
Photography is currently the scene of an accelerating co-optation of the established pictorial worlds of western culture from painting, photography and film. A growing number of artists using diverse strategies and forms of representation are transforming important domains in our ...
frontviews Adalbertstraße 8 Aufgang B 10999 Berlin www.september-berlin.com
7:00 pm
Artists at Work
Elina Brotherus
Gallery TAIK is proud to present Elina Brotherus’s most recent photographs from the series Artists at Work. Brotherus once again uses herself as the principal model in her pictures. However, in contrast to her previous works she uses her role ...
Gallery TAIK Bergstraße 22 10115 Berlin www.helsinkischool.fi
7:00 pm
Between Us
Edith Maria Balk, Wolfgang Eschenhorn, Anneliese Fechner, Erhard Flach, Pia Heuer, Sybille Hoffmann…
The space between us is never empty: it is filled with experiences, ideas, emotions; it divides or connects us geographically, culturally, as people; it can be a boundary or a fleeting thought. Ten photographers explore the space ‘between us’. Not ...
Fotoatelier Am Schönen Berg Mansteinstraße 16 10783 Berlin www.sibylle-hoffman.de
7:00 pm
Don’t Look at Me!
Nicole Ahland, Oreet Ashery
Oreet Ashery’s work explores the relationships between politics of representation and minorities’ discourses. After Duchamp is a self-portrait based on Man Ray’s photograph titled Tonsure de Marcel Duchamp (c. 1920). After Duchamp portrays Ashery as a naked figure of ambiguous ...
c. wichtendahl. galerie Joachimstraße 7 10119 Berlin www.wichtendahl.de
7:00 pm
Multiple 1
Ono Ludwig
Since 2009, the Berlin photographer Ono Ludwig has been exploring the creative potential of the camera obscura. He continues to create playful and sometimes unsettling self-portraits today in continuously developing series. As a result of the camera obscura’s long exposure ...
Pflüger68 Pflügerstraße 68 12047 Berlin www.pflueger68.de
7:00 pm
Pavlov and Pavlov
Michael Wesely
The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that if he had created his walking statue John the Baptist based on snapshot photography, it ‘would present the bizarre appearance of a man suddenly stricken with paralysis and petrified’. Wesely’s photographs achieve the opposite ...
Pavlov's Dog Bergstraße 19 10115 Berlin www.pavlovsdog.org
7:00 pm
The Critical Camera
Nina Berman, Leona Goldstein, Robert Knoth, Katharina Mouratidi
The exhibition The Critical Camera presents four photographers who are active internationally and members of the Society for Humanistic Photography. What they have in common is a critical perspective on social inequality and international conflicts and how they affect individuals ...
Kunstverein Tiergarten Turmstraße 75 10551 Berlin www.kunstverein-tiergarten.de
7:00 pm
Then
Karen Irmer, Leta Peer
The view of the other – the familiar and the alien, the nearby and the distant, the other and one’s own identity and origins — shapes the work of the artists Karen Irmer and Leta Peer in an incisive way. ...
Zweigstelle Berlin Lehrter Straße 37 10557 Berlin www.zweigstelle-berlin.de
7:00 pm
Winter
Lars Tunbjörk
Snowbound streets, buildings and abandoned cars, a dirty snowman standing forlorn in a garden. But interiors too, and portraits of people in their homes, at work, in cafés and at parties. For his series Vinter (Winter), Lars Tunbjörk travelled through ...
Swedish Photography Karl-Marx-Allee 62 10243 Berlin www.swedishphotography.org
7:30 pm
Beijing Memories
Wang Fang
Wang Fang is at home in two different cultures: born and raised in Beijing, she has lived in Potsdam for some years. In Beijing Memories she points her camera at her home town, in which she increasingly feels like an ...
exhibeo Veteranenstraße 14 10119 Berlin www.exhibeo-galerie.de
8:00 pm
Echo
Stephanie Kloss
Stephanie Kloss’s photographs document not singular events, but virtual states. She often presents locations with mythological associations. They touch the viewer by suggesting what is superficially invisible: conflict, abuse, environmental disaster. At first glance, many recall a design idea from ...
LAURA MARS Sorauer Straße 3 10997 Berlin www.lauramars.de
8:15 pm
The View of the Other
Hans Georg Berger, Nora Bibel, Buddhist Archive of Photography (Luang Prabang), Ting Ting Cheng, Claus Rottenbacher, Marei Wenzel
The view of the other becomes noteworthy when it transcends attitudes of romanticism and exoticism. Mythologising or gawking at the other as a curiosity is a short-lived, unedifying pleasure. Opening one’s eyes to the unfamiliar, and so becoming unfamiliar to ...
Artificial Image Pistoriusstraße 96 (Seitenflügel) espace 13086 Berlin artificialimage.de
9:00 pm
Un-Posed
Michal Adamski, Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Andy Kochanowski, Piotr Koszczynski, Tomasz Lazar…
Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...
Club der Polnischen Versager Ackerstraße 168 10115 Berlin www.polnischeversager.de
Exhibitions – Friday 19.10.
31.05. - 25.11.2012
Moses Nappelbaum (1869 – 1958): Portraits of Soviet Intellectuals
Moissej Nappelbaum (1869-1958)
Galerie Berinson presents Moses Nappelbaum, the most important portrait photographer of Soviet Russia. The exhibition comprises more than 50 rare original prints – including portraits of Vladimir Tatlin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergei Eisenstein, Maxim Gorki, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lion Feuchtwanger. Nappelbaum’s ...
Galerie Berinson Lindenstraße 34 10969 Berlin www.berinson.de
2.06. - 18.11.2012
Helmut Newton: White Women/ Sleepless Nights/ Big Nudes
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton’s photographic work was the subject of controvery throughout his creative life. He achieved fame with his life-sized images of clothed and unclothed women — if not before — with which he succeeded in pushing the boundaries of the ...
Helmut Newton Foundation Jebensstraße 2 Museum für Fotografie 10623 Berlin www.helmut-newton.de
6.07. - 21.10.2012
Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms
Gabriel Orozco
Asterisms, the eighteenth project in the series of works commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, is a two-part installation consisting of objects and photographs by Gabriel Orozco. For this work, the artist collected thousands of objects that had been thrown away ...
Deutsche Guggenheim Unter den Linden 13/15 10117 Berlin www.deutsche-guggenheim.de
20.07. - 21.10.2012
The Colonial Eye
Samuel Bourne, John Burke, Francis Frith & Co., A.W.A. Platé, Fritz Sarasin, Paul Sarasin…
One of the world’s broadest and best collections of historic portrait photography in India is being exhibited for the first time. The collection was originally thought to have been lost in the war and was first returned to Berlin in ...
Museum für Fotografie Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin www.smb.museum/mf
8.09. - 4.11.2012
The Alchemist
Heinz Hajek-Halke
What László Moholy-Nagy did for the photography of the Bauhaus and of the 1920s, Heinz Hajek-Halke accomplished for the 1950s and Abstract Art. Hajek-Halke (1898 – 1983) was an artist who worked in a genuinely photographic manner: what he achieved ...
Akademie der Künste Pariser Platz 4 10117 Berlin www.adk.de
12.09. - 15.12.2012
Janos Frecot. Péter Nádas
Janos Frecot, Péter Nádas
In 2012, during the 5th European Month of Photography, Kicken Berlin will show a survey of the photographic work of the important German photography curator and historian Janos Frecot. As the founder and long-time director of the photography collection at ...
Kicken Linienstraße 161A/155 10115 Berlin www.kicken-gallery.com
14.09. - 17.11.2012
At Home
Gosbert Adler, Knut Maron
In the series Interieur (Interior) and Ein Leben (A Life), Gosbert Adler and Knut Maron photographed their former homes over several years. An apartment, a house, filled with the things of a past life, which the family retains today only ...
Galerie zone B Brunnenstraße 149 10115 Berlin www.zone-b.info
14.09. - 30.11.2012
Berlin relatives
Anna Kott
Ballet, burlesque, kitsch and tattoos – the visual universe of Anna Kott is baroque, melancholy, cheerful and bright all at once. Strength and weakness, physical confidence and embarrassment, grace and awkwardness are the contradictions she captures in her pictures. The ...
Polnisches Institut Burgstraße 27 10178 Berlin www.polnischekultur.de
15.09. - 24.11.2012
Niemeyer and My Wife
Erik van der Weijde
Chert and Erik Van der Weijde are delighted to announce the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. The theme of the exhibition symbolises the accord between them: the interaction between space and people: in this case Oscar Niemeyer and ...
Chert Skalitzer Straße 68 10997 Berlin www.chert-berlin.com
20.09. - 17.12.2012
Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper (1936 – 2010) was an artist, director and actor. He always had his camera with him: in the car, on film sets, at parties, in studios and galleries. After his death, 400 vintage photographs from the 1960s were ...
Martin-Gropius-Bau Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin www.gropiusbau.de
21.09. - 2.11.2012
Hoyerswerda: The Shrinking City
Stefan Boness
Hoyerswerda stands for radical upheavals in German society and urban development. With its ten huge housing estates in the pre-fab slab style, it was once the showcase metropolis of East Germany and the socialist model of a modern functional city. ...
alte feuerwache Marchlewskistraße 6 10243 Berlin www.kulturamt-friedrichshain-kreuzberg.de
27.09. - 16.12.2012
Fruchtstrasse, Berlin, 27th March, 1952
Annett Gröschner, Arwed Messmer, Fritz Tiedemann
On 27 March, 1952, Fritz Tiedemann photographed Fruchtstrasse in Berlin between Ostbahnhof and Stalinallee for the municipal government of East Berlin. He documented the condition of the buildings in the form of a façade elevations seven years after the end ...
Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 Foyer des ND-Hauses 10243 Berlin www.franzmehringplatz.de
28.09. - 30.11.2012
Roma in Rome
Nihad Nino Pušija
In his photo reportage, the Bosnian Nihad Nino Pušija from Sarajevo offers a new realistic view of the ethnic minority he belongs to, the Roma. While other photographers generally focus on the Roma’s impoverishment and hardship, and above all on ...
Galerie Kai Dikhas Prinzenstraße 85D 10969 Berlin www.kaidikhas.com
1.10. - 24.11.2012
Orogenesis
Joan Fontcuberta
Joan Fontcuberta presents untouched, infinite landscapes ‘never seen before by human eyes’. His vistas recall isolated Alpine regions, Nordic fjords and inaccessible gorges with idyllic waterfalls – but no one has ever climbed these mountains or wandered through these remote ...
photo edition berlin Ystader Straße 14A 10437 Berlin www.photoeditionberlin.com
5.10. - 14.12.2012
Hein Gorny in the Spectrum Photogalerie, Hanover, 1972
Hein Gorny, Heinrich Riebesehl
The spectrum Photogalerie in Hanover, founded in 1972, dedicated its first exhibition to the photographer Hein Gorny (1904 – 1967). Forty years later, Collection Regard has created an exhibition on the exhibition with photographs by Hein Gorny and Heinrich Riebesehl, ...
Collection Regard Steinstraße 12 10119 Berlin www.collectionregard.com
5.10. - 7.11.2012
Polaroids
Ursula Kelm
Once again we find ourselves in the realm of opposites and bewilderment. In ever-changing registers, Kelm’s photography explores the interplay of permanence and transience. In a special way, it is a memento mori, a participation in the mortality, vulnerability, mutability ...
PHOTOPLATZ Schlüterstraße 45 10707 Berlin www.photoplatz.de
5.10. - 28.01.2013
The Shuttered Society
Ursula Arnold, Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Christian Borchert, Micha Brendel, Kurt Buchwald…
The Berlinische Galerie presents the first exhibition in the world to take a comprehensive look at art photography in the GDR. Key questions are: Was art photography ever free under authoritarian East German conditions? And how did art photography change ...
Berlinische Galerie Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 10969 Berlin www.berlinischegalerie.de
6.10. - 18.11.2012
in search of
Zoe Caspari, Alexander Fichert, Ismini Goula, Joe Kake, Boris Kramaric, Constanze Kratzsch…
The students of the graduating class of the Neue Schule für Fotografie under the direction of Eva Maria Ocherbauer search in individual ways for visual expressions of existential questions. Time and again they focus on the relationship between individual and ...
Neue Schule für Fotografie Brunnenstraße 188 10119 Berlin www.neue-schule-berlin.com
12.10. - 28.10.2012
Coloured Echoes
Josef Wolfgang Mayer
The exhibition Coloured Echoes presents colour photographs by Josef Wolfgang Mayer. With his large-format camera he records signs of his times: urban details of Berlin as a fascinating interplay of architectural forms and patterns, chance objects and word signs – ...
Galerie Koschmieder Handjerystraße 94 12159 Berlin www.galerie-koschmieder.de
12.10. - 21.12.2012
connect: Bright Future
Moufida Fedhila, Aïcha Filali, Faten Gaddes, Halim Karabibene, Mouna Karray, Nicéne Kossentini…
The road to democratisation in Tunisia is rough and rocky. The aims of the January 2011 rebellion, such as the introduction of personal liberties, is proving more difficult than anticipated. The revolution is not over yet. The exhibition Bright Future ...
ifa-Galerie Berlin / Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen Linienstraße 139 10115 Berlin www.ifa.de
12.10. - 18.11.2012
Divided Views, Shared Views
Laurenz Berges, Henry Neitzke, Kai-Uwe Nerger, Thomas Neumann, Ina Paaschen, Karin Schäuble…
The striking differences in the photography of children and young people from East and West Germany stemmed from conditions in the two societies. The exhibition presents photographs from the East German and West German national youth photography competitions from 1970 ...
BrotfabrikGalerie Caligariplatz 1 13086 Berlin www.brotfabrik-berlin.de
12.10. - 23.12.2012
Forest: Landscapes of Remembrance
Michael Lange
Michael Lange’s project Wald: Landschaften der Erinnerung (Forest: Landscapes of Remembrance) was created in the forests of Germany over a period of three years. The photographs reflect the artist’s experiences of landscapes in twilight. They manifest the fact that ‘landscapes ...
ALFRED EHRHARDT STIFTUNG Auguststraße 75 10117 Berlin www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de
13.10. - 24.11.2012
Half Life
Michael Ackerman
A world in which emotion rules reason may not necessarily be an ideal world, but many of its more profound elements – longing, solitude, love, despair – certainly partake of the sublime. Such a world is shown in Half Life: ...
Galerie argus fotokunst Marienstraße 26 10117 Berlin www.argus-fotokunst.de
17.10. - 11.11.2012
Classified! The Stasi Photographs Steglitz and Zehlendorf
MfS-Mitarbeiter | Stasi Employees
The office of the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU) holds hundreds of photographs that were taken in the West Berlin boroughs of Steglitz and Zehlendorf from the 1950s until May 1989 by ...
Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf Grunewaldstraße 55 Atelier 12165 Berlin
17.10. - 18.11.2012
Roma – vm. 365/39/51 masw
Maria Sewcz
Maria Sewcz was a fellow of the Villa Massimo in Rome during the past year. During her stay, she had the opportunity to experience the structure of the city intensely and physically. She was particularly interested in the historical layers ...
Galerie Pankow Breite Straße 8 13187 Berlin www.galerie-pankow.de
18.10. - 27.01.2013
Anita Neugebauer – photo art basel
Claude Baechtold, Derek P. Bennett, Werner Bischof, Tom Bisig, Edouard Boubat, Denis Brihat…
‘I wanted to get to know the people who reveal my inner life with their pictures.’ Anita Neugebauer (born in 1916 in Berlin) studied photography at the Contempora – Lehrateliers für neue Werkkunst in Berlin in the 1930s. She is ...
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM Schlüterstraße 70 10625 Berlin www.dasverborgenemuseum.de
18.10. - 17.11.2012
David von Becker & Leo Pompinon
David von Becker, Leo Pompinon
I feel closer to what is far away and foreign than to what I already know. I don’t derive an agenda from that fact – I mistrust grand agendas – my basis is feeling and curiosity. I like to travel ...
Galerie LUX Berlin Südwestkorso 11A 12161 Berlin www.galerie-lux-berlin.de
18.10. - 26.11.2012
distURBANces – Can Fiction Beat Reality?
Thibault Brunet
In the framework of the European project distURBANces, the Month of Photography presents works by the French artist Thibault Brunet in the Computerspielemuseum (Computer Game Museum) Berlin. Brunet deals with the topic of reality and the imitation of reality by ...
Computerspielemuseum Karl-Marx-Allee 93A 10243 Berlin www.computerspielemuseum.de
18.10. - 30.11.2012
IN TRANSIT
Sascha Bachmann, Dido Baxevanidis, Jens Beckmann, Sebastian Bolesch, Patrik Budenz, Andreas Burger…
In Transit takes up the challenge of comprehending photography as a documentary, artistic and political description of the world and presenting it as a participatory project in a public in-transit room at the Ostkreuz railway station. Jaana Prüss situates ‘the ...
Und.Institut für Kunst, Kultur & Zukunftsfähigkeit Markgrafendamm 10245 Berlin intransitfoto.wordpress.com
19.10. - 2.11.2012
A Stranger in One’s Own Land
Jonnek Jonneksson, Kai Löffelbein
Strangeness and familiarity, home and foreign lands: Fremd im eigenen Land (A Stranger in One’s Own Land) brings together two photographers who find a unifying element in their apparent contrast. The Greek documentary photographer Jonnek Jonneksson, who emigrated to Germany, ...
f/16 Schule für Fotografie Friedrichstraße 217 10969 Berlin www.f16-schule.de
19.10. - 24.11.2012
Berlin Slaughterhouse, 1986 – 88
On 16th December, 2011, three days after his forty-ninth birthday, Knoefel unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Just the week before we had agreed to show Schlachthaus (Slaughterhouse) in my gallery as part of the major exhibition on photography in ...
Loock Galerie Invalidenstraße 50/51 Halle am Wasser 10557 Berlin www.loock-galerie.de
19.10. - 18.11.2012
Between Us
Edith Maria Balk, Wolfgang Eschenhorn, Anneliese Fechner, Erhard Flach, Pia Heuer, Sybille Hoffmann…
The space between us is never empty: it is filled with experiences, ideas, emotions; it divides or connects us geographically, culturally, as people; it can be a boundary or a fleeting thought. Ten photographers explore the space ‘between us’. Not ...
Fotoatelier Am Schönen Berg Mansteinstraße 16 10783 Berlin www.sibylle-hoffman.de
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Cairo. Open City
Lara Baladi, Kaya Behkalam, Taha Belal, Chris Michalski & Sebastian Stumpf, Denis Dailleux, Osama Dawod…
The exhibition Cairo. Open City tells two stories. The first reports on the political and social upheaval of a young generation, which began on 25 January 2011 with the mass protests on Tahrir Square in Cairo and continues until today. ...
Festivalzentrum Pariser Platz 4A 10117 Berlin
19.10. - 24.11.2012
Don’t Look at Me!
Nicole Ahland, Oreet Ashery
Oreet Ashery’s work explores the relationships between politics of representation and minorities’ discourses. After Duchamp is a self-portrait based on Man Ray’s photograph titled Tonsure de Marcel Duchamp (c. 1920). After Duchamp portrays Ashery as a naked figure of ambiguous ...
c. wichtendahl. galerie Joachimstraße 7 10119 Berlin www.wichtendahl.de
19.10. - 17.11.2012
GENERATOR
Per Berntsen
Per Berntsen (*1953) has been commissioned by the Norwegian companies Statkraft and Hydro to document hydroelectric plants since 2002/03. The artist has succeeded not only in portraying the complex functional architecture of the buildings in a compelling manner, but also ...
GALERIE KAI HILGEMANN Markgrafenstraße 67 10969 Berlin www.kaihilgemann.com
19.10. - 30.11.2012
Georgia on my mind
Jörg Rubbert
In his exhibition Georgia on My Mind, Jörg Rubbert shows the southern state from an unusual perspective. Far away from the boom town of Atlanta, in central and southern Georgia, people live according to another, slower rhythm. Georgia has suffered ...
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Helsingforser Platz 1 10243 Berlin www.kulturring.org
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Hokus Pokus Photon Photos
Tony Binder
Tony Binder does not use photos to take possession of reality for later transcription into paintings, as photographers and artists of his time commonly did. The photo helps him comprehend a little known reality and, like all seekers, he is ...
WW48 Studio Weichselstraße 48 12045 Berlin ww48studio.com
19.10. - 30.11.2012
Multiple 1
Ono Ludwig
Since 2009, the Berlin photographer Ono Ludwig has been exploring the creative potential of the camera obscura. He continues to create playful and sometimes unsettling self-portraits today in continuously developing series. As a result of the camera obscura’s long exposure ...
Pflüger68 Pflügerstraße 68 12047 Berlin www.pflueger68.de
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Nostalgia
Sergei Michailowitsch Prokudin-Gorski
In 1909, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863 – 1944) set out on a journey to capture all of Russia in colour for Czar Nicholas II. One of the pioneers of colour photography, Prokudin-Gorskii systematically documented the ...
Gestalten Space Sophienstraße 21 Sophie-Gips-Höfe 10178 Berlin www.gestalten.com/space
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Open Shutter
Michael Wesely
Since the early 1990s, the photographer Michael Wesely has been inventing and refining techniques using extremely long exposures to take uniquely compelling photographs. Using filters and an aperture that is very small, yet common with professional camera lenses, he is ...
Fahnemann Projects Fasanenstraße 61 10719 Berlin www.fahnemannprojects.com
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Pavlov and Pavlov
Michael Wesely
The sculptor Auguste Rodin said that if he had created his walking statue John the Baptist based on snapshot photography, it ‘would present the bizarre appearance of a man suddenly stricken with paralysis and petrified’. Wesely’s photographs achieve the opposite ...
Pavlov's Dog Bergstraße 19 10115 Berlin www.pavlovsdog.org
19.10. - 4.11.2012
Pipeline Landscape & Cruel Generations
Al Fadhil
These images are selected findings of my visual research on the modern history of Iraq. These images deal with visual memories of the place, memories that stay with me as a traumatic and dramatic experience. The photos mainly deal with ...
Kunstverein Wedding Buttmannstraße 16 c/o Rohde 13357 Berlin www.kunstverein-wedding.de
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Same-Same, but Different
James Clancy
Dark streets, silhouetted buildings and figures: At a first glance the nighttime urban scenes illuminated by single streetlights seem to portray the very same location. Only on a closer look do the differences become visible. As often happens in a ...
Botschaft Irland Jägerstraße 51 10117 Berlin www.embassyofireland.de
19.10. - 25.11.2012
Un-Posed
Michal Adamski, Damian Chrobak, Maciej Dakowicz, Andy Kochanowski, Piotr Koszczynski, Tomasz Lazar…
Un-posed is a group of Polish photographers whose work documents all aspects of day-to-day life. Established in 2011, the group has exhibited its work in the Leica Gallery in Warsaw and published in a dozen of magazines in Poland, Russia, ...
Club der Polnischen Versager Ackerstraße 168 10115 Berlin www.polnischeversager.de
19.10. - 3.11.2012
»Meta-Icon«
Marc Bonnetin, Frank Eickhoff, Heike Gallmeier, Mirko Martin, Noé Sendas
Photography is currently the scene of an accelerating co-optation of the established pictorial worlds of western culture from painting, photography and film. A growing number of artists using diverse strategies and forms of representation are transforming important domains in our ...
frontviews Adalbertstraße 8 Aufgang B 10999 Berlin www.september-berlin.com