The 4th conference of the working group on Art in the GDR will examine the extent to which photography was exploited by SED media policy as an ideological instrument of ‘class struggle’ and ‘socialist development’, and its formal aesthetics and ...

The winners of the photo and text competition in connection with the exhibition Geteilte Blicke (Divided Views) will be selected by the curators and jury members Dr Ulrike Pilarczyk and Petra Schröck.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, worth £30,000, is awarded annually at The Photographers’ Gallery in London to a living photographer of any nationality who has made an outstanding contribution, by an exhibition or a publication, to photography in Europe in ...

The retrospective of the work of Joel Sternfeld, born in New York in 1944, is an epic journey across the USA, far from the beaten track and familiar landmarks of tourism. The landscapes, streets, green spaces and houses, together with ...

The history of Berlin and Prague is one of upheavals and transformations in politics, society and culture. Looking back on earlier visits, artists from Scotty Enterprises travelled to Prague and developed photographic works, while artists from Prague were invited to ...

After training as a photographer and cameraman, René Groebli initially worked as a photo reporter for various international magazines. Groebli married in October 1951, but had to return to work just a few days after the wedding. The photographer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlin Photomarathon exhibits in the Supermarkt in the borough of Wedding and in the Kopfkino in Friedrichshain. The theme of the exhibition is the diversity of Berlin and the contrasts between today and yesterday, between Us and the Other. ...

The Berlin Photomarathon exhibits in the Supermarkt in the borough of Wedding and in the Kopfkino in Friedrichshain. The theme of the exhibition is the diversity of Berlin and the contrasts between today and yesterday, between Us and the Other. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bettina Rheims says she wants to see and show people as they see themselves. In keeping with this philosophy, and with an awareness of the social importance of the topic, Rheims has once again worked with transgender people. She has ...

The photographs of Stéphane Couturier (*1957) feature dynamic verticals and horizontals, elegantly curved lines and brilliant light and colour effects. The exhibition Melting Point offers a concentrated look at the Stéphane Couturier’s current work. A mere description of the motifs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

Since 1994, Stéphane Couturier has been exhibiting a series of works that paved the way for his work titled Archéologie Urbaine (Urban Archaeology). He photographs the city as a living, multifaceted organism removed from any poetry, nostalgia or exoticism. His ...

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 ...

The twelve photographers exhibited come from eight different countries. For some of them, Berlin was only a stopover, for others, a place to work for a time. Others still are long-time residents. These outsiders have not one, but twelve perspectives ...

Every year, over 30,000 exchange students leave Germany to broaden their horizons and make themselves competitive. They are usually sixteen or seventeen years old and thus still in search of their own identity and their mooring in the world. Open ...

The ubiquity of the portrait in the age of the Internet raises the question of its meaning and expression again in a radical way, since every creative and technically savvy individual can produce a self-portrait today and publish it online. ...

Iceland as an embodiment of promise is the premise of the photographic and filmic notes that Benten Clay brings together in this exhibition to form an installation network. It is a promise of a natural paradise, which may not be ...

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 ...

At the age of twenty-two, Maja Forsslund was accepted at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She examined the human body in life drawing courses and learned the painter’s craft. In sketches she began to interpret and create ...

Both artists were born and raised in Luxembourg. Both made photography their passion and went abroad to study – at the same technical college in Hanover, but over thirty years apart. Marc Theis, born in 1953, regularly visited his home ...

A glowing future, today almost past; although offline still radioactive for incomprehensible spans of time to come: a look into the abyss of time is demanded of us, a look that rocked geology around 1800 – the creation of the ...

What connects these artists is their search for unusual perspectives. Imre Kinszki (1901 – 1945) is considered one of the most consistent champions of New Objectivity among Hungarian artists. In search of his own pictorial language, he discovered the simple ...

The exhibition Verborgenes (The Concealed) presents works by ten photographers from Latin America who were selected by the curators Alejandro Castellote and Juan Antonio Molina at the invitation of the Instituto Cervantes. The selection process took place in 2009 as ...

Werner David Feist (1909 – 1998) gained recognition mainly as a result of his experimental photography during his time as a student at the Bauhaus (1927 – 1930). These photos are unique documents of life at the Bauhaus, and at ...

People come and are given space to present themselves. Some allow themselves be enticed or seduced, others test themselves and reinvent themselves. Each individual shows just as much of himself or herself as he or she truly wants. What happens ...

The exhibition DÖNÜŞ (‘Return’) starts with fifty original Turkish film posters from 1961 to 2011. For one year, Ute Langkafel, photographic artist and producer at MAIFOTO, invited visitors to her gallery to take a place in a film poster of ...

The Berlin photo archive bobsairport is a collection of contemporary photography that comprises works by more than seventy photographers. As part of the archive, the individual photo generally serves to illustrate an existing text. For the series It takes two, ...

The collection of Christian Schwarm does not rely on big names. What interests the owner of the Dorten communication agency, both professionally and as a collector, is a delight in unconventional thinking and the broader horizons that inevitably results from ...

The exhibition echos (echoes) presents the sixth graduating class of the Ostkreuz School of Photography in the former Maassen department store in Oranienplatz. The themes of the graduates’ final projects are diverse: men in search of meaning, the conversion of ...

Björn Siebert calls his works Remakes. They are reconstructions, that is, faithful re-enactments, of amateur photos from the depths of the World Wide Web. Piece by piece in painstaking research, he assembles what in the found image was a chance ...

Valerie Leray’s pictures imply a return to the “realms of memory” regarded as expressions of the artistic gesture, showing in the present time what used to be but which remains invisible. In her series In the Making, the artist looks ...

Abrie Fourie wanders with his camera lens through four continents: Africa, Europe, Asia and America. Southern Africa is his familiar homeland. Asia and America he experiences as a visitor, while Europe and Berlin are his current domicile. He never sees ...

New York, Hanoi, Tarkovo, Mila 23 2007 – 2011: Annual street photography workshop in New York accompanied by studio visits and lectures by renowned local artists and a final exhibition in Berlin. Direction: Thomas Keller and Todd Weinstein. 2011: Documentation ...

Stephen Mooney is a photographer, poet and filmmaker from the UK and has lived in Berlin since 2004. In Jahrhundertwinter (Winter of the Century) Mooney documents one of Berlin’s hardest winters on record and the terrible transient beauty of a ...

In 1970, thousands of music enthusiasts flocked to the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn in the hope of a German Woodstock. But incessant rain and storms prevented some of the famous bands on the bill from appearing. The presence of ...

The Frenchman Stéphane Duroy was born in Bizerte (Tunisia) in 1948 and lives in Paris. He initially worked predominantly as a press photographer, and as a member of the photo agency VU shot extensive reportages for Die Zeit, Stern and ...

The group exhibition I am not interested in Reality presents five international photographers who work with reflections, scenes and reconstructions of reality, free of documentary impulses. Departing from contemporary visual habits and media worlds, they offer new looks at the ...

Prostitutes, the sacred and the night create a tense atmosphere around the photographs in this exhibition. At a young age the American artist Jerry Berndt (*1943) acquired a sensitivity to the lonely and despairing aspects of the demimonde. This sensitivity ...

Much has been written about the Vietnamese who came to Germany. Research has focused on ‘contract workers’ in the GDR; on Vietnamese children who were to be trained as the new socialist elite; and on boat people who fled from ...

The West Berlin of the 1970s and ’80s – Kreuzberg, the Wall, dereliction. Many of those who lived here had no other choice. The ruins of war, the struggle for survival, brief moments of happiness and permanent breakdowns. Old-age poverty, ...

How do people live? How do friends and strangers live? How do I live myself? These are questions that Naomi Schenck has asked since her childhood. Questions with which she scours the globe for film locations – real places where ...

Jens Ullrich has been creating the series of collages titled Masken (Masks), which currently consists of some 40 works, since 2004. On the computer, the artist pastes images of African masks into black-and-white newspaper photos which were taken in various ...

A look at art photography in general and at Hannah Höch in particular reveal a complexity that is transformed by the artistic eye and goes far beyond mere seeing. The participating artists present insights into many facets of their work ...

The unusual dialogue between Old Master paintings and contemporary photography has its roots in the history of the collection SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin. Its beginnings date back to the nineteenth century, when the grandfather of the collector Thomas Rusche ran ...

Throughout history people have been influenced by external events and behaviour – due to war, economic and religious influences or mass migration. We notice fashion and lifestyle trends set and followed by our children, neighbours, colleagues and friends. We adopt ...

Our brains interpret facial expressions in different ways depending on whether the face is looking directly at us or not. The direction of the other’s gaze actually determines how our brain responds to the emotions expressed on the person’s face. ...

In his unusual composition, Rohde gives space a magical distortion, constant disorientation and detachment. The eye persistently tries to construct a uniform object, and only succeeds in intensifying the independent existence of the subjects pictured. The images are thus inconsistent ...

A series of sixty-five collodion prints is the subject of an exhibition about taking photographs as a practice of regional history in the 1920s. The photos were created during walking tours that the amateur photographers Bruno Stephan, Werner Köhler and ...

In early 1962, when Heinrich Heidersberger (1906 – 2006) had just taken up residence in ‘Volkswagen City’, the first Italian workers arrived in Wolfsburg. At the time Heidersberger was at work on the book project Wolfsburg – Bilder einer jungen ...