Private Property offers museum visitors an opportunity to gain in-depth insight into Helmut Newton’s dynamic life and photographic work. The unusual presentation, which includes film footage of the photo shoots, cameras, and accessories he equipped his models with – as ...

Walker Evans (1903–1975) was one of the great personalities of 20th century photography. In the half century of his creative activity, the photographer documented in sober documentary fashion a uniquely authentic picture of America. He first achieved public acclaim ...

This exhibition is devoted to the almost forgotten colour photographs and films made before the First World War that were commissioned by French banker Albert Kahn. Inspired by the colour photography of the Lumière brothers, he issued these commissions ...

In the public mind, Neukölln is more than just one of Berlin’s city districts; its name has become an autonomous term and frequently serves as a synonym for inner-city turmoil, resistance to integration, and the dole. At the ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922–1975) is considered to be one of the major ‘poetic realists’ of European cinema in the second half of the 20th century. On exhibition are numerous documents, letters, photos, drawings, newspapers, and film installations of the ...

For the first time in Europe, the Galerie argus fotokunst presents photographs by master photographer Ken Heyman on the history of Pop Art. Ken Heyman (born 1930) accompanied the artists of the Pop Art movement in America in their early ...

Chile 1971, on a cold winter evening on the outskirts of Santiago, men, women, and children are teeming in an abandoned lot, measuring packages, hammering border stakes into the ground, erecting their first makeshift huts. During President Salvador Allende’s ...

Bonkers – A Fortnight in London, shot in London in June of 2013, is the title of the latest series by the French artist Bettina Rheims. The complex body of work is the result of the artistic creativity of Bettina Rheims ...

Israeli Ohad Matalon, born in 1972, is a well-established photographer who teaches at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In his ongoing project The Zone, Matalon doggedly investigates Israel’s political and geopolitical issues by exploring the ...

Working with extended exposures, Michael Wesely has primarily emphasised social and urban processes in his work. However, in his new series, Another Pencil of Nature – Part 2, he makes reference to the beginnings of photography in the 19th century. Using ...

SOWIESO (Anyway) presents works by the graduating class of Eva Bertram; it is the first of two consecutive degree exhibitions by students of The New School for Photography Berlin scheduled for the fall of 2014.
Over a period of one ...

For almost 40 years, photographer Barbara Metselaar Berthold has been collecting pictures that have accompanied her life like an imaginary museum, particularly in the context of historical transformation. Having come of age in East Germany’s dreary socialist dictatorship, the ...

The focus of Katrin Korfmann’s new work group is on collective rituals that blur individual identity and connect people to their community. The ‘magical moment’ invoked here reveals the presence of a ritual in which people form a larger ...

Diepensee has disappeared. In 2005, the small town in Brandenburg with a little more than 300 residents had to make way for the expansion of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport. Today, the majority of the residents live in Neu-Diepensee, the newly established ...

In the exhibition, we can see the western sector of Berlin shortly after the Wall was built, for instance the Märkisches Viertel. The cornerstone to this ambitious construction project was laid in 1963, when large sections of the inner ...

In the 1970s, the divided city of Berlin was an urban landscape teeming with contrasts. Europe was separated in political blocs, and a reunified Germany or a united Europe were no more than pipe dreams. Siebrand Rehberg’s black-and-white street ...

A sea change has emerged in the Belarusian art scene: young artists have shed the obedience to Soviet-era authority and are now making their critical voices heard. With its 1994 exhibition Photography from Minsk, the ifa-Galerie Berlin provided early insight ...

Bernauer Straße is the site of the ‘memory of the West’, as Karl-Ludwig Lange put it. The street was divided in two when the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. A few hundred metres away as the crow flies ...

The Gdańsk Shipyard was the birthplace of the Solidarność labour union. Founded in 1980, it would give rise to the democratic movement in Poland and contribute to the fall of the Eastern Bloc. Since then, many of the shipyard’s ...

This unique artistic experiment by Mariusz Kubielas, inspired by the literary and graphic work of the Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, started in 2004. Kubielas began staging Schulz’s works in performances and pantomimes together with a group of models and ...

For over 20 years, Marc Grümmert and Knut Wolfgang Maron have been working on photographic images that view urban and rural areas in a changed way. Proceeding from a New Subjectivity, the two artists interpret space and its elements ...