The 6th European Month of Photography opens in Martin Gropius Bau! Opening at the same time is the central exhibition MemoryLab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History (Oct 17 – Dec 15, 2014).

Dutch star photographer Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken and unnoticed. His stylised and savvy scenarios address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises with a skilful aesthetic in order to unsettle the viewer.

On the ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, artists, punks, anarchists, squatters, and visionaries discovered the no-man’s-land behind it. Unbridled creativity was unleashed in the free spaces among the crumbling façades of old buildings. A variety of clubs, bars ...

The exhibition presents four photographers who have embarked on a search for Europe’s intrinsic nature. None of them explicitly addresses Europe, yet the question of a possible European identity can be perceived in all of their works.
In the ...

‘If we stay here, we remain visible – which gives us the power to make a difference politically. If we leave Oranienplatz, then we’ll become invisible once again.’
For the exhibition The European Dream – Selfies from Oranienplatz, refugees who formerly ...

Katharina Pöhlmann recently completed a photographic project addressing the changes in the former thriving industrial cities in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. It’s an area in which you clearly sense the differences between rich and ...

Four young photographers explore the theme of change in a group exhibition, whereby change always entails other dimensions as well: temporal, spatial, historic, and social.
Taking photographs of an East German citizen as her departure point, Annekatrin Weiße embarks ...

Excursus presents four different positions by young photographers working on the borderline between artistic and documentary photography. The works comprise part of the first edition of FOG Magazine and are exhibited for the first time.
In Never Back, Roman Kutzowitz ...

How do photographers and artists today represent historical events, defining cultural characteristics and the changes they undergo, and social relations? How is memory formulated, and how do we resist forgetting?
Over the past two decades, a type of photography has ...

The protagonists in Georg Krause’s photographs don’t come from the world of the rich and beautiful. These are the people that can be found to the left and right on the street, people he portrayed in East Germany ...

The current conditions of Berlin’s three airports are all completely different: there is Tegel, which is still in operation; Tempelhof, which has been taken out of service and is now used for various purposes; and the Berlin–Brandenburg Airport ...

Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken. His stylized and skilfully quoted visual worlds address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises aesthetically in order to unsettle the viewer.
Bar Barbette showcases the series Fall (2008), which ...

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 ...

In Switzerland, Monique Jacot is viewed as a reporter, a realist, and a rebel, which sums up the artistically and politically committed photographer rather aptly. Born in Neuchâtel, Jacot started with freelance contract work for international magazines such as ...

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Founded in 1915, the Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission documented the language and music of foreign soldiers held captive in German POW camps. With approximately one thousand original wax cylinders, Berlin’s Phonograph Archive in the Ethnological Museum is the most ...

We find power as a dynamic process in all parts of life, be it in our profession, society, or personal relationships. Particularly in times of turmoil, power relations and strategies must be constantly renegotiated. In art, we discover power both ...

Since 2009, in addition to curating exhibitions, InteriorDAsein has been active as an independent project space for the interchange of artists from Europe, Russia, and the Caucasus region.
The Story of the Other examines perspectives on European history and their ...

On the occasion of the European Month of Photography, and in cooperation with LORIS – Gallery for Contemporary Art in Berlin, the Vienna-based EIKON – International Magazine for Photography and Media Art will carry out what is, in many respects, an artists ...

Ute Mahler (born 1949) and Werner Mahler (born 1950) were key figures of East German photography; after the fall of the Berlin Wall, they founded the Ostkreuz Agency and the Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin. In summer 2014, Hamburg ...

American painter, printmaker, graphic designer, and conceptual artist Kermit Berg (born 1951) has focussed on digital photography since the 1990s. His works in series are made in very small editions and often as original pieces.
In Wohlstandstraum / Nuclear Family, inspired ...

The exhibition enroute presents works that collectively address the subject of becoming. These are photographs about social, personal, or topographical development, in the course of which the situation as it exists is reflected upon and considered anew, discarded, or discontinued ...

Fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, artists Daniel & Geo Fuchs traveled through eastern Germany to visit places that were used by the Stasi, the East German Ministry of State Security.
Their pictures offer insight into Stasi mechanisms ...

While solemnly pacing towards the future with heavy steps, Berlin had to free itself from a long, complex, and often uncomfortable past. At a crossroad between historical landscapes and the site of radical changes, the city manifests the ideological and ...

World renowned Irish visual artist Kevin Abosch presents a series of photographic portraits whereby each citizen is manifested within a curated artistic body of work as an individual, a representative of the citizenries of Germany and Ireland, and a mirror ...

The urge to defy convention, the struggle with society and state authority, the decision in favour of autonomous presentation: the pictures embody the desires, hopes, and anxieties of young people – as emotional moments and analytic surveys, as statements of sentiment ...

The series The Gate Is Open depicts people at various different locations in East Berlin. The motif of the TV Tower can be found in the background of each photograph. Karl-Ludwig Lange photographed the city after the fall of the ...

Katharina Pöhlmann recently completed a photographic project addressing the changes in the former thriving industrial cities in the province of Liège in Wallonia, Belgium. It’s an area in which you clearly sense the differences between rich and ...

Ara Güler (born 1928) travelled around the world with a Leica in hand, but he paid singular homage to Istanbul, his native city on the Bosporus. His images capturing street life, the hustle and bustle of the big city ...

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, artists, punks, anarchists, squatters, and visionaries discovered the no-man’s-land behind it. Unbridled creativity was unleashed in the free spaces among the crumbling façades of old buildings. A variety of clubs, bars ...

Erwin Olaf’s works depict the unspoken. His stylized and skilfully quoted visual worlds address taboos, social conflicts, and middle-class narrow-mindedness – themes that he disguises aesthetically in order to unsettle the viewer.
Bar Barbette showcases the series Fall (2008), which ...

Excursus presents four different positions by young photographers working on the borderline between artistic and documentary photography. The works comprise part of the first edition of FOG Magazine and are exhibited for the first time.
In Never Back, Roman Kutzowitz ...

The Galerie Springer Berlin presents new works by French artist Georges Rousse. He is not ‘just’ a photographer; he is a draftsman first, then a painter and architect, in that he works in and with space. Georges Rousse uses colour ...

The exhibition presents four photographers who have embarked on a search for Europe’s intrinsic nature. None of them explicitly addresses Europe, yet the question of a possible European identity can be perceived in all of their works.
In the ...

On November 7, 1989, the last demonstration against election fraud took place in East Berlin; that same day, the political leadership of East Germany resigned. Two days later, East German citizens were free to cross the country’s borders – East ...

‘If we stay here, we remain visible – which gives us the power to make a difference politically. If we leave Oranienplatz, then we’ll become invisible once again.’
For the exhibition The European Dream – Selfies from Oranienplatz, refugees who formerly ...

In the long term, even the Ministry of Culture won’t be able to stymie the official application for Karl-Marx-Allee to become a UNESCO World Heritage site – but what can the boulevard actually bequeath posterity? Is it an example of ...

A young man steps onto the tram in order to meet his girlfriend. The young man’s name is Joerg Waehner. His girlfriend’s name is Katrin. It is the year 1981. The fact that the Stasi photographed him and ...