Parallel to the central exhibition of the 6th European Month of Photography Berlin – MemoryLab: The Sentimental Turn. Photography Challenges History, workshops for school classes are offered from Oct 17 – Dec 15, 2014.

We are pleased to offer guided tours to Aino Kannisto's exhibition Hotel Bogota twice a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning at 3 p.m. 

Contingent on sufficient interest. 

Languages on offer are English, Spanish, Danish, and German – please indicate ...

Ulrich Domröse (Head of the Photography Collection, Berlinische Galerie) talks with photographers Heidi Specker and Tobias Zielony on the theme of “conflicts”.

Frank Wagner (curator MdF Berlin) in conversation with the artist Nan Goldin about her work Scopophilia.

Tanzperformance der Gruppe Die Tenzer zum Ausstellungstitel Strategien der Macht, mit anschließender Finissage.

Arwed Messmer (born 1964) narrates history in his photographs. In his current work, he once again embarks on a search for the remaining traces of the past, casting an artistic eye at the visual legacy of East Germany’s secret ...

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 ...

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 ...

Europe is closely tied to the issue of its borders and their accessibility to people escaping crisis-torn regions. Is this alleged freedom anything more than just a touristic appendage to the European human rights model? Sprechsaal presents three photographic positions ...

Travellers know that feeling of dislocation all too well – when they wake up in the morning in a foreign place and, for a moment, find themselves wondering where they are. The disappearance of external boundaries, coupled with an increase in ...

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 ...

Yamandú Roos embarked on a series of fifteen journeys across Europe between 2005 and 2012. From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, from Paris to Moscow, Roos’s photographs give voice to a highly personal search for magic in everyday encounters with ...

With her photo series Journal implicite (2008–2012), Lydia Flem presents a veritable reinvention of portrait photography. She uses various different objects to represent her personal history: for instance the illness that she overcame, the history of her parents, who ...

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 ...

Carine and Elisabeth Krecké visited abandoned military installations located on the northern coast of Galicia (Spain). The batteries, bunkers, and anti-aircraft bases were operational during a large part of the 20th century, including the Franco era. After demilitarization in the ...

On Potsdamer Platz, the traces of history carry into the present day. At the beginning of the 20th century it became a symbol for big-city life and a meeting place for all nationalities; following World War II it acted as ...

From the late 1950s on, Wolfgang Schröter (1928–2012), a native of Wolfen, Germany, worked closely with the advertising department of the camera film production facility VEB AGFA Filmfabrik Wolfen (laterORWO Wolfen). His photographs could be found in ads ...

Tell Him it is All a Transition is a quote from a letter that Joachim Froese’s German grandfather sent home as he went to join the Eastern Front in 1944. The theme of transition carries as a leitmotif throughout ...

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 ...

Europe appears as a great vision that is difficult to comprehend in an abstract or individual way. Places that once testified to Europe’s cultural and economic growth present themselves today as sites of soullessness in a bleak ‘concrete aesthetic ...

The Ostkreuz School of Photography is part of the photographers’ agency Ostkreuz, one of Germany’s most important internationally renowned photography agencies. After three and a half years of studying, the eighth graduating class of the Ostkreuz School presents their ...

The exhibition presents photographs by German documentary photographer and photojournalist Günter Zint. Stern magazine contracted Zint on November 9, 1989 to take photos for a special edition featuring the opening of the East German border. While many of his ...

On his bicycle, with his Linhofcamera in his bag, Stéphane Lelarge travels through European capitals in search of people living in an unconventional manner. Along the way, he finds remote places that give off an air that is both ...

BABEL – Linguistic confusion, loss of communication, talking at cross-purposes. Global movement creates a conglomeration of cultural, social, and economic differences. Is a common language possible without destroying multiplicity?
Barbara Töpper-Fennel photographed and interviewed youths living in Berlin about their ...

The fourth exhibition in a series of eight group exhibitions on the subject of ‘City and Street Photography in Berlin’ is taking place as part of MdF Berlin. The photographers each present their individual take on the radical changes Berlin ...

'Man does not need society at all, it’s society that needs man. Society is an invention that offers protection and secures survival. But unlike the herd animal, man must live alone – in nature among animals and plants.' – Andrey Tarkovsky ...

Drilling rigs and chimneys, enveloped in spider webs and shattered glass. The Thälmann memorial as a monumental cardboard model, scored with the traces of time even before the bronze Thälmann was cast. In 1982, Betina Kuntzsch photographed the ...

A young girl standing in front of an illuminated bus stop advertisement gazes into the dark of the night. She’s not a model; instead of a mid-sized car, the ad shows a group of Roma.
In his photo piece ...

Mass student protests, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, young people running with flags, their mouths in motion, their eyes laughing: a world caught in a whirlwind of change. Juxtaposed: masses of people pressed against the cordon, older Berliners, tense facial expressions, posters ...

Trovai in una valigia dimenticata da tempo, le foto di un fim, Salambò, di un mio antico parente, non saprei dire di che vicinanza. Le foto furono un turbine, e vidi Flaubert e la sua eccessiva, descrittiva e magnificente Salamb ...

Gallery Taik Persons is highly pleased to present the exhibition Hotel Bogota with previously unseen works from Aino Kannisto’s series of the same title. In 2012, Kannisto was invited by Joachim Rissmann, manager of the Hotel Bogota in Berlin ...

What would photography between indifference and difference be like? Sixteen graduates of the bachelor program in photography at the Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg in Sweden explore this question.
In a time of exhaustion, art photography is capable of acting ...

As part of its annual A Random City programme, A trans presents two exhibits that spark an intercultural dialogue about visions of urban and landscape space. Taking traditional residential modes and lifestyles in the metropolis of Istanbul as his example ...

In her photography, Elisabeth Czihak has been investigating the remaining traces of abandoned places for many years. A three-month sojourn in Česky Krumlov in the Czech Republic gave rise to a series of photographs that speak of political utopias, their ...

TheOffenbach University of Art and Design/Satellit Berlin presents new works by its Berlin students. The artists in residence are granted the opportunity to live, work, and exhibit in the Berlin Satellite for four weeks. Their exhibition Mini Europe ...

The exhibition Nostalgia by Israeli artist Benyamin Reich builds bridges over the chasms separating an irretrievable past and European modernity. With the Holocaust, Orthodox Jewish life in Central Europe perished together with its austere world of ritual and mores. It ...

What colour does snow have when the landscape seems to consist of nothing else? How can invisible things be visualised, such as the disappearance of the permafrost? The artist duo SpringerParker places the arctic landscape at the centre of their ...

In his work Offenes Buch (Open ReSource), Ingo Gerken focuses on historic and contemporary works of photography. Gerken creates arrangements from photographs taken in the reading rooms of universities and art libraries over the course of several years. Operating at ...

Since 2006, Eva Leitolf has been searching Europe’s outermost borders for places where the larger issue of migration manifests itself in concrete conflicts on an individual level. The locations documented by the artist in the course of her ongoing ...

The history of Iceland is a long and adventurous saga. The settlement of the island is generally believed to have begun in the second half of the 9th century, when Norse settlers migrated across the North Atlantic; a shortage of ...

In the exhibition Review, the artists Charlotte Bastian, Simone Häckel, Karen Linnenkohl, Christine Niehoff, Mariel Poppe, Claudia Schoemig, Annette Sonnewend, and Linda Weiss take a critical look at the borders of the European Union; as they inquire into the ...

Each year, tens of thousands of people make the pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Częstochowa in Poland. The monastery on the Bright Mount, situated in the middle of the city, is more closely tied to the Polish nation than ...

Renaissance and Baroque portraiture represents an initial step in the development of modern portraits all over Europe. It is closely linked to the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the renunciation of dogma in favour of science, reason, and the individuality of ...

The exhibition Transitions presents three work groups by Ulrich Wüst that narrate history. A cool observer of his time with a contentious relationship to social and political contradictions, Wüst shoots his photographs in Berlin, Magdeburg, and Cologne – three ...

The relationship between master and pupil is fraught with tension in all art forms. While the master often secretly wishes that his or her style will live on in the works of his/her pupils, the latter often experience a ...

All European states want to achieve freedom and prosperity. In his photographic work, Frank Gaudlitz responds to this utopia with images of people in their everyday lives in Eastern Europe along the Danube River: people from rural areas unspoilt by ...