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 ...

Von der Erfindung der Fotografie im Jahr 1839 bis zu ihrer drucktechnischen Reproduzierbarkeit dauerte es eine ganze Weile. Erst in den 1880er Jahren wurde mit dem Rasterverfahren (Autotypie) die Voraussetzung dafür geschaffen, dass Fotografien ins (aufs) Blatt – in Tageszeitung ...

Accompanying the exhibition Urban Worlds by Zsolt Reviczky, Enikö Molnár will hold a workshop on interpretation with artistic means.

Jan-Erik Ouwerkerk, Frank Silberbach, Silvia Sinha, and Stephanie Steinkopf are available for discussion about their photographic work in the rooms of the Carpentier Gallery.

Discussion on the theme of the phenomenology of asylum. Contributions from art, philosophy, photography, mass media, and politics explore the question of how the political can be represented in art through the example of the theme of asylum.

The founding fathers dreamed of a flourishing and united European Union, where a richness of diversity and difference results in tolerance. Several decades quickly pass before we reach the rocky path of the free flow of products, capital, and services ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Black Sea is a geographic area that has always both separated and united cultures and peoples. It is situated in a region where some of the countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, are already members of the European Union ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The term ‘concrete’ describes a movement in photography that deliberately avoids representing outside objects in order to focus exclusively on the intrinsic laws of the photographic image. It makes itself the subject: light, materials unique to photography, its generative processes ...

The theme of the 6th European Month of Photography Berlin – Upheavals and Utopias. The Other Europe – refers to those economies outside of Europe that have rapidly expanding growth rates. They are the new hubs of capitalism in the 21st century ...

Peter Woelck (1948–2010) studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. Following graduation, he worked as a photographer for cultural offices, newspapers, publishers, television, and various larger companies in East Germany. Parallel to the commissioned works, he also ...

Jeanne Fredac’s pictures are testimonies to bygone times. Like a rag collector, she tracks down locations that slipped out of our collective consciousness long ago. Those who know are aware of the places and of the time when these ...

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 ...

Wilhelm Schürmann, born 1946 in Dortmund, is a photographer, professor for photography, and collector of contemporary art. As a photographer, he seeks out his living environment with an eye to the constants of everyday life both in the big ...

Etel Mittag-Fodor (1905–2005) is among those Bauhaus students whose photographs are still largely unknown – despite the fact that these very high-quality works evoke a great deal about the spirit of her times and her very individual sense of humour ...

In September 2013, a group of photography students at the BTK University of Applied Sciences travelled to Pescina, a small town in Abruzzo, Italy. Pescina is the birthplace of the Italian writer Ignazio Silone, whose bestseller Fontamara, published in 1930 ...

Serious and full of longing, their eyes gazing into an imaginary distance, the women seem to be searching for a lost future. Erasmus Schröter doesn’t stage his models; rather, his complex series Komparsen (Extras) focuses on creating universal ...

How does a gay man position himself in the tense arena between intimate and public, personal desire and its expression through behaviour, clothing, and sexual encounters? Consuming what’s on offer in this global fetish scene – at its events, through ...

Berlin is a Perpetuum Mobile through and through; constantly in motion and full of energy, this city never stands still. The Photo Marathon has been photographically recording visible and otherwise palpable social changes in Berlin since 1998. These pictures show ...

How do young people feel about Europe today?
In the early 21st century, the European process of integration is assessed in various ways. Social dislocations in individual member countries, the aftermath of the financial crisis, and red tape act as ...

In the exhibition Überblendung (Eng.: cross-fade), observations on the upheavals in Eastern Europe merge with biographical inquiry. The three positions on view search for traces in the sites of the photographers’ childhoods. Born in the Soviet Union, they emigrated to ...

From the very beginning, photography has played an ignominious role for the Sinti and Roma. As a medium for stereotyping, voyeuristic exoticism, and National Socialist ‘racial research’, it contributes to the phenomenon of antiziganism to this day. In her series ...

'One of the very great artists of recent years.' – The Financial Times

Chilean-born, Hungarian photographer Mari Mahr looks back over an impressive career spanning 40 years. This first major retrospective of her work to be shown in Berlin celebrates her ...

Lucien Clergue (born 1934 in Arles, France) was fostered in his creative work by his friend Pablo Picasso. Clergue is mainly known for his photographs of objects and female nudes. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City showed ...

The Jarmuschek+Partner gallery presents a new series by Leipzig-based photographer Carina Linge titled Theatrum mundi. In this series, the artist portrays a generation of people free to move around the globe and with infinite educational opportunities – but whose confusion ...

Following reunification, Karl-Ludwig Lange portrayed East and West Berlin with two well-known places tourists like to visit. When he chose the Hackescher Markt for a longer-term study in 1991, later investors hadn’t yet made their appearance. Looking at the ...

The traditional notion of city and region as closed entities with clearly delineated characteristics no longer exists. An increase in mobility due to Europe’s integration leads to a weakening of national and cultural borders. Ongoing transnational migration processes bring ...

Karl-Ludwig Lange photographed the south and north of West Berlin shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The series forms a counterpoint to the rest of the photographer’s work, in which depictions of urban life predominate. Berlin-Lichterfelde is ...

In Weißensee, Berlin’s northeast quarter, many of the stores on the main streets are closed today. A hundred years ago, however, small businesses thrived in the area dominated by two-storey architecture from the 19th century.
Among other things ...

In the photo series The City Image 2000, Karl-Ludwig Lange explores five locations in the inner city that stand for the massive changes Berlin’s centre has undergone over the past 20 years. While Potsdamer Platz, Lehrter Bahnhof, Friedrichstraße ...

The decisive moment – in photography, this is what determines everything – a synthesis of knowledge, sensibility, technique, form, chance, and pure intuition. The contact sheet documents not only the birth of a picture, but provides intimate insight into the working process ...

Miklos Gaál (born 1974) is one of Finland’s most important contemporary photographers. His unconventional work has been pushing the limits of photography for many years. The gallery WAGNER+PARTNER also presents videos and a series of silkscreen prints ...

The Black Sea is a geographic area that has always both separated and united cultures and peoples. It is situated in a region where some of the countries, such as Bulgaria and Romania, are already members of the European Union ...

Christine Häuser and Elena Ilina juxtapose altered photographic works from the time of their youth during the Cold War era. In the process, they explore the common stereotypes prevailing at the time on both sides of the Iron Curtain ...

Life pulsates amid urban ruins as the first signs of economic recovery light up the post-war gloom. Despite the radical ideological battles taking place, a youthful feeling of freedom spreads throughout the front city of the Cold War. One decade ...

The exhibition of senior work from the class of Marc Volk, titled SO ODER SO (In Any Case), can be understood as a playful response to the preceding degree exhibition SOWIESO (Anyway).
In the school’s spacious gallery rooms, the ...

Köpenick was and continues to be geographically ‘way out there’. Nonetheless, it is the site of two important urban building ensembles that could hardly be more antithetical. One of these is the kilometre-long Bölschestraße in Friedrichshagen, built ...

Seen from Berlin, Europe may seem modern, stable, and inevitable. Yet anyone looking to the periphery, to the discourses that are mainly economic and rational in tone, to the normative power of the markets, and who then relates these to ...

More than every other war that preceded it, World War I brought about an enormous acceleration in technological development. Photography was also caught up in this propulsion toward modernisation and became an integral component of warfare in myriad ways. Presenting ...

In November of 2013, the Kunstbibliothek of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (National Museums of Berlin) and the Universität der Künste Berlin (The Berlin University of the Arts) began a new cooperation in the Museum für Fotografie ...

Paul Graham's Does Yellow Run Forever? is a series of photographs touching upon the ephemeral question of what we seek and value in life – love, wealth, beauty, clear-eyed reality, or an inner dream world?
The work weaves in and ...

This exhibition, which presents works from three decades, shows the broad range of Karl-Ludwig Lange’s work. The photo series of children’s graves in Alt-Reinickendorf (2004) and garages of East German secret police members in Köpenick (1993) are ...

As in a panning shot in film, Karl-Ludwig Lange takes us from Matthäikirchplatz and the Neue Nationalgalerie to the former Diplomatic Quarter in Berlin. The district arose during the Nazi era in a residential part of the city filled ...

Benno Wundshammer (1913–1987) worked as a local reporter in Cologne. During the war, he was deployed to various air force propaganda companies (PK) as a ‘photo reporter’. From 1942 onward he delivered photo and text reports for Signal, a ...

Erik Niedling is known as a conceptual photographer who focused on disappearance and the ephemeral in several work series. In 2010, his approach embarked on a new direction. Following the completion of the documentary The Future of Art together with ...