Berlin Photography

Exhibition 4

Jan-Erik Ouwerkerk, Frank Silberbach, Silvia Sinha, Stephanie Steinkopf

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 has undergone over the past 25 years. While Ouwerkerk depicts small absurdities and poetic moments in everyday Berlin life today, Silberbach’s panoramic photographs expand our view of people in their transformed urban environment. Sinha has an eye for the preservation of architectural history; her abstract pictorial language also traces the external signs of change and transformation. In contrast, Steinkopf connects people’s individual biographies to the changes that have taken place on the grounds of a former brewery in her neighbourhood, demonstrating the way in which each is contingent upon the other. As a whole, the exhibition series clearly shows that following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the city was and remains an important point of departure for change, utopia, and the other Europe.