She chronicled Berlin’s post-war and theatre life. A photojournalist for the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, whose first issue of 1945 carried the headline ‘Berlin comes to life!’, Eva Kemlein’s images of survivors – as a Jew, she herself had made ...

Empty swimming pools, abandoned streets and playgrounds: Charles Johnstone’s first major photo project Havana (2006) shows us unusually still moments in this otherwise bustling Cuban metropolis. An autodidact, Johnstone dedicated the five series that followed entirely to his hometown ...

The photo exhibition Filmriss (blackout) brings together fourteen positions that illuminate the term in all its diversity, ranging from the concrete to the abstract/metaphorical. Stories are told with wrecked pictures at the end of analogue film sequences; the works ...

The exhibition by the Berlin-based photographer Dagmar Gester presents photo still lifes of things people took with them while fleeing their homes. Her works reduce the image to the essentials of the loss of homeland and identity, and she focuses ...

The photographs in the exhibition feature old or abandoned shops and factories in the northwest of Ireland. Photographer Heike Thiele and author Winifred McNulty documented these places in the form of interviews and long-exposure photographs between 2008 and 2012. Most ...

This work-in-progress defines itself as museological research and sheds light on the everyday reality and more remarkable moments in the life of a work of art. Since July of 2016, the Gemäldegalerie Berlin presents a major exhibition on the ...

The photographic theme and location of this year’s BFF Triebwerk exhibition form a close symbiosis: reduction. In the landmarked Kant Parking Palace in Berlin-Charlottenburg, a masterpiece of New Objectivity, 56 BFF photographers from Berlin and Hamburg present works representing ...

In October of 2015, the German photojournalist and ARD author Martin Gerner, widely experienced in crisis situations, was one of the few independent reporters to document the armed conflict between Kurdish fighters and the Erdoğan government over Diyarbakir. Loss and ...

The present time envelops each of us almost automatically in an individually determined number of photographs while we proceed through our identities across various media. Our being, then, is visually accompanied by a swarm of largely spontaneous ‘clicks’ that continually ...

Danila Tkachenko’s project Restricted Areas is about the human impulse toward utopia, about our striving for perfection through technological progress. We’re always trying to own more than we have – it is the principal catalyst for progress.
For Restricted ...

Along the German B96 highway, which leads through the eastern part of the country, from Zittau to Rügen, the photographer Josef Wolfgang Mayer explores the German provinces of today. Houses, cars, plazas, signs, paths, fields and trees form references ...

In the context of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2016, IMAGO presents works from the beginnings of the IMAGOgramm in the Kunstraum at Moritzplatz, curated by Susanna Kraus.
A selection of vintage prints that the inventors and builders of ...

The exhibition shows how Georg Nickel, DChE, the son of a farming family, discovered the world in the 1930s and 1940s, initially with his bicycle in his immediate surroundings, and later with a folding boat paddling along the Rhine and ...

My art practice is dedicated to a process of approaching individual perceptions of reality by considering the construction of language, meaning, identity, memory and emotion while examining the exercise of art-making. This process attempts to define instead of concluding by ...

Under the pseudonym Alice Springs, June Newton worked as a portrait photographer from 1970 on. Her retrospective, originally organized by the Maison Européenne in Paris (MEP) in 2015, will now be shown in Berlin, showcasing numerous portraits and a ...

Bernard Larsson is one of the great unknown photographers of the 1960s. He moved to Paris in 1959 to perfect his work as a fashion photographer with William Klein and Irving Penn. He soon became more interested in street life ...

What might seem to be a moment that would be lost to amateur photographers comes into its own in the work of Lilly Lulay. She examines photography as a technique integrated into our everyday life. Images from the internet, purchased ...

The work Centaurs Project in 2010 markedFlorian Merkel’s return to his photographic roots following a long break during which he worked on various performance and video projects. Centaurs Project 1 picks up on earlier series of landscape photographs; the ...

The exhibition reflects humankind’s increasing efforts around the world to connect urban living with a life closer to nature and frames possibilities of finding oneself beyond the confines of urban existence. The photographers point their lens at situations where ...

For her series Pinstripes (2016), Loredana Nemes took portraits of bank employees working in Frankfurt/Main. Bankers are powerful; for years now their reputation has been in tatters, and they are, without exception, men, at least in the top positions ...

Photogravure is one of the oldest and most haptic ways of transferring photos to paper. A photopositive is brought onto a printing plate by exposing its light-sensitive material through a finely rastered film, resulting in microsopic indentations in the plate ...

In portraits taken in the year 1985 and cityscapes from 1990, Andreas Trogisch, who studied with Manfred Paul, among others, recorded the final years of the GDR, rendering palpable the zeitgeist of a failed political system. Trogisch portrays people in ...

On the occasion of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2016, the Collection Regard presents new works by Thomas Sandberg. About his pictures, he says: ‘I had a few days’ time, and so I bought a plane ticket and flew ...

The negotiation of complementary opposites and extremes – such as exposure and concealment, communication and alienation, rules and chance – are emblematic for Tanja Koljonen’s photographic works. Based on objets trouvés (found objects) and fragments of texts and images as ...

Daniel Tchetchik's photographic series Sunburn deals with his homeland Israel in the months before, during and after the Gaza war in 2014. The photographer uses a dualistic approach; the motifs are shot in two formats as well as in ...

Broken TV screens, violence and squalor, the American civil rights movement – but the glittering world of fashion, too: from the late 1940s to the 1990s, Gordon Parks was a complex and versatile observer of American society. The first photographer to ...

In her latest photographic series Six Degrees of Freedom, Jessica Backhaus investigates universal questions of human existence. Taking her own biography as a point of departure, she asks what it means to know the roots of one’s own existence ...

‘Our daily lives are filled with small miracles that we don’t notice. Being invisible, they are difficult to capture in a photo. Things you can’t see, but they are there: those are the things I want, somehow, to ...

Photography means ‘drawing with light’. Susanne Kriemann regards light as her artistic material. Through temporary ‘lighting’, the nighttime darkness of Körnerpark in Berlin’s Neukölln neighbourhood is transformed. At first, the gallery space is turned into a light ...

After living in Paris for many years, Andréas Lang returned to Germany in 2001 in search of his intellectual roots. He began exploring the effects history and mythology exerted on European landscapes. Following the traces of German Romanticism, he ...

Process presents recent works by Edward Mapplethorpe, in which he continues his investigation of the history of analogue black-and-white photography and photo and chemical processes. In a reference to Ansel Adams and his teachings on the Zone System, Mapplethorpe reduces ...

There is an unmistakable and highly personal inflection in Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s images, emanating from their compact atmosphere and her distinctive way of dealing with shadows and light. The images are characterized by a soft grey scale such that ...

Exploring his mother’s attic, Andréas Lang happened upon the writings and historical photographs of his great-grandfather, who was a member of the so-called Colonial Protection Force in the former German colony of Cameroon from 1909 to 1914. In ...

Danila Tkachenko’s project Restricted Areas is about the human impulse toward utopia, about our striving for perfection through technological progress. We’re always trying to own more than we have – it is the principal catalyst for progress.
For Restricted ...

The Czech photojournalist Jan Šibík is always there with his camera when a political conflict or humanitarian catastrophe occurs somewhere in the world. His remarkable photographs, which have won numerous prizes, document world events of the past twenty years ...

Andreas Gursky has curated an exhibition with works by three of his graduating MFA students at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The works of Anna Vogel, Louisa Clement and Moritz Wegwerth are linked by an experimental approach to photography. Anna Vogel ...

The galleries Feldbusch Wiesner and Jette Rudolph present five artists who work at the interface between photography and sculpture. Today, as smartphones and digital photography offer immediate publication and endless reproduction, a new generation deliberately chooses the handmade approach by ...

Proceeding from her doctoral thesis on the history of the camera obscura, Montserrat de Pablo presents in this exhibition the results of a research project that she carried out at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG ...

Rainer König’s perspective on Berlin is that of a jeweller who never loses sight of the details while creating an ensemble. Taken together, the numerous photographs of buildings, ruins and monuments and particularly the details of facades, doorknobs ...

Bernd Heyden’s photographic vision remains fascinating to this day. Viewers not only experience passers-by from a former time, but gain insights into the living conditions and everyday life in East Berlin of the 1970s and 1980s. Along with people ...

In the Edward Burtynsky Essential Elements exhibit, we present a variety of works from his different series. The exhibit accompanies the release of the book Essential Elements, scheduled for publication by Thames & Hudson in October. The German edition Essenz will ...

This exhibition combines two long-term projects realized over the past decade, presenting an in-depth look at the Caucasus and Ukraine – two former regions of the Soviet Union that have struggled to break away from Russia’s sphere of influence toward ...

Using photography, film, installation and sound, Pola Sieverding’s works explore questions of representation and image production within cultural constructs determined by various different concepts of desire and processes of identification. A recurrent aspect of her work is the portrait ...

With the exhibition close up, Galerie EIGEN + ART offers insight into the work of its artists who work with the broad spectrum of photography in a variety of ways – documentary, painterly, conceptual, digital or analogue.
Themes such as architecture, documentation ...

The title of the exhibition is a reference to a collage by John Heartfield, born 125 years ago, which he made in June 1933. It shows a summit of Western European politicians before a background of a Europe that is ...

The exhibition reconstructs a chapter of the forgotten history of two photographers who emigrated from Germany and Austria. For the Viennese emigrant Gerti Deutsch, Picture Post, the anti-fascist magazine founded by the emigrant Stefan Lorant in 1938, became a new ...

The exhibition presents works by the twelve finalists of the international and venerable 36th Leica Camera AG photography competition. Each year, a high-calibre international jury selects the winners of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer ...

Throughout 1992, the photographer Philipp von Recklinghausen accompanied officers from the police station on Brunnenstraße numerous times during their late shifts through Berlin Mitte. Their patrols through the nighttime streets span everything from prostitutes and pimps, gunslingers and drunks ...

In 2005, Cosmin Bumbuţ started photographing in Aiud Penitentiary in Romania. He spent four years taking pictures there and during this time witnessed all sorts of happy, sad and absurd events. He tried to get close to the inmates and ...

Concrete photography can be understood as an independent branch of the concrete arts. It takes its place alongside other forms, such as concrete painting, concrete music and concrete poetry. At the same time, it’s a subsection of photography in ...

War, violence, terror, murder, homicide – a bloody trail of brutality runs through human history. In every society, conflicts have long been crucial narratives anchored deep in individual and collective consciousness. But how are they documented and disseminated through the media ...

Formations combines art photography and curatorial ideas; it investigates and inquires into the boundaries of what it means to put on an exhibition in the digital age. Within a ‘changing exhibition’ format, the pictures engage in a dialogue of unexpected ...

Latin America has been described as one of the world’s most violent regions. The causes of crime and violence are complex, yet poorly regulated urban zones are usually most susceptible to outbreaks of violence – violence both from above and ...

Max Baur (1898 – 1988) described himself as a ‘light builder’. To his mind, light was the most important formal tool in photography. ‘Photographers can hardly admire anything more than light. Only with light alone do we create images.’ He always ...

Joanna Kosowska explores Paul Virilio’s theory of the formation of military space, travelling around Europe in search of places occupied by the German Wehrmacht during World War II: places where military structures were erected, important sites of warring battles ...

In her series Praesens II Präsens, the German-Polish artist Maja Wirkus investigates how the reception of architecture is subjected to an ongoing process of transformation due to changes in private or social necessities, political systems or fashion: both in ...

As part of a cooperation between the Berlin Art Library of the Berlin State Museums and the Berlin University of the Arts, the jointly conceived series Seen By invites guest curators to exhibit works by students of the Berlin University ...

The exhibition With Different Eyes, sponsored by the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), is curated by Meskerem Assegued from Ethiopia. The young photographer Johannes Haile captured the mood in Germany from a variety of perspectives. His images tell entire stories ...

Oliver S. Scholten has been dedicated to the medium of photography over the past thirty years as an artist and educator, examining its various aspects in virtually every manner possible. His works range from objects and installations that question the ...

Trainsurfing – graffiti – parcour: all executed in disguise and at dizzying heights. Thomas von Wittich’s photo series about the notorious Berlin Kidz feels like we’re watching something we actually should not be seeing. While the mainstream still tries to ...

A strange relation between the visible and invisible can be detected in today’s conflicts. Drones and snipers both strive to remain invisible. In order to exert the largest possible effect, this invisibility is further heightened through the media. An ...

Shortly before the US trade embargo was loosened, Ana Cayuela Muñoz travelled through Cuba. Her encounters with a society isolated by world politics led to a series of photographs that explore the effects economic restrictions have had on human ...

Volcanic rock formations at the seaside, darkest night and burning metal: on the Sicilian coast, Friedrich Gobbesso steps onto an ancient stage, claiming it for his pyrotechnical performance and its photographic documentation. In analogue experiments, the Berlin-based sculptor and photographer ...

Jarvis Dooney is pleased to present one of Australia’s leading contemporary photographers, Polixeni Papapetrou. Exhibited for the first time will be her most recent series Eden juxtaposed with her 2013 body of work The Ghillies. Presented together, these two ...

The themes of my photography are the emotions trapped in the things people create and in the places they leave their mark. The people themselves usually aren’t visible – their presence would be too loud, their gloss too glaring. I ...

Jean-Marie Périer is a photographer of happiness – even of melancholy as well, perhaps, if you view it in a more nuanced way. In his images and portraits of actors and singers of the 1960s, we admire the enduringly present ...

The photographs of Andy Heller, Oliver Krebs and Jan Lemitz peer into the ‘in-between’, exploring places between worlds and offering a surprisingly intimate view of the fragmentations that characterize our time. In Ostersbaum, Andy Heller searches for and finds constellations ...

Landscape photography instils a longing in us. A wooded mountain in the distance, recorded in a photograph, a picture of a rugged coastal stretch make us ask: how would it feel to be there? Our pining gaze collides with a ...

Joy, rage, exultation – there are few places in today’s society where passion is tolerated in as pure a form as in the stadium. Feelings that connect people with one another and with the players in the standing area of ...

KDK (born 1973) is a master of auratic photography, rediscovering concrete architectonic spaces in completely new ways. Out of In presents works from his series W and LU. W (wall/white) demonstrates the space-time relationship as KDK sees it. In ...

The photo series Parno Gras: mukline Evropljanura explores the lives and fates of the Romany in Europe. The work gives rise to social and political questions, not least concerning the refugee status of the Romany.
‘I have always seen art ...

The Berlinische Galerie has one of the most important collections of photography in Germany. As part of the collection’s presentation, it shows Berlin’s contribution to the development of photography through 1980. The exhibition starts with Heinrich Zille’s ...

Berlin-based Galerie Hilaneh von Kories will present the exhibition Portraits. Photographs from the years 2011–2015 by Austrian-born photographer Mario Marino, who presently lives in Germany. The fifteen large-format photographs in colour and black and white provide insight into the ...

Menno Aden is specialized in architecture and spaces. His photographs are by and large unpopulated. And yet the works of the series Room Portraits can be read as portraits of the people living in the rooms photographed. They depict the ...

The world is a stage. In the wings of work and everyday life, against a backdrop of hope and care, we perform our tiny roles in the vast world theatre. Perhaps we’re not aware of the play. Perhaps the ...

Today, when the period has been so mythologized, so pawed over, so scrutinized – both through the filter of nostalgia and the filter of bitter experience (for if the 1960s were a great time to be alive for some people, they ...

Gunnar Smoliansky, 83, is one of the most important Swedish photographers of the post-war era. His artistic work, comprised of analogue black-and-white photography from nearly sixty years, ranges from portraits, landscapes and still lifes to conceptual works that visually explore ...

What is lost identity? Lost identity is taken from you. You claim it back if you accept your true/fake identity. What if those terms do not exist? In the consumer paradigm, true/fake identity terms have lost all meaning ...

‘Fair photography’ is the name photographer Maxim Korotchenko gives to his photographic method, in which he does not directly engage with the persons portrayed or intervene in any way. He remains neutral, almost distanced, and avoids all subjectivity and empathy ...

Three photographers present three decades, three views and three visions of Berlin at its wildest: streets, chaos, art, pop music, the subculture. Everything is forever in motion in Berlin, constantly shifting into ever-new constellations like in no other city in ...

This performative photographic exhibition asks how, in an age of participation, the social and political importance of photographs of Sinti and Romany are newly constructed.
What do you expect when you view images depicting Roma and Romnija? You won’t ...

The exhibition Pavilion is a projection consisting of 32 photographs arranged in a loop that were taken in Kerala, India, in 2015. In this series, Sabine Schründer explores various different emotional states and links them to fragmentary gazes, absent-minded ...

Sigmund Freud gave the name ‘screen memories’ to a particular kind of childhood memory. He distinguished between apparently indifferent and circumstantial childhood memories and those he identified as important and emotionally relevant. In this process, which is due to resistance ...

The exhibition brings together two artists, each of whom harbours doubts about the purely reproductive nature of the photographic image. While Hachmeister found her way via drawing and painting and combined these with photographs, some of which she painted on ...

Eight students of the f/16 School for Photography explore the question ‘Who Am I?’ in a variety of ways. How does personality show itself in an image, and how can it be stylised into an icon? What is a ...

The Unspecific Measurement of Distance presents an area of artistic positions in contemporary photography. Using a drastic and desolate photographic language, Miron Zownir, the ‘poet of radical photography’, articulates the parallel lives of outsiders in a seemingly timeless shadow world ...

As part of the exhibition project deep space one six, a cooperation with the project spaces Kronenboden and uqbar in Schwedenstraße 16, COPYRIGHTberlin presents an exhibition with new works by the Austrian artist Thomas Draschan (Vienna/Berlin).
On view ...

The project StreetProjections brings street photography back to the streets. Different realities from around the world will be displayed by night through projections on the sidewalk of the Kurfürstendamm.
The photographs were selected in an international competition and show ...

Jarvis Dooney, in collaboration with the Australian Embassy Berlin, presents Australian artist James Tylor in his first international solo exhibition. Through his unique multicultural heritage of indigenous Australian, Māori and European ancestry, James explores the concept of racial and cultural ...

Texas, a state where I lived for many years, has the highest number of executions of all democratic nations of the western world. My pictures are inspired by the letters and interviews that those sentenced to death have written on ...

With her portraits and photographs of architecture and objects made during her time at the Bauhaus, Lucia Moholy (1894 – 1989) counts among the most renowned photographers of the early twentieth century. On the other hand, her photographic work from the ...

A camera has its own perception of the night, can penetrate darkness and make things visible that are otherwise invisible to the eye. The exhibition’s five artists explore the phenomenon of night and attain to new planes of consciousness ...

The Berlin Foto Biennale 2016 is also the 4th edition of the Biennial of Fine Art and Documentary Photography. After Madrid, Buenos Aires and Malaga the curated photo show comes to Berlin to offer emerging and esta­blished artists from ...

The photographic theme and location of this year’s BFF Triebwerk exhibition form a close symbiosis: reduction. In the landmarked Kant Parking Palace in Berlin-Charlottenburg, a masterpiece of New Objectivity, 56 BFF photographers from Berlin and Hamburg present works representing ...

In October of 2015, the German photojournalist and ARD author Martin Gerner, widely experienced in crisis situations, was one of the few independent reporters to document the armed conflict between Kurdish fighters and the Erdoğan government over Diyarbakir. Loss and ...

get round presents both melancholic and life-affirming everyday scenes from Cuba (Ana Cayuela Muñoz) and Serbia (Alen Đozgiċ). The works offer photographic insight into two societies that are far apart from one another, but nonetheless correspond in terms of ...

The photographs in the exhibition feature old or abandoned shops and factories in the northwest of Ireland. Photographer Heike Thiele and author Winifred McNulty documented these places in the form of interviews and long-exposure photographs between 2008 and 2012. Most ...

The present time envelops each of us almost automatically in an individually determined number of photographs while we proceed through our identities across various media. Our being, then, is visually accompanied by a swarm of largely spontaneous ‘clicks’ that continually ...

Although the photographic works of Laurianne Bixhain and Carole Melchior arise separately, they share a common visual sensibility and materiality, which come together to form a coherent whole in the framework of this exhibition. Through a creative approach to photography ...

The exhibition shows how Georg Nickel, DChE, the son of a farming family, discovered the world in the 1930s and 1940s, initially with his bicycle in his immediate surroundings, and later with a folding boat paddling along the Rhine and ...

30 years after Tschernobyl, the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain and Danila Tkachenko combine efforts to reconsider their common socialist heritage.
The exhibition at Fotogalerie Friedrichshain will present a deeper perspective on the Restricted Areas series, complementing it ...

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