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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Perhaps known, but often not present’ is the focus of this group show that addresses the way in which various places and patterns of action are made visible in our society. The seven graduates of Bauhaus University in Weimar pose ...

Pius Fox and Marc Klee address the spatial surroundings of their living realities in very different ways. In the exhibition Dwellers, they capture the two poles of spatial experience with the photographic eye – proximity and distance. In formal terms, however ...

The exhibition provides insights into the East German working world during the last two decades of the GDR, well beyond state propaganda: people at their jobs, taking breaks, in their leisure time – sensitively observed and recorded by renowned photographers in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

a r e a is Claude Horstmann’s third solo exhibition at the Laura Mars Gallery. The exhibition title’s allusion to the question of region and terrain is both an approach and a statement on a theme that affects ...

The exhibition presents a selection of contemporary still life photographs whose spectrum ranges from artfully arranged images of flowers and food to the meaningfully orchestrated image of a darkroom detail. The desire to convey symbolic, philosophical, religious and socially relevant ...

The focus of York Wegerhoff’s photographic ‘short stories’ is nighttime Berlin. His analogue black-and-white series Berlin # keeps the balance between human closeness and urban anonymity, and speaks of the big-city atmosphere as well as moments of silence and desolation ...

Every work of art and every picture possesses its own materiality. But how does this manifest in photography, a medium that usually downplays corporeality and opacity? The exhibition DIS/APPEAR combines seventeen positions that apply diverse strategies to the contrarily ...

This exhibition of three series of works shows the social and political phenomena that have left a mark on everyday life in Israel: the downfall of the first settlers’ utopia, the treatment of the Arab population and the necessary absurdity ...

The exhibition consists of photographs taken during the Mini-Fotomarathon Berlin in the context of Nervous Systems: quantified life and the social question, an exhibition organized by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in collaboration with the Tactical Technology Collective. Nervous ...

Julia Baier presents a new sequential work from 2015 in which she responds to the extremes of the Icelandic landscape: black volcanic rock contrasting with white snow, moss with jagged crags, hot water with cool air. She creates a photographic ...

The tenth graduating class of the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie presents its degree works with approaches ranging from social reportage to fine arts. Over the course of these past ten years, the Ostkreuzschule has offered studies in documentary, journalistic and ...

Gábor Arion Kudász (born in Budapest in 1978) is a Hungarian photographer who graduated with a degree in photography from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest. He is now a lecturer there for the Photography MA programme ...

Cuba: a land of music, dance and constant struggle in the face of everyday adversity, whether it’s a problem of basic food, water and electricity shortages, or the question of how to get from point A to point B ...

The photographer Martin Blume from Landau was honoured posthumously with the Dr Berthold Roland Photo Art Prize in 2015. This prize, originally endowed in 2008 by the Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, was first awarded by the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation in ...

The exhibition Unnecessary Warsaw Correspondent reveals an array of visual material and sources of non-linear events. The small-format photographs, previously glued into notebooks, depict façades, gazes, acts, lines of text and locations for possible scenarios. On the streets of ...

Since 2009, the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (BTK), offers a BA in photography; it has been a regular part of the European Month of Photography Berlin since 2010. For the first time, this year’s exhibition presents the best ...

Forest on a Comet brings together two artists and two attitudes toward the notion of space, home and mobility. Trees and a comet – mapping the space with photographs in different forms and contexts.
Comet represents dynamics and movement, but also ...

Photographed in the outskirts of Moscow, Instant Tomorrow shows how cities lose their character as the distance from the centre grows. Vibrant urban structures give way to huge commercial buildings. People arrange themselves in stereotypical antiseptic apartments like voluntary prisoners ...

The BrotfabrikGalerie presents a show of works by Ursula Kelm. In a variety of atmospheres, Kelm’s photography explores the interplay of duration and transience, with images of water throughout her work carrying varying shades of meaning. Again and again ...

Adriana Lestido is an Argentinean photographer who became known for her socially and politically inspired works, including photographs of women in prison and juvenile mothers. The artist works exclusively analogue and documents the history of Argentina’s young democracy, telling ...

The concept of time and ‘point of view’ play an important role in the artist’s work. In her own words: ‘…I slice apart … rooms, building on the rupture of consumption’; she weaves ‘one photographic space across another’ in her ...

For the first time worldwide, this exhibition presents the second part of the series Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson, offering insights into his extraordinary body of work. In many respects, the term ‘unique’ best describes the people Nelson ...

In this study on the Alps, it’s not only the landscape that’s the subject of interest, but also the role mountains play in human fantasy. Whether cultural tradition or personal experience, childhood memory or commercialization, it’s impossible ...

The group exhibition Studio Bamako forms a dialogue with the tenth edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, the biennial for photography in Mali: In her series Figures, Malala Andrialavidrazana questions the significance of signs and their representation in images – among ...

These works by nine photographers present an array of subjective perceptions and values in the real world of everyday life. Brought together under the title The Invention of the Real, their photo series offer personal views of urgent present-day phenomena ...

with Ulrich Domröse, Curator of Photography

OSTKREUZ is Germany's most successful photo agency led by photograpers. Guests are founding member Harald Hauswald, Sibylle Fendt and Heinrich Holtgreve. They just celebrated the agency's 25th anniversary. The three photographers will talk about their daily routine in ...

Jano Pavlík, Rudo Prekop, Vasil Stanko, Tono Stano, Martin Štrba, Miro Švolík, Kamil Varga, Peter Župník. They met in the early 1980s as students of photography at the Prague film academy FAMU and later became pioneers of the Slovak photography ...