ineffably female

female artists. Photographed by Angelika Platen

Angelika Platen

Angelika Platen, who has been successful as an international art photographer for the past fifty years, has dedicated the series in this exhibition to feminine energies in the visual arts. To Platen’s mind, emphasizing their formal and thematic diversity is a logical consequence of the growing number of creative women in the arts. Drawing on her analogue black-and-white portraits from the 1960s, to which she has remained true even with a new generation of artists fifty years later, the sensitive photographer is now showing digital color portraits of women from many national backgrounds active in all artistic fields and based for the most part in Berlin, the current hub of the art world. Whether in color or black and white, the leitmotif throughout this art of photographic portraiture is a unifying view of both person and work, as well as the artists’ playful relationship to their chosen environment. At the time Angelika Platen began working with Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, the art world was still largely male-dominated. With “selectively feminine,” Galerie Michael Schultz documents how far the world has come since.