Vernissages
4.09. 7:00 pm
Limes Mundi
Kurt Buchwald
As a maker of images and actions, Kurt Buchwald adopted a sociocritical approach early on that addressed both the mechanisms of image production and image perception and the effects of photography, and inquired into these in critical and ironic ways ...
Galerie Pankow Breite Straße 8 13187 Berlin https://galerie-pankow.de
5.09. 6:00 pm
Nathan Lerner (1913–1997): Photographs
Nathan Lerner
Galerie Berinson presents works by the Chicago-born photographer, painter, and designer Nathan Lerner (1913–1997). Starting in 1937, on the recommendation of Alexander Archipenko, he began visiting the New Bauhaus school, which was founded by László Moholy-Nagy and followed ...
Galerie Berinson Schlüterstraße 28 10629 Berlin www.berinson.de
6.09. 7:00 pm
Seen By #10
Studierende der Universität der Künste Berlin
In November 2013, the Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin and the Universität der Künste began a cooperative project at the Museum für Fotografie. The jointly conceived exhibition series invites one guest curator respectively to present their ...
Museum für Fotografie Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin www.smb.museum/mf
6.09. 7:00 pm
Silence
Gabriela Torres Ruiz
In her project Silence, the photographer Gabriela Torres Ruiz focuses on the aura of abandoned locations. With a fine instinct for the poetic interplay of light, color, and space, she juxtaposes landscape motifs and interior views in diptychs. Her search ...
Galerie im Tempelhof Museum Alt-Mariendorf 43 12107 Berlin www.hausamkleistpark.de
7.09. 7:00 pm
analog
Leo Braun, Eunsun Cho, Hanne Dale, Mercedes Debeyne, Christophe Egger, Susanne Friedel…
As one of the few educational establishments for photography in Berlin, the Neue Schule für Fotografie reserves a special place for analogue photography. At the same time, over the past several years, traditional darkroom work has become increasingly popular ...
Neue Schule für Fotografie Brunnenstraße 188-190 10119 Berlin www.neue-schule-fotografie.berlin
7.09. 7:00 pm
Manhattan Sunday
Richard Renaldi
"Manhattan Sunday" is a personal account of New York nightlife and at the same time an homage to New York as a place of self-fulfillment, a canvas on which people have been projecting their desires, dreams and imaginations for generations ...
Robert Morat Galerie Linienstraße 107 10115 Berlin www.robertmorat.de
13.09. 7:00 pm
Control Illusion
Miriam Böhm, Nadja Bournonville, Jürgen Klauke, Patricia Köllges, Tilman Peschel, Johanna Reich…
The exhibition brings together various pictorial languages in photography. The point of departure consists in descriptions of states in which people and their physical awareness are subjected to observation through a view from inside or outside. The question as to ...
Deutscher Künstlerbund Markgrafenstraße 67 10969 Berlin www.deutscher-kuenstlerbund.de
14.09. 6:00 pm
Photogravure
Elmgreen & Dragset , Thomas Demand, Markus Draper
Niels Borch Jensen’s Copenhagen print studio has been working with photogravure since the early 1990s in order to accommodate contemporary artists’ desire to include photographic material into their work. For the 2018 European Month of Photography Berlin, the Berlin ...
Niels Borch Jensen Gallery Goethestraße 79 10623 Berlin www.nielsborchjensen.com
14.09. 7:00 pm
AM
Andreas Herzau
“AM”, the new series of works by Andreas Herzau, uses the example of Angela Merkel to examine the representation of female power and the relationship between politics and the public sphere. For his photographic investigations, over a period of years ...
f3 – freiraum für fotografie Waldemarstraße 17 10179 Berlin www.fhochdrei.org
14.09. 7:00 pm
Miron Zownir: The Invisible
Miron Zownir
The BrotfabrikGalerie presents photographs by the German-Ukrainian artist Miron Zownir, whose images of Moscow from 1995, shown now for the first time in Berlin, document the hardship of post-Soviet social erosion, when 300,000 people were living on the streets ...
BrotfabrikGalerie Caligariplatz 1 13086 Berlin www.brotfabrik-berlin.de
14.09. 7:00 pm
Rattenhausen
Sabine Wild
I have been photographing cages for ten years for the series Territories. I am interested in an architecture of staged spaces and props that reference nature. Currently, I am focused on cages for rats, which has resulted in this photo ...
Galerie ep.contemporary Pohlstraße 71 10785 Berlin www.ep-contemporary.de
14.09. 7:00 pm
The Potemkin Village
Gregor Sailer
For “The Potemkin Village” (2015–2017), Gregor Sailer (born 1980 in Schwaz, AT) went looking for mock architecture worldwide. The proverbial term refers to the legend that Russian Field Marshall Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin supposedly presented the newly annexed villages in ...
Kehrer Galerie Potsdamer Straße 100 10785 Berlin www.kehrergalerie.com
14.09. 7:00 pm
What is I
Stephan Bögel, Aina Climent, Daniela Djukic, Sonja Irouschek, Alina Simmelbauer, Bastian Thiery
In “Was ist ICH” [What is I], photographers address the curiosity involved in observing oneself, mirroring oneself, recognizing oneself. The show is a loosely interpreted artistic investigation into the age of everyday self-portrayal—the omnipresent communication form of the selfie ...
aff Galerie Kochhannstraße 14 10249 Berlin aff-galerie.de
14.09. 7:00 pm
Yamamoto Masao – Microcosm Macrocosm
Yamamoto Masao
Yamamoto Masao (born 1957) is known for his small-format silver gelatin prints, which he reworks through manual interventions that almost turn them into objects that retain memories of the past. His images express the notion that humanity is only one ...
Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung Auguststraße 75 10117 Berlin www.alfred-ehrhardt-stiftung.de
16.09. 2:00 pm
Earth
Anke Krey
The Südwestkirchhof is one of Europe’s most important graveyards. The old Berlin cemetery contains graves of notable persons and sepulchral art from many centuries. Magnificent tombs and romantic, wild landscapes are coveted motifs, yet the photographer Anke Krey ...
Förderverein Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf Bahnhofstraße 2 14532 Stahnsdorf www.suedwestkirchhof.de
17.09. 7:00 pm
Photo Synthesis
Ricardo de Vicq
“The exhibition concept arose out of the observations and photographic documentation I made of Brazilian flora on a regular basis of Brazilian flora. Their wide variety includes both indigenous plants and those brought here in the colonial era by travelers ...
Brasilianische Botschaft Wallstraße 57 10179 Berlin berlim.itamaraty.gov.br
19.09. 7:00 pm
PACK
Sven Marquardt
Berlin: the birthplace of Tekkno. East & West united, celebrating at seemingly long forgotten places and telling their very own stories.
NO MAN’S LAND!
In the year 2005 I created my first musician portrait with Manuel Göttsching, one of ...
Galerie Deschler Berlin Auguststraße 61 10117 Berlin www.deschler-berlin.de
19.09. 7:00 pm
Staged – Provoked – Analyzed
Kurt Buchwald, Matthias Leupold, Manfred Paul
The exhibition brings together tree different outstanding artistic positions in the medium of photography in the pre-1989 former East Germany.
Staged: Matthias Leupold shows the series Flag Raising Ceremony;
Provoked: Kurt Buchwald shows action photos and rare works of performances ...
Photo Edition Berlin Ystader Straße 14A Galerie, Verlag und Sammlung für Fotografie 10437 Berlin https://www.photoeditionberlin.com
20.09. 7:00 pm
Timeline
Ingo Kuzia, Sabine von Breunig
Two artists, two different positions on the theme of transience and transformation in historically important locations. The works of Sabine von Breunig and Ingo Kuzia go beyond the purely documentary and a surface aesthetic of decay. Between 2008 and 2012 ...
Galerie Historischer Keller Carl-Schurz-Straße 49 13597 Berlin www.galeriehistorischerkeller.de
21.09. 6:00 pm
Equinox
Christian Thompson
Christian Thompson (born 1978, Gawler, South Australia, Bidjara People) is a leading contemporary Australian photographer whose work explores notions of identity, cultural hybridity, and history. In many of Thompson’s photographs, he engages with the process of auto-ethnography. Merging a ...
Michael Reid Berlin Ackerstraße 163 10115 Berlin www.michaelreid.com.au
21.09. 6:00 pm
KAI LÖFFELBEIN
Kai Löffelbein
The irresponsible consumption of limited resources is one of the most urgent problems of the globalized world. Electronic devices have become our everyday companions. While we seem to define ourselves through our computer, smartphone, and tablet purchases, we give very ...
FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph Jägerstraße 5 10117 Berlin www.feldbuschwiesnerrudolph.de
21.09. 7:00 pm
f/5.6
Bogdan Dziworski
In the fall of 2018, the Berlin Galerie Hilaneh von Kories presents the photographic work of the Polish filmmaker and photographer Bogdan Dziworski (born 1941), who is considered one of the most important proponents of avant-garde and experimental film in ...
Galerie Hilaneh von Kories Belziger Straße 35 10823 Berlin https://www.galeriehilanehvonkories.de
21.09. 7:00 pm
The Foreignness in the Self and the Self in the Foreign
Christa Mayer
The psychologist and photographer Christa Mayer is one of the few women who were able to assert themselves in the legendary Kreuzberger Werkstatt für Photographie in the 1980s. In 2017 she took part in a group Werkstatt exhibition at ...
Atelier Kirchner Grunewaldstraße 15 Erster Hof links 10823 Berlin www.andrekirchner.de
21.09. 7:30 pm
Urban Minutes
Robert Herrmann
We’re familiar with it from the fall of the Berlin Wall: everything goes extremely fast, while at the same time, moments are constantly coalescing that literally freeze time through the force of historic importance. On the other hand, recording ...
Fotopioniere Louis@Nicéphore Karl-Marx-Allee 87 10243 Berlin www.fotopioniere.com
25.09. 6:00 pm
Accident & Process
Derek Kreckler
Kreckler’s works span performance, film, photography, installation, and video. He has regularly created tough, insistent imagery that has been at the critical edge of Australian art history and which has provided comment on our country’s past, present, and ...
Jarvis Dooney Galerie c/o Australische Botschaft Wallstraße 76-79 10179 Berlin germany.embassy.gov.au
25.09. 7:30 pm
Bernice Kolko
Bernice Kolko
Frida Kahlo was one of the first artists that Bernice Kolko photographed for her long-term project Women of Mexico. Kolko, two years older than Frieda Kahlo, was born in Poland in 1905. Following her father’s death in 1920, she ...
Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus Stresemannstraße 28 10963 Berlin www.fkwbh.de
25.09. 7:30 pm
Vivian Maier
Vivian Maier
In only a few years, Vivian Maier has risen to become one of the most important American photographers of the twentieth century. While she was alive, she showed her photographs, which numbered more than 150,000 negatives, to no one ...
Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus Stresemannstraße 28 10963 Berlin www.fkwbh.de
26.09. 6:00 pm
Apparent Magnitude
Johan Österholm
Four hundred years ago, everyone in Florence could see the stars, but only Galileo had a telescope. Now almost everyone can access a telescope, but no one can see the stars—light pollution is the reason why. The great majority ...
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery Potsdamer Straße 65 10785 Berlin www.dorotheenilsson.com
26.09. 6:00 pm
sideways
Josef Wolfgang Mayer, Jörg Rubbert
On the road in the United States—in the land of promises, images of which are anchored in the collective memory as icons of the twentieth century, the photographers Josef Wolfgang Mayer and Jörg Rubbert explore provincial America. On ...
Studio Koschmieder Oranienstraße 15 10999 Berlin www.galerie-koschmieder.de
26.09. 7:00 pm
Forms of Remaining
Peter Bialobrzeski, Henriette Kriese, Nina Röder
The exhibition brings together three positions that offer different perspectives on temporary housing, familiar possessions, and homemade shelters. Against the background of the Asian megacities, Peter Bialobrzeski’s works Case study homes and The raw and the cooked portray the ...
galerie burster Berlin Kurfürstendamm 213 10719 Berlin www.galerieburster.com
26.09. 7:00 pm
Golden Hearts
Sibylle Bergemann, Martin Parr
“Golden Hearts” contrasts select black-and-white photographs from the series Clärchens Ballhaus (1976) by Sibylle Bergemann and Yate’s Wine Lodges (1983) by Martin Parr. The bar as one of the oldest institutions of everyday life is a space of ...
Loock Galerie Potsdamer Straße 63 10785 Berlin www.loock.info
27.09. 6:00 pm
Freak
Lena Amuat & Zoë Meyer, Irwin Barbe, Tina Enghoff, Romeo Grünfelder, Birgit Jürgenssen, Tina Lechner…
What “Freak” means: “Freak” inquires into the human, into humane behavior and its expression. “Freak” does not seek to judge or label; it merely observes. We embark on a journey into the humanly possible—we mean “manmade freak.” At the ...
Codex Berlin Greifenhagener Straße 43 EG/GF 10437 Berlin www.codex-berlin.com
27.09. 7:00 pm
Between the Films—A Photo History of the Berlinale
Gerhard Kassner, Heinz Köster, Mario Mach, Fumiko Matsuyama, Erika Rabau, Christian Schulz…
Press photographers have accompanied, documented, and even interpreted the Berlin International Film Festival from the very start. The Deutsche Kinemathek archives a number of photographic estates, whose lenses have focused primarily on the social side of film events in Berlin ...
Deutsche Kinemathek Potsdamer Straße 2 10785 Berlin https://www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
27.09. 7:00 pm
Ping without Pong—Gesture without Response
Sylvia Henrich, Stefanie Seufert
Sylvia Henrich’s new works largely operate on digital terrain. Misdirected or deliberately rendered out of control at specific junctures, computer technology is the medium that generates the image, where subjectivity meets autocorrect. In Stefanie Seufert’s works, aesthetic signs ...
COPYRIGHTberlin Schwedenstraße 16 13357 Berlin www.copyrightberlin.de
27.09. 7:00 pm
Sabine Groschup - Paul Albert Leitner
Sabine Groschup, Paul Albert Leitner
The traveling exhibition focuses on the photographic self-portrait from an artistic perspective. It deliberately follows in the wake of mass-media self-preoccupation, without directly addressing this theme. Accordingly, it unites individual and self-presentations by two Austrian artists with national and international ...
Österreichisches Kulturforum Berlin Stauffenbergstraße 1 10785 Berlin www.kulturforumberlin.at
27.09. 7:00 pm
Searching for God
Remus Țiplea
Remus Țiplea spent the last seven years documenting the spiritual lives and rituals of the largest religious groups in northwestern Romania (Orthodox, Catholic, Pentecostal, Protestant, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Seventh-Day Adventists).
This large-scale documentary endeavor was especially challenging for the ...
Rumänisches Kulturinstitut Berlin Reinhardtstraße 14 10117 Berlin www.rki-berlin.de
27.09. 7:30 pm
Unembellished—People, Movements, Cityscapes
Heiner Bernd, Nanette Fleig, Florian Günther, Ann-Christine Jansson, Ursula Kamischke, Siebrand Rehberg…
A shroud of gray and the smell of coal are history: Friedrichshain–Kreuzberg is hip and colorful, and the changes that have taken place over the past three decades have been fast and challenging. Reason enough to present for the ...
FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum Adalbertstraße 95A 10999 Berlin www.fhxb-museum.de
28.09. 11:00 am
On Travel
Rémy Markowitsch
The processes of defoliation and transillumination are defining aspects of Rémy Markowitsch’s artistic approach. Driven by specific biographies and literature, the artist reveals his research results in photographic transilluminations. Just as the radiology term describes, the respective motif ...
Galerie Eigen + Art Auguststraße 26 10117 Berlin www.eigen-art.com
28.09. 6:00 pm
a primo ad extremum
Carina Linge
Objects that have a personal, non-material value due to their history, their uniqueness, or an emotional bond can be found in almost every apartment. Often they are presented like little treasures, as both showcased item and individual memory object.
Against ...
JARMUSCHEK + PARTNER Potsdamer Straße 81a 10785 Berlin www.jarmuschek.de
28.09. 6:00 pm
Dieter Hacker – political photography (1974–1981)
Dieter Hacker
In the 1970s, the artist Dieter Hacker (born 1942), chiefly known as a painter today, experimented heavily with amateur photography as an artistic and political medium. Together with Andreas Seltzer, he published the magazine Volksfoto. Zeitung für Fotografie (People ...
Bröhan-Museum Schloßstraße 1A 14059 Berlin www.broehan-museum.de
28.09. 6:00 pm
FOUND
Ingar Krauss, Sarah Straßmann, Ulrich Wüst
Works of three photographers are shown together under the title “FOUND”. For many years, Ulrich Wüst has been working with found objects that he discovers at home, on the grounds around his house, or in his garden. From the ...
Sandau & Leo Galerie Tucholskystraße 38 10117 Berlin www.sandau-leo.de
28.09. 6:00 pm
Recording the medicinal plants of Siwai, Bougainville
Kate Robertson
This photographic series documents medicinal plants from the Siwai region on Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea) at a time of significant change in its cultural and political landscape. It considers new photographic modes for sensitively engaging with deep and living ...
Jarvis Dooney Galerie Linienstraße 116 10115 Berlin www.jarvisdooney.com
28.09. 6:00 pm
Wanderer, Observer, and Conveyor
Sanna Kannisto
Gallery Taik Persons is delighted to show Sanna Kannisto’s most recent works, in which she explores the relationship between nature and science. Kannisto uses irony and humor to investigate the concept of truth in photography and to ask how ...
Gallery Taik Persons Lindenstraße 34 10969 Berlin www.gallerytaikpersons.com
28.09. 7:00 pm
Back to the Future
Anna Atkins, Sylvia Ballhause, Karl Blossfeldt, Bownik, Matthew Brandt, Alfred Brothers…
Photogravures of the moon’s surface, botanical studies as blue cyanotypes, and Woodburytypes of portraits: the exhibition
showcases the work of contemporary artists who are using the techniques, methods, and processes of the 19th century photography. Taking inspiration from ...
C/O Berlin Hardenbergstraße 22-24 Amerika Haus 10623 Berlin www.co-berlin.org
28.09. 7:00 pm
Coincidences
Petrov Ahner
Strangers encounter one another every day; they see each other, sometimes through dirty, foggy, rain-streaked, or reflective panes of glass. Until the doors open and their paths cross, one standing in the way or the other stepping aside, after which ...
Carpentier Galerie Meinekestraße 13 10719 Berlin www.carpentier-galerie.de
28.09. 7:00 pm
Nicholas Nixon
Nicholas Nixon
In the summer of 1975, Nicholas Nixon took a picture of his girlfriend, Bebe, and her three sisters. One year later, at one of the sisters’ graduation parties, he took another picture of the four women, and another every year ...
C/O Berlin Hardenbergstraße 22-24 Amerika Haus 10623 Berlin www.co-berlin.org
28.09. 7:00 pm
Quando la felicita non la vedi, cerca la dentro
Jeanne Fredac
The exhibition features a photographic series about Naples begun in 1999 that explores various aspects in the heart of the city. The journey takes us through the old historic center to the buildings of the sixties, such as “Le Vele ...
Wander Atelier Falckensteinstraße 45 10997 Berlin www.jeannefredac.com
28.09. 7:00 pm
THAT’S HOW WE DO IT
Nihad Nino Pušija
Photographer Nihad Nino Pušija has examined the everyday lives of former Yugoslavia’s Roma people, now scattered across Europe, for over twenty years. In “SO IST DAS BEI UNS” (THAT’S HOW WE DO IT), an exhibition showing in ...
Galerie im Körnerpark Schierker Straße 8 12051 Berlin https://www.berlin.de/kunst-und-kultur-neukoelln/kulturorte/galerie-im-koernerpark
28.09. 7:00 pm
Views
Jana Buch, Merle Buck, Lisa Dollhopf, Stefanie Dollhopf, Jorge Garrido, Kenneth Krause…
Fifteen pupils completing a two- or three-year training program in photography present their independently developed projects at their school. The thematic approaches are as varied as the photographic forms used. Documentary material is presented objectively and with the greatest care ...
f/16 Schule für Fotografie Friedrichstraße 217 10969 Berlin www.f16-schule.de
28.09. 9:00 pm
StreetProjections
Joelle Chmiel, Haris Deligiannis, Daniele Esposito, Lars Klingenberg, Oliver Krumes, Heloisa Lodder…
PhotoWerkBerlin brings street photography back to the street. For the third time in a row, this art project in public space makes various living realities from all over the world visible with nighttime projections on the sidewalks of Kurfürstendamm ...
PhotoWerkBerlin Joachimsthaler Straße 10 Joachimsthaler Platz 10719 Berlin www.PhotoWerkBerlin.com/StreetProjections
29.09. 12:00 pm
Part flight, part longing
Herbert List
1936 was a decisive year for Herbert List: one year after the Nuremberg Race Laws went into effect, his private life was a matter of general suspicion. Artist friends such as Erika and Klaus Mann and Andreas Feininger had already ...
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST Fasanenstraße 69 10719 Berlin www.johanna-breede.com
29.09. 1:00 pm
Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler
Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler
The exhibition “Essences. Four Decades of Photographs” features works from Ute and Werner Mahler’s collaborative series Monalisen der Vorstädte (Mona Lisas of the Suburbs, 2011), photographs they shot for the magazine Sibylle, and early works by Werner Mahler ...
Galerie Springer Berlin Fasanenstraße 13 10623 Berlin www.galeriespringer.de
29.09. 6:00 pm
Humans at War
Hosam Katan
Hosam Katan, born 1994 in Aleppo, was only eighteen when he started working as a photojournalist for the Aleppo Media Center during the Syrian Civil War. His evocative pictures of a war-torn city struggling to survive were soon acquired by ...
BENHADJ & DJILALI Galerie Torstraße 170 10115 Berlin www.benhadjdjilali.de
29.09. 6:00 pm
Libuše Jarcovjáková: Black Years
Libuše Jarcovjáková
The photographer’s first solo show in Berlin consists of black-and-white photographs from the years in West Berlin just preceding the fall of the Wall. The enfant terrible of Czechoslovakian photography, Libuše Jarcovjáková (born 1952), also known as ...
Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin Wilhelmstraße 44 Eingang Mohrenstraße 10117 Berlin tzberlin.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
Berlin IV
Susanna Kraus
“I wish for a history of the look. For photography is the appearance of my self as another; a cunning dissociation of the consciousness of identity. ... ” (Roland Barthes) One’s own skin as a mirror of the ego: in another ...
IMAGO Camera Prinzenstraße 85d 10969 Berlin www.imagocamera.com
29.09. 7:00 pm
Birgit Kleber - Order and Obsession
Birgit Kleber
Birgit Kleber looks people squarely in the face, sometimes for minutes on end. And they look back: directly, intensely. It’s a fascinating, immovable intensity of the gaze. Sometimes those being photographed keep their eyes closed, or remain hidden behind ...
Kommunale Galerie Berlin Hohenzollerndamm 176 10713 Berlin www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
Bürgerfeste
Ernst Wilhelm Grüter, Ulrich Grüter, Simon Menner
In their works, the artists Ernst Wilhelm Grüter, Ulrich Grüter, and Simon Menner address ideas of fortification and democracy.
While the autodidact Ernst Wilhelm Grüter’s photographs capture pictures of everyday life in the context of urban ...
Zwitschermaschine Potsdamer Straße 161 10783 Berlin www.zwitschermaschine-berlin.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
But the conditions—that’s not how they are!
Nils Stelte
The Münzenberg Forum Berlin, of which FMP1 is a member, presents the work of the winners of its internationally acclaimed photography competition “But the conditions—that’s not how they are!”as part of the European Month of Photography ...
fmp1 - Franz-Mehring-Platz Franz-Mehring-Platz 1 10243 Berlin www.fmp1.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
Daring to Dream. 50 Years of Hipgnosis
Aubrey Powell, Storm Thorgerson
1968 is considered to be the seminal year of the 1960s cultural revolution. It’s also the year Hipgnosis was born, the legendary British photo design studio run by Aubrey Powell and Storm Thorgerson, which created some of the most ...
Browse Gallery Bergmannstraße 5 1. Etage, Innenhof 10961 Berlin https://browse.gallery
29.09. 7:00 pm
Hotel Tropicana
Alexandra Spiegel
Images and text about the Cuban Revolution of 1953-–59 are the only advertisements allowed in the communist island state of Fidel Castro, whose goal was to found an anti-imperialist country based on Marxism.
Today, most Cubans live from tourism ...
A TRANS Schwedter Straße 34A 10435 Berlin www.esterbruzkus.com
29.09. 7:00 pm
Mansilla
Verónica Losantos
Mansilla is a village in the north of Spain. In 1960, during Franco’s dictatorship, it was evacuated to build a dam. The residents of a village that had been there for generations lost their home. Like a memorial, the ...
pavlov's dog Bergstraße 19 10115 Berlin www.pavlovsdog.org
29.09. 7:00 pm
Michael Carapetian. The glass house.
Michael Carapetian
The Maison de Verre (1931) is a house in Paris built by Pierre Chareau. Its façade, a nontransparent wall of glass, transformed it into an icon of modern architecture. Michael Carapetian’s photographs from 1965, when he spent several ...
Galerie Beate Brinkmann Fasanenstraße 69 10719 Berlin www.beatebrinkmannberlin.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
Pentimenti revisited
Ute Lindner
Six years ago, Ute Lindner created a large-scale cyanotype 39 x 21 feet in size for the Löwenpalais. First, she photographed the window façade of the main exhibition space 1:1; she then replaced the view to the ...
Stiftung Starke Koenigsallee 30-32 Löwenpalais 14193 Berlin www.stiftungstarke.de
29.09. 7:00 pm
Wondelgemse Meersen
Stephanie Kiwitt
Based on the long-term photographic project “Archiv für aktuelles Nichts”, in which he explored the aesthetic of the random and worthless, as well as legacies, Michael Disqué founded the Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts in early 2017 to ...
Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts Graefestraße 91 Hinterhof 10967 Berlin www.kleiner-raum-fuer-aktuelles-nichts.de
30.09. 5:00 pm
„Torture is Not Talked About"
José Giribás Marambio
According to official figures, approximately 40,000 people were incarcerated and tortured as political prisoners during the Pinochet dictatorship. More than 3,200 people were murdered by the state, and 1,132 are still missing.
Chile had around 1,200 ...
Tapir Gallery Neue Hochstraße 8 13347 Berlin www.taktberlin.org
30.09. 6:00 pm
Tbilisi - Recalling the Past
Lisa Fuhr
Germany wasn’t the only country to profit from the fall of the Soviet Union—in the southeastern-most corner of Europe, Georgia was one of the countries to achieve its independence during that tumultuous time. After seventy years as part ...
Atelier Soldina Soldiner Straße 92 13359 Berlin www.koloniewedding.de/atelier-soldina
30.09. 7:00 pm
BOEHMERSislands – OSTR
Äng Anoring, Stefan Baumgärtner, Rudolf Blanke, Enriko Boettcher, Alexander Christou, Frank Darius…
Islands. Photographic reality of astrophysics depicts “islands infinite” for creation in the universal art space—contemporary outdoors.
BOEHMERSislands—art in the existing now. The programmatic focus is on private public life—closed open culture out there,
where we are contemporary ...
BOEHMERS Oranienstraße 1-200 10999 Berlin islands.boehmers.eu
30.09. 7:00 pm
In Search of Existing Time
Lena Szankay, Rolf Zöllner
The exhibition shows images of Berlin taken immediately after the Wall came down, right in the here and now. The two photographers’ works speak not of nostalgia, but of a great curiosity coming from two people, with very different backgrounds ...
Galerie WOYY Gustav-Müller-Straße 15 10829 Berlin www.woyy.de
1.10. 7:00 pm
Marwan Tahtah, Beirut, Libanon
Marwan Tahtah
Aleppo in black and snow
In oppressive black-and-white photographs, Marwan Tahtah (born 1981 Beirut) documents everyday life in the war-torn city. Two million people once lived here. “The weeping child walks barefoot in the chilling cold, he crosses his city ...
a|e GALERIE Charlottenstraße 13 14467 Potsdam www.ae-galerie.de
1.10. 7:00 pm
personal theater
Simon Annand, Katerina Belkina, Hardy Brackmann
The exhibition probes the boundaries between human identity and role-playing. Simon Annand photographs actors in their dressing rooms, a physical space of concentration and privacy. He is a quiet observer in the countdown of the last thirty minutes before it ...
Galerie Z22 Zähringerstraße 22 10707 Berlin www.galerie-z22.com
4.10. 6:00 pm
Architecture and Landscape in Norway
Ken Schluchtmann
The exhibition shows a selection of photographs by Ken Schluchtmann, who has documented the ongoing project of Norway’s national tourist routes over many years. The project was initiated in 1994 and is to be completed in 2024. It combines ...
Felleshus der Nordischen Botschaften Rauchstraße 1 10787 Berlin www.nordischebotschaften.org
4.10. 6:30 pm
Solo Work
In her photo series “Solo Work”, Bernadette Keating shows the traces of human labor in an urban environment—labor that has been subjected to an ongoing process of transformation. In an interplay between realism and abstraction, objects are transformed into ...
Botschaft von Irland Jägerstraße 51 10117 Berlin https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/Germany
4.10. 7:00 pm
BORDERLine
Stefan Boness, Pierro Chiussi, Robert Conrad, Chiara Dazi, Daniela Finke, Dagmar Gester…
Borders: on maps, in the mind, in the soul, between neighbors, between countries. Borders as the fine line of transition, visualized by seventeen photographers of FREELENS e.V. Almost all FREELENS photographers originally come from journalism, the print variety of ...
Salon Wellenmaschine Wassertorstraße 62 10969 Berlin www.diewellenmaschine.com
4.10. 7:00 pm
Glazial-Kosmogonie
Josée Pedneault
“Glazial-Kosmogonie” is a multi-element installation. The various images are not what they purport to be; they invite the viewer to question the nature of what they see. The installation combines photographs with extracts of historical materials to examine constructs of ...
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Kottbusser Straße 10 10999 Berlin www.bethanien.de
4.10. 7:00 pm
The Sky over Berlin
Heike Franziska Bartsch, Sandra Becker, Cora Berndt-Stühmer, Marion Luise Buchmann, Aenne Burghardt, Isabelle Gabrijel…
The group exhibition takes on the city as a hotbed of dreams, longings, and ambition. The artists, some of them in a very personal way, explore how Berlin has changed over the past thirty years and how it continues to ...
Gedok Berlin Motzstraße 59 10777 Berlin www.gedok-berlin.de
4.10. 7:00 pm
THE WANDERER UPON A CASTLE CAME...
Anne Zahalka
Through a residency in Berlin I had my first experience of living alone completely disassociated from language and familiar things. I enjoyed the anonymity of being a foreigner and found an unexpected comfort at which I could watch and observe ...
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Kottbusser Straße 10 10999 Berlin www.bethanien.de
5.10. 7:00 pm
DID WE GET LOST
Ragna Arndt-Maríc, Samuel Baum, Eric Berg, Johanna Berghorn, Marlene Binder, Leon Hahn…
Travel and the cultural exchange that goes along with it have become a mass phenomenon—yet it’s contradicted by the nationalist movements and xenophobic leanings in our Western liberal society.
DID WE GET LOST: Travel, Discovery, and the Appropriation ...
University of Applied Sciences Europe Dessauer Straße 3-5 10963 Berlin https://www.ue-germany.com/de
5.10. 7:00 pm
Generations
Anatol Kotte, Andreas Mühe, Horst Wackerbarth
What is it that a teacher gives a student? During the time when Horst Wackerbarth (born 1950) began taking photographs, only analogue photography existed. In 1979 he began his famous Red Sofa series, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles throughout ...
Capitis Studios Kronenstraße 71 10117 Berlin www.capitis-studios.de
5.10. 7:00 pm
Jahrgang Zwölf
Lars Bösch, Miguel Brusch, Claudia Bühler, Charlott Cobler, Søren Drastrup, Agata Guevara…
With the exhibition “Jahrgang Zwölf” (Twelfth Graduating Class), the graduates of the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin present their final projects. The 24 works range from documentary to conceptual photography, now and again crossing the boundary of two-dimensional ...
Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie Prinzenstraße 34 10969 Berlin
6.10. 3:00 pm
Opening light
Walther Grunwald
Opening Light is the title Walther Grunwald gave to his series of black-and-white photographs made between 1956 and 2000. In a play on Hermann Hesse’s “A magic dwells in each beginning,” the Berlin photographer’s motto is “A beginning ...
Galerie Mönch Reichsstraße 52 14052 Berlin www.galerie-moench.de
6.10. 4:00 pm
Apparently Berlin
K.T. Blumberg, Wiebke Loeper, Torsten Schumann, Wolfgang Zurborn
The works of these four photographers visualize subjective values in everyday life. For them, the special quality of the photographic medium consists in questioning one’s own criteria of perception in order to implement them in an experiment in seeing ...
Galerie Ruhnke Charlottenstraße 122 14467 Potsdam www.galerie-ruhnke.de
6.10. 6:00 pm
Solitude
Thibaut Duchenne
The Galerie Pugliese Levi presents photographs by the agriculturalist and photographer Thibaut Duchenne, whose direct manner of looking is situated far from established traditions and techniques and shows a rural world that, while in the process of disappearing, lives on ...
Galerie Pugliese Levi Auguststraße 62 10117 Berlin www.puglieselevi.com
6.10. 7:00 pm
ineffably female
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 ...
Galerie Michael Schultz Berlin Mommsenstraße 34 10629 Berlin www.schultzberlin.com
8.10. 7:00 pm
1968. A Borderline Year
Uliano Lucas
The student and workers’ movements from 1967 to 1969 were an expression of social upheaval that rose up out of the “miracolo economico”. The exhibition “1968. A Borderline Year” by the photojournalist Uliano Lucas presents the dramatic events of those ...
Italienisches Kulturinstitut Hildebrandstraße 2 10785 Berlin https://www.iicberlino.esteri.it
9.10. 6:00 pm
Children in War
Nina Grushetska, Sergyi Kireev, Denis Kopylov, Galyna Lavrinets, Lydmyla Mytsyk, Olena Prokopenko…
The visual art project “Children in War” presents striking portraits of children who live near the front-line in the Ukraine and have first-hand experience with the war. Childish smiles, dreams, and suffering are reflected in the photos. Every child has ...
Botschaft der Ukraine Dorothea-Schlegel-Platz 10117 Berlin germany.mfa.gov.ua
9.10. 7:00 pm
Through the Looking Glass
Ute Lindner
Ute Lindner has created a site-specific installation with large-scale cyanotypes that transform the project space into a three-dimensional tableau of photographic images of the room. In using the photo technique, the artist revives an old copying method in which exposure ...
Projektraum | PhotoWerkBerlin Hohenzollerndamm 176 c/o Kommunale Galerie Berlin 10713 Berlin www.PhotoWerkBerlin.com/Projektraum
10.10. 6:00 pm
The road to Tepeyac
Alinka Echeverría
Every year, six million Mexican Catholics make the pilgrimage to the Basilica in Mexico City to worship the Virgin of Guadalupe. With “El camino al Tepeyac”, Alinka Echeverría created an immersive photographic installation consisting of images of the pilgrims ...
Kulturinstitut von Mexiko Klingelhöferstraße 3 10785 Berlin www.embamex.sre.gob.mx
10.10. 6:00 pm
Zenkeri
Jonas Feige, Yana Wernicke
During the colonial era, the botanist Georg August Zenker, who lived in the German colony of Cameroon, was considered one of the most important collectors for supplying Berlin’s Botanical Museum. The photographic project of Yana Wernicke and Jonas Feige ...
Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin Königin-Luise-Straße 6-8 14195 Berlin www.bgbm.org
10.10. 7:00 pm
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream
Ute Lindner
For Kronenboden, whose program combines photography and theater, Ute Lindner has developed a three-dimensional photo installation with a title borrowed from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The work consists of large-scale cyanotypes of overlapping curtains and wall works that ...
Kronenboden Schwedenstraße 16 13357 Berlin www.kronenboden.de
11.10. 6:00 pm
High on Hope
Ben de Biel
The exhibition “High on Hope” creates a portrait of photographer Ben de Biel’s and his friends’ youth; intimate images tell a story of growing up in a small West German city in the 1980s. In search of their identity ...
bobsairport Eisenbahnstraße 10 10997 Berlin www.kanyakage.com
11.10. 6:00 pm
Roman Vishniac, Zbaczyn, 1938
Roman Vishniac
An installation for the exhibition Expelled! Berlin, 28 October 1938 . The History of the “Polish Action,” Stiftung Neue Synagoge Berlin—Centrum Judaicum.
Lying on a cot within a detention camp, a girl looks at the camera. She is one of ...
Centrum Judaicum Oranienburger Straße 28-30 10117 Berlin www.centrumjudaicum.de
11.10. 6:30 pm
Two Houses of One Lord
Ľubo Stacho, Monika Stacho
In diptych form, the project presents the interiors of Jewish synagogues and Christian churches in their respective communities in Slovakia. They testify to the passage of time and a loss of interest in cultural legacy—in the form of demolished ...
Slowakisches Institut Hildebrandstraße 25 C/O Botschaft der Slowakischen Republik 10785 Berlin www.mzv.sk/siberlin
11.10. 7:00 pm
The West Berlin Years
André Kirchner
To commemorate André Kirchner’s sixtieth birthday, the Haus am Kleistpark presents a selection of approximately one hundred of his early black-and-white photographs from the years 1981 to 1990, the majority of which have never before been published. Kirchner began ...
HAUS am KLEISTPARK Grunewaldstraße 6-7 10823 Berlin www.hausamkleistpark.de
11.10. 7:00 pm
TÜRKIYE BLUES
Ilknur Can, Dinçer Dökümcü, Timurtaş Onan, Erhan Şermet, Tuncer Tunç, Cem Turgay
This group exhibition presents six photographers of the Istanbul Fotograf Galerisi for the first time in Berlin. On view are a society’s interiors and major changes, a metropolis undergoing transformation in poetic documentary images.
Timurtaş Onan has been portraying ...
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Helsingforser Platz 1 10243 Berlin www.fotogalerie.berlin
12.10. 7:00 pm
Laying Traces
Andrej Pirrwitz
Andrej Pirrwitz’s exhibition in the alte feuerwache project space brings together old and new works, color photographs made with a large-format Linhoff 4x5-inch camera. The motifs were selected in a long, intensive process during which Pirrwitz undertook multiple trips ...
alte feuerwache projektraum Marchlewskistraße 6 10243 Berlin www.alte-feuerwache-friedrichshain.de
12.10. 7:00 pm
Red and white plums
Norio Takasugi
A photograph only offers one small section of a real situation—it is a transient, unfinished thing. We photograph moments precisely because they flit by and seem irrevocable. Photographers have taken many paths to connect their work, bound to the ...
Galerie Albrecht Bleibtreustraße 48 10623 Berlin https://galeriesusannealbrecht.de
13.10. 7:00 pm
Yesterday was Today
The Berlin Fotomarathon tried focusing on a specific topic of contemporary history for the first time. The exhibition examines the tensions that have developed between the communist and victorious Western states, which are still visible sixty years on. The blockade ...
Verein für Ereignisse - Fotomarathon Berlin Bernauer Straße 119 13355 Berlin https://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/de/index.html
13.10. 8:00 pm
Celebrations and Excursions
Martin Kulinna
Our world is rapidly losing its diversity. Multinational companies own inner cities and transform them into uniform zones of shopping and recreation. There’s hardly a major metropolis in which McDonald’s, Starbucks, Zara, Apple & co. don’t dominate the ...
Galerie Morgenrot Mainzer Straße 6 10247 Berlin www.manjamorgenrot.de
17.10. 7:00 pm
MARIA AUSTRIA (1915-1975)
Maria Austria
The life of the photographer Maria Austria is marked by the persecution she endured as a Jew and by escape, war, and resistance. And yet during the post-war years, she also focused on the new life emerging in the cities ...
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM Schlüterstraße 70 10625 Berlin www.dasverborgenemuseum.de
18.10. 6:00 pm
Open the Gate!
There’s hardly a structure in Berlin that’s been made the showcase of political presentations as often as the Brandenburg Gate. Originally built as a city gate by Carl Gotthard Langhans, it formed the prestigious conclusion to the palace ...
Landesarchiv Berlin Eichborndamm 115-121 13403 Berlin www.landesarchiv-berlin.de
18.10. 7:00 pm
1980. IN BERLIN.
Heiko Sievers
“My photographs of West Berlin of the early 1980s depict three things: unknown people out and about, a taste of Berlin’s atmosphere, and the feeling I had while living in this city. I never found out what motivated the ...
Haus am Kleistpark I Projektraum Grunewaldstraße 6-7 Schöneberg 10823 Berlin www.hausamkleistpark.de
18.10. 7:00 pm
CityWar
Björn Gogalla & Reiko Kammer
The Gefechtsübungszentrum (GÜZ) military base of the German army is located in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide. On the military training ground is the construction site of the training compound “Urbaner Ballungsraum” Schnöggersburg. Soon, the German armed forces and ...
Meinblau Projektraum Christinenstraße 18-19 Haus 5, Kunst- und Atelierhaus Meinblau 10119 Berlin www.meinblau.de
19.10. 6:00 pm
BFF Triebwerk Berlin
Valentin Angerer, Thomas Billhardt, Jens Bösenberg, Hans-Jürgen Burkard, Benno Cray, Samantha Dietmar…
At the Kulturbrauerei, fiftyfive freelance photographers of the Berlin-based professional organization Berufsverband Freier Fotografen und Filmgestalter (BFF) and guests from all over Germany present their works on the theme “Reverse Forward.” The spectrum here ranges from notions of backwards, of ...
BFF - Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter Schönhauser Allee 36 10435 Berlin https://www.kesselhaus.net
19.10. 7:30 pm
Julio Cortázar—Visible Invisible
Antonio Fernández
The fantastic stories of Argentine writer Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) secured him a place in world literature. He was also keenly interested in photography. His story Las babas del diablo (Blow-Up), which served as the basis for Michelangelo Antonioni ...
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Potsdamer Straße 37 10785 Berlin www.iai.spk-berlin.de
25.10. 6:00 pm
Mayor's Rooms in Germany
Jörg Winde
From 2005 to 2011, the photographer Jörg Winde (born 1956) visited more than one hundred and twenty city hall buildings in Germany to document the mayors’ offices there. The results of his research were published in the book B ...
Mitte Museum Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1 2. OG 10551 Berlin www.mittemuseum.de
26.10. 7:00 pm
starting from here ...
Axel Gehrke, Katja Hammerle, Anna Homburg, Jürgen Hurst, Roger Lips, Rainer Menke…
Every view of the future needs a reference to something that exists. It’s secondary whether it’s a matter of internal or external things, or whether the reference is romantic or analytical, hostile or utopian. The essential thing is ...
Fotoschule Berlin Mariannenplatz 2 10997 Berlin kunstquartier-bethanien.de