Americans have been stationed in Germany since the end of World War II. For the most part, they lived their lives independently of the Germans in areas that were off-limits. The photo exhibition “LITTLE AMERICA” offers an insight rich in ...

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 ...

Carla Sozzani, former editor-in-chief of Italian Elle and Vogue, has been collecting photographs for many years. Since 1990, she has also exhibited many of these works in her Milan gallery in close cooperation with internationally renowned photographers, including Helmut Newton ...

Loredana Nemes (born 1972 in Romania) takes chances—and the time for discoveries. A spirit of discovery and women artists are both high on the agenda of the Berlinische Galerie: The Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture, which already ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For three decades now, André Kirchner (born 1958) has been one of the stylistically most influential photographers of the city of Berlin. Working in the tradition of analogue black-and-white photography and using a classic view camera, his is an individual ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The exhibition presents new, never-before-shown works by Martin Schoeller from his internationally renowned series “Close Up”. The portraits explore the ways in which celebrities are seen and perceived, underscored by the artist's serial working method. For more than twenty ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Moment is Eternity” shines the spotlight on the photographic works in the Olbricht Collection and shows them in dialogue with other artworks from the collection as well as artifacts in the Wunderkammer. The artist Henri Cartier-Bresson coined the term ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Berlinische Galerie owns one of the most important collections of art photography in Germany. On view are the early street photographs Heinrich Zille took around 1900, as well as modernist photographers and photojournalism from the 1920s, with images by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “unavoidable times” in the GDR were the waiting periods between high school graduation and college, between military service and vocational training, between one training and another, inevitable gaps in the résumé that couldn’t be filled otherwise. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2018, Leica Camera AG presents the photo series of the twelve finalists for the renowned Leica Oskar Barnack Award (LOBA). The international photo competition, which was launched in 1979, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...