Held annually by BBA Gallery, the ‘BBA Photography Prize’ is an international fine art photography competition open to anyone aged 18+, whatever their background and nationality. A jury of influential professionals look for the most innovative concepts, aesthetic language, and ...

Something is in the air. Schuett and Tiessen decide to launch an inquiry on the streets of Berlin.

They investigate unusual occurrences, come across suspicious facts, and collect evidence to unravel connections and examine events.

Around the clock, they research ...

‘Time Present’, an exhibition of works from the Deutsche Bank Collection at the PalaisPopulaire, is devoted to international photography from the 1970s to the present. The show examines how artists deal with time and the basic questions of photography: What ...

A section of the B1 highway, a major artery that originally connected Königsberg with Aachen, leads through Berlin, from Mahlsdorf in the east to the Glienicke Bridge in the southwest. The route passes through numerous historically significant sites that ...

Portrait photography can be considered the core of Tina Bara's artistic work, which understands and addresses the human body as a matrix of social inscriptions. Her process-oriented, media-reflective approach to photography is also poetic; her usual method is to ...

The exhibition examines the development of Hungarian photographic and photo-based artistic positions against the backdrop of state socialism and other European and East European realities in the last third of the twentieth century.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the influence ...

Whether spontaneous or deliberately staged – Sascha Weidner draws attention to the beauty of everyday life, to what we often overlook in passing. At the same time, his radically subjective photographs give expression to deep longings and poetic dream images. Weidner ...

Eeva Karhu uses the photographic process as her receptor for the passage of time. This is most evident in her ongoing series Path, for which she photographs the route she walks every day upon leaving her home.

By layering one ...

Santeri Tuori is a multifaceted artist who has been engaging over the past two decades with the properties and transformative powers of nature. Forests, sky, lilies, and wind are only a few of the basic elements you might find in ...

Berliners today barely register the Spree as an urban waterway. Yet during the development of the Greater Berlin metropolitan area, it played an important role both in recreation and as a key transportation route.

SPREE CUTS heightens public awareness of ...

‘The border’ concerns itself with the conflict in Northern Ireland and explores current issues relating to the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which will become an exterior European border following Brexit.

Looking back to ‘the troubles ...

‘Biosphere X’ protocols data collation on animal behaviours and species extinction, documents the development of bionic robots, presents urban retreats and wild natural biotopes from the perspective of autonomous machines, and explores the infrastructure of global data networks.

We are ...

BORCH Gallery is delighted to present the exhibition ‘Ideas of Utopia’, comprising two photogravure projects by Fiona Tan which address utopian visions.

In reference to Thomas More’s book of 1518, Utopia, present-day Los Angeles is imagined in Studies for ...

The sun is sinking into the ocean in a postcard-perfect view, a watermelon is being sliced up on the beach, and a gold blanket glitters in the summer heat. Yet Michael Danner’s photographs subvert our expectations and counter our ...

Felicity Hammond confronts in her work the social, political, and economic contradictions of the postmodern city, which is shaped by power struggles between international real estate companies, profit-driven investors, and gentrification critics. In large-scale collages she combines found images from ...

From raucous, flamboyantly dressed punks to hippies and kissing couples in a sea of Trabi cars, to militant banners and protestors on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin: the figures sketched with light in Harald Hauswald’s authentic, tender photographs bear witness ...

While the rest of Berlin-Mitte was being renovated and built up virtually everywhere, the area around Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz was overlooked. It wasn't until the beginning of the 2000s that it too began to see rapid development. Around the same time ...

The exhibition ‘Periphery as a Place – The Hellersdorf Project‘, organized by Ulrich Domröse (departing curator for photography at the Berlinische Galerie), was first shown at the nGbK in Kreuzberg over twenty years ago. Now, the nGbK presents two of ...

Petra Spielhagen and Anja Teske use their cameras to investigate the realities of European landscapes. In the process, the artists’ interest goes well beyond mere documentary inventory. The critical questions they pose concern the gradual shift from natural to cultural ...

‘Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject’ explores how German and international photographers captured Berlin between the immediate post-war years and the end of the twentieth century. Featuring the work by twenty-three photographers, the exhibition opens with black and white prints ...

Published in 1986, the book PARIS by foot was the first example of an East German photographer making use of street photography exclusively to portray life in a foreign city. The work of Roger Melis, who is known first and ...

Heidi Specker is one of the most important figures in contemporary photography. In her works, which are for the most part serial, the photographer’s subjects range from architecture and various objects to people. Following her photographic explorations of urban ...

Letizia Battaglia is undoubtedly the most famous Italian photographer on the international scene. Her street views, portraits of women, and pictures of mafia murders tell the tale of her hometown Palermo – an al fresco film set. The whole of Palermo ...

Photography is the most historically complex and problematic genre to ever appropriate the Roma subject. Will Roma ever be able to dissociate themselves from the traumatizing – sexualizing, feminizing, and criminalizing – practices of photographic representation used throughout the history of anthropology ...

The ‘Photomechanical Transformations’ of Hein Gravenhorst have been lying dormant for half a century and are presented here for the first time to the general public.

They constitute an aesthetic programme that privileges the formal qualities of photography over its ...

Marie Tomanova is a Czech artist and photographer based in New York City. Critic John Berger wrote, ‘To emigrate is always to dismantle the centre of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments’.

Like ...

The exhibition brings together the photographic work of the sisters Lotte (1896–1990) and Ruth (1899–1995) Jacobi. Born into a dynasty of photographers, from 1931 on they ran the Fotoatelier Jacobi, located in Berlin's ‘New West’ district around ...

Bill Perlmutter traveled in 1954 on assignment for the US Army through Europe. Europe in the ‚ Fifties. Through a Soldier’s Lens shows a selection of his images taken in Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

The photographer’s view ...

On photography’s fringes, the photographic aspect is often no more than a particular approach or way of seeing that can just as easily be expressed using different materials.

In an economically structured society, where dishwashing liquid doubles as a ...

This exhibition honours the artist Kurt Wendlandt (1917–1998) and his work as a graphic artist whose medium was light.

In the 1950s, while employed as an illustrator, Wendlandt became acquainted with printing techniques whose production processes were based on ...

Max Pinckers’s multiple-award-winning photographic series Margins of Excess examines the difficulty in differentiating between reality and fiction in the modern media age. The work inquires into terms such as ‘credibility’ and ‘illusion’ in times of fake news and manufactured ...

Renate von Gebhardt (1921–2019), daughter of the writer Hertha von Gebhardt, was the influential editor-in-chief of children's radio at RIAS Berlin throughout the post-war period. To this day, her RIAS show Der Onkel Tobias (Uncle Tobias) is considered ...

With ‘Atmospheres of Imagination’, Lothar Wolleh Raum presents a key selection of Lothar Wolleh’s colour photography. On show are works from the years 1962–1979, with a focus on the photographer’s abstract pieces.

In 1965 Lothar Wolleh published ...

The group exhibition ‘ab_bilden’ (de_pict) addresses the architecture of the Austrian Embassy in Berlin, which was designed by Hans Hollein and completed at the turn of the millennium. In their photo and video works, the artists invited by the magazine ...

In its freshly designed permanent exhibition, the Berlinische Galerie showcases about 250 works from its collection. This multifaceted chronological tour through art in Berlin from 1880 to 1980 begins with paintings influenced by the wealthy patrons of the Kaiser’s ...

In this work I take the viewer on a visual journey using landscape as a metaphor in order to create a feeling of remembrance for the victims of the Berlin Wall.

If one now embarks on a journey on foot ...

Imraan Christian and Gordon Clark live now and have lived previously in Cape Town and address social problems in post-apartheid South Africa.

Clark, born in Johannesburg in 1955, is an established photographer and film producer. His series The Outcome of ...

The Leica Camera AG presents the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2019, Mustafah Abdulaziz, with his series Water, and the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award Newcomer 2019, Nanna Heitmann, with her series Hiding from Baba Yaga ...

‘Mounted Light’ shows four positions for the examination of light as the medium of photography. The objects and spaces are only in the foreground in the first moment of observation. The second view tries to question the perception, to follow ...

The work of Sebastian Klug is a hybrid, rooted both in photography and sculpture. He creates three-dimensional objects from his prints of the photographs he took of Berlin's club scene from 2008 to 2020 with the 2-mp-camera of a ...

The exhibition is the first ever to pay tribute to the most important pioneering œuvre in skiing photography. Swiss photographers Emanuel Gyger (1886–1951) and Arnold Klopfenstein (1896–1961) were masters at directing the interplay of light and shadow and ...

STUDIO 4 BERLIN brings together work by three artists from different corners of the world: Yumna Al-Arashi, Hicham Benohoud, and Jenna Westra. Different generations, aesthetics, and cultures enter into an inspiring dialogue.

Their common focus is the human body in ...

Since 2014 the Berlinische Galerie has awarded an annual Thomas Friedrich Research Grant in Photography. Michael Kempf, the recipient in 2019, worked on Robert Petschow (1888–1945), whose often seemingly outlandish aerial views taken in the 1920s and 1930s are ...

Roger the Rat is a photographic project documenting a semi-fictional masked character who impersonates a rat and lives out his life in an enigmatic, Ballenesque space in Johannesburg. This quasi-person is isolated from the mainstream of society and surrounds himself ...

‘Learn to take pictures! At family celebrations, at work, at gatherings, and on the train – good photographs are a nice memento for later times.’

The Worker Photographer, 1928.

Twenty-three years old and unemployed, Ernst Thormann decided to explore Berlin’s ...

Riman was seated in a crowded and low-lit container, with loose clothes on, so you could not tell—but she was five months pregnant. Two weeks earlier Riman had left her home town of Homs, in Syria, because of the ...

It used to be Bolivia’s second largest lake but now, it’s a white salt flat sprinkled with abandoned rusty boats.

Fish, birds, and other animals are not the only victims of this ecological disaster. The Uros and the ...

Held annually by BBA Gallery, the ‘BBA Photography Prize’ is an international fine art photography competition open to anyone aged 18+, whatever their background and nationality. A jury of influential professionals look for the most innovative concepts, aesthetic language, and ...

‘CONTINENT – In Search of Europe’ is a thematically organized group exhibition of the current 23 members of OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen  in cooperation with  Akademie der Künste.

In 22 artistic works created especially for the project, OSTKREUZ photographers explore ...

The Loock Gallery presents two groups of work by the American photographer Gregory Halpern: a German premiere.

Omaha Sketchbook (2005–2018) is a thirty-part collage in which Halpern combines images of America’s heartland from the past fifteen years. One ...

Auteur photographer Hildegard Ochse (1935–1997) allowed herself ample time for long hikes along the rocky coast of the Italian island Filicudi; her outings resulted in numerous black-and-white pictures.

The images are very still; some look as though they were ...

Photographs, according to Manfred Paul, who can look back over a wide-ranging oeuvre created over the past fifty years, ‘are frozen time’.

The exhibition presents his intimate portraits, some of them mask-like, from the series Jutta Deutschland (1981–1984) and ...

The more hectic our everyday lives and the more constant our communication, the stranger we find it when we take refuge within, in voluntary isolation. Before corona, anyone who withdrew for a time was expected to soon break out again ...

The genre of street photography has been fascinating viewers for more than 100 years. In countless styles and variations, photographers from all over the world convey their particular view of everyday life in their society and delight their audience – in ...

In October 2019, Sven Marquardt took portraits of members of the international ensemble, Friedrichstadt­Palast Berlin, just after their performance. In some portraits, the posture and expression show the subject is still on an adrenaline high, whereas in others more ...

The exhibition presents photographs of various major events that have taken place in Europe between 1989 and 2011. On view are a wide array of crowds at protest marches, demonstrations, funerals, holiday celebrations, anniversaries, as well as at sporting events ...

For this exhibition, photographer Ute Schendel selected a series of vintage prints from the 1970s and 1980s, portraits of prominent figures from the world of theatre, film, and literature with whom she was or continues to be in close contact ...

Mary Ellen Bartley is known for photographs that explore the tactile and formal qualities of the printed book and its potential for abstraction. In her poetic, minimalist images the books’ contents are often hidden or only partially revealed, and this ...

‘Blind Photographers’ presents works by four artists from different generations, all of whom lost their sense of sight at some point in their lives. For years now, each of them has been artistically exploring something that is essentially impossible: the ...

Levent Karao?lu and Klaus W. Eisenlohr explore how people suffer or adapt to the changes in the urban environment in Turkey. They have been cooperating artistically for seven years, also in cultural exchange projects in Istanbul and Berlin supported ...

In her work the Austrian artist Lies Maculan transcends temporal boundaries by taking a traditional look at Europe’s legacy and letting it unfurl its effects in the here and now. Her large-scale photographs mounted on aluminium – and with the ...

Martha Cooper is a documentary photographer who has specialized for fifty years in shooting urban vernacular art and architecture. Her books include Subway Art, which was a collaboration with Henry Chalfant, R.I.P.: Memorial Wall Art, Hip Hop Files ...

Miron Zownir is an internationally successful photographer and filmmaker. His radical style of photography, honed since the late 1970s, first in West Berlin and then in New York, remains to this day a benchmark in the field of social and ...

Neither the ‘end of history’ nor the triumph of liberalism. Nowhere. In Europe of the 1980s and 1990s, Rainer Maria Schopp photographed orphaned cities, forgotten villages, and the stories of people who keep falling through the cracks of history. From ...

Her oeuvre, multimedia and interdisciplinary in nature, encompasses painting, photography, film, performance, fashion, photo books, and above all writing. Stötzer railed against the oppressive power of the GDR dictatorship. Today, she opposes patriarchy in her explorations of bodily and ...

Discover 20 local and international positions on Street Photography. The presentations are on display during the day around the Charlottenburg train station and at night at the traffic control tower on Kurfürstendamm.

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The exhibition of advertising pillars shows ...

‘Given that the constant flood of images in the digital media age influences our mindsets and sensibilities, to what extent is individual, personal perception still possible in public space?’The five photographers in the exhibition ‘Floating Identities’ address this question ...

Photographed in the IMAGO Camera

The exhibition presents an unpublished selection from the ‘Beflügelt’ (Winged) series, born as a collaboration between fashion and experimental photography.

The experiment began in 2014, when the fashion photographer Esther Haase (Hamburg / London) discovered ...

Rivers illustrate numerous social, ecological, political, economic, and historical phenomena. For photographers Ute and Werner Mahler, they are an excellent vehicle for telling stories about Europe. In emotionally powerful and visually evocative images, they present us with vignettes of everyday ...

The so-called Greater Berlin Act went into effect on October 1, 1920. Overnight, the city became the world’s third largest and the foundation stone was laid for a lively and bustling 100-year-long history full of vicissitudes.

The exhibition presents ...

Something is in the air. Schuett and Tiessen decide to launch an inquiry on the streets of Berlin.

They investigate unusual occurrences, come across suspicious facts, and collect evidence to unravel connections and examine events.

Around the clock, they research ...

Europe guarantees peace and freedom yet at the same time is home to the largest arms producers on the planet. Europe exports arms to proxy wars around the world but closes its borders to refugees while making pacts with authoritarian ...

Drahotín Šulla is one of the most important representatives of Slovak photography; his work can now be seen in a retrospective spanning nearly 60 years. In magical, large-format, black-and-white photographs, Šulla depicts scenes from everyday life as though they ...

In an area of 2,000 m² at the heart of Berlin lies a garden, fenced in and gated, but missing a path. It is off limits, inaccessible to visitors. A glimpse of it can be caught from a distance ...

After taking a full-time position with the French Vogue in 1961, Helmut Newton worked in parallel also for the fashion magazine’s American edition. He produced material in Europe as well as stateside. After 1980, Newton shot numerous portraits of ...

From tourism to migration, from exile to persecution, travel shapes our personal stories. ‘Where are you from?’ is a challenging question for anyone who has a patchwork of origin stories.

When a traveller arrives at a new destination, exploration surely ...

After the Wall opened, structure and order in East Berlin fell apart and a power vacuum took their place. All of a sudden, in regards to the political situation, everything seemed possible – but also in terms of all the little ...

Ida Dehmel, who was born exactly 150 years ago this year, founded today’s GEDOK, The Federation of Women Artists and Patrons of the Arts, in 1926. For seven years, she worked toward increasing public recognition of women artists.

After ...

The presentation in the photography and prints cabinet of the Märkisches Museum brings together two portrait series by the Berlin-based photographer Lars Nickel: Beletage (Piano Nobile) and Maientage (May Days), staged colour images and shots in black and white ...

‘Belong’ by Russell James is a fine-art experience that explores the fragile connection between nature and humanity. Shot in the Kimberly Ranges in Western Australia, the series is a stunning reminder of humanity’s dwindling awareness of the beauty of ...

The metropolis Berlin is the focus of this exhibition created in cooperation with the Kulturstiftung Haus Europa. To mark the centenary of the administrative amalgamation of Greater Berlin, the works of eleven art photographers address the realities, diversity, and complexity ...

In November 1995, the Dayton Peace Agreement ended the bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and manifested the nationalist war goals by dividing the country along ethnic and religious lines.

The first free elections cemented the balance of power ...

‘Taxonomy Moldava’ and ‘Migrants Kaliningrad’ are the two projects shown in this exhibition.

Based on visual research in the Republic of Moldova, Volker Kreidler’s ‘Taxonomy Moldava’ photographically portrays conflicts and social upheavals in an Eastern European transitional country – from ...

Adventure, making money, taking drugs, surviving, growing up. They’ve cleared the first hurdles, and already they think they’ve made it. They’re fourteen, mostly a little older, but at times only nine or ten years old.

When the ...

‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’ explores the ways in which masculinity has been experienced, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. At a time when ideas around masculinity are undergoing a global crisis and concepts such as ...

Ingo Gerken’s BIBLIOSCULPTURES is a project that uses art publications, exhibition catalogues, and monographs to create direct, temporary dialogues with recent art history. Targeted object interventions into the relationship between book and image in art historical archives and contemporary ...

In the 1980s Berlin became the epicentre of social experiments in rebellion against bourgeois lifestyles. Young people came from all across Europe to settle in the ‘Wagenburgen’ caravan colonies that occupied available vacant urban lots.

Like the Tower of Babel ...

In naming her latest series New Age of Dissent, the artist Carina Linge cleverly forges a link with Notes from the New Age of Dissent, the compilation of blog texts by the British journalist, author, and feminist, Laurie Penny, published ...

Minorities, traditions, and identity – what lies behind these concepts?

Nowadays, we see our lives rattled by the popular success of right-wing political groups: democracy is suddenly up for debate. The works of Alina Simmelbauer and Marcus Glahn are documentary in ...

‘Wine. Beyond the Landscape’ is the second iteration of a four-year photographic project of the Zenato Academy, a cultural initiative of the Italian winery Zenato.

Curated by the critic Luca Panaro, this second stage of the project comprises work developed ...

Photographic portraits testify to friendships, spark memories, and convey an atmosphere of intimacy. They show their colours when they are commissioned, tell of intimate encounters, record technical experiments. Often, they are the only remaining evidence of an ephemeral, unexpected, or ...

Foam is an internationally operational organization in the field of photography, based in the centre of Amsterdam. For the very first time, Foam is showing its annual ‘Foam Talent’ exhibition in the historical building of Kühlhaus Berlin.

Foam presents ...

Verdensrum V, Japan: Mountain of Sadness, a part of Kjaersgaard’s Japanese VERDENSRUM series, is inspired by Osore-zan (the Mountain of Dread) in the Aomori prefecture, a remote volcanic Buddhist pilgrimage destination famously known in Japan as the entrance to ...

The 270-km-long natural watercourse of the Vjosa is one of the oldest rivers in Southeast Europe. Over the next several years, however, the planned construction of eight hydroelectric power plants means that the landscape and adjacent towns on its shores ...

The exhibition presents large-format photographs of the Allies’ post-war buildings, highlighting architectural icons and unknown gems. These include cultural institutions, schools, and sports facilities as well as churches in barracks and housing estates. Some of the buildings are threatened with ...