The magazine of international photo art, Fotografie: Zeitschift internationaler Fotokunst, and its publisher Wolfgang Schulz are the focus of the exhibition, which illuminates an important period of change in the history of West German photography.

The exhibition is divided into ...

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 ...

Johanna Jaeger approaches the conditions of photography conceptually. In her solo show at SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY, ‘repeating accidents’, she presents staged photography that focuses on coincidence as a principle. The camera records what is exclusively visible from one angle or documents ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Even as Berlin lay in ruins at the end of the Second World War and food shortages were the rule, people emerged amid the rubble from their cellars to rebuild the city as quickly as possible.

The opposite was the ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the exhibition MEMENTO, the AFF Gallery presents the legacy of the photographer Henning Langenheim, who died at a young age (1950-2004). The show focuses on the work series Memorials I and II and Mordfelder (Murder Fields), products of Henning ...

Utopia, dystopia… atopia! In their final exhibition, our nine current graduates don’t tackle the extreme but the indescribable in-between, the ungraspable, that which can’t be located. Their works deal with the overlapping of time intrinsic to certain places ...

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 ...

BUCHT is a work about open space and urban transformation.

‘People who live here can have it all’ claims a real estate company website in reference to the Rummelsburger Bucht in Berlin. Temporal and spatial phenomena of urban transformation processes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A series of images shot in quick succession, the recurrent engagement with a single image, or the camera’s automatic allocation of identical file names: in all of these activities repetition is a crucial factor.

Repetition is inherent to photography ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Contact restrictions were imposed and subsequently relaxed; the perception of body and bodily contact entered a new phase as yet to be explored. Every Zoom conference and every walk outside was accompanied by a feeling of almost, but not quite ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

Through the black-and-white photos of the photographer Guevara Namer and the photographer Alaa Hassan, both based in Berlin, the exhibition delves into the ways the diaspora changes how displaced people in Europe look at their past.

Souls trapped behind geometric ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

2WAYS
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 ...

In The Truth Is In The Soil, Ioanna Sakellaraki, a finalist for the Inge Morath Award 2019, portrays the sole remaining community of female professional mourners on the Greek peninsula of Mani.

After losing her father, photographic practice became a ...

An echo is the reflection of a sound wave and is perceptible as a discrete phenomenon independent of the original. As with any copy, the content repeats, changes, and is lost. Due to aberrations that only seem like mistakes, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘I don't believe in heroism. I know it’s easy and I’ve learned that it can be murderous.’ (Albert Camus, The Plague)

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in 1986, thousands of ‘human liquidators’ were sent to the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 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 ...

‘[Man] is part of nature [...]. He is set apart while being a part, he is homeless, yet chained to the home he shares with all creatures. [...] Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, [...] the ...

The end of this strange year, when inside and outside entered into a new relationship, has nearly come to a close. Against this backdrop, the work of the current graduates of the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin appears in ...