Zwinger Galerie
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Zwinger Galerie
24.02.–12.04.2025
Opening
22.02.2025 6pm
Birgit Schlieps: POWIDOKI
AFTERIMAGES BETWEEN HISTORY'S FAULT LINES
Birgit Schlieps

The exhibition consists of photographs taken over a period of four years in the Polish city of Szczecin. In the spirit of the New Topographic Movement, the images depict urban landscapes with voids remaining from World War II as well as modernist and present-day capitalist influences. The gallery display orchestrates the photographs as part of an interior, as an inner landscape exploring the Polish painter and theorist Władysław Strzemiński and the Russian sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, who worked in Łódź until the early 1950s and established an international collection of modern art there in 1931 with the artists’ group a.r. References between photography and their works arise in the process of giving things visible form, of showing, and in the visual experience. Large formats alternate with small-scale series and various cut-ups on minimalist wall arrangements that shake up the architectural structure of the room in subliminal ways.