touché presents the geographical and thematic proximity of the people running these two exhibition venues, which have been showing international art side by side for 15 years. The topic of ‘touch’ is addressed in two ways: through an exchange among artists, and through the technology that connects the individual works, all of which are, broadly speaking, photograms. Kronenboden presents Ute Lindner’s long exposures of museum walls on which paintings have left their shadows for over 30 years. These are juxtaposed with Patrick Huber’s shamelessly cheeky photograms of lingerie on grandma’s damask fabrics using the cyanotype process. The textiles, which symbolically give rise to personal dreams, are reinterpreted here in a humorous way.

COPYRIGHTBerlin shows Karen Stuke’s Handygrams from the 1990s, in which the light from cell phone displays exposed the photographic paper. These are complemented by works from the lockdown period, the Italograms from the series Finding Italy in My Kitchen, an attempt to escape from the imposed Covid prison sentence through the kitchen.