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31/10/2008

Three exhibitions

Berlinische Galerie, Berlin

Mutations II - Moving Stills

Artists:
Peter Aerschmann (CH), Christoph Brech (GER), Olga Chernysheva (RU), Ulrich Gebert (GER), Ori Gersht (UK), Oliver Möst (GER), Tuomo Rainio (FI), Jutta Strohmaier (AU), Gast Bouchet & Nadine Hilbert (LU)

Curator Kathrin Kohle

Following the exhibition 'Mutations 1', which featured in European Month of Photography 2006, this year's event presents 'Mutations II – Moving Stills'. This results from a partnership between seven cities, and features video work by nine young European artists whose conceptual approach hovers on the borderline between video and photography.
The exhibition shows videos ('moving stills') which coherently combine the methods of photography and film, and point to the media-immanent properties of photography. It is accompanied by a DVD catalogue in German and English, introducing the 21 artists who made up the 'pool' for the European exhibition. 'Mutations II' will be on show in all the partner cities of the European Month of Photography, though each city will be offering its own local and specially curated version.

On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition in Berlin on 1 November, the 'Award of the European Month of Photography' provided by the sponsor Alcatel will be conferred on one of the artists

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Hans Robertson – the Berlin Years: Photographs 1926-1933

Curator Thomas Friedrich

In the exhibition 'Hans Robertson – Die Berliner Jahre. Fotografien 1926-1933', the Third European Month of Photography in Berlin is once again showcasing the work of an important Berlin artist of the Weimar Republic. Born in Hamburg in 1883, Robertson took over the Atelier Lili Baruch on the Kurfürstendamm in 1927, going on to become one of the most famous portrait photographers of the city – known above all for his portraits of writers, artists and politicians like Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann and Gustav Stresemann. He achieved particular prominence with his pictures of modern dancers like Harald Kreutzberg, Vera Skoronel and Mary Wigman. Being Jewish, when the Nazis came to power he was compelled to emigrate, living first of all in Copenhagen, then fleeing to Stockholm in 1943. In 1945 he returned to Denmark, remaining there till his death in 1950.

For this exhibition a selection has been made from his photographic legacy at the Royal Library of Copenhagen, comprising his most important pictures from the pre-Hitler years, and including some photographs of Berlin that have only recently been discovered.

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Arwed Messmer
Panoramic Photographs

Curators Ulrich Domröse, Ursula Müller and Florian Ebner

Berlin has never been seen like this before – in photographs measuring a good six metres in length, which present the city as a gigantic empty stage.
After the end of the war, a hitherto unknown photographer was commissioned by the City Council of Berlin (East) to make a pictorial record of the city. Working from individual shots, he designed panoramas of great artistic quality, some of them showing Berlin's urban landscape with the new waste expanses in the centre. The pictures were rediscovered by the photographer Arwed Messmer, who has interpreted the negatives entrusted to him with an eye to the point of view of their original author, and reconstructed the panoramas digitally.

This exhibition has been made possible by the support of the Förderverein Berlinische Galerie [Society of Friends of the Berlinische Galerie], who have made it one of their year's projects. It has also been sponsored by highly regarded firms, who were approached by the Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten [Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs] of the Mayor of Berlin currently in office.


Image: Peter Aerschmann, Still from "5th street" © 2006 Peter Aerschmann, Courtesy: Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris

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