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PiB Guide Nº50 SEP/OCT 2023

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PiB Guide Nº50 SEP/OCT 2023 © PiB (Photography in Berlin). COVER PHOTO: From the series “Contrapasso” © Massimiliano Corteselli. Group show »Jahrgang S1EB7EHN« by Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie at Konnekt.Berlin in Berlin-Marzahn, read more on page 4 & 5! +++ 4 photos on right double page spread (p. 5), from top left to bottom right: 1) »…it's easier for me like that…« © Giulia Thinnes. 2) NBSW © Meret Eberl. 3) Contrapasso © Massimiliano Corteselli. 4) Unter Bäumen © Ania Sudbin. +++ Photo on bottom double-page spread (p. 15): René and Georgette Magritte with their dog, 1967, silver gelatin print, 40 × 40 cm © Lothar Wolleh Estate, Berlin. Solo show at Lothar Wolleh Raum, Berlin-Mitte. +++ PiB Guide Editor / V.i.S.d.P. / Art Direction: Julia Schiller @julia.schiller_ · ele studio berlin · www.ele-studio.de +++ Printed on 100% recycling paper in Berlin-Köpenick by altmann-druck, many thanks!

Group Exhibition

»In Dialogue with Strömholm«

Christer Strömholm, Dawid, Gerry Johansson, Henrik Strömberg, Håkan Elofsson, Inka and Niclas, Julia Peirone, Linda Bergman, Martina Hoogland Ivanow, Sascha Weidner, Susa Templin, Thom Bridge, Yuken Teruya

We are thrilled to invite you to the group exhibition “In Dialogue with Strömholm” on December 14, 6 – 9 pm!

With works by Christer Strömholm (1918-2002) as well as Dawid (*1949), Gerry Johansson (1945), Linda Bergman (*1976), Inka und Niclas (*1985/1984), Julia Peirone (*1973), Henrik Strömberg (*1970), Susa Templin (*1965), Yuken Teruya (*1973), Sascha Weidner (1974-2015), Martina Hoogland Ivanow (*1973) et al.

Four rare prints by the Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm from his first exhibition in Stockholm in 1965 are being displayed alongside selected contemporary artists. The ensuing “dialogue with Strömholm“ thematizes and reflects artistic aspects of this artist’s oeuvre in a unique way.

Strömholm the doyen of modern Swedish photography, and his extraordinary work occupies an important position in the history of international photography. His pictorial compositions depict a unique vision of the world, and they led to his association with the group ofpioneering photographers founded by Otto Steinert known as “Fotoform.” Strömholm is known above all for his legendary photographs of transsexuals at the Place Blanche in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s. With relentless radicality, his black-and-white “photographic existentialism“ captivates the poetic charm of life’s rough realities. The secret of this existentialism often lies in the surreal forms that are interwoven with dramatic pictorial moments, moments in which people resemble fragile and illusory creatures who reveal themselves to the camera in all their ordinariness, imperfection and doubt. Strömholm regarded his environment with the eyes of an artist who simultaneously seeks confrontation with reality and establishes contact with his fellow man, as a basic principle in photography. “Each picture can be considered a self-portrait, a part of one’s own life.” (Strömholm, 1983)

There are also obvious parallels to the work of younger artists’ pictorial formulations: the magical presence of a tree branch by Inka and Niclas, or a door by Henrik Strömberg, reveals the fragility of being and the surreal moments of subjective experience, moments which are likewise inherent in the artistic understanding of Susa Templin and Yuken Teruya. In a similar way, Julia Peirone also thematizes identity in the self-interrogations of her youthful portrait pictures. And Sascha Weidner’s images raise existential questions in a similar was just as they enchant the eye. The disembodied heads of Strömholm’s pictorial world are also reflected by the cruel metamorphosis of the doll’s face in Linda Bergman’s work. Such graphic references result in a dialogue between the old master and the thirteen artists displayed in the exhibition.

Strömholm, as one of the main proponents of modern photography had already abandoned the documentary and narrative character of the medium behind and Dawid (Björn Dawidsson), as the founder of a postmodern understanding of photography in Sweden, find the genesis of their oeuvre in an experimental pictorial language. Contemporary positions such as those in the exhibition work in a wide variety of ways and against the background of today’s post-photographic understanding on the expansion of the medium into real existing space.

Text: Franziska Schmidt

Inka and Niclas, Saga XII, 2011, Archival pigment print, Size: 75 x 50 cm, Edition: 1/5 + 3 AP © Inka and Niclas
Susa Templin, Geometry of Space 2008-2010 © Susa Templin
Dawid, Christer Strömholm, 1982, Silvergelatin print, 20 x 25 cm © Dawid
Julia Peirone, Goosebear © Julia Peirone
Sascha Weidner, Ausschnitt II, 2006, Archival pigment print, Size: 50 x 50 cm, Edition: 2/5 + 1 AP © Estate of Artist Sascha Weidner
Christer Strömholm, Sillans-la-Cascade, France, 1958, vintage gelatin silver print, mounted to masonite / image, paper and mount 58,7 x 49,2 cm, box size 80x70 cm, print made 1965 © Christer Strömholm
Christer Strömholm, Paris Clignancourt, 1955 © Christer Strömholm Estate
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Opening Reception: Friday, Dec 14, 6 – 9 pm

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PiB Guide Nº50 SEP/OCT 2023 © PiB (Photography in Berlin). COVER PHOTO: From the series “Contrapasso” © Massimiliano Corteselli. Group show »Jahrgang S1EB7EHN« by Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie at Konnekt.Berlin in Berlin-Marzahn, read more on page 4 & 5! +++ 4 photos on right double page spread (p. 5), from top left to bottom right: 1) »…it's easier for me like that…« © Giulia Thinnes. 2) NBSW © Meret Eberl. 3) Contrapasso © Massimiliano Corteselli. 4) Unter Bäumen © Ania Sudbin. +++ PiB Guide Editor / V.i.S.d.P. / Art Direction: Julia Schiller @julia.schiller_ · ele studio berlin · www.ele-studio.de +++ Printed on 100% recycling paper in Berlin-Köpenick by altmann-druck, many thanks!

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