What does it mean to be young today? In a time that, despite many freedoms, does not eliminate uncertainty about the future of the world and one’s own prospects, as well as questions about personal identity, and perhaps even intensifies them? How does a young generation experience radical change? How does it experience and respond to the pandemic-related restrictions in a phase of personal awakening and exploration? What fears, hopes and longings do adolescents live with today? The gallery shows five photographic projects that deal with the stages of growing up, applying different visual concepts and points of view.

Josef Wolfgang Mayer’s series “Into the World” is a Rückenfigur of his daughter, Generation Millennials. The biographical sequence refers to the temporal dimension of growing up and thus approaches the medium of film. With the series “Cut it short” (photographs and book), Michal Solarski and Tomasz Liboska have re-enacted the time of their adolescent friendship, depicting a youth in the early nineties in a small Polish village. Ute Behrend invented a world of nature retreat for young girls in her work “Bärenmädchen/ Bear Girls” (photographs and book). For the photographs of landscapes and portraits of young people included in the series “Związki,” Ina Schoenenburg traveled to the German-Polish border. “Chilling” in times of the Covid-19 Pandemic, whether and how that can be possible, is the topic of the photographs of young photographer Valentin Goppel with his highly relevant series “Zwischen den Jahren”.

Framework program

Please register for a visit & each event beforehand by email or phone +49 172 30 60 345.

Friday, April 8, 2022, 6 – 10 pm
Opening Reception

Friday, April 8, 2022, 7 – 8 pm
Artist Talk & Book Signing
With Ute Behrend »Bärenmädchen / Bear Girls«

Saturday, April 23, 2022, 5 – 6 pm
Artist Talk & Book Signing
With Michal Solarski & Tomasz Liboska »Cut it short«

Saturday, April 30, 2022
Gallery Weekend Berlin
Opening hours: 2 – 5 pm

Saturday, April 30, 2022, 5 – 6 pm
Artist Talk
With Valentin Goppel & Josef Wolfgang Mayer

Sunday, May 1, 2022, 3 – 8 pm
Meet the artists

Friday, June 10, 2022, 5:30 – 6:30 pm
Finissage & Artist Talk
With Valentin Goppel & Josef Wolfgang Mayer

Apr 9 — May 1 extended until June 10, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday, April 8, 6 – 10 pm
+ Framework program: please see above

galerie koschmieder / studio koschmieder

Oranienstraße 15, 10999 Berlin
[District: Kreuzberg | Borough: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg]

Opening hours: Thu – Sat 2 – 5 pm, and by appointment:

Admission free