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Print deadline • Druckschluss PiB Guide Nº59 MAR/APR 2025
⤷ Sat, Feb 15

Solo Exhibition

»Order and Obsession. Portraits in Series«

Birgit Kleber

Birgit Kleber looks people squarely in the face, sometimes for minutes on end. And they look back: directly, intensely. It’s a fascinating, immovable intensity of the gaze. Sometimes those being photographed keep their eyes closed, or remain hidden behind strange glasses. Under the title Camouflage, men of varying ages are united here in an unusual experiment or study of human physiognomy.
Portraits record the moment; they can also, when approached as a series over years as with the series EMIL and CLARA, also become a temporal document of a process of change. The system chosen here forms a good starting point for comparative viewing.
It’s often a highly individual facial expression that the photographer captures; characterizing a person does not, however, necessarily entail looking him or her in the face—or preferably the eyes—in certain cases, it can also work when only the back of the head is visible, as Kleber shows us in the evocative work EVA.
Matthias Harder

Exhibition: Sep 30 — Nov 18, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 29, 7 pm

Welcome:
Heike Schmitt-Schmelz | Bezirksstadträtin
Elke von der Lieth | Kommunale Galerie Berlin

Introduction:
Moritz Müller-Wirth | DIE ZEIT

The exhibition is part of EMOP Berlin — EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2018.

Framework program

Guided Tour by the artist (held in German)
Moderation: Rainer Traube | DW Deutsche Welle
Wednesay, Oct 17, 6 pm | admission free

Camouflage #1, aus der Serie Camouflage, 2015 © Birgit Kleber
CLARA, 1997, aus der Serie CLARA 1995 - 2004 © Birgit Kleber
UNTITLED #2, aus der Serie UNTITLED, 2017 © Birgit Kleber
UNTITLED #6, aus der Serie UNTITLED, 2017 © Birgit Kleber
EVA #1, aus der Serie EVA, 1997 © Birgit Kleber
Eva #3, aus der Serie EVA, 1997 © Birgit Kleber
talking heads #7, aus der Serie talking heads, 2013 © Birgit Kleber
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Sep 30 — Nov 18, 2018
Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 29, 7 pm
+ Framework program: please see above

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Hohenzollerndamm 176, 10713 Berlin
[Wilmersdorf | Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf]

Opening hours: Tue – Fri 10 am – 5 pm, Wed 10 am – 7 pm, Sun 11 am – 5 pm

Admission free

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PiB Guide Nº58 JAN/FEB 2025 © PiB (Photography in Berlin). © PiB (Photography in Berlin). COVER PHOTO: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Adebiyi, 1989 © Rotimi Fani-Kayode. Courtesy of Autograph, London. Group show »A World in Common. Contemporary African Photography« at C/O Berlin in Berlin-Charlottenburg, read more on page 4 & 5! +++ 3 photos on right double page spread (p. 5), top to bottom right: 1) Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Prologue III), Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2016 © Dawit L. Petros. Courtesy of the artist and Tiwani Contemporary. 2) Lebohang Kganye, Re shapa setepe salenyalo II, 2013 © Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy of the artist. 3) Rotimi Fani-Kayode, see cover credits. +++ PiB Guide Editors / V.i.S.d.P. / Art Direction: Julia Schiller & Oliver Schneider

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