Group Exhibition
»Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject«
Curated by Dr. Candice M. Hamelin
Wilfried Bauer, Sibylle Bergemann, Kurt Buchwald, Gundula Schulze-Eldowy, Arno Fischer, Nan Goldin, Herbert Hensky, Max Jacoby, Karl-Ludwig Lange, Will McBride, Rudi Meisel, Roger Melis, Evelyn Richter, Andreas Rost, Michael Schmidt, Maria Sewcz, Michael Wesely, Anno Wilms, Lothar Winkler, Ulrich Wüst, Werner Zellien, Harf Zimmermann, Miron Zownir
RE-OPENED from May 20 — 30, 2021!
Time slot tickets | Please note Stiftung Reinbeckhallen’s Health and Safety Regulations
Between September 18, 2020 and January 24, 2021 May 30, 2021 the Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Sammlung für Gegenwartskunst will present »Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject« at the Reinbeckhallen.
Curated by Dr. Candice M. Hamelin, the exhibition examines how German and international photographers captured Berlin – East, West, and unified – between the immediate postwar years and the end of the twentieth century. It includes photographs and photographic series by 23 photographers who took Berlin as their subject and, on occasion, the inspiration for their work. Belonging to the genres of documentary, street, architectural, conceptual, portrait, and experimental photography, their photographs – taken for magazines, photobooks, thesis projects, artistic ends, and private use – draw attention to the various photographic practices that flourished in Berlin as well as to the immense social, political, and cultural changes that the city underwent over the course of 55 years.
Featuring over 200 hundred works, some of which have never been exhibited before, the show highlights different voices and artistic interests and presents multiple ways of seeing, being in, and photographing Berlin between 1945 and 2000. Due to their common subject, a city that was devasted in the final years of the Second World War and subsequently divided, they depict the damage done to Berlin during the war, the collective efforts of the Trümmerfrauen (Rubble Women) in the immediate postwar years, and the building and subsequent fall of the Berlin Wall. In addition to capturing these and other historical moments and events, they document and provide insight into everyday life in the second half of the 1940s and 1950s; the building boom in the Eastern and Western parts of the city in the 1960s and 1970s; subcultures that began to be seen and photographed on both sides of the political divide in the late 1970s and 1980s; ways of life that either vanished or emerged following the fall of the Berlin Wall; and the large development projects that slowly replaced some of the city’s ruins and voids after German reunification. Finally, the photographs included in the exhibition raise critical questions about perception and the photographic process by offering varied perspectives of a city that not only rebuilt itself twice during the period under examination, but that also, despite – or perhaps because of – the changes it endured, remains one of Europe’s cultural centers.
»Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject« includes photographs and photographic series by Wilfried Bauer, Sibylle Bergemann, Kurt Buchwald, Arno Fischer, Nan Goldin, Herbert Hensky, Max Jacoby, Karl-Ludwig Lange, Will McBride, Rudi Meisel, Roger Melis, Evelyn Richter, Andreas Rost, Michael Schmidt, Maria Sewcz, Michael Wesely, Anno Wilms, Lothar Winkler, Werner Zellien, Harf Zimmermann, and Miron Zownir. It also features a 26-minute film by Gundula Schulze-Eldowy and a leporello containing 108 photographs by Ulrich Wüst.
Candice M. Hamelin received her MA in Fine Arts from the University of Toronto and her PhD in History of Art from the University of Michigan. After defending her dissertation, Behind Immaterial and Material Divides: East German Photography, 1949-1989, she accepted The Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Getty Research Institute Fellowship, residing first in Berlin and then in Los Angeles. She has published extensively on East German art photography and has been the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities Fellowship and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She began her curatorial practice under the tutelage of Barbara Fischer at the University of Toronto and has curated shows in Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles. »Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject« is her first show at the Reinbeckhallen.
Framework program
Weekly tours will be offered on the occasion of the European Month of Photography Berlin during the month of October. Led by Candice M. Hamelin and given in English and German on alternating weeks, they will take place every Friday evening at 7 pm. Duration: approx. 45 minutes.
Dates:
Curator’s Guided Tours in English: Oct 2 & 16 & 30, 2020
Curator’s Guided Tours in German: Oct 9 & 23, 2020
More information | Book your Guided Tour (€ 15 incl. admission)
Thursday, Oct 22, 2020, 7 pm > CANCELLED due to Covid-19.
Panel Discussion
On October 22nd at 7 pm, the Stiftung Reinbeckhallen will host a panel discussion titled »Berlin, 1945–2000: Gender as a Subject«. Artists, curators, and other specialists from the field of visual arts will discuss the topic of gender inequality in photography from the immediate post-war years to the present. This event is free and open to the public.
Thursday, Nov 26, 2020, 7 pm
Artist Talk > via Live-Stream on YouTube
With photographers Maria Sewcz & Miron Zownir and curator Dr. Candice M. Hamelin. The talk will be held in German and transmitted via live-stream. Registration is required by email:
Details
Watch the recorded Artist Talk now on YouTube
May 5 — 7, 2021
IG Takeover
Instagram takeover on @pib.photographyinberlin by artist Andreas Rost and curator Dr. Candice M. Hamelin, from Wednesday to Friday, May 5th — 7th 2021!
May 7, 2021, 7 pm
Artist Talk with Andreas Rost & Dr. Candice M. Hamelin
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, artists began to seek out new modes of creating and living in Berlin. Some flocked to the city to work without the economic and physical constraints felt elsewhere, while others founded artist communities and engaged in activities that attracted people from all over the world. To speak about this period, one that frames the fall of the Berlin Wall, Andreas Rost will join Dr. Candice M. Hamelin, art historian and curator of the exhibition »Berlin, 1945–2000: A Photographic Subject«, at the Reinbeckhallen on May 7th, 2021.
This talk will take place in English and will be broadcasted live from 7 pm on PiB’s Instagram account @pib.photographyinberlin, following the artist’s three-day takeover of the account.
Details
Part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2020
Oct 1 — 31, 2020
Sep 18, 2020 — Jan 24, 2021 extended until May 30, 2021
Framework program: please see above
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