With city views of Berlin, Efraim Habermann became known to a broad public as a photographer in the 1960s. His works are characterized early on by a distinctive, concise style and unusual perspectives. Today, after a 50-year creative phase, he has an extensive body of photographic work, consistently in black and white, with numerous series from Israel, Venice and Berlin, still lifes, portraits and photographic collages. Habermann's »pearls«, his mostly constructivist watercolors, geometric forms in strong colors, finely balanced into a postcard-sized composition, seem almost like a commentary on his own conception of the image. An extensive exhibition of works from the artist's private archive can now be seen in Berlin from mid-February.

Vienna around 1900: photography had already made rapid technical progress, but at this time only very few recognized its artistic potential. The ALBERTINA in Vienna illuminates in Pictorialism. Art Photography around 1900 the beginnings of a network that sought to elevate photography to the status of fine art. The exhibition opens on February 3, 2023.

The artisanal revaluation of simple materials: Hamburg-based artist Birke Gorm dismantles patriarchal structures with the help of work with female connotations. From February 1, the Museum für angewandte Kunst in Vienna will be showing the exhibition Birke Gorm: dead stock.

Pop Art artist Wayne Thiebaud literally imposed himself with his fat cakes and pies. Similar to Udo Jürgens' with Aber bitte mit Sahne, Thiebaud found a language for the oversaturated affluent society with his pictures. The Fondation Beyeler will bring its visitors closer to the artist's complexity starting January 29.

After having taken place in June, the 2022 art fair now returns to its usual winter opening: BRAFA Art Fair, one of the oldest and most important art fairs in the world, opens in Brussels on 29 January.

Nothing rotten, something new broke over Denmark during the devastating period in the 19th century: Artists forged together on different concepts of identity and created impressive works. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is dedicating an exhibition with around 100 exhibits to them from January 26.

For over two decades, photographer Gauri Gill has been a voice of India's rural poor. She documents how people survive in precarious conditions. From 26 January, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art near Copenhagen will show her work in the Gauri Gill exhibition.