Photography beyond its boundaries

»From today on, painting is dead.« This is what the history painter Paul Delaroche is said to have feared in 1839 when the daguerreotype appeared on the scene. Today we know that it turned out differently, but not only did painting survive, it developed further, found new forms of expression and went far beyond the depiction of reality. Photography has in some ways followed, if not gone further, greatly expanding not only its technical processes but also the range of its forms of expression, and today it moves no less than painting between hyperrealism and abstraction, playing with painterly gestures, graphic poetry and surreal compositions. In short, it explores boundaries and enriches our perception with new perspectives. 

In the exhibition Grenzgänge (Crossing Boundaries) you will meet five of these boundary-crossers who succeed in doing so in a special way. Marta Djourina, Antoine Khôl, Ute Lindner, Tamsjadi & Schmidt and Ria Wank draw with the camera and paint with light, robbing the visible world of abstract impressions and giving form to mere emotions. They do not depict reality; they create a new one.

Grenzgänge
Opening: Thursday, March 6, 2025, from 6:00 p.m.
Exhibition: March 7 to April 19
artnow Gallery
Fasanenstraße 42, 10719 Berlin
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The photographic image is omnipresent today, invading every sphere of human life and shaping our perception of the world. Yet we know less and less how far we can trust images. Does a photograph still serve as documentary evidence? Does it show reality, or does it create it through mere assertion and manipulation? Can identities still compete with their images, control the interpretation of their pictures? The private and public existence of the individual, our relationship to each other, to society and to other communities – everything is explored, documented and made visible through photography, but it is also created, directed, invented and distorted. The exhibition The New You-We-Me is dedicated to these questions and features works by Sandra Becker, Maks Dannecker, Siegfried Dengler, Norma Drimmer, Boris Eldagsen, Monika Funke Stern, Simone Kornfeld, Sebastian Kusenberg, Laura Kärki, Carolina Patino Mayer, Corinna Rosteck, Katrin Salentin, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, Sigi Torinus, Catrin Welcher and Ila Wingen.

The New You-We-Me
Opening: Friday, March 14, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Galerie Verein Berliner Künstler at Haus der Künstler
Schöneberger Ufer 57, 10785 Berlin
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