Raum für Fotografie at Neuköllner Leuchtturm
Emser Strasse 117, 12051 Berlin, Germany

open 17march – 08may, tuesday to friday, 2 – 6 pm

http://www.photography-in.berlin

http://neukoellnerleuchtturm.de

is initiated by  Christian Reister

Upcoming exhibitions:

LICHTENBERG by Holger Biermann
15 aug to 11 sept

NICE TRY by Jan Michalko
12 sept to 16 okt

FENSTER61 (“WINDOW61″) uses an approx. 2 by 2 meter shop window in the very busy Torstraße, near subway Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin Mitte. Since 2005 photographers are presented in monthly changing exhibitions with works that more or less deal with Berlin.

FENSTER61 is not a gallery. FENSTER61 doesn’t have opening hours, since the visitor is in a public space. The window is lit at night.

FENSTER61.DE documents and archives the exhibitions.

Location // Torstraße 61, 10119 Berlin/Germany
U-Bahn: U2 Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, U8 Rosenthaler Platz
Tram: M8 // Bus: 240

LICHTENBERG by Holger Biermann

Lichtenberg begins where Holger Biermann’s Berlin tours usually end: behind Ostkreuz. Where the vast emptiness begins. Where he rarely encounters other people in the street. Dimensions are large. People have and leave one another plenty of space. He roams by himself through the tower block meadows, through allotment gardens and along private streets. At the city limits, Lichtenberg is all field and village. This is the story his photographs tell.

NICE TRY by Jan Michalko

For years, Jan Michalko has been roaming the streets with his camera. Always trying to find the unusual in the usual, always in analogue format, always on 28 mm. His style relies on coincidences and moments in which the prevailing chaos fuses into visual units. When asked about the driving force behind his work, he tells you: It is about images. We get the feeling that it is not just about images, but about constantly trying to find the one, the subjectively perfect image. And the answer to the question about the results of the day has long become a catchphrase: “Nice Try!”.

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22 June to 16 September 2012

What happens in Albania? The former closed Communist country with its long undiscovered coastline and spectacular Alpine interior retains an air of mystery in the midst of familiar old Europe. Albania is the close neighbour of Italy and Greece but, despite the fall of the Iron Curtain 20 years ago, has kept its secrets from us for too long.

This exhibition combines the work of six photographers based in Berlin, who for three years have been regularly exploring Europe’s least-known nation. They have immersed themselves in its unique and complex society successively moulded by the long period of Ottoman rule, the autocratic grip of communism and today by the excitement of emerging as a new democracy into modern Europe.

The idea of the project was to create a picture diary of a nation familiar by name but whose lifestyle, whose people and whose dreams are only slowly revealing themselves. Each of the photographers has followed his own unique approach to tell an unfolding story of discovery through images and other media.

This long-term project could never produce a straightforward narrative or even a journalistic documentation of a place as intriguing as Albania. Instead we offer six essays that build into a mosaic to capture what we found in a land just a short way away, but far from familiar.

L’ Albanie ? …

Pays autrefois retranché derrière un rideau sombre imposé par l’une des dictatures communistes des plus rigides, l’Albanie tarde toujours à nous livrer sa lumière restée longtemps sous le boisseau. Son littoral pittoresque encore ignoré par le tourisme et l’arrière pays offrant de spectaculaires reliefs montagneux gardent une tonalité mystérieuse au sein de cette vieille Europe qui nous semble pourtant si proche. L’Albanie est voisine de l’Italie et de la Grèce mais, malgré cette proximité et plus de deux décennies après la chute du rideau de fer, elle conserve encore aujourd’hui bien des secrets.

Cette exposition regroupe le travail de six photographes basés à Berlin qui, trois années durant ont régulièrement exploré la nation la plus méconnue d’Europe. Ils se sont immergés dans une société à l’histoire singulière et complexe successivement influencée par une longue domination ottomane, puis par la férule plus récente d’un communisme autocratique et dictatorial et enfin par une fièvre nouvelle d’inclusion dans le monde des démocraties émergentes de la nouvelle Europe.

L’idée du projet est de créer un journal intime, recueil de photographies, d’une nation au nom familier mais dont le quotidien, les gens et les rêves nous échappent encore. Dans cette perspective, chacun des photographes a poursuivi sa propre démarche apportant une vision personnelle et adoptant une technique particulière (format, support, couleur…) pour raconter l’histoire d’une découverte à travers ses images.

Ce projet à long terme ne pouvait pas produire un récit documentaire ou un compte-rendu
journalistique sur un sujet aussi fascinant que l’Albanie. Les photographes nous offrent ici six essais constituant une mosaïque riche et intimiste au fil de la découverte de ce pays proche de nous et cependant loin de nous être familier.

2 weeks in May 2011, artist in residence,
Lichtenberg Studios.

Exhibition at
Die Kunst der Intervention. Ein Jahr Lichtenberg Studios.
28 march til 27 april 2012. Möllendorffstraße 6
10367 Berlin, Germany

Lichtenberg begins where Holger Biermann’s Berlin tours usually end: behind Ostkreuz. Where the vast emptiness begins. Where he rarely encounters other people in the street. Dimensions are large. People have and leave one another plenty of space. He roams by himself through the tower block meadows, through allotment gardens and along private streets. At the city limits, Lichtenberg is all field and village. This is the story his photographs tell.

Opening 09 feb 2012, 7pm.
Exhibition 10 feb – 21 april 2012

at GalerieCafé EntwederOder
Oderberger Strasse 15
10435 Berlin, Germany

Opening 27.01.2012, 8 pm.
Exhibition 28.01 – 05.02.2012, Sat/Sun. 4 – 8 pm
at Kulturpalast Wedding International
Freienwalder Strasse 20
13359 Berlin, Germany
www.kulturpalastwedding.com
info[at]kulturpalastwedding.com

Opening 15 april 2011
Group show 16 april – 08 june 2011

AE Gallery
Hermann-Elflein-Strasse 18
Luisenforum
14467 Potsdam
Germany