Imposed Traces
07.03.2023 - 10.04.2023
This exhibition is a multidimensional photographic retrospective that goes linear on the historical timeline and, simultaneously, into the depth of each artistic view.
Different generations of artists are being presented here together. They are linked not only with their geographical occupation in Berlin but also their intended view of human life and their relationship with the city, nature, and themselves. Everlasting stories over which time has no power emerge in each series.
The perspectives' plexus (the network of things) is telling us the same stories, just moving the focus a bit closer or a bit further - to us, to nature, to the city and back to us again. Are we really changing as much as we think we do? It may seem that some stories could go out of fashion, but never out of sight.
The overarching line is the attentive view to East and West, male and female gaze, differences that have been cultivated once and are now only a memory, or not?
Are we so different, or are we so not different, or maybe stuck in traces of inherited memories?
Artists – Imposed Traces
Norbert Bunge
Berlin born filmmaker, cameraman and photographer. He made numerous documentaries especially portraits of famous artists since 1974. In 1996 he opened the argus fotokunst gallery, which was dedicated to bw photography focused on East German photography.
Dana Enger
She sees herself as a collector of different traces of time. The two works from series "The fragility of holding and letting go" deals with the careful approach on situations and actions that are foreign and yet familiar. Working with the tension between proximity and distance.
Irina Kholodna
Kharkov born photographer, her work embeds her personal experience into wider cultural, historical and geographical contexts. Borders are dissolving: borders between art and real life, between old times and current reality, between
East Europe and places in the West.
Mariya Kozhanova
Visual artist, capturing moments of sensibility, beauty, fragility, which can be found in our nature and human mind. The five works from the series "In Our Nature" are about cultural frameworks in juxtaposition with the natural beauty of human beings. It's going back to the balance of nature, both outside of and within ourselves.
Rolf Zöllner
Born in Chemnitz, photojournalist in Berlin today, worked in an electrical institute in Berlin-Marzahn in the 8os and started with street photography in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
He continues to capture the Zeitgeist of our times and is well represented in cultural-historical museums.
