05.05. – 25.07.2026


LINES · CURVES · MOTIONS
LOREDANA NEMES · AITOR ORTIZ · STEFANIE SEUFERT
OPENING: 02 MAY 2026, 2 - 6 p.m.

Galerie Springer Berlin is delighted to announce its next exhibition featuring the artists Loredana Nemes, Stefanie Seufert and Aitor Ortiz. At first glance, the three artistic approaches appear distinct. The unifying element, however, is the analysis and interpretation of structures and patterns in nature. “To contemplate a natural pattern is, for an instant, to discover that our own mind participates in the same secret geometry that organises living things.” (Aitor Ortiz)

This thought is manifested in Loredana Nemes’s quiet white lines on a deep black background, which are reminiscent of landscapes, musical scores or oscilloscopes. Aitor Ortiz presents metallic curves that seem like a homage to the photographs of Karl Blossfeldt. Stefanie Seufert offers the great tits and blue tits in Berlin’s parks a stage on which, often after a long wait, she is able to capture their nimble movements with her camera.

LOREDANA NEMES · OVEREXPOSED White matt lines on deep, glossy black. Layered analogue photographic paper that transcends its two-dimensionality into the sculptural. Silver gelatine, bathed in light, becomes dense black – a black that reflects light, harbours secrets, opens up spaces. The radical cut edge as a line, as a border, as an end. In the interplay of the lines, landscapes, sea surfaces and musical scores emerge. The artist found inspiration in Hiroshi Sugimoto and Pierre Soulages – in the interplay of light, fullness and black. The small format maintains the balance between black surface and white line, which resonates in the movement of the hand.

STEFANIE SEUFERT· OTHERS The ongoing series OTHERS is created en plein air, in public parks, using a portable studio in which fabrics of various colours serve as a backdrop. There is natural light and an analogue camera. Apart from these elements, nothing in the setup can be planned. The composition of the images thus emerges from the behaviour of the birds that occasionally land in the setting: where do they land, how fast do they move, and do they even decide to come at all? The final C-prints in the series depict great tits and blue tits on a greatly enlarged scale. Above all, the images focus on the choreography of the wingbeat.

AITOR ORTIZ · METAFLORA Although Aitor Ortiz’s photographs enter into dialogue with the work of Karl Blossfeldt, they should not be understood simply as homage. Where Blossfeldt isolated vegetal forms from their natural context and transformed them into formal, almost archetypal studies, Ortiz begins from a markedly different field of reference: not from nature, but from the residual matter of industrial production.

Born in 1971 in the industrial city of Bilbao, where he also grew up, the artist belongs to a place historically shaped by metallurgy, shipbuilding and heavy industry. At the same time, Bilbao is a city profoundly marked by transformation. Its transition from an industrial centre to a post-industrial urban landscape has left deep and lasting traces— material, social and psychological.