07.11.2023 – 02.03.2024
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
AFRICAN STUDIES
OPENING: 04.11.2023, 14–18 UHR
On 4 November, we will open the exhibition "African Studies" by Canadian photographer Edward
Burtynsky. This will be the fourth solo exhibition by this internationally renowned artist since 2014.
For decades, his concern for the environment has been the driving force behind his artistic work. In
stunningly beautiful images, he shows us the serious marks that industry leaves on the earth. At the
same time, his images often document alarming ecological disasters.
The exhibition includes work from Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa. The photographs
show bird's eye views of the mining of sulphur, coal, iron, diamonds and salt. Breathtaking
images from Namibia reveal the beauty of the country's unspoilt nature.
The exhibition includes work from Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Senegal and South Africa. The photographs
show bird's eye views of the mining of sulphur, coal, iron, diamonds and salt. Breathtaking
images from Namibia reveal the beauty of the country's unspoilt nature.
Artist Statement:
»My interest in Africa owes its genesis to an earlier body of work that I produced about China back
in 2004. For that project, and while researching several topics including the Three Gorges Dam, urban
renewal, and recycling, I learned how the new Chinese factories were being created. At the time,
heavy machinery was literally being unbolted from concrete floors in Europe and North America,
then shipped and refastened to the floors of gigantic facilities in China. This represented a paradigm
shift of industry, and it seemed obvious that China was rapidly becoming a leading manufacturer for
the world. I realized even then that the African continent was poised to become the next, perhaps
even the last, territory for major industrial expansion.«
20.09.2022 – 11.02.2023
10 JAHRE
GALERIE SPRINGER BERLIN
JUBILÄUMS-
AUSSTELLUNG
Verlängert bis zum 11.02.2023
We are delighted to invite you to our group exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of
Galerie Springer Berlin. When we opened the gallery in its current format 10 years ago,
it was founded on Robert Springer’s 20 years’ experience of gallery work stemming from
a long family tradition. The decision to run the gallery with Heide Springer resulted in a
reorientation of the gallery programme towards photography.
Over the past decade, we
are proud to have made an international name for ourselves as a gallery in this diverse
field. And alongside the necessary commercial focus, we have always placed great value
on quality and curatorial concepts, and see our gallery work as a cultural task. Luck has
also played a role in our on-going work in this direction and we are grateful for it.
For example, the area around our traditional location in Berlin-Charlottenburg has again
developed into a much sought-after area for galleries. Important public and private
institutions as well as photography galleries have since taken up residence close by, so
that the area has become an attractive and recognised quarter for all interested parties.
Over the past ten years, we have succeeded in putting on exhibitions with world
renowned photographers, including Edward Burtynsky who we represent exclusively in
Germany, Evelyn Hofer, Ingar Krauss, Saul Leiter, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, Joel
Meyerowitz, Loredana Nemes, Arnold Odermatt and Georges Rousse, and we have
enjoyed a successful working relationship with the latter two artists for well over 20
years now.
We also present recognised European artists for the first time in Berlin: Catherine Gfeller
and Aitor Ortiz.
And of course our programme includes Berlin-based photographers, covering new
approaches as well as new discoveries, such as Kathrin Linkersdorff who is now active
internationally, Maria Jauregui Ponte, Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Lohner Carlson, Wiebke
Elzel and Jana Müller, Winfried Muthesius, Ashkan Sahihi, Michael Schäfer and Sebastian
Wells, and Jens Liebchen and Peter Klare whose new series were shown in our most
recent exhibition.
In our anniversary exhibition, we are presenting a special selection of personal
favourites, chosen gems and highlights from the previous decade, and premiering a few
new works by our artists.
12.02. – 18.04.2019
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
ANTHROPOCENE - NEW PHOTOGRAPHS
»Humankind reached an unprecedented moment in planetary history. Humans now affect the Earth and its processes more than all other natural forces combined.« The Anthropocene Project is a multidisciplinary body of work combining fine art photography, film, virtual reality, augmented reality, and scientific research to investigate human influence on the state, dynamic, and future of the Earth.
Galerie Springer Berlin is showing a high-quality selection of new photographs from the Anthropocene project.
The entire body of work is currently being shown simultaneously at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. The documentary film The Anthropocene: The Human Epoch by Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky will soon be shown in cinemas.
The book The Anthropocene has just been published by Steidl in Göttingen.
Detailed information about the entire project is available at https://theanthropocene.org
13.12.2016 – 25.02.2017
FIRST CHOICE ll
BURTYNSKY · LEITER · LEHMANN-BRAUNS · MUTHESIUS · ORTIZ · ODERMATT · ROUSSE
In First Choice II zeigt die Galerie Springer Berlin jetzt bisher nicht gezeigte Werke und Werksgruppen einer Auswahl ihrer Künstler. Sieben vertretene Positionen und ganz unterschiedliche Motive und Themen – und dennoch besteht eine sichtbare Korrespondenz innerhalb der gezeigten Werke und Werksgruppen.
24.09. – 03.12.2016
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS
Under the EMOP Berlin, European Month of Photography 2016 Galerie Springer Berlin presents the Essential Elements exhibition by Edward Burtynsky showing a selection of works from his various series. The exhibition accompanies the publication of a book by the same name, (Thames & Hudson, September 2016). The German edition Essenz is being published at the same time by Prestel Verlag. The book and exhibition provide an overview of Burtynsky's many different projects and include a selection of works that have never been seen before.
Whereas nearly all previous exhibitions and publications have been limited to a specific theme (mines, oil, water...), various cycles will be combined together in this book and exhibition.
Furthermore, two large-scale works from the Indian Salt Pans series from 2016 will be presented. A book with the same title will be published this fall by Steidl Verlag.
Edward Burtynsky's work is described by the Canadian author and curator William A. Ewing in his text in Essential Elements aptly: “In the past decade Canada’s Edward Burtynsky has risen to prominence as one of the world’s most accomplished photographers. His large-scale works are both aesthetically engaging and impressive in their lucid depiction of massive human interventions upon the landscape.
Yet they never let the social and environmental costs of this relentless transformation slip out of sight. While Burtynsky respectfully acknowledges our collective accomplishments, he reminds us of the steep price we pay for unbridled material wealth. If Huxley’s warning of a ‘superlative catastrophe’ fell on deaf ears in 1928 (after all, industry was roaring along, and the wealthy readers of the article in Vanity Fair were wallowing in dividends) Burtynsky’s stark picture of a ravaged Earth, coming almost a century later, should gain firmer purchase on minds alarmed by the mounting evidence of climate disruption.“
About Edward Burtynsky:
Edward Burtynsky, born in 1955 in Ontario, studied Photography and Media Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. In his work he explores the complicated connections between nature and industry. Edward Burtynsky is considered one of the most well-known and renowned photographers in Canada, and his works can be found in over 50 major museums throughout the world: National Gallery of Canada, MoMA, Guggenheim NYC, and many more.
28.03. – 24.05.2014
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
WATER Part II
NEW RELEASES
The Galerie Springer Berlin is pleased to present to you Part 2 of the exhibition WATER by EDWARD BURTYNSKY. The second part of the exhibition features, for the most part, new, previously unpublished works from the series.
Along with the film WATERMARK and the BURTYNSKY – WATER book (Steidl), it is Mr Burtynsky’s largest project to date, documenting the scale and impact of manufacturing and consumption on the world’s water supplies. Burtynsky chronicles the various roles that water plays in modern life – as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious rituals and as a rapidly depleting resource. The photographs, both beautiful and haunting, create a compelling global portrait that illustrates humanity’s past, present and future relationship with the natural world.
Shooting in ten different countries for the WATER project, Burtynsky’s subjects include dry-land farming in Spain, pivot irrigation sites in Texas, and the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In these instances, Burtynsky took to the air using conventional helicopters, remote controlled helicopters and small fixed-wing aircraft, to bring the scale of the human imprint into a more meaningful perspective. He also travelled to photograph millions of people bathing in the cleansing power of the sacred Ganges River in India; mega-dam construction on the upper Yangtze and the once-a-year silt release on the Yellow River in China, the precious virgin watersheds of British Columbia and the dry beds of the Colorado River Delta.
The documentary WATERMARK by Edward Burtynsky and the multiple award-winning director Jennifer Baichwal ("Manufactured Landscapes") shows in fascinating images the universal significance of water and the importance of this essential resource for the future. After the celebrated European première of the film at this year's Berlinale, the film launches nationwide on 15 May 2014. The world première took place at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Here, the work was awarded the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award 2013.
31.01. – 15.03.2014
EDWARD BURTYNSKY
WATER
Photographs 2009 – 2013
We are pleased to present Canadian Photographer Edward Burtynsky. After his well renown OIL in 2012 at cIo Berlin we are showing a selection of work from his latest series WATER, in collaboration with Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne. Along with the film WATERMARK and the BURTYNSKY – WATER book (Steidl), it is Mr Burtynsky’s largest project to date, documenting the scale and impact of manufacturing and consumption on the world’s water supplies.
Burtynsky chronicles the various roles that water plays in modern life – as a source of healthy ecosystems and energy, as a key element in cultural and religious rituals and as a rapidly depleting resource. The photographs, both beautiful and haunting, create a compelling global portrait that illustrates humanity’s past, present and future relationship with the natural world.
Shooting in ten different countries for the WATER project, Burtynsky’s subjects include dry-land farming in Spain, pivot irrigation sites in Texas, and the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In these instances, Burtynsky took to the air using conventional helicopters, remote controlled helicopters and small fixed-wing aircraft, to bring the scale of the human imprint into a more meaningful perspective.
He also travelled to photograph millions of people bathing in the cleansing power of the sacred Ganges River in India; mega-dam construction on the upper Yangtze and the once-a-year silt release on the Yellow River in China, the precious virgin watersheds of British Columbia and the dry beds of the Colorado River Delta.
