17.09.2024 – 25.01.2025
LOOKS LIKE ABSTRACTION
GROUP EXHIBITION
Opening: 14. September 2024, 2-6 pm
We are pleased to invite you to our new group exhibition LOOKS LIKE ABSTRACTION, which is dedicated to the theme of abstraction in photography. In addition to five artists from our gallery programme, we have invited three guest artists to take part in the exhibition.
LOOKS LIKE ABSTRACTION explores the question of when a photograph is perceived as abstract. Was this the artist's intention from the outset? Isn't every photograph initially concrete, only to become something else, such as an abstract image, through the cropping of the picture? The tour of the exhibition answers some of these questions, but also leaves plenty of room for free flight of thought and emotion.
The presentation is divided into two sections. In the first section, we show photographs that have their origins in architecture; in the second section, nature provides the basis for the works presented. The chronological arc spans from the 1960s to the present day in 2024.
The guest artist is the Japanese photographer Natsoumi, who studied art history at the Université de Paris and now lives with her family in Miyagi, Japan. Her works shown in the exhibition were created this year.
The artist Stefanie Seufert is also a guest. She lives and works in Berlin. Her works have been shown in numerous national and international exhibitions (Berlinsche Galerie, Eskenazi Museum of Art Bloomington, Louisville, Penumbra Foundation NYC and many more).
The sculptural works in the exhibition were created in 2016.
Janos Frecot is a photo historian, author and was curator and head of the photography collection at the Landesmuseum Berlinische Galerie from 1978 to 2002. As a photographer, he created a Berlin series in the 1960s, from which we are showing a small selection of works.
From our programme we are showing new works by Maria Jauregui Ponte, Loredana Nemes and Anna Szprynger as well as photographs by Ingar Krauss and Edward Burtynsky.
We would like to thank Janos Frecot and Loredana Nemes for their support in the conception and realisation of the exhibition.
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.
01.03. – 14.05.2022
INGAR KRAUSS
DER HARTE KERN DER SCHÖNHEIT*
Opening: 26. Feb. 2022, 13-18 Uhr
The exhibition shows photographs by Ingar Krauss that trace the development and recurrence of nature as a theme in his work – from early portraits to his latest serial works. His pictures reflect a realism that is magical in a natural way: as a perception of the poetic, the surreal and sometimes the sinister in everyday life. An intensive experience of nature as well as animals and plants, their becoming and passing in a seasonal cycle, play an important role in this.
Krauss works solely with analogue equipment and preferably in black and white, i.e. in the darkroom. No computer is used in his image production and if he processes images he does by hand, with a paintbrush and varnish.
His genres are the classics of painting: portrait, still life and landscape. The photographer comes closest to painting with his still lifes and yet this series touches on fundamental questions of the photographic medium. Its depth, colour and consistency in the composition of the image reflect the first decade of the medium in the 19th century while at the same timing being of great clarity and rich in allusion.
Krauss finds his motifs in the rural surroundings of his studio. He builds stage-like boxes of different sizes for them and allows the fruits, plants and also animals to appear in them in a natural, virtually metaphysical light. Measured in terms of their presence, the pictures could also be seen as portraits of these things of nature that, being freed and eliminating of time to the same extent, become symbols of transience. One sees in them the slow development process: Krauss is a master of materiality.
* Title based on a poem by William Carlos Williams
Ingar Krauss was born in East Berlin in 1965. He lives and works in Berlin and Oderbruch. He has been involved in numerous international exhibitions, for example at the Hayward Gallery (London), the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne), the Palazzo Vecchio (Florence) and the ICP (New York). His works are included in many collections, including the Hermès Collection (Paris), the Hasselbladfoundation (Goteborg) and the Berlinische Galerie (Berlin).
Books of his work have been published by Hatje Cantz, Thames & Hudson, Mondadori Electa, Kerber, Skira Editore and Hartmann Books, among others.
