17.09.2024 – 21.01.2025
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.
07.03. – 22.07.2023
LOREDANA NEMES
TREES, SEAS, AND
THE BEE’S KNEES
On the occasion of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography, Galerie Springer Berlin presents the first solo exhibition of photographer Loredana Nemes entitled "Trees, Seas, and the Bee's Knees". The selection of work on view includes the current series of works "Greytree and Heavensea" created from 2019 to 2023, the series "Immergrün" from 2020, the group of works "Blossom Time" from 2012 and the series "Greed", 2014-2017.
For two decades, the artist Loredana Nemes has worked mainly on the theme of portraits, which have been presented in numerous series and institutional exhibitions. Since 2019, Nemes has increasingly approached nature. On Rügen she creates the cycle "Greytree and Heavensea", in which she complements photographs of the beech forest in Jasmund National Park with views of the immensity of the sea. 14 visits in all seasons let her deeply explore this unique natural place and tell of the continuous change inherent in all life.
During the same time she photographs the series "Immergrün" in 2020, searching for lovers who have been together for several decades. Poetic texts and pictures emerge from the stories told by the 14 couples who showed up. In doing so, she explores the question of how the interweaving of souls and bodies of the lovers can be expressed through photography and chooses condensation through analogue double exposure for this purpose.
In the second portrait series, "Blossom Time" from 2012, the artist captured young people on their way to adolescence. She chooses to take group pictures, but photographs each young person individually and then assembles the images into diptychs or triptychs. "The cycle Blossoming is an ode to youth. The young people do not pose, they are simply there, in the fullness of their existence, just like spring and the blossoming trees that Loredana Nemes has also portrayed." (Katya Petrovskaya).
What unites all the series is their inherent stillness, Nemes' empathetic gaze and her non-judgemental portrayal - regardless of whether she shows us portraits of people or of trees. There is tangency in everything: that of the trees standing together like families on a stage, that of the merging old couples or that of the young people who pause mysteriously in front of the photographer and express the friendship and tenderness that unites them.
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.
GRAUBAUM UND HIMMELMEER, 2019 – 2023
BLÜTEZEIT, 2012
GIER, 2014 – 2017
IMMERGRÜN
23197, 2017-2018
BEYOND, 2008-2010
