24.04. – 25.09.2021


KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF
FAIRIES

For the first time, Galerie Springer Berlin presents works by artist and photographer Kathrin Linkersdorff in a solo exhibition with works from her new series "Fairies". Linkerdorff is shaped by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi-Sabi, in which the beauty of imperfection and impermanence is extolled. Barbara Esch Marowski, director of the Haus am Kleistpark, had described the artist a few weeks ago as follows: "In their captivating clarity, her works are reminiscent of the plant photographs of Karl Blossfeldt and in their aesthetics of the paintings of Edward Weston.

If you entered her studio, you would not think it was a photo studio. Stacking cardboard boxes hold an archive of drying plants. The beginning of her work is a lengthy and painstaking treatment of ever more fragile flowers. For months they are hung up, turned, dusted and turned over again - to fragilely solidify in imagined forms.

The essence of her working method is analogue. For a long time she photographed on film material with a Hasselblad and even today Linkersdorff works exclusively with deliberately used daylight.

In the precisely staged moment of photography, the fading moment of transience is frozen in its full beauty. But it is only in the subsequent interplay with the elaborate process of further processing and a finely adjusted print that the image finds its perfect expression and is able to reflect the soulful moment of the shot."

Kathrin Linkersdorff, born in Berlin in 1966, completed her architecture studies at the TU Cottbus in 1996. She studied at Berlage University in Amsterdam and at Bartlett University in London. She then worked as an architect in Tokyo before studying Japanese ink painting there. In Berlin, she completed her studies in photography at the "Schule für Fotografie am Schiffsbauerdamm" with Robert Lyons in 2006-2007. Since 2012, she has been working internationally as a freelance artist from Berlin.

17.11.2015 – 06.02.2016


ASHKAN SAHIHI
DIE BERLINERIN – A SELECTION
Opening 14.11.2015, 13 Uhr / 1 pm

For the first time, Galerie Springer Berlin presents American artist Ashkan Sahihi, who has recently been added to the program. The exhibition features a selection from Sahihi’s extensive portrait series 'DIE BERLINERIN'. A book with the same title was published in October 2015 by DISTANZ Verlag and includes 375 portraits on 848 pages.

Born in Iran in 1963, Sahihi lived in Germany from 1970 to 1987, where he completed his A-levels. He then moved to New York, where he lived for nearly 30 years. Sahihi worked as a photographer for leading magazines such as New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vogue, Spiegel, Geo and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin.

He became known to a broader public in 2001 when MoMa/PS1 exhibited his DRUG SERIES as a special exhibition. After moving to Berlin in 2013, he quickly became fascinated by the city. Its rapid development, dynamic pace, and the significant changes in the makeup of its population were the inspiration for his large-scale project DIE BERLINERIN.

The project consists of portraits of 375 women living in Berlin, produced from September 2013 to August 2015. He started by defining 35 categories according to age, origin, social class and profession. A questionnaire was developed for each woman to fill out. Sahihi was often only able to find the women that he had in mind for a given category after conducting a long and extensive search. He worked with a simple digital camera and natural light. The women were asked to choose the setting, clothing and expression – they staged themselves. The resulting portraits underwent minimal post-production and were not cropped.

Yet DIE BERLINERIN is not documentary photography but rather Sahihi’s artistic expression, his seeing eye. It is the quintessence of research, encounters, oftentimes long and in-depth discussions. The series reflects the personality of each woman, her cultural background, profession or vocation and gives small clues as to time and place.

Galerie Springer Berlin will present its own selection of portraits from November 2015 to February 2016 at the same time as the exhibition in the municipal GALERIE IM KÖRNERPARK, Berlin, where the complete series will be shown from October 2015 to January 2016.

09.02. – 12.05.2012


GERHARD RICHTER
DAS PRINZIP DES SERIELLEN

13.12.2011 – 04.02.2012


SIGMAR POLKE
PHOTOGRAPHS

24.09. – 14.11.2009


GERHARD RICHTER
FARBFELDER
Von der Musterkarte zum Domfenster