"The E" was created on the edge of a commissioned work in 2001. It shows the former Buchhändlerhof transformer station in Berlin-Mitte in an intermediate state between a techno club and conversion by private owners into an office building and today's E-Werk event and conference center.
Without a nostalgic look, they are testimonies of Berlin's industrial age, whose traces have almost disappeared today. Parallel to the commission from SPM Technologies at the time, hundreds of black-and-white motifs were created on Polaroid film PN55. Of these, 20 motifs have been exclusively selected by Zimmermann, enlarged in analog on traditional silver gelatine paper, and developed. They are of high craftsmanship and stand for another important chapter in the oeuvre of Harf Zimmermann.
Harf Zimmermann (*1955, Dresden) is considered one of Germany's most important representatives of large-format photography. In his work, he pursues grown traces, which also come to the surface of things through countless layers of time. Harf Zimmermann's images have an inherent static, final quality that takes the actual content further out of its temporal context and thus removes it from the moment of capture. Insensitive to transfiguring nostalgia and backward-looking longing, his series are fluid documents of a rapidly changing society.
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"The E" was created on the edge of a commissioned work in 2001. It shows the former Buchhändlerhof transformer station in Berlin-Mitte in an intermediate state between a techno club and conversion by private owners into an office building and today's E-Werk event and conference center.
Without a nostalgic look, they are testimonies of Berlin's industrial age, whose traces have almost disappeared today. Parallel to the commission from SPM Technologies at the time, hundreds of black-and-white motifs were created on Polaroid film PN55. Of these, 20 motifs have been exclusively selected by Zimmermann, enlarged in analog on traditional silver gelatine paper, and developed. They are of high craftsmanship and stand for another important chapter in the oeuvre of Harf Zimmermann.
Harf Zimmermann (*1955, Dresden) is considered one of Germany's most important representatives of large-format photography. In his work, he pursues grown traces, which also come to the surface of things through countless layers of time. Harf Zimmermann's images have an inherent static, final quality that takes the actual content further out of its temporal context and thus removes it from the moment of capture. Insensitive to transfiguring nostalgia and backward-looking longing, his series are fluid documents of a rapidly changing society.
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About 100 years ago, the baroque New Palace in Sanssouci Park became a museum. Today's visitors have little idea that beyond the magnificent interiors, the room sequences continue and, for a long time, served as workshops, offices, or depots. Friederike von Rauch was commissioned to capture the atmosphere of the palace during this unique transition; an artistic view should capture the essence of this house.
The series "PREUSSISCHE WAND" bears witness to how Friederike von Rauch captures the special during countless forays through the palace - in detail and in grand pictorial gesture.
Friederike von Rauch (*1967, Freiburg, Germany) works with the medium of photography. She trained as a silversmith and studied industrial design at the University of the Arts in Berlin before working as a location scout for international film productions at the Potsdam Babelsberg film studios. Since the early 2000s, she has concentrated on her own artistic work: quiet, sometimes reduced photographs with extraordinary views of particular places, whose spatial atmosphere she delves into image series, such as museums, monasteries, and churches, as well as industrial buildings. Friederike von Rauch has realized numerous solo exhibitions. In 2008, she was invited by architect David Chipperfield to provide a photographic interpretation of his museum project in Berlin. Von Rauch's works are in numerous private and public collections, such as the Bundestag Collection, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Hess Art Collection, and the Royal Netherlands Collection. Friederike von Rauch lives and works in Berlin.
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About 100 years ago, the baroque New Palace in Sanssouci Park became a museum. Today's visitors have little idea that beyond the magnificent interiors, the room sequences continue and, for a long time, served as workshops, offices, or depots. Friederike von Rauch was commissioned to capture the atmosphere of the palace during this unique transition; an artistic view should capture the essence of this house.
The series "PREUSSISCHE WAND" bears witness to how Friederike von Rauch captures the special during countless forays through the palace - in detail and in grand pictorial gesture.
Friederike von Rauch (*1967, Freiburg, Germany) works with the medium of photography. She trained as a silversmith and studied industrial design at the University of the Arts in Berlin before working as a location scout for international film productions at the Potsdam Babelsberg film studios. Since the early 2000s, she has concentrated on her own artistic work: quiet, sometimes reduced photographs with extraordinary views of particular places, whose spatial atmosphere she delves into image series, such as museums, monasteries, and churches, as well as industrial buildings. Friederike von Rauch has realized numerous solo exhibitions. In 2008, she was invited by architect David Chipperfield to provide a photographic interpretation of his museum project in Berlin. Von Rauch's works are in numerous private and public collections, such as the Bundestag Collection, the Deutsche Bank Collection, the Hess Art Collection, and the Royal Netherlands Collection. Friederike von Rauch lives and works in Berlin.
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"Kenyan Roses for the Kingdom" is part of a research work dedicated to the cut rose industry in Kenya, created in 2019 as part of the Goethe@LUX residency in London. Her titles Aldi, TESCO Express, Waitrose, coop, Little Waitrose, M&S Victoria Mainline, M&S, Euston Road, and M&S Oxford St. refer to the place where Schönberger acquired the roses to later photograph them in her studio.
The photo series "Moss" was created in 2018 during a residency in Blackstad, Sweden. Surrounded by forests and moss landscapes, Schönberger focuses her gaze on this plant in its various manifestations, shaping them into design objects and naming them accordingly Aalto, Arabia, Iittala, Laholm, Pukeberg, and Töreboda.
Sonya Schönberger (b. 1975) combines her studies in anthropology and experimental media design in her artistic practice.
Depending on the project, the artist consciously uses different media such as photography, theater, film, installation, or audio formats. Schoenberger's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She has received several awards and participated in funding programs, including from the Goethe Institute in Nairobi and London.
In 2022 she was a fellow of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Sonya Schönberger lives and works in Berlin.
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"Kenyan Roses for the Kingdom" is part of a research work dedicated to the cut rose industry in Kenya, created in 2019 as part of the Goethe@LUX residency in London. Her titles Aldi, TESCO Express, Waitrose, coop, Little Waitrose, M&S Victoria Mainline, M&S, Euston Road, and M&S Oxford St. refer to the place where Schönberger acquired the roses to later photograph them in her studio.
The photo series "Moss" was created in 2018 during a residency in Blackstad, Sweden. Surrounded by forests and moss landscapes, Schönberger focuses her gaze on this plant in its various manifestations, shaping them into design objects and naming them accordingly Aalto, Arabia, Iittala, Laholm, Pukeberg, and Töreboda.
Sonya Schönberger (b. 1975) combines her studies in anthropology and experimental media design in her artistic practice.
Depending on the project, the artist consciously uses different media such as photography, theater, film, installation, or audio formats. Schoenberger's work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She has received several awards and participated in funding programs, including from the Goethe Institute in Nairobi and London.
In 2022 she was a fellow of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Sonya Schönberger lives and works in Berlin.
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