My friend and mentor Andreas Rost’s series Fahrer Perspektiven [Driver Perspectives] is on exhition at FENSTER61 until Feb. 21th. During the last year he has spent a lot of time next to the drivers of busses, trams, subways and local trains in Berlin. The result is an extensive collection of rough black and white photographs showing the driver’s perspectives on the city. Check www.fenster61.de for details and and extract from the series.
Currently at FENSTER61: Susanne Wehr’s Kennzeichen B from the artist’s vast archive of private slides volks-bild.com
Several times over several seasons Dutch photographer Rogier Alleblas took pictures of the same park-like pedestrian walkway at a crossing in Berlin. All of the photographs show the same details from the same perspective: a few park benches located almost invariably at the same spots, serving as a backdrop for people who regularly pass by there to sit down and take a break. This work has yielded a number of photo series, some of which show the same people again and again in almost identical poses, while others are of different people in almost the same positions. The seasons change throughout the series, yet time seems to be dissolving in the process, blown away with the autumn leaves from the trees in the background of the photographs.
When Rogier applied for an exhibition at FENSTER61 I was spontaneously enthusiastic about this series. It’s one of those very simple ideas that can lead to great results. Of course the exhibition is part of the 4th European Month of Photography in Berlin.
Andreas Muhs is a photographer based in Berlin running on of the biggest online archives about the city. Beside his commercial work is working on free projects that also deal with Berlin. Right now there are two new books out by Andreas Muhs – „Berlin. Die Frühen Neunziger – The Early Nineties“ contains black/white photographs from die first 5 years after the wall came down and is published by Lehmstedt. „Rest-Berlin“ shows cityscapes and interiours of contemporary Berlin in colour – wastelands, empty slots, firewalls and abandoned buildings that dominated the face of the city for many dacades. Most of them will be vanished soon. This book is self-published on blurb. Parts of Rest-Berlin are on display at FENSTER61 until Oct., 10th. Tomorrow we will have a litte 5 year of FENSTER61 celebration combined with an extra exhibition of Andreas Muhs with both book mentioned above. If you are around the corner you may join us on Torstraße 61. Starts at 7 pm. You are invited.
Update: a nice article about Rest-Berlin on Spiegel Online International.
There’s a new exhibition at FENSTER61 by Magdalena Spinn, a student from Ruhakademie Schwerte. Her series Kinderlos (Childless) shows 16 playgounds in Berlin. I wonder what looks more cosy – the lion’s cages at the zoo or those architectual highlights for the kids. Check www.fenster61.de