The forest – landscape of peculiar significance to mankind. Albeit that there are not many historical forests left in germany and it is long since the dying of the primeval forest has entered public discussion, but the forest as imaginary place has not lost its importance. Many cultures myths and tales root in their national forests and it might be that fact especially that makes the forests so interwoven with our day to day realities. Today, maybe more than ever, it signifies the return to nature, space to recover, place to regain inner strength and a more grounded lifestyle.

Sought a...

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We are presenting, for the first time in this combination, works by renowned photographers Saul Leiter (*1923 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), Evelyn Hofer (*1922 Marburg a. d. Lahn - †2009 Mexico City) and Raghubir Singh (*1942 Jaipur, Indien - †1999 New York, USA). On display will be three early positions and perspectives of color photography – an american, european and indian view of the world united by the combined efforts for early color photography.

"What could be more natural, more ordinary than a color photograph? No one cared, of course, about the color picture in...

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«Pour moi, prendre une photo est une volonté de comprendre pleinement le sujet. Comprendre la réalité qui se ressent dans le paysage.» Olaf Otto Becker, 2011.

A nouveau, les travaux d'Olaf Otto Becker en Island durant l'été 2010 et l'été 2011 formèrent une quête dédicacé à la recherche des traces du temps. Le travail de ses visites précédentes, entre 1999 et 2002, fut publié dans le livre Under the Nordic Light en 2005. Cette année, nous som...

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With COME TO WHERE Galerie f 5,6 is presenting an insight to the photographic work of Max Regenberg (*1951, Bremerhaven). We will also be able to host the premiere of the artist book of the same title that comprises 46 black and white works from 1978 to 1984.

COME TO WHERE is the examination of an in the meantime almost historical occurence – poster advertisements for cigarettes. Succumbing to EU guidelines, the medial circulation of tobacco ads is a thing of the past but still for most of us it is possible to assemble the title COME TO WHERE with the rest of a v...

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„...there are moments when the world that we were just occupied with, suddenly fades. We enter a clearing whose boundaries we cannot see and where a different time prevails. Seconds become an eternity. Just as a scent can take us back to our childhood in a heartbeat, all of a sudden we sense again who we are, what the essence of our being is and what truly matters.“ Donata Wenders, in Islands of Silence, Prestel, 2006.

After 2004 and 2006 we are happy to present with Contemplation the third solo exh...

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