On the occasion of the reopening of the Albertinum, the Kunsthalle in the Lipsius building is displaying works by Jeff Wall, one of the most important photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Close by the Albertinum, which shows art from Romanticism to the present, the exhibition will shine a bright light on contemporary art. Until Jeff Wall became one of the first artists to work with light boxes, photography was displayed in black and white, in small formats, like prints. By adopting the style of advertising in his works, Wall revolutionised photography.

“We are very fortunate to be able to show Wal...

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At first glance, Beate Gütschow’s photographs appear to be natural reproductions of an existent reality. However, the motifs depicted are assembled on a computer. They consist of up to 100 individual images which she has photographed in various places and then archived for future use.

Whilst each individual image reflects reality, when taken as a whole her pictures are completely fictitious.

For her first series, Beate Gütschow chose 17th and 18th-century landscape painting as her point of reference. Working in the studio, artists such as Nicolas Poussin or Claude Lorrain composed idealised lan...

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