Exhibitions in Galerie Baer

»Indizien«

group show
contemporary photography

Laura Bielau - miR. grabe - Jan von Holleben - Erik Niedling - Yuki Onodera - Katja Stoye-Cetin


In her series Color Lab Club, Laura Bielau explores the history of photography and her own relationship to the medium. She highlights the disappearance of old processes and techniques, photographing equipment and tools that will soon vanish completely from photographers’ everyday working lives.

The artist miR. grabe delves into the cityscape, seeking hidden and invisible sculptural forms. His tireless zeal for abstraction and the manifold possibilities of the pinhole camera come together to form minimalist and reduced images of urban habitats.

In his new series Microhumanoids, Jan von Holleben constructs apparent realities with a language of images that is as powerful as it is playful. These mischievous and creative works, with their ironic take on sociological studies, were produced in a workshop as scientific simulations of microorganisms.

In his photo series entitled Formation, Erik Niedling works with historical material from the photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch, one of the leading figures of New Objectivity in Germany. In doing so, Niedling plays with the points where notions such as ‘positive’ and ‘negative’, ‘historical’ and ‘new’ intersect, thus referring in a subtle fashion to the history of photography.

The series Look out the window by Japanese artist Yuki Onodera consists of works of delicate and distilled aestheticism. With her light installations, Ondera takes newly constructed buildings without a history or future and endows them with an aura of life by making reference to the people who live within them and their moods.

Katja Stoye-Cetin explores anew the modernist vocabulary of forms, eschewing all spatial effects in the process. By directly illuminating photographic paper and using semi-transparent sheets of plastic, the artist creates geometric compositions of light—a distilled universe of luminous bands of colour and circular forms on a dark background.

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