Highlights
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REFRAME
Young Namibian Documentary Photography in Berlin
Exhibition: September 2 –October 20, 2023
opening: Friday, September 1st, 7 pm
14 photographers from Namibia, aged 17 to 37, completed the first photo master class in the capital Windhoek, initiated by Berlin-based photographer Julia Runge. Together with Hildegard Titus and Lisa Ossenrbink, she led workshops on the theme “Home of Mine” and is now bringing the exhibition to FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain. The project was sponsored by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, as Windhoek is Berlin’s only twin city on the African continent.
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Meryl Meisler – New York Paradise Lost
Exhibition: October 15 – November 26, 2021
Vernissage: October 14, 2021
FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain presented the first European solo exhibition by Meryl Meisler.
The New York photographer and longtime art teacher traveled to Berlin for the first time on the occasion of her 70th birthday thanks to the support of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Her work from the 1970s and 1980s draws a sharp contrast between the difficult social conditions on the streets of Brooklyn conditions on the streets of Brooklyn, New York and the glamorous, excessive nightlife of the disco era.
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Ann-Christine Jansson – Umbrüche 1980-1995
Exhibition 30 November 2018 – 26 Januar 2019
Opening 29 November 2018, 7pm
Adopting an outsider’s perspective, the Berlin based Swedish photographer Ann-Christine Jansson provides aunique account of East German and West German history.
*Photo: The East Germans receive for the first time the West German currency in the night of 1st July 1990, East Berlin Copyright by: ANN-CHRISTINE JANSSON
Spiegel Online – Wie eine Schwedin die Mauerstadt erlebte
Monopol Magazin – Es war einmal in Berlin
Frankfurter Rundschau – Berliner vor und nach der Wende
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Award 2018
We are honoured to be winner of the award for art project spaces and initiatives 2018.
On Friday, the 28th of September 2018 the “Award for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives” will be presented by Torsten Wöhlert (Permanent Secretary for Culture). The event is organised by the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives on behalf of the Senate Department of Culture and Europe. Coinciding with the Berlin Art Week, 20 prizewinning Berlin project spaces and initiatives will have exhibitions and events in their spaces.
SURVIVE! – Who and what is taking shape here?
Alongside museums, galleries, and other kinds exhibition spaces, art project spaces and initiatives are an important factor in Berlin’s art scene and they have a unique artistic mission. Real estate and capital markets are putting pressure on the scene, so that project space initiators struggle to defend their spaces and survive. Their independence allows for a certain kind of distance from the market pressure of commercial galleries. But herein lies a dilemma: How to survive and retain the power to act?
Text -> Projekträume Berlin
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Ein Tag in Berlin – 30 Jahre danach
Group exhibition with 50 photographers
Exhibition 04 August – 22 September 2017
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Lifestyle vom 05. August Fotogalerie Friedrichshain – YouTube
Der Tagesspiegel – Fotogalerie Friedrichshain Strich und Straße – 06.08.2017
stadtinspektor – Vernissage: Ein Tag in Berlin – 30 Jahre danach – 04.08.2017
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Danila Tkachenko ∇ Restricted Areas
Solo show by Danila Tkachenko
Part of European Month of Photography Berlin 2024
Exhibition 16 September – 28 October 2024
EMOP opening party with DJ-Set: 6 October, 7pm
The series «Restricted Areas» was realized by Danila Tkachenko in 2013-2015. It shows the human impulse towards utopia, the endeavour for perfection through technological progress. For «Restricted Areas», Danila Tkachenko travelled thousands of kilometers in search of places which used to be of great importance for the idea of technological progress in the former Soviet Union. These places have lost their significance, along with the utopian ideology they emerged from and which has become obsolete in the end of the last century. Tkachenko’s photographs bear witness of what remains after the progress has come to a halt.
30 years after Tschernobyl, the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history, FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain and Danila Tkachenko combine efforts to reconsider their common socialist heritage.
The exhibition at FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain will present a deeper perspective on «Restricted Areas», complementing it with archival material and additional data, cultural and historical references to the objects in the series.
Find the exhibition on the website of European Month of Photography 2024
Press release Danila Tkachenko Restricted Areas
Lomography.com Magazine Article
Berlino Cacchio e Pepe Magazin: Restricted Areas- Mostra di Danila Tkachenko
Artikel der Berliner Morgenpost als Pdf
Artikel der Berliner Zeitung als Pdf
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30 Jahre Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
Exhibition 31 July – 11 September 2015
Conception of the exhibition: Felix Hawran – Leader of the FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain
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In August 2015, FOTOGALERIE Friedrichshain celebrated its 30th anniversary with a retroperspective. Along with various photographers that shaped the gallery throughout the years, founder Ralf Herzig officially returned to the gallery for the first time since 1985.
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Berliner Zeitung vom 31.07.2015: “30 Jahre Fotogalerie Friedrichshain”
30 Years Fotogalerie Friedrichshain | 1985 – 2015 Anniversary Exhibition
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Photos: Harald Hauswald, Glasgow 2010 | Berlin, Kastanienallee 1988
Harald Hauswald
QUERBEET- zum Sechzigsten
Photographs 1976 – 2014
Exhibition 09 May – 01 August 2014
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Der Tagesspiegel – Fotograf Harald Hauswald – Der echte Osten – 07.05.2014
Kulturtipp – Harald Hauswald “Querbeet – zum Sechzigsten” – 08.05.2014
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Chile has awakened
Repression and social resistance – then and now
Dates for the exhibition to be confirmed
(c)Sofia Yanjari. Fotokollektiv AFI Woman, protests in Santiago, Chile, 28.11.2019
