Exhibitions of Donata Wenders at Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST |
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Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 KOMOREBI DREAMS 16 Mar – 24 May 2024
The way the light refracts - it passes through the leaves of a tree, dances over waves, makes shadows darker and the moon a little brighter. Anyone watching the new, Oscar-nominated film 'Perfect Days' by Wim Wenders these days may also feel it, the recurring wish throughout the evening that the film should stand still for a moment so that we can spend a few more seconds in dialogue with individual images. And this despite the fact that the film about the life of Mr Hirayama - a toil… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 WOMEN ONLY 24 Jun – 14 Oct 2023
There is no single female gaze. When women look at women, the gazes are as varied as the personalities of the photographers and their models - anyone visiting Johanna Breede's gallery this summer can see this for themselves. We encounter tender glances and encouraging ones, those that look cautiously behind façades and those that are thrown at a person as if casually catching a glimpse. On the gallery walls in Berlin's Fasanenstraße, it is mainly silent glances from wome… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 HERBST 29 Sep – 18 Nov 2022
Autumn divides the minds - and the spirits. For some, late September marks the beginning of the uncomfortable, cold time of the year. The days become shorter, the world outside grayer. But for others, autumn is a season as underrated as it is inspiring, full of color, emotion and romance. A simultaneity that many poets have written about. In Hoffmann von Fallersleben, autumn comes with rich gifts and distributes them cheerfully. In Rilke, the last sweetness is chased into the heavy wine. In Ro… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 SOMMER 21 Jun – 16 Sep 2022The year is in full swing, people are drawn to the meadows and beaches, the leaves dress the trees in rich green. And even if we can't see them in black-and-white photographs, the bright colors of summer can still be glimpsed. In any case, Johanna Breede, with her skilful sense of image selection and composition, once again knows how to make colors shine that are not there at first glance.
In the monochrome photographs of Jens Knigge or Marek Pozniak, for example, we intuitively be… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 SPRING / FRÜHLING 31 Mar – 10 Jun 2022
Spring means promise. The last March storms have long since blown away the previous year. The days are green again. Nature is lavish once more. It shakes us out of our winter dormancy and points us towards cheer, light and love. Spring has also arrived on Fasanenstraße, as is evident in Johanna Breede’s luminous gallery. On one wall, a couple is kissing - it is 1955 and the Munich photographer Stefan Moses is walking through the world with observing eyes and an open camera lens.… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 WINTER 23 Nov 2021 – 11 Mar 2022Winter, those are memories. The crunching of deep firn under the boots; wondrous ice flowers on the window panes; the sweet sightings of early snowdrops. But above all, winter is the season when the world becomes quieter. Thomas Mann once caressed a snow-covered mountain landscape with his words as "padded soundlessness". It is not only the world that becomes quieter, but also the colours. Grey light, white fields, black branches. The paint of winter is as monochrome as it is rich in c… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 UNTITLED 29 Jun – 13 Nov 2021When the gallery doors open again after more than a year of Corona restrictions and lockdowns, the question arises: what have we missed the most? What have we suffered the most from?
Under the most modest of all titles, Johanna Breede's UNTITLED invites us to a concert of wishes that holds a whole grab bag of answers. Here "untitled" does not mean without a concept, but rather elevates the greatest possible freedom, for which we have longed for so long. It is the freedom of choic… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 BEHIND THE SCENES / HINTER DEN KULISSEN 15 Feb – 13 Mar 2020
The day the pictures learned to walk was a Friday. The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, soon celebrated all over the world as the inventors of the cinema release, had invited to the Paris Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie to set the light image in motion. It was March 22, 1895, when the whole world was to see it - as if photography had been given a kind of breath. The new cinematograph, in any case, kept them on their toes. And since then sh… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 MAGIC OF SILENCE / MAGIE DER STILLE 23 Feb – 29 May 2019It is the year 1969: In the French Church of St. Moritz, Herbert von Karajan, then Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducts Arthur Honegger's Symphony no. 2. The exact circumstances of the concert are not known. The only thing that remains is the silence. Robert Lebeck has sculpted them on a minimalist composition of light and shadow. But each before and after is cut off: only the genius and the great silence; the moment between two sentences, between two bars or two notes. … Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 Gelesene Zeit Photographic studies / Photographische Studien20 Jan – 6 Apr 2018
We all shine. We shine far beyond our days – our light continues to travel throughout time, infinitely. "We all shine on, like the moon and the stars and the sun", John Lennon promised in his 1970's song "Instant Karma". We seem to go on and on and on. Perhaps this is one of the most unfathomable aspects of humanity. The enormity of this idea has shaped myths, artistic masterpieces and the paths of lives. It has influenced the thinking of philosophers and has giv… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 FAVORITE IMAGES / LIEBLINGSBILDER 1 Mar – 30 Jun 2017
Love loves small things. Love doesn't seek big pathos or emphasis. Love hides in the profane; in the shiny shoes in which one has journeyed or in the perfect fold of a beautiful dress. The really big things often lurk in the smallest of details. "I believe," the American poet Walt Whitman once wrote, "a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." It is a poetry of dignity and nuance. This is a credo about the interplay of all things and the reverberati… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 Vis-à-Vis 7 May – 8 Jul 2016
There is no photography. There is always only the photograph which gazes back at the viewer. Sometimes with a careful, tentative and questioning look; sometimes with a brisk or hasty glance. But it always offers something: an invitation to brief conversations. The viewer always looks, and the photograph, full of curiosity, gazes back. As in 1966, when the German reportage photographer Robert Lebeck took a portrait of the former German chancellor Konrad Adenauer at his 90th birthday celebration … Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 THE WINDOW - DAS FENSTER 21 Mar – 13 Jun 2015
We alone are the insiders of our interior worlds. Within ourselves we feel safe and yet often isolated and sealed off. At the same time, hope is almost always contained therein: evident itself in windows, in the gates of the eyes. Each window is a link, a step between the interior and the exterior. The window functions just as with the lens of a camera - it is the point between the camera obscura and the outside. The point where light breaks through and illuminates another world.
A… Johanna BreedeDEJohanna Breede PHOTOKUNST +49 (0)30-88913590 photokunst@breede.de Tue-Fri 11-17, Sat 11-14 SILENT TRACES 15 Nov 2014 – 17 Jan 2015
The world is everything that is the case. It is a rolling landscape at dusk and a swarm of birds over a temple's roof. The world is a teacup in Onomichi and a deserted island in Naoshima. It is, in actuality, everything that is the case. Or, at least, so indicates the famous first posit of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus logico-philosophicus". But the world could also be the reality depicted in Donata Wenders' photo series "Journey to Onomichi". In this photograp… |
