nüüd.berlin gallery will be presenting a solo presentation of Birgit Naomi Glatzel’s work.

Birgit Naomi Glatzel (*1970 in Kempten/Allgäu, Germany) is a freelance conceptual artist and architect. She has worked mainly in the field of photography since 1998. She began her photo project a friend is a friend of a friend in the summer of 1998 and has attracted international attention. This project led her from Berlin around the globe to friends, their friends and friends of their friends. She spent a day with the friends she met and took photographs of them in their everyday surroundings, preferably their apartments. 340 people from 40 cities and 19 countries are part of the net and have been preserved on film.

Kroc-gu-fant by Sara Ball is a children’s flip-book book that allows one to forge utterly strange creatures out of limbs of existing animals; a crocodile head attached to a jaguar’s body and elephant feet virtually constitute a new species. In her project Ideal City Birgit expands this concept to urban features: It creates a framework of public spaces in one image. The Project displays constructions, environments and features located in cities worldwide classified into three categories that are essential for modern living: commerce, traffic, recreation. When set in an unforeseen relation to each other stigmata of the traditional context vanish as new relationships unexpectedly coalesce. Ideal City is an ongoing modular project.

In 2004, Birgit Naomi Glatzel returned to Israel to photograph her DJ friends and some of their friends, to tell one of many Tel Aviv stories. The photographs of her series South Side Beats are timeless and show the longings of people all over the world: peace and joy.

Among others Birgit’s works have been shown at the Tirana Biennale, the Venice Biennale, in Berlin (including at the Jewish Museum), Jerusalem, Paris, Kiev and at Photo London 2024. She lives and works in Berlin.