In Galerie 1: Andreas Gehrke, Quiescent " You can resume your flight whenever you like, " they said to me, " but you will arrive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by the sole Trude, which does not begin, nor end. Only the name of the airport changes." (Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities") Andreas Gehrke, a self-taught photographer was born and raised in (East) Berlin during the cold war. Having worked both commercially and on his own projects for the past decade, Quiescent, his first solo show. It consists of a series of photographs made during the this ten years period (1997 2007) and is, according to the artist, "A feeling of the urban landscape, that I feel attracted - and invited - to investigat" The photographs are set in places such as the Bronx (NY), Erkner, Edinburgh, Paris, Beirut and Beijing, to mention a few. All places look as if they could have been recorded in the artist's home town, Berlin. The subject matter is often abandoned, clear cut architecture that does not stand out unless you spend time looking at it, exploring it and giving it time. These places are not noticeable at first sight. They bring to mind the German word'ortlos`-without-a-place, not to be mistaken with the English non-place. Anonymous quiet sites that are inactive. It looks as if their state of presence is other than that which they were build for. The exhibition consists of one large analogue c-print (126x170 cm ), three large (130x175 cm) and forty three smaller (40 x 53 cm) piezopigment prints. The latter are almost like a collage of hand-held, mostly medium format, camera images Gehrke shot around the world. Some in colour, some b/w, all of them with a combination of nature and urban structures that seems futile. A limited edition catalogue will be available for the exhibition. Andreas Gehrke have previously shown in group shows at PS1, NY as well as galleries in Berlin and with PIEROGI Leipzig. He lives and works in Berlin.