PHOTO: © Dörte Eißfeldt, Schneeball 01 (Detail), 1988 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2026

Dörte Eißfeldt . Archipelago

In the organizer's words:

"Photos are like whales that can carry entire islands," says photographer Dörte Eißfeldt (*1950), who explores the world and the medium itself with a delicate, poetic and always curious gaze. Instead of merely depicting reality, photography becomes a medium of transformation in her work. Eißfeldt works with fragments of reality and uses unconventional development methods such as negative and positive reversals, multiple exposures and solarization. The artist repeatedly explores how photography questions itself. Seeing becomes an act of recognizing and questioning one's own perception. With Archipelago, C/O Berlin presents a long-awaited institutional solo exhibition of one of the most important representatives of experimental photography in Germany, whose life's work was most recently honored with the Prix Viviane Esders. On display are works from the past almost five decades of her career, key works from her archive, large-format series as well as unpublished sketches, art books and notebooks.

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Location

C/O Berlin Hardenbergstraße 22–24 10623 Berlin

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