Berlin media maker Christian Schneider (@haltdieklappe_medienmacher) invites you to an immersive exhibition. Not immersion with VR goggles and AI, but social immersion. In his photo series of portraits of Berliners in the most iconic subway stations, collected over 8 years, the social space of the subway station is recreated. People are brought together. With great dedication to the details that characterize this everyday space, Schneider, together with studio35, stages an ode to public space as a place of bubble-less encounters. He shows aesthetically harmonious portrait photographs in which conceptual architecture and fashion create a symbiosis that gives everyday life a magic and train stations, which are often devalued by many for dirt, noise, stench and crowds, a shine. This appreciates an often underestimated place

place that is only a means to an end. The path to the destination. Never has the journey been more the goal than in the photo series "Together. Below." by Christian Schneider.

But photography is only one pillar, the space praises the peculiarity of Berlin's subway stations both acoustically and visually. The Berlin street magazine "Straßenfeger" is valued as a subcultural asset and the exhibition also serves as a stage for street musicians, who are given performance times there.

Snacks and drinks will also be available at the station kiosk, which will certainly not be carelessly dumped on the floor.

The vernissage is on 13.6.2025 at 18:45 in Studio35 (Wartenbergstraße 35, 10365 Berlin), the exhibition is open until 15.6.2025. Press accreditation possible. Free admission.

About the "artist":

Christian Schneider was born in Berlin in 1991 and has been looking at things ever since. Since 2006, increasingly via the camera. The spark of his interest was ignited on the grindstone of a grammar school in the Berlin suburbs (Hennigsdorf) and mainly by a teacher - Mr.. Dr. Sotzko, who is hereby remembered and thanked. Since then, he has made his way through the jungle of Berlin's creative scene with a variety of projects. The focus of his work changes in order to constantly discover new topics with a fresh eye and childlike interest. Often, however, it is the simple things: people and their passion and expressiveness. In addition to photography, moving images are also part of his work, which blows hot air into the blast furnace as a media forge under the "haltdieklappe" banner.

The artist does not like to call himself an artist and has never wanted an exhibition because of the often elitist nature of these events and the bodies that organize them. However, with studio35 and its heart-warming idealists at the helm, a compromise was found. The exhibition serves as a meeting place.