About the vernissage

Tender Heart is a visual meditation on legacy, memory and the changing nature of identity. Across generations and through intimate gestures, this work traces a personal and collective journey where the past is not fixed, but lives on in the present, embedded in our skin, our style and our homes. Micaiah Carter was born into a world of reinvention, and each image embodies this truth: Black identity is fluid, delicate, resilient and constantly renewing itself.

The exhibition alternates between archival and contemporary photographs, family and strangers, domestic interiors and surreal silences, revealing a suspended space where time stretches and folds. Tender is not only a gesture of remembrance, but also a condition for dreaming of the future. It simultaneously preserves memory and possibility, rooted in care and transformation.

This exhibition represents the essence of a personal lineage nourished not by boundaries or definitions, but by clarity, tenderness and the subtle rhythm of becoming.

Greetings

Dr. Meike Zwingenberger, Bavarian American House Foundation

Curt Holtz, Prestel Publishing House

Artist talk

Micaiah Carter, Photographer

Sarah Hasted, International Art Advisory New York

Organizer: Stiftung Bayerisches Amerikahaus, Prestel Verlag