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In this volume of photographs the photographer Christine Fenzl investigates the living conditions of young people in the peripheral areas of Berlin: Hellersdorf, Hohenschönhausen, Lichtenberg, and Marzahn. Although the Berlin Wall once strongly influenced their parents’ living environment, the generation born after the collapse can no longer imagine what it was like. In her sensitive pictures Fenzl traces the stories of these youth, their expectations, and their confrontation with Berlin. Fenzl has already examined the subject of youth and their social circumstances in previous series, such as Striking Chance – Streetfootball, for which she photographed children playing soccer in Nairobi, Skopje, London, and the favelas of São Paulo.
CHRISTINE FENZL (*1967, Munich) attended the Munich Fotoschule and spent two years living and working in New York City. Her photography has been featured in Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Stern, The New York Sunday Times, and other publications, and has been exhibited internationally. Fenzl has lived in Berlin since 1992.
The Special Edition with an inserted original print is limited to 20 copies.
In 1936, an ornithologist called James Bond released the definitive taxonomy of birds found in the
Exhibition schedule: 2013 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh October 5, 2013–March 16, 2014
With her refined sense of political and social contexts, the contemporary painter Aliza Nisenbaum focuses on her colorful portraits of socially and politically underrepresented groups. For example, she portrayed undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America, whom she first met while teaching English. Her approach comprises very personal explorations of the people she portrays; she visits them at home, meets their families, and cooks for them. This close relationship—the collaboration between painter and model—results in paintings whose unusual intimacy and expressive power are captivating. The first monograph about this promising artist now provides a comprehensive overview of her work from the most recent decade.
Aliza Nisenbaum (*1977, Mexico City) studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2017 she took part in the Whitney Biennial and showed her work at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. She lives in New York City.
Exhibition:
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
12.9.–2.11.2019
The American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) is acknowledged as one of the most important figurative painters in the history of American art in the twentieth century. Operating during a period of revolutionary abstraction, she took her own radical position by adopting a particular, idiosyncratic formal language, but always keeping an aim towards establishing “the truth” in her psychologically penetrating paintings. Neel portrays the anxieties and frailties of the human race in a period of unprecedented political, social and technological change.
The exhibition catalogue presents around seventy paintings. The authors review Alice Neel’s artistic development over approximately sixty years, and set out the history of her oeuvre's reception, her relationship to twentieth century photography, her position in relation to second-wave feminism and her personal interest in early twentieth century European art. This survey conveys Neel's fresh impression of America at a time of cultural and artistic transition.
Exhibitions: Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 10.6.–2.10.2016 | Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 5.11.2016–12.2.2017 | Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles 4.3.–17.9.2017 | Deichtorhallen Hamburg 13.10.2017–14.1.2018