Title: Sibylle Bergemann Photographs
Date: 1-31 March
Venue: 2902 Gallery, Old School, 11B Mount Sophia, #B2-09
Co-organised by Goethe Institut Singapore and 2902 Gallery
Free Admission
Featuring over 100 works of black and white photorgaphs and colour polaroids, this is a life time works by renowned Berlin photographer - Sibylle Bergemann.
About the Show
The photographs of Sibylle Bergemann (1941 2010), one of the leading contemporary German photographers, are awe-inspiring for one because of the diversity of their subject matter and second for their astonishing insights and sensitivity. Bergemann commands subjects such as fashion, reportage, photographic essays, urban and rural landscapes as well as portraits in an equally self-assured manner. Exhaustingly worked with the medium Polaroid, almost exclusively with b/w photography, Bergemann belongs meanwhile to a group of photographers who use colour as a constitutive element in the construction of a meaning, and not as an illustration device.
Bergemanns works express a critical analysis of the reality during the times of the GDR. Her precise observation of hidden contexts is shown in the peculiar details of her photographs and that become symbols that reflect subtle stories and nuances of their time. They are interpretation as well as statements.
Bergemanns photographs play with the longing of the observer, who appears to be drawn into a thoughtful and melancholic mood filled with eerie, dreamlike states-of-being while looking at her photographs. The complexity found in these photographs creates the unmistakable, personal style of the Berlin-based photographer.
Opening Hours:
Close of Monday & Public Holiday
Tue - Saturday 12noon - 8pm
Sunday 12noon - 6pm
Date: 1-31 March
Venue: 2902 Gallery, Old School, 11B Mount Sophia, #B2-09
Co-organised by Goethe Institut Singapore and 2902 Gallery
Free Admission
Featuring over 100 works of black and white photorgaphs and colour polaroids, this is a life time works by renowned Berlin photographer - Sibylle Bergemann.
About the Show
The photographs of Sibylle Bergemann (1941 2010), one of the leading contemporary German photographers, are awe-inspiring for one because of the diversity of their subject matter and second for their astonishing insights and sensitivity. Bergemann commands subjects such as fashion, reportage, photographic essays, urban and rural landscapes as well as portraits in an equally self-assured manner. Exhaustingly worked with the medium Polaroid, almost exclusively with b/w photography, Bergemann belongs meanwhile to a group of photographers who use colour as a constitutive element in the construction of a meaning, and not as an illustration device.
Bergemanns works express a critical analysis of the reality during the times of the GDR. Her precise observation of hidden contexts is shown in the peculiar details of her photographs and that become symbols that reflect subtle stories and nuances of their time. They are interpretation as well as statements.
Bergemanns photographs play with the longing of the observer, who appears to be drawn into a thoughtful and melancholic mood filled with eerie, dreamlike states-of-being while looking at her photographs. The complexity found in these photographs creates the unmistakable, personal style of the Berlin-based photographer.
Opening Hours:
Close of Monday & Public Holiday
Tue - Saturday 12noon - 8pm
Sunday 12noon - 6pm
