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A lecture by the US artist Catherine Opie will take place in Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie on Thursday, February 19, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture takes place on the occasion of Catherine Opie’s solo exhibition “The Pause That Dreams Against Erasure” in Kassel. It is organized by the Neue Nationalgalerie, the American Academy in Berlin and the Fridericianum.
The questions of what defines a person, what influences shape them, how social attributions can be overcome and what alternative life plans are conceivable and liveable form a central starting point in Catherine Opie‘s work. Since the early 1990s, the artist has developed a complex, cross-media oeuvre that primarily includes photographs, but also films, art books and installations.
Born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961 and now based in Los Angeles, Opie works in three basic photographic genres: landscape, portrait and documentary. These serve less as fixed categories than as starting points for the ongoing examination of questions of visibility and representation as well as …
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Image above: © Catherine Opie, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London, and Seoul; and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Heather Rasmussen
