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until 12.04. | #4593ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from the 28. February 2025 an exhibition by the artist Barbara Probst.
This exhibition with current works by Barbara Probst is taking place as part of EMOP 2025 (European Month of Photography, Berlin). Barbara Probst’s works each consist of several photographs that show the same subject from different perspectives at the same time. The individual images are so different that this connection is only slowly revealed.
For Probst, this fragmentation of the moment into a series of images is a means of exploring the ambiguity inherent in every photographic image. Thanks to a remote-controlled system, she can simultaneously press the shutter release of different cameras pointing at the same subject from different angles. The camera’s optics provide a different view of the same reality from each perspective, revealing the subjectivity of perception. The moment expands, becomes fragmented and unfolds before our eyes like a multi-layered, kaleidoscopic narrative. Probst uses this method to question the ambivalences of photographic representation while exploring the conventions and genres of photography, from reportage and surveillance to portraits, still lifes and fashion shots.
Barbara Probst, Exposure #187: Milan, Fondazione Prada, Cisterna, 09.20.23, 5:35 p.m., 2023, Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 3 parts, 114 x 91 cm/45 x 36 inches each
Barbara Probst, born in Munich in 1964, studied sculpture in her home town and later photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has lived and worked in New York and Munich since 2000. Her works were presented in the “New Photography” exhibition at the MoMA in New York in 2006 and have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in Europe and the USA: Sprengel Museum Hannover (2025); Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati (2024) ; Kunstmuseum Luzern (2024) ; La Triennale, Milan (2022); Kunsthalle Nürnberg (2021); Le Bal, Paris (2019); Centre Pasquart, Biel (2014); Rudolfinum, Prague (2014); National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen (2013); Oldenburger Kunstverein (2009) and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2007).
Her works are represented in the collections of major museums worldwide, including the MoMA and the Whitney Museum in New York, Museum Folkwang in Essen, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Opening: Friday, 28. February 2025, 6 – 9 pm.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 28. February until Satuday, 12. April 2025
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Title image caption: Barbara Probst, Exposure #185: Munich, Nederlingerstraße 68, 04.21.23, 2:35 p.m., 2023, Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 3 parts, 140 x 112 cm / 55 x 44 inches each
Exhibition Barbara Probst | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
