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until 20.12. | #4879ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie shows from Friday, 21 November 2025 the exhibition “Das Denkmal” by the artist Sibylle Bergemann.
LOOCK presents “Das Denkmal” (1975–1986), one of the most significant bodies of work by German photographer Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010). Across this long-term documentary series, Bergemann followed the creation of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in East Berlin, commissioned by the GDR government and inaugurated in 1986. Her images capture the process with a precise and subtly ironic documentary approach, marked by ambiguity, distance and a keen observational lens.
The exhibition runs in parallel with the presentation Le Monument at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. A selection from the series was also shown at Paris Photo 2025, positioning the work within a broader international discourse.
A publication accompanying the exhibition has been released by Kerber Verlag (eds. Frieda von Wild, Lily von Wild & Sonia Voss). It includes both iconic and previously unpublished photographs, as well as an extensive historical and critical reception of the work from the 1980s to today. Essays expand on historical, sociopolitical and photographic theory perspectives, reframing “Das Denkmal” as a landmark project at the intersection of art, ideology and collective memory.
Works from the series are held in major public collections including CRP/ Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France, DZ Bank at the Städel Museum, Stiftung Reinbeckhallen, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Harvard Art Museums, the Berlinische Galerie and SFMOMA.
Opening: Friday, 21 November 2025, 5–8 pm
Exhibition date: Friday, 21 November – Saturday, 20 December 2025
To the Gallery
Titel image caption: Das Denkmal, Gummlin, Usedom, Juli 1985 © Estate Sibylle Bergemann/OSTKREUZ, Courtesy LOOCK, Berlin
Exhibition Sibylle Bergemann – Loock Galerie | Kunstausstellung in Berlin – Contemporary Art – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
