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In his exhibition ‘Jasmund | Der Sonne Mond’ (Jasmund | The Sun Moon) at the Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung (> Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation) in Berlin, German photographer Arno Schidlowski, born 1975 in Münster, presents two series of works that offer different approaches to landscape. From 10 January to 12 April 2026, around 50 analogue and hand-crafted photographs will be on display, created in a concentrated exploration of nature and light. Both series take up strategies of Romanticism and translate them into a contemporary, contemplative view of nature.
The Jasmund series (2005–2011) takes us to the island of Rügen, to the chalk cliffs and beech forests that became world-famous through Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings. Schidlowski returned to this place again and again over the years to find “adequate images” of a landscape that is deeply anchored in cultural memory. Instead of following the clichés of romantic imagery, he developed a perspective that addresses the contradiction between external representation and …
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Image left: Arno Schidlowski, Der Sonne Mond #1, 2011-2013, © Arno Schidlowski | Right: Arno Schidlowski, Jasmund #21, 2005-2011, © Arno Schidlowski.
