On Friday, 12 September 2025, the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation will open the exhibition “Wasserland” by Hamburg-based photographer Marc-Oliver Schulz as part of Berlin Art Week 2025. The series comprises 35 photographs, presented in Berlin for the first time, exploring the Wadden Sea from a conceptual artistic perspective.
Between 2009 and 2017, Schulz regularly visited the Elbe estuary between Büsum and Cuxhaven, a landscape reshaped every six hours by the tides. His photographs were often taken at dusk or at night, when the boundaries between sea, horizon, and starry sky dissolve.The conceptual rigor of his compositions abstracts the Wadden Sea and elevates its stark beauty to a universal level. Perception itself becomes the subject, as the emptiness and vastness of the tidal flats sharpen the viewer’s …
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Image above: Marc-Oliver Schulz, Überfrorene Steinbuhne 06.02.2012 © Marc-Oliver Schulz
