Category: Future

Opening on Friday, September 12, 2025, 7-9 pm
The artist will be present

Vast expanse, water, and ceaseless change characterize the Wadden Sea—a landscape remade by the rhythm of the tides every six hours. Alfred Ehrhardt once saw it as “elemental forces at work.” Hamburg photographer Marc-Oliver Schulz views the tidal flats in a different light. He is also repeatedly drawn to the North Sea coast, but unlike Alfred Ehrhardt, his attention is focused not on structures or moods, but on the act of seeing itself. His series Wasserland (Water Land), comprising thirty-five photographs, is being exhibited in Berlin for the first time.

Opening on Friday, April 17, 2026, 7-9 pm

Alfred Ehrhardt made over 50 films, 14 of which were recently restored by the Alfred Ehrhardt Foundation. For the first time, a selection will be shown in the fall of 2025 in an exhibition dedicated solely to the medium of film. A range of screens will provide an overview of Alfred Ehrhardt’s motifs, obsessions and working methods. Classics such as his “shell films” (snails, shells, corals) will be shown, complemented by films about art (Ernst Barlach, Documenta II, African masks) and about nature as a master of art and form (structures in mudflats, volcanoes in Iceland, ice sculptures off Greenland), as well as problematic films from the Nazi era. He is interested in life processes made visible in media, documented with genuinely cinematic means such as slow motion, time-lapse or macro shots – in the tradition of the Bauhaus. In addition, never-before-seen documents from his extensive work archive will be exhibited, including film scores from the editing process, work photos and film awards that bear witness to Ehrhardt’s research work and inventive spirit. Films like never before!