In February and March 2023, the photographic work of photographer and director Franziska Stünkel will be presented parallel to the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival in two solo exhibitions in Berlin at Jarmuschek + Partner and in the CSR Contemporary Show Room. The exhibitions are entitled COEXIST. For thirteen years, Franziska Stünkel has been travelling through Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia with the Leica for her COEXIST photo series in search of natural reflections on shop windows, which in their condensation tell of people living together. COEXIST continues the exhibition series in the CONTEMPORARY SHOW ROOM (CSR) as ÜBERSCHAU #08. The exhibition opens at CSR.ART with a public vernissage on Wednesday, 15 February 2023 from 5 to 10 pm. A matinée with artist talk will take place at CSR on Saturday, 18 February 2023. As part of the exhibition COEXIST 2010-2022, Franziska Stünkel will talk to playwright and novelist Moritz Rinke about coexistence. On Wednesday, 22 March 2023, a finissage will take place at CSR.ART from 6 p.m., during which the artist will give a guided tour of the exhibition at 6:30 p.m.
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DATES
Wed, 15.02., 5-10 pm:
Vernissage at CSR.ART
Sat, 18.02., 12-3 pm:
Matinée + Artist Talk
As part of the exhibition COEXIST 2010–2022 at CSR.ART, Franziska Stünkel talks to playwright and novelist Moritz Rinke about coexistence.
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Image above: Franziska Stünkel and her Leica, photo: Marc Ewig
Franziska Stünkel has been travelling through numerous countries and continents with her Leica camera for over thirteen years in search of natural reflections on glass, which in their condensation tell of the coexistence of human life. Her atmospheric and at the same time documentary photographs visualise the similarities and contrasts that exist at all times in our diversely networked world. The artist completely dispenses with digital post-processing of her photographs. The result is a multi-layered view of the highly topical global issue of coexistence in our present day.
About the artist
Franziska Stünkel was born in Göttingen in 1973. After studying film and photography at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Hannover, she became a master student of Professor Uwe Schrader. Franziska Stünkel’s pictures are shown in renowned galleries and exhibition institutions and are represented in private and public collections. Among the awards she has received for her photographic work are the Audi Art Award and the BerlinHyp Art Prize. The photographic series Coexist shows her global search for peaceful coexistence. The photographs of the internationally recognised photographic artist, film director and screenwriter Franziska Stünkel can be seen in museums, art institutions and galleries and are represented in art collections, including the collection of the Sprengel Museum.
In her feature films, Franziska Stünkel deals with socio-political issues. Her films have been shown in 19 countries and at more than 100 international film festivals and have received numerous awards, including the Best New Director Award at the Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival in New York and the Otto Sprenger Directing Award. Franziska Stünkel’s 2021 film “Nahschuss” (The Last Execution), starring Lars Eidinger, is currently showing in cinemas in several countries and in the competition sections of renowned international film festivals. The film is based on the life of Dr Werner Teske, who was the last person to be sentenced to death and executed in the GDR in 1981. On 10 March 2023, “Nahschuss” will be shown publicly as a German premiere on the arte television channel.
COEXIST at Jarmuschek + Partner
Franziska Stünkel photographed the latest instalment in her series of reflections with the Leica M11 in Berlin, Sydney and Chicago, among other places. In COEXIST – PART 6, current global themes such as mankind’s interaction with nature, pandemics and digital influences resonate. Charged at the highest level, her photographs visualise the similarities and contrasts in our diversely networked world.
Franziska Stünkel’s latest works under the title COEXIST – LOCAL GLOBAL will be shown at Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner from 14 February 2023. For this sixth part of her COEXIST series, Franziska Stünkel photographed in Berlin, Sydney, Doha and Chicago, among other places, from 2020 to 2022. Special conditions and unusual challenges often determined the context of her travels and so the current global themes such as man’s interaction with nature, the pandemic and digital influences are subtly and intensively reflected in the new images.
More about the exhibition at Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner at www.artatberlin.com.
COEXIST at CSR.ART
In cooperation with the CSR.ART-Contemporary Show Room in the centrally located Friedrichstraße 67-70 (Berlin-Mitte), Jarmuschek + Partner will also be presenting a large selection of remarkable works from the entire COEXIST oeuvre, for which Franziska Stünkel photographed in Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia, for the first time from 16 February. Without any digital post-processing, over 150 sensitive images of reflections have been created, revealing a multi-layered view of the highly topical global issue of coexistence in our present day.
The CSR.ART exhibitions are organised by DEEDS.LAB gUG, a non-profit organisation for the promotion of art and culture. The aim is to promote artists and make their art visible. The experimental exhibition format at CSR.ART aims to create more openness and enthusiasm for contemporary art and increase its visibility. From the end of April to the end of June 2023, the temporary art project initiated by the non-profit DEEDS.LAB will present changing exhibitions in the 400 m² exhibition space at QUARTIER 205.
The initiator and operator of the CSR CONTEMPORARY SHOW ROOM is the non-profit DEEDS.LAB from Berlin. It pursues the goal of making contemporary art and the work of its producers and gallery owners visible in a supportive manner. It aims to break down fears and get more people interested in contemporary art. DEEDS.LAB uses the CSR to test new concepts and exhibition formats that make people curious about art, make art education more attractive, create space for discourse and promote social interaction. To this end, DEEDS.LAB organises various events at the CSR. DEEDS.LAB is supported by the Berlin art exhibition portal ART@Berlin
www.artatberlin.com.
About the book COEXIST
Franziska Stünkel’s illustrated book COEXIST has been published by Kehrer Verlag.
From the introduction by Karin Rehn-Kaufmann:
“Coexist refers to the exuberant diversity of visual impressions of travelling,the commonalities or similarities as well as visible contrasts that clash in urban spaces.
In Stünkel’s motifs, regional peculiarities or cultural traditions as well as globalised assimilations of urban street scenes are brought together with the individual appearances and self-presentations of the people appearing quite by chance in the picture. “Reflections enable the perception of simultaneous life; we all live in coexistence, sometimes without consciously realising it. I seek to visualise this,” explains the photographer in an interview.
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The city is the only right place for her series. The streets and squares of metropolises provide the necessary stages for the scenes and ingenious mirror motifs of Coexist. But unlike the creators of traditional street photography, Stünkel is hardly interested in the passers-by themselves or in documenting street life, but instead works out a constant condensation of different but simultaneous moments. Her street photography strategy is certainly more complex than simply finding the decisive moment. The complexity of the image composition is used synonymously with the complexity of the urban space. The result is not snapshots, but perfectly recognised pictorial tableaux. In Stünkel’s motifs, reality is transformed into a sensitive form of abstraction. In a fraction of a second, the composition she has seen is irretrievably lost. The most important creative characteristics of her works are the factors of light, transparency and colour. It is always astonishing how the photographed objects seem to lose their materiality and their concrete connection to the respective location and find new forms in an artistic fragility.
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Despite the casualness that may be assumed at first glance, the artist has created works that have a lasting effect and report very impressively on our globalised world. As timeless as the motifs may seem and as little typical of their location, in their consistency they nevertheless reflect our times in the best possible way.
They are a cross-section of the metropolises of modernity, an interplay of the coexisting many fates of the people living today and the architecture and urban landscape surrounding them. Franziska Stünkel uses the universal language of emotions to create her own, artistically exaggerated visual worlds from the initially experienced strangeness of the places. The series is thus highly topical and perhaps most vividly symbolises the attitude to life of a globalised, dynamic generation of creative artists of our time. Stünkel’s studio is the world. It is not surprising that the camera is his most important and favourite working tool.”
Overview #08: Franziska Stünkel
COEXIST 2010-2022
WHERE?
CSR CONTEMPORARY SHOW ROOM
Friedrichstraße 67-70 (in the neighbourhood 205 / front left to the street)
10117 Berlin-Mitte
www.csr.art
WHEN?
Duration of the exhibition:
Thursday, 16.02. to Saturday, 11.03.2023 – extended until Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Opening hours: Tue – Sat 10 am – 7 pm (longer for events)
EVENTS?
Opening:
Wednesday, 15.02.2023
5 – 10 pm (public vernissage)
Matinée + Artist Talk at CSR.ART:
Saturday, 18 February 2023, 12 pm-3 pm, at CSR.ART, Friedrichstr. 69, 10117 Berlin
As part of the exhibition COEXIST 2010-2022, Franziska Stünkel will talk to playwright and novelist Moritz Rinke about coexistence.
Registration requested / RSVP: So that we can plan better, please register (by Fri, 17 February 2023, 12:00 noon) by sending your name to rsvp@csr.art.. The number of places is limited – first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you. PS: We will provide additional seating for the talk. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee a guaranteed seat.
Finissage: Wednesday, 22 March 2023, from 6 pm
Guided tour of the exhibition by the artist at 6.30 pm
at CSR.ART
Friedrichstraße 69
10117 Berlin-Mitte
SOCIAL?
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About DEEDS.LAB: Following the statement “To love art, you have to understand art”, the non-profit DEEDS.LAB from Berlin is working on formats for a more attractive way of communicating art. It aims to make the younger generation in particular curious about contemporary art. DEEDS.LAB sees an urgent need for formats with a new culture of invitation and mediation in order to lower threshold fears and get more people excited about contemporary art. After all, art enthusiasts and young collectors must be found, interested, fascinated and built up in order to secure the existence of generations of future artists. In addition, DEEDS.LAB aims to promote artists and exhibit and make visible contemporary art in the centre and public space of Berlin. In its exhibitions and events, the non-profit organisation enables, promotes and encourages discourse about art and its meaningfulness.
ABOUT CSR: Unlike traditional galleries, CSR is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and longer for events. The exhibitions are accompanied by vernissages and finissages, artist talks, readings and panel discussions. Guided tours of the exhibitions are available in various languages for art education purposes. Visitors can talk to artists on site as part of events or deepen what they have seen with art books, art magazines and catalogues.
CSR Contemporary Show Room is made possible and supported by ART@Berlin UG, operator of various platforms for contemporary art (artatberlin.com, deeds.news, deeds.world, artcompass.berlin).
[…] until 25.03. | #3786ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner presents from 14th February 2022 the solo exhibition COEXIST by photographer and film director Franziska Stünkel as double feature in the gallery Jarmuschek + Partner (#1: COEXIST – LOCAL GLOBAL) and in the CSR.ART Contemporary Show Room on Friedrichstraße (#2: COEXIST 2010-2022). Learn more about this on DEEDS.NEWS. […]