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.
Image left: Arno Schidlowski, Der Sonne Mond #1, 2011-2013, © Arno Schidlowski | Right: Arno Schidlowski, Jasmund #21, 2005-2011, © Arno Schidlowski.
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 internal perception.
In the following years, from 2011 to 2013, the work Der Sonne Mond (The Sun Moon) was created as a direct response to Jasmund. For this photo series, Schidlowski leaves the north and turns his gaze to an unlocatable landscape in the south. A selection of his black-and-white baryta prints suggest a Mediterranean-like environment that cannot be geographically identified; rather, it is an inner place without clear patterns of orientation.
Both groups of works share an intense engagement with nature: Schidlowski exposes himself to landscapes, reacts to them, and finds his position within them. His photographs draw on Romantic strategies, but reinterpret them – not as drama or emotional outbursts, but as contemplative experiences. Schidlowski’s precise observation of nature and intense engagement with it follows in a tradition that references Alfred Ehrhardt. The works are aesthetically powerful, conceptually clear and, at the same time, immediately accessible.
WHEN?
Opening: Friday, 9 January 2026, 7–9 p.m. (The artist is present)
Exhibition dates: Saturday, 10 January – Sunday, 12 April 2026
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
WHERE?
Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung
Auguststraße 75
10117 Berlin
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