Martin A. Völker – #SpiritOfStBerlin

nüüd.berlin gallery

21 January to 19 March 2022

Photography

Martin A. Völker – #SpiritOfStBerlin

nüüd.berlin gallery

21 January to 19 March 2022

A photo exhibition at the nüüd.berlin gallery shows the city of Berlin oscillating between the melancholy of everyday life and the departure into the dreamlike: the street photography of Martin A. Völker presents new urban perspectives and surprises with unusual insights and vistas.

The Corona pandemic led to the photographer's intensive preoccupation with unusual aspects of urban existence. It is about loneliness, longings, light and shadow worlds of Berlin.

Railway stations, shopping centres and street situations in black and white characterise Martin A. Völker's photographic works. Pulsating, earthy life with its many downsides. The title of the exhibition #SpiritOfStBerlin refers to the Spirit of St. Louis aeroplane in which Charles Lindbergh was the first person to cross the Atlantic in a solo flight on 20 May 1927. Berlin is an ocean in itself, full of loneliness, with dangerous currents, but also with wonderful islands, sun games and freedom. This is exactly what the photographs by Martin A. Völker reflect.

The five picture series in short descriptions: 1. The Ring and the Cross, 2. Streets of Desire, 3. Higher Ground, 4. Inverted Views, 5. Dissolution. Rebirth. New Icons.

Martin A. Völker – #SpiritOfStBerlin
21 January to 19 March 2022
nüüd.berlin gallery
Kronenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin

www.nüüd.berlin/en