EMOP Berlin: what stands between us.
Photography as a Medium for Chronicling
Central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025
In times of crisis, we let ourselves to be polarised by images. We want to use our own voice – and images – to counter the increasing division. But what knowledge can photographic images still convey? Isn’t it the camera that stands between us? It constantly records and reinforces the respective certainties in countless channels. Images deepen rifts, mark dissent and themselves become a medium of polarisation.
This exhibition interrupts this cycle. Projects by around 20 artists stand for listening and learning from Others through their own voices. In micro-histories, the works address issues such as the connection between social classification and educational opportunities, ongoing experiences of exclusion, and the radicalisation of parts of society. But Russia’s war against Ukraine and the war in the Middle East are also scrutinised in the contributions.
With works from Ilit Azoulay, Yevgenia Belorusets, Cana Bilir-Meier, Hannah Darabi & Benoît Grimbert, Fungi (aka Phuong Tran Minh), Bérangère Fromont, Beate Gütschow, Raisan Hameed, John Heartfield, Leon Kahane, Susanne Keichel, Simon Lehner, Boris Mikhailov, Pınar Öğrenci, Helga Paris, Einar Schleef, Maya Schweizer, Wenke Seemann, Christine Würmell, Tobias Zielony
The exhibition was curated by Maren Lübbke-Tidow.
In the frame of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025
Maya Schweizer, untitled, from the series Which Story Would You Prefer Not To Recall / An welche Geschichte würdest Du dich lieber nicht erinnern, ongoing since 2009. C-Print, 42 x 59 cm
Christine Würmell, 28.03.2020, from the series Signature Style (Thälmann), ongoing since 2004. C-Print, 30 x 40 cm
Hannah Darabi, Benoît Grimbert, Materials from the artist book Neuköln Heroes, 2013. Bartleby & Co: Brüssel 2013
Tobias Zielony, untitled, from the series Das was euch am Leben hält, ist was bei uns zu Asche zerfiel, 1997 – 2005. C-Print, 10 x 15 cm, Courtesy KOW Berlin