04.03. – 19.07.2025


UTE MAHLER, WERNER MAHLER, LUDWIG SCHIRMER
FARBENRAUSCH
OPENING: 01 MARCH 2025, 2 - 6 PM


In the exhibition FARBENRAUSCH (Colour Rush) at EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing works by the photographer Ludwig Schirmer, his daughter Ute Mahler and her husband Werner Mahler.

Both Ute Mahler's and Werner Mahler's colour works have rarely been shown in exhibitions so far. Also, of the previously lesser-known Ludwig Schirmer, who was one of the most important commercial photographers in the GDR, mainly black and white works have been shown so far. This unique »family exhibition« will feature images of remarkable quality and power.

Works by Ludwig Schirmer from the years 1958 to 2000 will be presented. His pictures are characterised by their closeness to people, precise compositions and subtle humour. Werner Mahler experimented with different techniques for his landscape photographs taken between 2000 and 2005, creating atmospheric, surprising images. 

From 1998 to 2008, Ute Mahler worked on a series about the lives of great personalities, visiting places where they lived and worked. In the series »Spurensuche« (search for traces), the photographer combines the specific sites with her own subjective and intuitive images. Ute Mahler supplements the narrative combinations with fashion photographs from the early 1990s, weaving them into a new narrative thread. The poetic images question the genre boundaries of photography. This fundamental examination is something that Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler address in the exhibition, also in relation to the work of Ludwig Schirmer.

Parallel to »Farbenrausch«, the exhibition ‘Ein Dorf 1950 - 2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Ludwig Schirmer’ is taking place at the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg. Opening: 27 February 2025, duration 28 February to 4 May 2025.