100 Places in Berlin

Kaum hat man Berlin je so gesehen. Einhundert Fotos bekannter und wenig bekannter Berliner Orte stets unbevölkert zum Verschicken im Postkartenformat. Ob Fehrbelliner Platz, Kino International, ­Wasserumlauftank am Zoo, ­Charité-Hochhaus, Alte ­Kongresshalle oder ­Teufelsberg. Ikonographische Bilder aus Berlin kennt man zu Genüge und in verschiedenen Tonalitäten. Sarah Eick gelingt das große Kunststück, das auch Urberliner:innen, die sehr viele Fotogra­fien über ihre Heimatstadt gesehen haben, noch Bewunderung abverlangt: ihre Fotos geben zwei­fellos Berliner Motive wieder, doch gleichzeitig sind es Werke von einer großen, translokalen, abstrakt­poetischen Qualität.

Autorentext

Born in 1974 in Emsdetten. After studying art history, philosophy and applied cultural studies in Münster, Sarah Eick initially devoted herself to painting. Since 2000 Sarah Eick lives and works as a photographer in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum für Kommunikation Berlin, the Galerie König in Münster and the "Red Arrow Gallery Joshua Tree" in America, among others.

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"Iconographic images from Berlin are well known and in different tonalities: Sarah Eick now succeeds in the great feat that still demands admiration even from Urberliner:innen who have seen a great many photographs of their hometown: her photos undoubtedly reproduce Berlin motifs, but at the same time they are works of a great, translocal, abstract-poetic quality.

Peculiarly contextless, almost like UFOs, the familiar buildings and city views appear. Without any form of historicizing or nostalgic pathos, Eick gives them great dignity. "Even a snack booth looks sublime in her work." – Tanja Dückers, writer, publicist and art historian.

Well-known places, whether Fehrbelliner Platz, Kino International, the water circulation tank at the zoo, the Charité high-rise, the Old Congress Hall or Teufelsberg, are always unpopulated in her work. One has hardly ever seen Berlin like this. This bare representation makes the city appear different.

Text in English and German.