Events
What images has Venice spread around the world for centuries, what ideas and expectations has it triggered and how do these images and expectations characterise the city of Venice today?
Berlin-based artist Stefanie Bürkle has been photographing Venice on her travels for 25 years. In 2022-2025, she realised ‘Imaginations of Venice’, an artistic research project as part of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces at the TU Berlin.
The artist sees her own image production as part of the global circulation of images, a loop in which Venice is fixed, reproduced, reduced and multiplied as a projection foil for diverse spatial imaginations. With Venice BeReal, she is now presenting the results of the project for the first time. Her Venice Atlas, an artistic archive of images of Venice, is at the centre of the exhibition.
In addition to analogue and digital photographs, video excerpts from project interviews provide insights into Venice’s realities. A central video work transcends the artistic archive from Stefanie Bürkle’s studio into the centre of the exhibition space.
European Month of Photographie (EMOP)
Project Space Meinblau, Pfefferberg
Opening: Freitag, 28. Februar 2025 | 18:00 – 22:00 Uhr
Exhibition: 1. bis 23. März 2025 | Do-So, 14:00 – 19:00 Uhr
Venue:
Projektraum Meinblau, Pfefferberg,
Christinenstraße 18-19
Berlin,
10119
Deutschland
Contact:
SFB 1265
Finissage “Venice BeReal”
Program
Supporting programme Venice BeReal with scientists and artists:
• 6.3. 19:00 Artist talk with David Wagner (author) and Stefanie Bürkle (artist) Istanbul and Venice are the settings for Wagner’s latest novel Verkin. How do we encounter Venice in the form of shopping malls, casinos and theme parks worldwide – and which images of Venice are quoted? (German)
• 13.3. 19:00 Sociologists in conversation with the artist about the capitalisation and digitalisation of space, airbnb, googlemaps and co. Stefan Kirchner, Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology BTU Cottbus, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Professor of Sociology of Technology and Innovation, TU Berlin and Stefanie Bürkle, Professor of Fine Arts TU Berlin, all members of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1265) Re-Figuration of Spaces. (German/English)
• 20.3. 14 -20:00 Presentation of speculative Venice maps International architecture students at TU Berlin have spent a semester developing Venice mappings and Venice games with Stefanie Bürkle. A presentation of these special maps will provide further insights into the art and research project on Venice. (English)
• 23.3. a Venice Soundwalk (German) with Louise Brenner on the Pfefferberg 15:00 and finissage from 16:00-19:00
