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• We are very pleased to present the second exhibition by photographer Irmel Kamp. The exhibition features works from the series ‘Modernism in Europe’, including two large-format prints that are rarely shown and are being exhibited in the gallery for the first time. Irmel Kamp created her series ‘Modernism in Europe’ between 1995 and 2006 like a strolling researcher. Inspired by examples of striking modernist architecture in guide books, she travelled to the relevant locations in the Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands and walked about to have a look around. The building chosen beforehand served as an occasion to seek out a certain region, but Irmel Kamp usually took pictures of other, less well-known buildings, whose characteristics seemed more striking to her. ‘Every building is a personality,’ says Irmel Kamp about the buildings she photographs. Once she selected a building, she walked around it and looked for potential perspectives for the picture. With the careful selection of camera placement, light situation, and the subsequent treatment of the exposure in black and white in the dark room, she underscores in a sensitive way the characteristics of the architectural utopias from the 1920s and 1930s become stone. The photographs thus not only allow us to observe the architectural design, but also to immerse ourselves in the characteristics of the structures and to imagine their personalities. To read Irmel Kamp’s photographs as classical architectural photography would fall short in purely formal terms. With the compositional inclusion of perspective, light, and shadow, she distills the special aspects of the building and examines the mutual influences between the buildings and their surroundings. In Irmel Kamp’s photographs, the architectural visions appear like the characters in good portraits, which we interpret as we view them. Irmel Kamp lives and works in Aachen and Stäfa, Switzerland. Her works have been included in numerous international exhibitions as the
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  Irmel Kamp

  Until 31 Oct 2026

  
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