In her exhibition, Berlin-based artist Susanne Kriemann (*1972, Germany) traces the traces of the atomic and industrial age into our immediate surroundings. The starting point of her many years of engagement with radioactivity was the Chernobyl reactor disaster, which marks its fortieth anniversary in 2026 and repeatedly feeds into her artistic research. At the center of the exhibition, however, are the landscapes of former uranium mining areas in Saxony, Thuringia and the French Limousin. There, too, radiation appears not as a distant or abstract phenomenon, but as part of soils, plants and buildings. The exhibition connects this research with the building fabric of her Berlin studio. In doing so, Kriemann follows an expanded understanding of photography that equally includes material and processes.
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