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.