Keeping Warm Together

LawickMüller Keeping Warm Together Photography

January 17 – March 7, 2015 The growing heterogeneity of urban society in socio-economic, ethnic, and cultural terms presents new challenges to our "tolerance for ambivalence" and our ability to live in a mode of urban indifference, meaning to regard everything in our environment with a certain level of indifference. The exhibition Keeping Warm Together plays with the social implications of architecture and presents photo series constructed from images of Berlin's building facades, depicting fictional social mixes of housing blocks.

By referencing the diverse living environments behind the facades, the images become symbols of a hybrid culture. The artists Friederike van Lawick and Hans Müller have been collaborating artistically since 1990. Using photography and digital processes, they create series of images centered around the theme of identity and its complexities. Highlights of their exhibition history include participation in shows at the Fondation Cartier, the Musée du Louvre, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, as well as a solo exhibition at the Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne. Their works have also been exhibited at photography festivals in Arles, Groningen, Nice, and Braga. Works by LawickMüller can be found in museums in Stuttgart, Paris, Lausanne, and in significant private collections. In 2013, they realized a poster intervention in a Berlin subway station as part of the project series Art Underground.

Most recently, works by LawickMüller were featured in the highly acclaimed exhibition UNKNOWN: Pictures of Strangers at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, USA, from June to September 2014.

LawickMüller, Brache / Urban Waste, 2014 Pigment ink on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 90 x 163 cm, Edition of 3