Tempelhof Fotografien von Maximilian Meisse

The opening on March 3rd at 7 PM will feature an introduction by Hans-Eberhard Hess, editor-in-chief of PHOTO International.

In March, the Henn Gallery presents the photographic and artistic documentation Tempelhof by Berlin-based photographer Maximilian Meisse. This work is being exhibited for the first time since the airport's final closure in August 2008. The images, created between 2006 and 2008, showcase Ernst Sagebiel's architecture from an unfamiliar close-up perspective, inviting viewers into spaces that have been hermetically sealed off for decades and deconstructing the monumentality by focusing on the details.

"Architecture entirely to itself" — this is how Ingemar Vollenweider describes it in his introductory text for the book publication Tempelhof, which in turn illustrates Maximilian Meisse's approach: The photographer is not concerned with the recognizability of his authorship but rather with a perspective that emerges directly from the process of image-making. For Meisse, who describes himself as a "collector of places," the main focus is on the transformation of space within the image. Familiar associations we have with the depicted locations are questioned and reinterpreted.