
Stefanie Bürkle, Videostill „Venice BeReal”, 2024
Stefanie Bürkle
European Month of Photographie (EMOP)
Exhibition: 1. bis 23. März 2025 | Do-So, 14:00 – 19:00 Uhr
Curator: Bernhard Draz
We cordially invite you and your friends to the
Exhibition Opening: Friday, 28 February 2025 | 18:00 – 22:00
Speakers will be:
Prof. Dr Martina Löw, Architectural Sociologist TU Berlin, Spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre Re-Figuration of Spaces
Dr Michele Casarin, President of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Director of the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice.
The artist will be present.
All the images Venice has spread around the world for centuries, what ideas and expectations has it triggered and how do these images and expectations shape the city of Venice today?
Berlin-based artist Stefanie Bürkle has been photographing Venice on her travels for the last 30 years. In 2022-2025, she realized “Imaginations of Venice”, an artistic research project as part of the Collaborative Research Center Refiguration of Spaces at the TU Berlin.
The artist sees her own image production as part of the global circulation of images, a loop in which Venice is fixed, reproduced, reduced and multiplied as a projection foil for diverse spatial imaginations. With “Venice BeReal”, she is now presenting the results of the project for the first time. Her Venice Atlas, an artistic archive of images of Venice, is at the core of the exhibition. In addition to analog and digital photographs, video excerpts from project interviews provide insights into Venice’s realities. A central video work transcends the artistic archive from Stefanie Bürkle’s studio into the exhibition space amidst the visitors.
Venice BeReal program with scientists and artists:
– 6.3. 19:00 Artist Talk with David Wagner (author) and Stefanie Bürkle (artist)
Istanbul and Venice are the setting for Wagner’s latest novel Verkin. How do we encounter Venice in the form of shopping malls, casinos and theme parks worldwide – and which images of Venice are quoted? (in German)
– 13.3. 19:00 Sociologists in conversation with the artist about Capitalization and digitalization of space, airbnb, googlemaps and co
Stefan Kirchner, Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology BTU Cottbus, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Professor of Sociology of Technology and Innovation, TU Berlin and Stefanie Bürkle, Professor of Fine Arts TU Berlin, all members of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1265) Refiguration of Spaces. (German/English)
– 20.3. 14:00-20:00 Presentation of speculative Venice mappings
International students of architecture at TU Berlin have spent a semester developing Venice mappings and Venice games with Stefanie Bürkle. A presentation of these special maps provides further insights into the art and research project on Venice (English)
– 23.3. a Venice Soundwalk with Louise Brenner (German) on the Pfefferberg 15:00 and finissage from 16:00-19:00
Stefanie Bürkle is a German artist and professor known for her transdisciplinary work, blending art with cultural studies and research. Her projects often explore themes like urban spaces, identity, and the transformation of environments, using mediums such as photography, video, painting, and installations.
The project is part of the Collaborative Research Center Refiguration of Spaces SFB 1265 at the TU Berlin, HU Berlin FU Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation DFG
