CHRISTOPH NIEMANN | Photodrawings
EXHIBITION Oct 14, 2022 — Feb 17, 2023
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Kiss, 2020
c-print
90 x 60 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Outing, 2018
c-print
89,7 x 60 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Paulista Drawing, 2020
c-print
42 x 59,9 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Modern Tenants, 2022
c-print
41 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Marylin, 2020
c-print
51,2 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Hong Kong II, 2021
c-print
50 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Mitte, 2021
c-print
50 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
TV Tower, 2022
ink on c-print
23,7 x 17,8 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Orvieto, 2022
ink on c-print
30,3 x 40,7 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Corner I, 2022
ink on c-print
20,4 x 26,6 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Floor Owl, 2022
ink on c-print
26,7 x 20,4 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
2 Bit Berlin, 2022
c-print
33,3 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Metro, 2021
c-print
40 x 59,9 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Rio, 2022
ink on c-print
20,4 x 26,6 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Don't, 2022
ink on c-print
17,8 x 24 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Frankfurt Tetris, 2022
ink on c-print
24 x 30,4 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Traffic Pong, 2019
video, 1:22 minutes
53 x 92 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Mumbai Duet, 2022
c-print
37,7 x 49,9 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Garden, 2022
c-print, mounted
84,1 x 118,9 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Brasilia, 2022
ink on c-print
38 x 28,5 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Rine or Shine, 2022
ink on c-print
26,5 x 20,3 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Like, 2020
c-print
57,2 x 42,8 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Boiling Point, 2022
c-print, mounted
118,9 x 84,1 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Precipitation, 2022
c-print, mounted
118,9 x 84,1 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Chelsea, 2022
ink on c-print
25,4 x 35,7 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Brasilia II, 2022
ink on c-print
27,7 x 37,7 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Svalbard, 2022
ink on c-print
17,8 x 24 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Untitled, 2022
ink on c-print
17,8 x 24 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Escalated, 2022
ink on c-print
24 x 17,8 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Alles Gut, Alles Gut, 2022
ink on c-print
17,8 x 24 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Individualverkehr, 2022
ink on c-print
34,2 x 25,2 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
We Respect Your Privacy, 2022
ink on c-print
24 x 17,8 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Spree, 2022
ink on c-print
21,3 x 26,7 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Spinning, 2022
c-print
45 x 60 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Harp, 2020
c-print
50,1 x 33,3 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Etoile, 2021
c-print
40 x 60 cm
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Eiffel, 2021
c-print
40 x 55 cm
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Construction, 2021
c-print
38,5 x 50 cm
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
B-Major, 2020
c-print
40 x 60 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Conductor, 2020
c-print
60 x 40 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Double Bass, 2021
c-print
49,9 x 33,4 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Chord progression, 2021
c-print
50 x 50 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Aria, 2020
c-print
40 x 60 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
In Memoriam, 2022
ink on c-print
26,7 x 20,5 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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EL LISSITZKY (1890–1941)
Untitled, ca. 1931
unique photo collage, gelatin silver print, offset print on cardboard
49,5 x 31,5 cm
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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KAORO OHTO (1929–2020)
Untitled (Mask), 1950s
gelatin silver print, printed 1950s
17,1 x 12,3 cm
© Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Berlin (Female), 2021
c-print
50 x 40 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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SAUL STEINBERG (1914–1999)
Untitled, ca. 1950
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950
25,8 x 20,7 cm
© The Saul Steinberg Foundation; Artists Rights Society / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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KIOYSHI NIIYAMA (1911–1969)
Morning glory, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962
20,2 x 29,3 cm
© Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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VKHUTEMAS WORKSHOPS
Untitled (Architectural Study, IV-5-29; An exercise on volumetric composition, study of correlation between mass and weight), 1920s
gelatin silver print, printed 1920s
7,5 x 5,6 cm
© Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895–1946)
Untitled (Pigeons), ca. 1925
gelatin silver print, solarized, printed ca. 1925-1930
28 x 20,6 cm
© Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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VKHUTEMAS WORKSHOPS
Untitled (Spatial Study, IV-5-37; An exercise on expressive volumetric composition), 1920s
gelatin silver print, printed 1920s
7,8 x 5,6 cm
© Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Malheur, 2020
c-print
29,8 x 39,9 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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ANONYMOUS
Untitled (Raven with bottle of Schultheiss Märzen beer), 1940s
3 gelatin silver prints, printed ca. 1940s
7,6 x 11 cm (each)
© Public Domain / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Untitled, 2022
ink on c-print
20,3 x 26,5 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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LUDWIG WINDSTOSSER (1921–1983)
Untitled (Photocollage with fishhooks), ca. 1950
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1950
29,3 x 23,6 cm
© Estate of the Artist / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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PABLO PICASSO & ANDRÉ VILLERS (1881–1973 & 1930–2016)
Le corrigan effeuillé, from the series 'Diurnes. Découpages et Photographies', 1962
collotype of a photomontage, printed ca. 1962
40 X 30 cm
© 2012 Estate of Pablo Picasso / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
No Problem If Not, 2022
ink on c-print
26,5 x 20,4 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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UMBO (Otto Umbehr) (1902–1980)
Unheimliche Straße / Weird Street, from the Portfolio 'Umbo. 10 Photographien 1927-1930', 1928
gelatin silver print, printed 1980 by Christine Sander under the supervision of Umbo, published by Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne 1980
27,9 x 20,7 cm
© Umbo Portfolio, 1927-1930, Galerie Rudolf Kicken, Cologne 1980
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LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895–1946)
In Gottes Gehörgang / In God´s Ear Canal, 1923
photomontage (photomechanical reproductions, ink, and graphite) on paper
48,2 x 33,2 cm
© Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
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CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Sorry for the Late Reply, 2022
ink on c-print
26,6 x 20,5 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/4ed588ac7b-1665657194/49_christoph-niemann_flock-50x50.jpg)
CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Flock, 2022
ink on c-print
20,4 x 26,6 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/a6a499e472-1666096108/60_moholy-nagy_funkturm-50x50.jpg)
LÁSZLÓ MOHOLY-NAGY (1895–1946)
Funkturm / Radio Tower, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1930-1931
24 x 17,1 cm
© Hattula Moholy-Nagy / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/d9cf8dae4c-1666100982/69_umbo_kaufhaus-50x50.jpg)
UMBO (Otto Umbehr) (1902–1980)
Untitled (View of Berlin Department Store Karstadt), 1929
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1980
23,6 x 15,6 cm
© Phyllis Umbehr / Kicken Berlin Gallery / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/20f06b06a8-1665656664/46_christoph-niemann_reunion-ii-50x50.jpg)
CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Reunion II, 2020
c-print
33,3 x 49,8 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/0cf4f31940-1666100812/68_umbo_traumende-50x50.jpg)
UMBO (Otto Umbehr) (1902–1980)
Träumende / Dreamers, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1980
21 x 29,3 cm
© Phyllis Umbehr / Kicken Berlin Gallery / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/ac78432dd0-1666101539/71_van-der-elsken_kiss-50x50.jpg)
ED VAN DER ELSKEN (1925–1990)
Kiss, Paris, 1952
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1952
33,2 x 21,7 cm
Nederlands Fotomuseum © Ed van der Elsken / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/fa30d385e5-1666099167/65_stankowski_fernschreiber-50x50.jpg)
ANTON STANKOWSKI (1906–1998)
Fernschreiber / Telex Machine, 1954
gelatin silver print of a photogram, printed later
20,7 x 24,9 cm
© Stankowski Foundation / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/45db51ece7-1665656867/47_christoph-niemann_berlin-50x50.jpg)
CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Berlin, 2022
c-print
50 x 40 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/e4fa07e893-1666100588/67_umbo_reporter-50x50.jpg)
UMBO (Otto Umbehr) (1902–1980)
Der rasende Reporter/ The Raging Reporter (Egon Erwin Kisch), 1926
gelatin silver print, printed later
30 x 20,8 cm
© Phyllis Umbehr / Kicken Berlin Gallery / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2022
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/35589c5e83-1666100441/66_steinert_ballett-50x50.jpg)
OTTO STEINERT (1915–1978)
Strenges Ballett, Hommage à Oskar Schlemmer / Strict Ballet, Homage to Oskar Schlemmer, 1949
gelatin silver print, mounted on original cardboard, printed ca. 1949
39,9 x 30,4 cm
© Estate Otto Steinert, Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/3c746d7399-1666091302/57_consemuller_untitled_construction-50x50.jpg)
ERIH CONSEMÜLLER (1902–1957)
Untitled (Construction and Balance Study from Josef Albers' Preliminary Course, Bauhaus Dessau), 1926
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1926-1929
8,8 x 11,4 cm
© Dr. Stephan Consemüller / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/db448fe707-1666098983/64_schurmann_herstal-50x50.jpg)
WILHELM SCHÜRMANN (*1946)
© Wilhelm Schürmann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/11efbd544f-1665658227/53_niemann_auto-escapes-50x50.jpg)
CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Auto Escapes, 2022
ink on c-print
20,3 x 26,6 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/12f8345c04-1665658082/52_niemann_map-50x50.jpg)
CHRISTOPH NIEMANN (*1970)
Map, 2022
ink on c-print
20,5 x 26,7 cm
© Christoph Niemann / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
![](https://kicken-gallery.com/media/pages/exhibitions/christoph-niemann-photodrawings/bf71acc99a-1666097810/63_riebesehl_situationen-50x50.jpg)
HEINRICH RIEBESEHL (1938–2010)
369/75/12, aus der Serie 'Situationen und Objekte', 1974
gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1974
23,7 x 30 cm
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Courtesy Kicken Berlin
Exhibition Text
Kicken Berlin opens the fall season with Photodrawings, new and partially unpublished works by Christoph Niemann. The international, prize-winning artist and author is one of the world’s most well known contemporary illustrators. He regularly creates work for renowned publications such as the New Yorker, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine. Niemann’s work depicts and describes the affairs of the day with a light hand and thoughtful commentary. One of the primary topics of his work is how visual culture today is being renegotiated. Niemann has curated the selection of works on display at the Kaiserdamm gallery himself. Niemann’s work conceptually draws on various movements of the twentieth-century avant-garde. These include interest in everyday culture and photographic work, in which he bridges media by adding illustration to photographs and thus carries the torch of dada’s and surrealism’s collages, montages, and readymades. With an eye to these aspects, Kicken Berlin has often already contextualised Niemann’s photo-based works alongside twentieth-century works by artists such as Pablo Picasso and André Villers, El Lissitzky, or Saul Steinberg, among others. In his photodrawings, the artist reshapes and extends photographs he has taken around the world with illustrated figures and objects, just as in his cult Sunday Sketches. Niemann follows a tradition of artists such as Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) and Tomi Ungerer (1931-2019) who also transcended media to combine illustration and photography. Steinberg designed new visual works by enlivening photographs, and other images, of ordinary places and things with drawn lines, imbuing them with new meaning. Niemann advanced the tradition further, transforming everyday scenes with illustration in his sensational campaigns for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. By showing the concert house — highlighting everything except the stage and actors — he helped uncover is genius loci in both unconventional and unexpected ways. He transforms the street corner into a strictly geometric optical illusion, a hardwood floor into a futuristic constructivist tableau. Organically curved and robotically angular creatures are granted a stage for a dynamic narrative moment. The effect is in fact abstract, where the visual play takes the foreground before the storyline. The exhibition includes both original photodrawings as well as c-print editions. The works of Niemann open up a truly contemporary artistic dimension: he draws life and lives his drawings within the photographic moment. In doing so, he affords the viewer enlightening insights into the phenomena of the everyday and current affairs.
(Carolin Förster)