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September 1, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

Munich Seaside

Summer and sea have been forever entwined in both the popular and the creative imagination. While paintings such as Waves Breaking by Monet or Beach Scene by Degas are iconic, there is also a seminal body of photography that explores the innate human connection to water. In the summer of 2016, the Munich Seaside exhibition...

July 20, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

Lee Miller – Out of the Ordinary

From her time in Man Ray’s studio to her filming with Jean Cocteau to her collaboration with Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller’s photography has always been intimately linked to her personal relationships. This phenomenon culminated with her celebrated marriage to the British artist and poet Roland Penrose and the series of mutually inspired works the couple...

April 13, 2016 News & Press

Oliver Mark at the Lindenau-Museum

A collection of Oliver Mark’s photographs were shown as part of a major portrait exhibition at the Lindenau-Museum in Altenburg, Germany. Mark’s photographs were featured along with paintings by such artists as Domenico Ghirlandaio (15th century) and Michiel van Mierevelt (17th century). The show ended April 3, 2016. Mark appeared at the museum for a...

April 13, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

The World According to Petr Lovigin

Petr Lovigin appears to inhabit a different world, a different planet. Or maybe different worlds and different planets. His visions are romantic and ironic, cynical and dreamlike. Somehow his work manages to embody both the splendour and the defects of life, both what is sure and what is in doubt. The World According to Petr...

March 13, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

Eikoh Hosoe at the Weltkunstzimmer

Work by CLAIR Gallery artist Eikoh Hosoe was included in an extraordinary exhibition at the Weltkunstzimmer that explored the complex beauty and art of Butoh dance. The Butoh Photography exhibition at the Weltkunstzimmer contemporary art centre in Düsseldorf, Germany ran from February 11, 2016 to March 12, 2016. Butoh is a style of Japanese dance...

February 20, 2016 News & Press

Lartigue in Photo International

The Jacques Henri Lartigue exhibition Créateur de Bonheurs, curated by CLAIR Gallery director Anna-Patricia Kahn, has received a glowing review in Photo International, Germany’s most esteemed photography magazine. The Créateur de Bonheurs exhibition ran from February 25, 2016 to April 1, 2016 at Franz-Joseph-Strasse 10 in Munich. For more information, contact Anna Patricia Kahn.

February 20, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

Créateur de Bonheurs

Jacques Henri Lartigue rejoiced in life and had an insatiable fascination for all that surrounded him. For more than six decades, he used photography to preserve those exquisite moments that created such joy for him. The Créateur de Bonheurs exhibition united more than 50 of these sublime images in both black and white and colour,...

January 16, 2016 Anna's Eye

The Arrival of an Image

For more than thirty years, Adriana Lestido has photographed humans: I use the term ‘humans’ here because Adriana sublimely captures these beings that so perfectly evince humanity. She becomes close to them, lets her eyes wash over them, and then ‘seizes’ them between her fingers and her camera. And, voilà, suddenly the subjects are evoked,...

December 12, 2015 News & Press

Gundula Friese in the Koenig Collection

The work of Gundula Friese has been featured in beautiful reportage on the Koenig Collection that has appeared Dec. 2015 in one of Germany’s leading national newspapers. The Koenig Collection, which was assembled by Gabriele Koenig, is one of the leading archives of East Germany photography. It has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and...

November 14, 2015 News & Press

CLAIR Gallery Welcomes Édouard Boubat

CLAIR Gallery is pleased to announce its partnership with the estate of legendary French photographer Édouard Boubat. Boubat (1923-1999) was one of the great humanist photographers of the 20th century and he captured such iconic images as Lella (seen above) and Rémi écoutant la mer. For decades, he travelled the world shooting photo reportages and his work...