Visual Worlds of Everyday Life

A wilted bouquet, power poles passing outside the car window, chance encounters with pedestrians on the street: it takes the artistic perspective on everyday life to reveal impressions as fleeting as they are unexpected. 

Wolfgang Tillmans’s works have a souvenir-like quality. In their immediacy, the intimate insights into his life reality appear universal. Even his staged depictions look authentically incidental. 

Pietro Donzelli used simple everyday life in post-war Italy as a photographic experiment. His works are distinguished by a narrative element that allows the viewer to take part in the scene as an unnoticed observer. 

Barbara Klemm concentrated on people and their relationships to their surroundings. In the process, she also shed subtle light on social structures. As a press photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, she became the chronicler of an everyday world that often only later proved to be a historical moment.