Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff
German Theater 2010-2020
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
German Theater 2010-2020 is the first survey of the work of Calla Henkel (1988, Minneapolis) and Max Pitegoff (1987, Buffalo). The exhibition offers an insight into a decade of production during which the artists developed both a renewed conceptual approach to photography and the construction of social situations within the Berlin cultural scene, including running bars and staging theater plays. Alongside a large selection from their most significant photo series, the exhibition pays tribute to the collaborative character of their enterprise.
Berlin, already an established bohemian cultural capital, has more recently become a fertile environment for the new digital economy and its forms of consumption. Henkel and Pitegoff’s oeuvre spins the allegory of a historical moment in which precarity and gentrification function as two sides of the same coin.
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Karl Holmqvist, Plzkillmecuz… Part 1, Background projection, 2019. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Megan Francis Sullivan, Schaukasten for the Rant, 2015. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, German Theater 2010–2020, 2020. Photo: Gunnar Meier
Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, Exhibition poster, 2020