Artist Talk with Dörte Eißfeldt

Dörte Eißfeldts works with fragments of reality rather than simply depicting it. Photography becomes synonymous with transformation. Seeing becomes an act of recognition, challenging the limits of perception. With a gaze that is at once tender, poetic, and ever curious, the artist is exploring the world around us, and the medium itself. One of Germany’s most important experimental photographers, Eißfeldt received the Prix Viviane Esders in November 2025.

In her Artist Talk, Dörte Eißfeldt speaks with art historians and curators Inka Schube and Sonia Voss about her exhibition, her creative process, and the development of her visual worlds. Together, they discuss the relationship between viewing a work of art and its creation.

After the talk Jan Delay aka DJ Flashdance spinns the records for his mum.

Dörte Eißfeldt lives in Neuenkirchen and Hamburg. Her work is held in many institutional collections including Museum Folkwang, Essen; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg; Fotohof, Salzburg; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Musée de la Photographie Européenne, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Kolumba, Cologne. Stehen Liegen Hängen published by Distanz Verlag in 2024, gathers her work alongside essays by Rebecca Wilton and Steffen Siegel. Eißfeldt received the Prix Viviane Esders in November 2025.

Inka Schube studied Classical Archaeology, Cultural Theory, and Art History at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1982 to 1987, graduating with a thesis on the reception of abstract painting in East German art historiography. In 1990, she co-founded the Galerie in der Brotfabrik e.V. in Berlin with Florian Merkel, which she directed and managed until 1999. In 1997, she was awarded the Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Fellowship for Museum Practice and Photography. Since 2001, she has been Curator of Photography and Media Art at the Sprengel Museum Hanover.

Sonia Voss is an exhibition curator focusing on East German photography and more broadly the Eastern European scenes in the 1970s and 1980s. She curated the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles 2021 and collaborates with contemporary artists such as Isabelle Le Minh, Anton Roland Laub, and Tarrah Krajnak, while also exploring lesser-known archives, such as that of Uraguchi Kusukazu, which she brought to public attention with the project Shima no ama (Rencontres d'Arles, 2024; Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, 2025/26; Atelier EXB, 2024). She lives and works in Paris and Berlin.

Price info: Free admission from 20:00-00:00

Price: €12.00

Reduced price: €6.00

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 06/June/2026 19:30 bis 20:30
• Venue C/O Berlin (im Amerika-Haus)
• Address Hardenbergstraße 22, 10623 Berlin-Charlottenburg