Fatherhood

The Friedrichshain Photo Gallery presents a group exhibition dedicated to the theme of fatherhood from a personal and contemporary perspective.

The exhibition brings together photographic perspectives that narrate fatherhood from a first-person perspective and in the present tense, deliberately breaking with traditional images of masculinity and fatherhood. The focus is on the everyday rituals of care: holding, comforting, accompanying, and letting grow.

The works on display deal with the moment of welcoming a new life, with the irreversibility of this experience. Instead of distant or stoic father figures and idealized family images, the projects offer intimate and immediate insights into lived relationships.

The photographs reveal tenderness, vulnerability, and closeness. They show fathers who do not see their role as a fixed identity, but as a process—a continuous learning, negotiating, and expressing of care. In sensitive image sequences, uncertainties become as visible as responsibility and deep connection. Based on very personal experiences, the works develop a remarkable universality. They draw attention away from heroic narratives about fatherhood and toward the quiet, often overlooked moments of everyday life that reveal the subtle traces of love, effort, and change that shape family life and parenthood.

Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m., Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Admission: free

Artists/Collaborators: Urizen Freaza, Troy Colby, Cédric Friggeri, Arno Brignon, Rio Leipold, Céline Pilch, David Ameye

Runtime: Fri, 20/03/2026 to Thu, 30/04/2026

Takes place here:

• Fotogalerie Friedrichshain