Walter Schels: 16° Pisces

Retrospective

In celebration of Walter Schels’s ninetieth birthday, C/O Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation present the photographer’s first retrospective in Berlin.

Schwarzes Schaf, 1984

With more than three hundred works spanning nearly seven decades, the exhibition offers new insights into his work and focuses on an overlooked part of his career: the experimental and transformatory works. Schels became known for his striking black-and-white portraits of newborns and centenarians, famous and unknown faces, animals and plants. His gaze always revolves around fundamental issues of human existence. The photographer’s key subjects and working methods are already inherent in his first series, which were created in the 1960s in New York. The focus on his experimental work now reveals the extent to which change, repetition, and materiality influenced his photographic practice.

Runtime: Sat, 20/06/2026 to Wed, 02/09/2026

Takes place here:

• C/O Berlin (im Amerika-Haus)