Stefan Koppelkamm "Local Time/Ortszeit"

Exhibition from 10.11. - 10.12.2009

While travelling through East Germany in 1990 – after the fall of the Berlin wall but before reunification - Stefan Koppelkamm found himself wanting to take photographs that would capture a state of affairs he assumed would never recur. The buildings, streets and squares he photographed often looked as thought time had stood still, together conveying an idea of how Germany might have looked before the Second World War. Ten or twelve years later, Stefan Koppelkamm sought all these places out again and photographed them for a second time, from exactly the same viewpoints.

The pairs of images produced like this show that many of the locations have undergone profound changes.

The exhibition includes a representative selection of photographs from the Ortzeit Local Time project.

Stefan Koppelkamm has provided short commentaries on his photographs containing additional information about the buildings depicted and drawing
attention to particularly striking details.

Exhibition until 10.12.2009

A cooperation with the Goethe-Institut