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Irmel Kamp. Neues Bauen in Tel Aviv and Brussels
Exhibition
Irmel Kamp. Neues Bauen in Tel Aviv and Brussels
28 Apr 2017 – 10 Jun 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- 77-87 Potsdamer Straße
- Berlin
Berlin - 10785
- Germany
For over four decades Irmel Kamp has been photographing architecture, conducting long-term research projects focused on a single style or region.
About
The current exhibition presents a selection from two of her most substantial bodies of work: Modern Architecture in Tel-Aviv 1930-1939, is the result of a five-year research encompassing more than 600 buildings, realized by Kamp between 1987-1993, prior to the large-scale preservation efforts of the city and to UNESCO’s recognition of it as a world heritage site in 2003; The second project, Les Années Trente, realized between 1996-1997, revolves around modern architecture of the 1930s in Brussels.
Both compose an archeology of sorts of a local “International Style”. Rather than depicting “machines for living in” – Le Corbusier’s seminal maxim – the buildings in Irmel Kamp’s photographs are distinctly “lived-in” and not quite so mechanic, imbued with a sense of place and time and a poetics of presence.
