Ute Schendel Photographs 1968–2000

The motifs include architecture, portraits, landscapes, theatre, reportage and still lifes.

For fifty years, Ute Schendel has preferred to work with black-and-white photography. She began her career as a theatre and portrait photographer in the 1970s at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin, accompanying productions by theatre directors such as Einar Schleef, Heiner Müller, Patrice Chéreau and Jan Fabre, among others. Her extensive image archive contains portraits of actors, directors, photographers, painters, writers and other creative artists. Ute Schendel has also created a large body of work in the field of landscape photography over the past decades.


Ute Schendel, born in 1948 in Berlin, lives and works in Basel. Her photographic works have been exhibited in numerous institutions and galleries: Nietzsche House, Sils Maria (CH), German National Library, Frankfurt (Germany), Kunstmuseum Olten (Switzerland), Landesmuseum Mainz (Germany), Kunstverein Hattingen (Germany), Kunstverein Schallstadt (Germany), Kunsthaus Potsdam, Galerie Karin Sutter, Basel (Switzerland), Galerie Hutter und Wirth, Basel (Switzerland), Galerie Mesmer, Basel (Switzerland), Galerie Lévy Gorvy Rumbler, Zurich (CH), Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin (D) and many more.

Ute Schendel: Photographs 1968-2000. Vintage and master prints

7 November – 19 December 2025

Opening: Friday, 7 November, 7–9 p.m.
Opening hours: Wed–Fri 1pm–7pm, Sat 12pm–6pm