Collective photography exhibition
The exhibition Cadavre Exquis invites you to a performative unveiling of their latest series of images: 29 photographs, created in a playful collective process, will be presented at the AFF Gallery in Berlin.
Image gallery
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
CADAVRE EXQUIS @ AFF
The unique concept combines poetic mechanics with collaborative creativity and inspires you to discover and rethink associations and start conversations.
What is Cadavre Exquis?
The process, conceived by André Breton and the Surrealists, is based on a simple but ingenious idea:
- one person starts with a free photographic contribution and passes it on to the next person in a predetermined order.
- Each participant responds to the contribution within seven days – as freely or associatively as they wish.
- The response is passed on to the next person, until a series of 29 connected photographs is created.
- What makes it special: until the opening, the artists only know their own works and the immediate template, but not the complete series.
The Cadavre Exquis collective combines avant-garde approaches with community and openness.
Framework programme
Opening reception
17 January 2025, 7 p.m.: Performative unveiling in the presence of the artists, accompanied by talks and drinks
Discussion evening
18 January 2025, 7 p.m.: Topic: The invisible between the images
Invited guests from the fields of art, history and film discuss the connection between poetry and mechanics.
Guests:
Bernd Lüke, Head of the Communications and Media Department at the Berlin Museum of Technology
Carlotta Kittel, film editor and member of the German Film Academy
Leila Raabe, visual artist and lecturer
Walk and Talk – Guided Tours
Exclusive insights into the process of creating the series of images, accompanied by the artists.
- 25 January 2025, 5 pm
- 26 January 2025, 3 pm
- 1 February 2025, 5 pm
- 2 February 2025, 3 pm
Additional information
Opening hours
During the exhibition
Friday & Saturday 12 noon – 8 p.m.
Sunday 12 noon – 6 p.m.
& during events
Opening hours and guided tours
Friday, 17 January: opening from 7 p.m., unveiling at 8 p.m.
Saturday, 18 January: 12 noon–8 p.m., discussion evening at 7 p.m.
Sunday, 19 January: 12 noon–6 p.m.
Friday, 24 January: 12 noon–8 p.m.
Sat. 25 January: 12 noon–8 p.m., Walk and Talk 5 p.m.
Sun. 26 January: 12–6 pm, Walk and Talk 5 pm
Fri. 31 January: 12–8 pm
Sat. 1 February: 12–8 pm, Walk and Talk 5 pm
Sun. 2 February: 12–6 pm, Walk and Talk 5 pm
Participating artists
Nora Blum
Benjamin Breitkopf
Damian Domes
Martin Dziuba
Juliane Eirich
Sebastian Heck
Catharina Hoepfner
Sascha Jakubenko
Felicitas Jander
Michelle Mantel
Schirin Moaiyeri
Isabelle Östlund
Florian Reimann
Andreas Tobias
Felix Zohlen
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