On 31 October 2025, photographer Nadine Dinter will open her latest exhibition at the Yves Sucksdorff studio in Berlin. ‘TransMutations’ is Dinter's homage to the sculptures she has photographed worldwide since the late 1990s and shows the visual and spiritual fusion of transient bodies with immortal statues.
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Letting go - TransMuted, Paris 2015/2024
In a discourse between reflection and meditation, eight works are staged in a sacred installation, offering a first glimpse into this long-term project.
Nadine Dinter has been dedicated to photography since 1991. What began with portraiture quickly developed into sculpture and cemetery photography. Since then, Dinter has compiled an inexhaustible portfolio in the form of a constantly expanding archive, starting in her hometown of Berlin and extending to legendary locations such as the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris and burial sites in New York, New Orleans and Mauritius.
Her work is not about mere photographic documentation, but rather about capturing a very special mood, an almost tender, human aura of the sculptures and the apparent liveliness that is emphasised by selected lighting situations, staged angles and the moods of the respective seasons. The object becomes the subject. The boundary between beauty and decay, present and past becomes blurred and the space is opened up for something new. This is entirely in keeping with the concept of ‘transmutation’ – a term that in the classical sense refers to chemical nuclear transformation, but in a broader sense also stands for the alchemical transformation of a person.
Inspired by this philosophy and based on Dinter's second passion, body photography, the TransMutations series combines sculpture images with nude photographs. Auratic stagings, representative of the spirit, energy, further development, transmutation. Female bodies seem to escape from the statues, step into the space and give us the opportunity to establish a kind of connection. This expanded level symbolises the detachment from the present, the change of perspective and, ultimately, the transition from being to becoming.
About the photographer:
First exhibition in 1998, followed by further photo presentations in Berlin and New York: Project Anel + Project Angel Reloaded (2001, NYC), In the Eye of the Beholder (2004, Berlin) and Janus-Faced (2013, Berlin). Her TORSO RELOADED photographs were exhibited in Berlin in 2013, 2021, 2022 and 2025, in Hamburg in 2023 and in Arles in 2024. Represented by akg-images since 2000.
- Opening: Friday, 31 October 2025, 6 p.m. – The photographer will be present
- Duration: 1 November – 20 December 2025
- Location: Atelier Yves Sucksdorff, Meineckestraße 6, 10719 Berlin
- Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
