Loredana Nemes »

TREES, SEAS AND THE BEE'S KNEES

7 March – 15 July 2023

Opening: Saturday, 4 March, 2 - 6pm

Galerie Springer Berlin

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Blossom Time - Max and Corrine 2012 in Ludwigsburg
Gelatin silver print mounted on alu dibond
© Loredana Nemes

On the occasion of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography, Galerie Springer Berlin presents the first solo exhibition of photographer Loredana Nemes entitled "Trees, Seas, and the Bee's Knees". The selection of work on view includes the current series of works "Greytree and Heavensea" created from 2019 to 2023, the series Immergrün from 2020, the group of works Blossom Time from 2012 and the series Greed, 2014-2017.

For two decades, the artist Loredana Nemes has worked mainly on the theme of portraits, which have been presented in numerous series and institutional exhibitions. Since 2019, Nemes has increasingly approached nature. On Rügen she creates the cycle Greytree and Heavensea, in which she complements photographs of the beech forest in Jasmund National Park with views of the immensity of the sea. 14 visits in all seasons let her deeply explore this unique natural place and tell of the continuous change inherent in all life.

Greed 17, April 2017
Gelatin silver print mounted on alu dibond
© Loredana Nemes

During the same time she photographs the series Immergrün in 2020, searching for lovers who have been together for several decades. Poetic texts and pictures emerge from the stories told by the 14 couples who showed up. In doing so, she explores the question of how the interweaving of souls and bodies of the lovers can be expressed through photography and chooses condensation through analogue double exposure for this purpose.

In the second portrait series, Blossom Time from 2012, the artist captured young people on their way to adolescence. She chooses to take group pictures, but photographs each young person individually and then assembles the images into diptychs or triptychs. "The cycle Blossoming is an ode to youth. The young people do not pose, they are simply there, in the fullness of their existence, just like spring and the blossoming trees that Loredana Nemes has also portrayed." (Katya Petrovskaya).

What unites all the series is their inherent stillness, Nemes' empathetic gaze and her nonjudgemental portrayal - regardless of whether she shows us portraits of people or of trees. There is tangency in everything: that of the trees standing together like families on a stage, that of the merging old couples or that of the young people who pause mysteriously in front of the photographer and express the friendship and tenderness that unites them.

Loredana Nemes, born in 1972 in Sibiu (Hermannstadt), Romania, she fled with her family to Aachen in 1986. After studying German and Mathematics at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen, she moved to Berlin in 2001, where she has been working as a freelance artist ever since. Since 2006, she has held several teaching positions, including at the Weißensee School of Art, the University of Hartford, the Goethe Institute and the Ostkreuz School. Her daughter Alma Maria was born in 2011. She has been a member of the German Photographic Academy since 2017. She has received numerous scholarships and awards, including a scholarship from the Ludwigsburg Museum in 2020, which helped her realise the series Immergrün, the Grenzgänger scholarship from the Robert Bosch Stiftung for "beautiful" in 2013, the sponsorship award of the European Month of Photography Berlin 2010/2011 for the work beyond, to name but a few.

The works of Loredana Nemes have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 2002. Only a small selection is listed here: In 2021, the LudwigForum Aachen showed the series beautiful, the Ludwigsburg Museum the cycle Immergrün, and the Berlinische Galerie presented her largest solo exhibition in 2018.

Since 2003, Loredana Nemes has published a remarkable number of books. These include the forthcoming book Graubaum und Himmelmeer with Hartmann Books, 2021 Immergrün with Hartmann Books, 2018 Gier Angst Liebe also with Hartmann Books, 2013 beautiful with Hatje Cantz Verlag or 2010 beyond also with Hatje Cantz Verlag. The artist's works are represented in many private and institutional collections, including the Folkwang Museum Essen, the Olbricht Collection Berlin, the Berlinische Galerie, the DZ Bank Kunststiftung in Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, the Rossi Collection Milan.

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