Evening with Lucas Foglia
Thursday 2nd of October
18:00-21:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin
Lucas Foglia’s newest book and exhibition, Constant Bloom, traces the longest butterfly migration ever discovered. Each year, Painted Lady butterflies travel between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming flowers. They have followed this route for millions of years.
Now, with climate change altering when and where wildflowers bloom, Painted Ladies rely on flowers in our parks, farms, and gardens. As Foglia followed the butterflies from Kenya to Norway, he also met people experiencing unseasonal droughts, floods, or freezes. Many were refugees traveling to Europe along the same route as the Painted Ladies.
In Constant Bloom, the longest butterfly migration becomes a metaphor for connection across international borders.
This beautifully printed book from Nazraeli Press gracefully explores the world and the urgent global issues of our time. With all text in English, French, and Arabic, Constant Bloom includes essays by curator Willemijn van der Zwaan and the scientists of the Worldwide Painted Lady Migration Project.
Signing with Michael José
Join us for a signing and Artist talk with Michael José.
Thursday 25.9.25
6-9PM
Immanuelkirchstraße 33,
10405 Berlin
In May 1991, I was born in the hills of Colombia, Santa Marta, Garzón. With coffee and plantain trees as far as the eye can see, from the banks of the Magdalena river to the very top of the green hills. It is a breathtaking place to exist within and experience; those unfamiliar with these heights of beauty might even call it magical. Despite being born here, I’m not used to it, so it took my breath away when I was standing at the edge overlooking the immense nature of the area for the first time in my life, in January 2024.
Does that sound strange to you? Didn’t I just tell you I was born in Santa Marta, among these hills? Yes, I did, but a few short hours after my birth, I was taken away from my mother and abandoned on the side of the road, where I was eventually rescued.
— Michael José
MOTHERLAND is the first publication by photographer Michael José, about his journey back home to Colombia in 2024 in search of himself, his culture and his mother. It’s a personal and intimate story following his travels through his eyes, lens and with outtakes from his diary notes.
Signing with Mike Brodie
Join us next week Saturday for a signing with Mike Brodie
Saturday the 13th of September 13:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin
Mike Brodie’s first series, A Period of Juvenile Prosperity touched down more than a decade ago, depicting his fellow rail-riders and drifters in a rebellious and wildfire pursuit of adventure and freedom. “Brodie leapt into the life of picture-making as if he was the first to do it,” Danny Lyon wrote about the book in Aperture. Next came Tones of Dirt and Bone, a collection of earlier SX-70 pictures Brodie made when photography first led him to hopping freights, when he was known as “The Polaroid Kidd.” And then Brodie seemed to disappear from the art world as suddenly and mysteriously as he’d first appeared. Maybe his vanishing was another myth. Maybe it was just a necessary retreat. “I was divorcing myself from all that,” he says. “I was growing up. I was pursuing this other life.”In Nashville he became a diesel mechanic. Fell in love. Moved across the country again. Got married. Bought land on the long dusty Winnemucca road Johnny Cash sang about. Started his own business. Built a house. Put down roots. And when that life exploded, the open road called again. Throughout almost all of it, his cameras were with him, and at last those pictures are coming to light.
If A Period of Juvenile Prosperity was a cinematic dream, Failing is the awakening and the reckoning, a raw, wounded, and searingly honest photographic diary of a decade marked by love and heartbreak, loss and grief — biblical in its scope, and in its search for truth and meaning. Here is the flip side of the American dream, seen from within; here is bearing close witness to the brutal chaos of addiction and death; here are front-seat encounters with hitchhikers and kindred wanderers on society’s edges, sustained by the ragtag community of the road. Failing often exists in darkness but is tuned to grace. Brodie’s eye stays forever open to the strange and fleeting beauty that exists in forgotten places — the open country and the lost horizons that sweep past dust-spattered windows in a spectral blur.
New Residency Program - Sam Jensen
Sam Jensen is the first artist to participate in the Bildband Darkroom Residency Program.
The residency offers artists access to Bildband's black and white darkroom for a period of two weeks, providing time and space to create new work. At the end of the residency the project will be presented in an exhibition in Bildband's main space. The next open call will be announced soon.
UNDERPINNINGS - Sam Jensen
Friday 12th of September
18:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin
Book Launch - CHARRED CELL by Sam Hutchinson
CHARRED CELL (2025) is formed from a period of visual research into the
clinical estrangement of domestic environments- the work eludes to a cynicism that
coexists alongside enlightenment, stuck between an escapist alternative of the
present, and the tension that fluctuates between trauma and awakening.
Suggestions of manipulation, both physical and emotional, arise alongside
recurring photographic motifs of optimism- a warm radiation of presence, yet not
without hostility. Visually deconstructed, are banal yet recognisable elements of
authority, control, and a permeating coldness that trickles slowly to the surface,
allowing mediation from actual horror, a safety blanket from an anxiety that
appears as a constant.
How is emotion initially processed through images? Is a constant sense of trauma
always present when searched for? What is visible to some that may be otherwise
concealed themselves to others- how does this visceral response to fear both
protect, and endanger? The materials and functions within Hutchinson’s
images purposely obscure their intentions, allowing reflection in the state that
exists between the aestheticisation of a fiction, and a true understanding of the
reality an image can depict.
Published May 2025 by BOOT Mag
Friday 29th of August
6-9 PM Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33.
10405 Berlin
Ciao Press at Bildband Berlin
CIAO Berlin! We are happy to share that Ciao Press are making a presentation of their wonderful books at Bildband this Friday - drop by and say hi!
Friday 27.06.2025 from 6pm to 8pm - Immanuelkirchstrasse 33, 10405 Berlin
Artists present: Sabine Hess@sabine_hess/ Alina Frieske @almafrie/ Nicolas Polli @nicolaspolli
Handshake Fun book presentation
Join us on Thursday the 12th of June for an evening with Handshake Fun.
The publisher will talk about their previous and upcoming titles.
Thusday 12th june 2025 - 18:00 - 20:00
Immanuelkirchstraße 33 10405 Berlin
Signing with Christian Patterson - Gong Co.
Join us on Thursday, March 27th, for a book signing and presentation with Christian Patterson.
Christian Patterson’s Gong Co., a monumental memento mori to the decline and decay of a family-owned grocery store in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, from which the book takes its name.
When Patterson first encountered the store in 2003, it was still open for business but seemingly stuck in time, its shelves scattered with long-expired products. It was like an unintentional time capsule, and an uncanny fulfillment of Andy Warhol’s prophecy that “Someday, all department stores will become museums, and all museums will become department stores.” Over the next twenty years, Patterson diligently documented the store's slow disintegration. In 2013, its doors were closed, with its contents left inside. Patterson continued to access the store until the day it was gutted in late 2019.
Gong Co. invites readers to engage in a visceral and visual exploration. Through Patterson’s eclectic mix of on-site and studio photographs, monotypes, trompe l’oeil collages, and cryptic handwritten notes, the book becomes a dynamic and multi-layered experience. Marcel Duchamp’s readymades or Dieter Roth’s Flacher Abfall (Flat Waste) come to mind, where everyday objects are transformed into art through context and presentation. The book offers endless opportunities for interpretation.
The book format acts as a sculptural work in itself. Patterson has crafted an artist book object, presented as an aged and worn green, clothbound cover wrapped in a brown paper jacket resembling a grocery sack. Each page is a testament to Patterson’s meticulous attention to detail, incorporating elements such as mold and foxing marks, as if caused by heavy southern humidity, now forever embedded into the book's pages.
Gong Co. is a profound exploration of how we engage with the artistic representation of America and “the South”—a place shaped in popular imagination by great photographers and writers like William Eggleston, Walker Evans, William Faulkner, and Harper Lee. But Patterson delves more deeply into the impermanence of it all; and of a now long-outworn sense of America itself.
Thursday 27h March 2025 - 18:00-21.00
Talk 19:00
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin
Alexander Rosenkranz and Joachim Brohm
Alexander Rosenkranz and Joachim Brohm will talk about thier collaborations in 2023/24 on the two titles MASER and STONED and about self-publishing in general.
Thursday 23rd January 2025 18:00-21.00
Bilband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin
Book signing and Artist Talk with Tim Carpenter, Matteo Di Giovanni & Charlie Simokaitis
Please join us on Saturday 16th November for a visit to Berlin by Tim Carpenter & Matteo Di Giovanni, published by The Ice Plant, and Charlie Simokaitis, published by TIS.
We will have a short talk with the artists about their books, followed by a signing.
Saturday 16th November 6-9pm
Bildband Berlin - Immanuelkirchstr. 33 10405 Berlin
Gregory Halpern: ‘King, Queen, Knave’ [Book signing]
Join Gregory Halpern in Berlin, where he will be signing copies of his new bookKing, Queen, Knave, an idiosyncratic vision of his hometown of Buffalo, New York that defies familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embraces an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. The event will include a short talk from the artist, and a drinks reception.
Tuesday 12 November 18:30
Bilband, Berlin
Immanuelkirchstraße 33
10405 Berlin
About King, Queen, Knave
Over two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph.King, Queen, Knaveis an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post-industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halpern’s mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which distinct and unpredictable characters appear in and amongst solitary buildings, snowdrifts, and sun-bleached scenes of everyday transcendence.
The images often locate their subjects within the specificities of the season and balance a historical project with the immediacy of a moment in its individual radiance. Embracing themes of reversal and ascension, Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair. This lyrical new work is testament to the endless complexity of a place at once familiar and unknown.
Deadbeat Club Pop Up!
Join us on Saturday the 2nd of November for a rare visit to Berlin by Deadbeat Club, an award winning independent publisher located in Los Angeles, rooted in contemporary photography.
Signing with the following artists:
Magdalena Wywrot - Pestka
Courtney Allen - Splendor
Tracy L Chandler - A Poor Sort of Memory.
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Saturday 2nd Nov 2024
16:00 – 19:00
Nearest Truth Editions Launch
Nearest Truth Editions will be launching on Friday the 1st of November a series of new photobooks from Xiaofu Wang, Qiu Yangzi, Jack Garland, Yasmin Masri, Adam Titchener, Brad Feuerhelm, Jesse Jackson IV and Cornelia Pierce.
Brad Feuerhelm and three of the photographers, Qiu Yangzi, Jack Garland and Xiaofu Wang will be present at the launch and will give short presentations about their books.
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Friday 1st Nov 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00
Artist Talk and Book Launch Joe Dilworth - Everything, All At Once Forever
Everything, All At Once Forever was the last track on side two of Th' Faith Healers second LP. It was 20 minutes long, because that's how long the tape was that we recorded it on. The engineer waved at us from the control room when the tape was about to run out, so we could stop in time. We only did one take, and that was the point. We didn't intend to do it again.
I played drums with Th' Faith Healers from 1988-94 and it taught me how to unlearn the 80's. The stranglehold that aspirational culture had on the UK become really stale by then, and there wasn't even the money to prop it up. It was a very claustrophobic time, I took a lot of pictures of my friends at home, because there wasn't anywhere else to go, social life was dropping round for tea. I'd lost touch with current music, I was playing drums with a rather loose jazz outfit, and listening to Krautrock. It's hard to convey just how few distractions there were. So I hadn't really been paying attention, but it seemed something different was going on. Not in terms of a particular sound, but an anti-careerist denial of present, future, time itself. A turn inwards, externalised, very loudly, to each other. - Joe Dilworth
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Thursday 24th October 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Sabīne Zoltnere - Sheltering Ballad
Please join us for the launch of Sheltering Ballad, a photobook by Sabīne Zoltnere, published by Replika Publishing. The event will feature an artist talk and a special poetry reading by Bogdan Licar.
Sheltering Ballad is an exploration of the author’s journey through grief following the loss of her father more than twenty years ago. The book presents a series of black-and-white photographs—still life, self-portraits, and images of nature—that serve as gateways into the author’s inmost experiences, vague memories, and shifting landscape of her emotional world. It’s a journal of her voyage through suffering in the search for peace and acceptance.
The visual narrative is complemented by written interventions by Bogdan Licar, whose meditative reflections open a parallel pathway, probing themes of memory, death, and search for meaning. His words, like the photographs, are marked by a profound sensitivity and a sharp awareness of the fragility of life.
Sheltering Ballad is a sanctuary of longing, desperation, sadness and love.
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Thursday 10th October 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Cai Dongdong - Passing By Beijing
Please join us for the launch of Passing By Beijing by Cai Dongdong
Cai Dongdong is a Chinese artist, born in 1978 in Tianshui, China. This book comprises colour pictures over the last 20 years, documenting his move from northwest China to Beijing.
The artist talk will be hosted by Haishu Chen from Shushushushu Books.
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Thursday 8th Aug 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00
Artist Talk and Book Signing with Abdulhamid Kircher and Sabiha Çimen
Please join us for the launch of Rotting from Within published by Loose Joints, together with a joint signing and talk with Sahiba Çimen and her book Hafiz from Red Hook Editions.
Rotting from Within refers to a feeling described by Abdulhamid Kircher upon the unearthing of his father’s history: the discovery of the generational trauma within the patriarchs of his family and the subsequent task of uncovering the artist’s self amongst the things passed down. Beginning at the age of seventeen with the reacquaintance of his estranged father, recently released from incarceration for selling drugs and attempted murder, Kircher’s self-led journey into photography coincided with a reflection on his past. Born in Berlin and fleeing to the USA at a young age, the camera provided an entry point for intimacy and familiarity with his father and his Turkish culture and heritage while fostering a deep relationship with the photographic medium and its possibilities.
Sabiha Cimen spent three years photographing Girl Quran Schools in five cities in Turkey, a subject that she knows very well since she attended the same schools when she was a teenager with her twin sister. After becoming a photographer, she returned to those schools to work on her project that has now become the subject for her first book, Hafiz.
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr 33
Friday 19th July 2024
18:00 – 21:00
*artist talk at 19:00
Book Launch - mind the gap, luv. by Kate Schultze
Mind the gap, luv. explores the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, focusing on regions like Yorkshire and the West Midlands where the Brexit vote was strongest, with significant long-term implications. I am curious about this decision’s effects, especially after discovering that many of my friends voted to leave the EU without a clear rationale. The series examines Brexit’s impact, capturing the prevailing Zeitgeist and exploring the relationship between »Britishness« as a cultural identity and the desire for independence from the EU, particularly among working-class adolescents. As an outsider and insider, my unique perspective shapes the project, aiming to gain insights into the Brexit vote’s reasons and potential effects on the UK’s future..
Bildband Berlin
Immanuelkirchstr. 33 10405 Berlin
Thursday the 23rd of May
18:00-21:00
Artist talk starts at 19:00