OLAF OTTO BECKERPOLAROID

22.09.2024–12.01.2025 at H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast

From 1992 to 2002, Olaf Otto Becker exclusively shot Polaroids for a decade. A significant body of work in the oeuvre of the great German photographer is represented by this completely unknown part of his photographic oeuvre.

Becker's Polaroids were not created casually or merely as a propaedeutic for his later large-format landscape and nature photography, nor with the intention of turning them into exhibition projects. They are pure photographic art that exploits the formal, compositional and aesthetic possibilities of the Polaroid medium in all its facets and raises them to a new level.

In an extensive exhibition, the H2 - Center for Contemporary Art in the Glaspalast is presenting the fascinating, almost 300 photographic images edited and specially framed by Becker himself in months of intensive work for the project to the public for the first time: still lifes, pieces of nature, jungle, street and intimate images provide a new view into and of the photographer's pictorial cosmos in a way that has never been seen before.

“Olaf Otto Becker - Polaroid” can be seen in the H2 cabinets, parallel to “Philipp Goldbach - Training Images“.

We cordially invite all interested parties to the opening on Sunday, September 22, 2024 at 2 pm! Olaf Otto Becker will be present.

Artist Talk with Olaf Otto Becker on Thursday, November 21, 2024, 7 pm in the exhibition.