Return of History (Berlin 2022)
The new old borderline
Black/White print: Monika Waack
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Photographic series with archival material
Return of History is a photographic series combining contemporary photographs of Berlin with archival images from the Stiftung Berliner Mauer. The project reflects on the re-emergence of historical narratives and geopolitical tensions in the present, without illustrating them directly.
Stopp warZ
Black/White print: Albrecht Roos
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Tomorrow is yesterday's today
Black/White print: Hans-Joachim Grimm
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Archival photographs of the Berlin Wall are digitally processed and rendered in black and white, while current images depict everyday urban scenes, tourist viewpoints and banal moments of contemporary city life. Placed side by side, these image layers do not form a linear narrative, but expose a visual dissonance between lived normality and historical memory.
The new Barbed wire in the heads
Black/White print: Wolfgang Schubert,
Donation Brigitte Schubert
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Leaving the American Sector
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Rather than suggesting a physical return of the Wall, the series examines how historical structures persist as attitudes, imaginaries and latent anxieties. Return of History investigates photography’s role in mediating between past and present, and questions how images shape collective memory when historical rupture and everyday continuity coexist.
The Kiss at the junkyard of the Berlin Wall
Black/White print: Monika Waack
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
History repeating - Potsdamer Platz
Black/White print: privat
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
Russia is watching us
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer
East West Estrangement
Black/White print: Edmund Kasperski
Stiftung Berliner Mauer