WALTER SCHELS. 16° PISCES. F
WALTER SCHELS. 16° PISCES. F
On the occasion of his 90th birthday, C/O Berlin in collaboration with the F.C. Gundlach Foundation is presenting the first major Berlin retrospective of Walter Schels (b. 1936). It has been curated following an extensive review of his printed work, comprising over 10,000 original prints. For over six decades, the photographer has considered human existence, confronted norms, taboos, and extreme experiences, and questioned identity and transformation. His distinctive visual language operates at the boundary between documentary and fine-art photography, drawing on a broad use of materials. He combines series, portraits, and experimental photographs to convey formal structures and processes. The exhibition brings together roughly 250 works which highlight the central themes of Schels’s complex oeuvre. 

C/O Berlin
Amerika-Haus
Hardenbergstraße 22-24
10623 Berlin
Jun 20 – Sep 02 2026 
The US-American fashion designer Tory Burch fell in love with Walter Schels' Animal Portraits
The US-American fashion designer Tory Burch fell in love with Walter Schels' Animal Portraits
See on instagram what happened!
Life Before Death
Life Before Death
Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen

The exhibition articulates th experiences, hopes and fears of the dying and gives them one more opportunity to be heard.

to projekt
to Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen
30.8.2024 bis 28.9.2024
Walter Schels. Prinzip Atlas
Walter Schels. Prinzip Atlas
Rotundenprojekt 2022 | Part III
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München

Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Str. 40
80333 München

to exhibition
14. September bis November 2022
Walter Schels. Fotografien
Walter Schels. Fotografien
The exhibition at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt presents four of Walter Schels' best-known photo series: the animal portraits, the portrait series on Joseph Beuys and Andy Warhol, the Trans* series and Schels' flower studies, which explore the beauty of fading. The exhibition provides a representative insight into Walter Schels' extensive oeuvre and is the largest exhibition of his work after the exhibition in the Hamburg Deichtorhallen in 2019.

Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Friedensplatz 1
64283 Darmstadt
zur Website
 
08.09.2022 – 08.01.2023
Walter Schels. Fotografien
Walter Schels. Fotografien
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, 
zum Teaser
08.09.2022 bis 12.2.2023
Walter Schels – LIFE
Walter Schels – LIFE
For more than 50 years, Walter Schels has engaged like almost no other photographer of his generation with extreme situations of human life. This exceptional photographer has explored the margins of existence for many of his projects: his series and long-term projects focus on birth as well as dying. His photography has earned him a reputation as a thoughtful existentialist within contemporary portrait photography...

DEICHTORHALLEN HAMBURG
HAUS DER PHOTIGRAPHIE
Deichtorstraße 1-2
20095 Hamburg

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19 July to 3 October 2019
VIDEO Deichtorhallen
VIDEO Deichtorhallen
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Walter Schels – Animals
Walter Schels – Animals
For the first time in decades, Walter Schels, one of the most important German photographers of his generation, is showing a selection of rare vintage prints of his famous animal portraits. The show also features some of his dog photographs from the seventies.

Galerie Peter Sillem
Dreieichstraße 2
60594 Frankfurt am Main

Jan 19th – Feb 23rd 2018
The Last Image. Photography and Death
The Last Image. Photography and Death
Living and dying, loving and letting go—images, films, books and music about death tap into our deepest fears about the finiteness of existence and our own mortality. Photography may not be the first means used to vanquish, endure and protest against death. Yet since its invention in 1839, photography, its visual strategies, and its technologies have grappled with death like no other medium ...
 
C/O Berlin
Amerika Haus
Hardenbergstraße 22.24
10623 Berlin

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08/12/18 to 09/03/19