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It is our great pleasure to participate in this year’s DC Open Gallery Weekend, which will take place from September 4 to 6 in Düsseldorf and Cologne. The day before, on Thursday, September 3, we will open an exhibition dedicated to the two artist couples Bernd & Hilla Becher and Brigitte & Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff at our gallery space on the first floor at 7 p.m.

On display are two artistic approaches within German postwar art that engage with structure, form, and serial order in distinct ways. Bernd & Hilla Becher have shaped international photography since the 1960s with their photographic typologies of industrial buildings. In parallel, Brigitte & Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff developed a sculptural language defined by tension, movement, and spatial construction.
The juxtaposition of the works reveals formal and conceptual parallels. The photographs by Hilla and Bernd Becher follow a clear system and examine industrial architecture within serial contexts. The sculptures by Brigitte and Martin Matschinsky-Denninghoff explore balance, density, and the relationship between body and space.
What connects these two artistic couples is their close collaboration over many decades, as well as their shared interest in constructive processes and the impact of form in space. The exhibition brings these perspectives into direct dialogue, opening up new perspectives on the relationship between photography and sculpture.