Susanne Kriemann . Im Fieber der Sonne flattern Schmetterlinge im Bauch

Berlin artist Susanne Kriemann (b. 1972) tracks remnants of the industrial era and the atomic age into our immediate environment. The exhibition centers on the landscapes of former uranium extraction sites in Saxony, Thuringia, and the Limousin region in France, where radiation continues to persist in soil and plants. In her ongoing series ›Pechblende‹ (Pitchblende), Kriemann creates images without a camera or external light source: radioactive substances directly expose photographic film. She also turns her attention to the remnants of heavy industry that have quietly entered everyday life, such as slag used as construction fill in Berlin’s nineteenth-century buildings, including her own studio. Landscape and architecture thus enter into a dialogue about the material aftereffects of industrial extraction. The exhibition presents Kriemann’s expanded understanding of photography, in which material and process are equally integral. It asks how such hidden impacts can be made palpable, and what forms of knowledge emerge from attending to this legacy.

The work will be presented for the first time at C/O Berlin as part of the ›After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 26‹, in a joint exhibition with ›Stelios Kallinikou . Cliffs Among Dreams‹.