Venice BEREAL at Meinblau Projektraum/ BERLIN 1-23.03.2025

For centuries, images of Venice have spread around the world. What ideas and expectations have they triggered, and how do these images and expectations shape the city today? For the past 25 years, Berlin-based artist Stefanie Bürkle has been photographing Venice during her travels, critically engaging with the conventional perception of the city. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Bürkle’s Venice Atlas, an artistic archive of over 1,000 images of Venice, presented alongside analog and digital photographic prints. Part of the European Month of Photography (EMOP).

Venice BeReal Program

6.3, 7:00 PM Talk with the author David Wagner and Stefanie Bürkle about Istanbul and Venice as a framework for his current novel Verkin. How many versions of Venice exist in the form of shopping malls, casinos, and theme parks around the world—and how are these images of Venice represented?

13.3, 7:00 PM Discussion on “Capitalization and Digitalization of Space: Airbnb, Google Maps, and More” with Stefan Kirchner, Professor of Economic and Labour Sociology at BTU Cottbus; Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Professor of Sociology of Technology and Innovation at TU Berlin; and Stefanie Bürkle, Professor of Fine Arts at TU Berlin. All three are members of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1265) Refiguration of Spaces.

20.3, 2:00 PM–7:00 PM Presentation of Venice mappings developed by international architecture students at TU Berlin. The result of a semester-long project, developing maps of Venice and games about Venice under the guidance of Stefanie Bürkle.

23.3, 3:00 PM Venice Soundwalk with Louise Brenner at Pfefferberg, followed by the finissage from 4:00–7:00 PM.

The project is part of the Collaborative Research Center Refiguration of Spaces (CRC 1265) at TU Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).