Artists

Helmut Newton, Wilhelm Schürmann, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sibylle Bergemann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold E. Edgerton, Arno Fischer, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jaromír Funke, Ralph Gibson, F.C. Gundlach, Philippe Halsman, Bernd Jansen, Kenneth Josephson, André Kertész, Klaus Kinold, William Klein, Heinrich Kühn, Helmar Lerski, Werner Mantz, Ray K. Metzker, Lisette Model, Arnold Newman, Kiyoshi Niiyama, Gabriele und Helmut Nothhelfer, Helga Paris, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Evelyn Richter, Heinrich Riebesehl, Jaroslav Rössler, Aaron Siskind, Otto Steinert, Christer Strömholm, Josef Sudek, Umbo, Ed van Der Elsken, Minor White, Eugen Wiškovský

Press release

On the occasion of the Berlin Gallery Weekend, Kicken Berlin is dedicating the exhibition 50 Years | 50 Photographs to mark the gallery's 50th anniversary. Selected by Wilhelm Schürmann - collector, photographer and, in 1974, the gallery’s founding partner together with Rudolf Kicken (†2014) - the exhibition presents works from 50 years of gallery history in Aachen, Cologne and Berlin.

To this day, the almost 250 exhibitions, numerous publications and editions reflect the history of contemporary and historical photography and the pioneering work of its mediation. The gallery's work has always focused on the most important developments in photography since the invention of the medium, as well as selected contemporary positions: from Nineteenth century Pictorialism to the interwar avant-gardes of Bauhaus, the New Vision and New Objectivity - still highly relevant today - the influential Czech modernism, the international movement of Subjective Photography originating in Germany in the 1950s, American New Color Photography and the artistic documentary movements in both East and West Germany since the 1970s, to name but a few.