Angelika Platen
My Women: Photographic Portraits of Female Artists16.02.25 to 06.04.25
16.02.2025, 11 clock
The renowned photographer Angelika Platen has been creating haunting and sensitive portraits for over five decades. With an extraordinary feeling for young, up-and-coming and now famous artists, she photographed the art scene at fairs and exhibition openings in the 1960s and early 1970s. At the beginning of the 2000s, after a long creative break, she increasingly turned her attention to female artists. Inspired by the MeToodebate, she reflects on why she photographed so few female artists when she was younger. She decides to concentrate on portraits of women for a year in order to make up for this omission in her photographic oeuvre.
The exhibition My women is dedicated to several generations of national and international artists with intensive and approachable photographs, both from the documentary and artistic fields, such as the portraits of Hanne Darboven, Sylvie Fleury, Monica Bonvicini and Pola Sieverding. Inspiring and poetic titles always complement her photographs.
Angelika Platen, born in Heidelberg in 1942, works as a photographer and photojournalist for The time and ran Gunter Sachs' gallery in Hamburg from 1972 to 1975. She had her first solo exhibition in 1969. Her photographic portraits have been published widely and are part of public collections in national and European museums.
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