Angelika Platen

For over five decades, renowned photographer Angelika Platen has been creating compelling and empathetic portraits. With an exceptional eye for young, up-and-coming, and now-famous artists, she began capturing the art scene at fairs and exhibition openings as early as the 1960s and 1970s. In the early 2000s, after a long hiatus, she increasingly turned her attention to female artists. Prompted by the MeToo movement, she reflected on why she had photographed so few women artists in her younger years. She decided to dedicate a year exclusively to portraits of women to rectify this omission in her photographic work.

The exhibition "My Women" is dedicated to several generations of national and international female artists, featuring intense and intimate photographs from both documentary and artistic genres, including portraits of Hanne Darboven, Sylvie Fleury, Monica Bonvicini, and Pola Sieverding. Inspiring and poetic titles always accompany the photographs.

Angelika Platen, born in Heidelberg in 1942, works as a photographer and photojournalist for Die Zeit and directed Gunter Sachs' gallery in Hamburg from 1972 to 1975. She had her first solo exhibition in 1969. Her photographic portraits have been widely published and are part of public collections in national and European museums.