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FRANZISKA STÜNKEL #2
COEXIST 2010–2022

exhibition: February 16 – March 22, 2023
at CSR.ART–Contemporary Show Room
Friedrichstr. 67–70, 10117 Berlin

FINISSAGE: Wednesday, March 22
with guided tour by Franziska Stünkel (6:30 pm)

In search of natural reflections on glass, which in their condensation tell of the coexistence of human life, Franziska Stünkel has been traveling for over thirteen years with her Leica through numerous countries and continents. Charged to the highest complexity, her atmospheric and at the same time documentary photographs are the visualization of the commonalities and contrasts that exist in our diversely networked world at all times.

Parallel to the exhibition of the most recent works at Potsdamer Straße, a large selection of remarkable works from the complete oeuvre COEXIST, for which Franziska Stünkel photographed in Asia, Africa, Europe, America and Australia, will be shown at CSR.ART-Contemporary Show Room (Friedrichstraße 67-70, Berlin-Mitte) from February 16 to March 11. Without any digital post-processing, over 150 sensitive photographs of reflections have been created, revealing a multi-layered view of the highly topical global question of coexistence in our present.

COEXIST PANEL TALK
FRANZISKA STÜNKEL AND MORITZ RINKE IN CONVERSATION
Saturday, February 18, 2023
Matinee from 12 pm, the talk starts at 1 pm
Location: CSR.ART, Friedrichstr. 67-70, 10117 Berlin

In her current exhibition COEXIST 2010-2022, the artist and director Franziska Stünkel will talk with the playwright and novelist Moritz Rinke on Saturday, February 18. The conversation takes place on the occasion of the two solo exhibitions by Franziska Stünkel at Jarmuschek + Partner gallery (Potsdamer Straße 81) and at CSR.ART. (Friedrichstraße 67). Franziska Stünkel and Moritz Rinke will talk with each other about the central topic of the exhibitions, COEXISTENCE, as well as artistic creative processes in photography and writing. Both have already met in a work: Franziska Stünkel's feature film "Vineta" is based on the play "Republik Vineta" by Moritz Rinke. The conversation will be moderated by Kristian Jarmuschek.

Franziska Stünkel (*1973) is an internationally awarded photo artist, film director and screenwriter. She studied fine arts at the University of Fine Arts Kassel. After her diploma she became a master student of Prof. Uwe Schrader. Her photographs can be seen in museums, art institutions and galleries and are in numerous collections, such as that of the Sprengel Museum Hannover. Among the awards for her photographic work are the Audi Art Award and the Berlin Hyp Art Prize. In 2023, Franziska Stünkel was nominated for the prestigious Prix Pictet. Her illustrated book Coexist was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2020. Franziska Stünkel's films have been shown in 19 countries at over 170 film festivals and have won multiple awards. Her feature film Nahschuss (The Last Execution) starring Lars Eidinger, Devid Striesow and Luise Heyer was released nationally and internationally in 2021/2022 and has been featured in competition sections of renowned international film festivals.

Moritz Rinke lives as a free writer in Berlin. After studying applied theater science in Giessen, he worked for well-known national newspapers. As an editor at the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, he was twice awarded with the Axel Springer Prize. Moritz Rinke's first play Der graue Engel was published in 1995 and premiered the following year at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. His work Republik Vineta was voted best German-language stage play in 2001 and later filmed by Franziska Stünkel. His timely new version of the Nibelungenlied was performed several times between 2002 and 2008 as part of the Nibelungen Festival Worms. With his first film September, in which he also made his debut as an actor, Moritz Rinke was invited to the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2003. Moritz Rinke's first novel was published in 2010 under the title Der Mann, der durch das Jahrhundert fiel (The man who fell through the century) and was on the bestseller list for weeks. His well-received second novel, Der längste Tag im Leben des Pedro Fernández García (The Longest Day in the Life of Pedro Fernández García), came out in 2021. Last month, his latest book, Unser kompliziertes Leben (Our Complicated Lives), was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch.

All dates with Franziska Stünkel at a glance: 

• Saturday, February 11, 2-7 p.m.: Opening of the exhibition COEXIST-LOCAL GLOBAL at Galerie Jarmuschek + Partner (Potsdamer Str. 81a).

• Wednesday, February 15, 5-10 p.m.: Opening of the exhibition COEXIST 2010-2022 at CSR.ART - Contemporary Show Room (Friedrichstr. 67-70)

• Saturday, February 18, 12-15 h: Matinee with PANEL TALK (1 pm) between MORITZ RINKE and FRANZISKA STÜNKEL at CSR.ART - Contemporary Show Room (Friedrichstr. 67-70)

• Friday, March 10: Broadcast of the film NAHSCHUSS (script and direction: Franziska Stünkel) on the TV channel ARTE!

• Wednesday, March 22: Finissage and guided tour with the artist through the exhibition (6:30 pm) at CSR.ART, Friedrichstr. 67-70

• Saturday, March 25: Finissage and guided tour with the artist through the exhibition (4:00 pm) at Jarmuschek + Partner gallery, Potsdamer Str. 81a