The photographs of Berlin-born Sibylle Bergemann (1941-2010), one of the leading contemporary German photographers, are awe-inspiring for one because of the diversity of their subject matter and second for their astonishing insights and sensitivity. Bergemann commands subjects such as fashion, reportage, photographic essays, urban and rural landscape as well as portraits in an equally self-assured manner.

Exhaustingly worked without the medium Polaroid, almost exclusively with b/w photography, Bergemann belongs meanwhile to a group of photographers who use colour as a constitutive element in the construction of a meaning, and not as an illustration device.