Photography Tells Sculpture
16 Jul 2026 — 4 Oct 2026 at Bode-Museum
· Berlin
We encounter sculptures far more frequently as images than as physical objects. Photographs shape our gaze on plastic art and determine how we perceive, remember, and understand it.
The exhibition Photography Tells Sculpture makes this shift in perspective visible: it brings together sculptures and their photographic representations to reveal the complex, often overlooked relationship between the two media — and to ask what is gained, and what is lost, when a three-dimensional work is translated into a flat image.
The exhibition Photography Tells Sculpture makes this shift in perspective visible: it brings together sculptures and their photographic representations to reveal the complex, often overlooked relationship between the two media — and to ask what is gained, and what is lost, when a three-dimensional work is translated into a flat image.
About the venue
Bode-Museum
· Berlin
The Bode Museum, formerly called the Emperor Frederick Museum, is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor William II according to plans by Ernst von Ihne in Baroque Revival style. The building's front square…
