Exhibition: The elephant in the room - Is Energiewende stalling?

Let the photographers lead you through the exhibition.

Tobias Kräntzer: Reanimation • Christina Krause: Lights off? • Marco Leßner: Selfmade Energiewende • Boris Mehl: Black Gold? • Carolin Müller: Planty enough! • Gesine Riebe: Back to the roots • Fanny Sigler: The Lives of Activists • Luisa Solano: Creative Recycling • Lena Sophie Zeller: The Urban Paradise

Everybody speaks about the “Energiewende”, but what is it actually? A transition is supposed to be a positive change or development, but is everything really changing for the better?
In their work, the participants of the course at Photocentrum, taught by the photojournalist Ann-Christine Jansson, dealt with the question of what each and everyone can do to improve the current environmental situation. The result is a various works ranging from Urban Gardening, the installation of solar panels on balconies, switching from oil-using heaters to heaters that use pellets, to the usage of clay for building homes, the upcycling of clothing or the work of activists, dedicated to the fight to save our planet. The pictures provide inspiration for our own actions, but also raise the question of “Is this enough? Or are we just comforting ourselves by installing a solar panel?”

The Photocentrum of the Gilberto Bosques Adult Education Center in Berlin-Kreuzberg has been awarded with the “Bildungspreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)".
The photography department of the VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Photocentrum, has been known for its teaching beyond the borders of Berlin for more than 30 years - as a successful training center for artistic photography beyond the universities. In the 1970s, Michael Schmidt established his legendary "Werkstatt für Photographie" there.


A catalog accompanies the exhibition.

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