Dieter Appelt – Photographs
07.03. – 04.04.2025 - Lempertz Berlin
The existential themes of being, such as birth, life, time, pain and death make up the core subjects of the often archaic-seeming black and white photography of Dieter Appelt where he is concerned with the relationship between people and nature, emotion and perception, ‘Erinnerungsspuren’ (Memory traces), as the title of one sequence implies.
The exhibition assembles works from various creative phases of the artist: works in which the influence of Joseph Beuys and the latter’s action art is recognised– although Appelt’s works are executed without an audience and mostly as self-presentation using his own body – and later pieces, in which he turns to technical experiments with the camera such as long and multi-exposures and camera-free pictorial techniques such as the photogram and montage process in his autonomous pictorial creations. Many tableaus and single works illustrate the spectrum of his photographic oeuvre.
The exhibition on the occasion of his 90th birthday is a homage to the universal artist Dieter Appelt, who was appointed Professor of Photography, Film and Video at the University of Arts in Berlin and was Vice President there from 1999 until his retirement in 2000.

Exhibition period: 07.03. – 04.04.2025
Opening: 06.03.2025 | 6 pm
Lempertz
Poststraße 22
10178 Berlin
OPENING HOURS: Monday to Friday: 10 am - 3 pm and by appointment