The exhibition "Spiegel und Fenster" by Fee Pétrus in Munich

I was invited to curate the exhibition “Spiegel und Fenster” by the photographer Susanne Bartels, alias Fee Pétrus. It takes place from December 22nd 2022 at the fourth floor in very central Theatinerstraße 47 (4th floor), Munich.

Many may wonder why an exhibition in Munich is curated by an artist from Venice. First of all, the obvious: Some of the pictures shown here were taken in Venice and reflect a mysterious side of this city in the lagoon. But there is also another reason: a big change took place in the history of Venetian figurative art in the second half of the 15th century: the Byzantine style was revolutionized by the influence of the Florentine school. This meant the transition from the two-dimensional image icon, without spatial impression, to the image with spatial perspective, in which a story could finally be told in one image.

Fee Pétrus’ photos from the previous exhibition also resembled icons, consisting of a subject with a background. The transformation that can be seen in her pictures in the current exhibition is like a transition into a new dimension – a whole world is shown in every photo. Venice has always been a meeting place for peoples from all parts of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Adriatic and has thus emerged from a mixture of different cultures. Venice owes its image as a city of art and culture to this fact, for which it is admired and appreciated by everyone.

I chose 25 pictures from a very wide selection of 4000 and they were printed in large format on Hahnemühle Baryta. You can see the all selection and buy the prints on the artist’s website:

Fee Pétrus