Daniel Poller
April 26, 2025 – May 31, 2025
Frankfurt Copies
Galerie–Peter–Sillem
The exhibition "Frankfurter Kopien" by Berlin artist Daniel Poller takes a photographic and conceptual approach to the so-called New Old Town of Frankfurt. Daniel Poller photographed the historical stone elements (spolia) built into the houses in the area and combined them with the colors from the "color plan" of the reconstruction by manually overprinting them. In this way, photographic objects were created that are aware of their own historicity and allow the historicizing processes at work in the New Old Town to become visible as a palimpsest.
"A stringent rebuttal to an urban planning approach that, with its approach to the reconstruction of the New Old Town, succumbed not least to the illusions of photography." - Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Daniel Poller, born in 1984, studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and graduated in 2013 with a diploma under Peter Piller. In 2017, he became a master student of Joachim Brohm and Peggy Buth. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including a 2016 working scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the 2018 Bonn Art Fund, the 2015 Aenne Biermann Prize for German Contemporary Photography, and the 2017 European Architecture Photography Prize. Solo exhibitions include 2024 Frankfurter Kopien, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig; 2022 Birds of Tegel, Galerie Poll, Berlin; Viertel nach vor, Kunstverein Junge Kunst Wolfsburg; 2021 DÉCONSTRUCTIONS, Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, 2020 Endgültige Fassung der Beschlussvorlage, Galerie Poll, Berlin, 2018 Trümmertanz, Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf (together with Christoph Westermeier). His works can be found in the Federal Art Collection in Bonn, the Dresden State Art Collection, and the Berlin City Museum, among others.
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