Artist Studio | Install by Diana Pfammatter
For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, the Berlin-based photographer Diana Pfammatter expands her series Artist Studio / Install, turning her focus to selected artists from this year’s program.
The images emerge in the studio and during the exhibition installation tracing processes, decisions, and transitions—beyond the finished exhibition. Pfammatter observes with precision and subtlety, making visible the structures that shape artistic production.
For this edition, she has invited artist and filmmaker Franziska von Stenglin to extend the campaign with a moving image layer. Their collaboration weaves together photographic and cinematic perspectives into a carefully composed visual narrative.
Photos: Diana Pfammatter
Videos: Diana Pfammatter and Franziska von Stenglin
Travis MacDonald
Travis MacDonald’s paintings take shape from memories, coalescing into surreal scenes. Drawing on his immediate surroundings, the artist develops dreamlike imagery that resists precise temporal or spatial definition. He uses reduced forms and open pictorial spaces in which motifs seem to emerge rather than assert themselves; they appear fragmentary yet carefully composed, creating a distinctive tension between intimacy and distance.
The new paitnings for MacDonald’s exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts during Gallery Weekend Berlin are populated by long-haired, androgynous figures inspired by the hippie movement. Under the knowingly chosen title Had a Farm, scenarios of imagined communes in the 1970s unfold, formed in the wake of a housing crisis, as people relocate from the city to the countryside and encounter the conservative populations already living there. Following a pre-established storyboard, MacDonald selects quiet moments, veiling them in muted tones and thin layers of paint.
