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
Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz (b. 1972 in Johannesburg, lives and works in Berlin) explores the complex interplay between media, identity, and power in her artistic practice. Her works engage with questions of representation, political responsibility, and social conflict, revealing the extent to which both individual and collective identities are shaped by media and institutional frameworks.
Diana Pfammatter and Franziska von Stenglin spent an afternoon accompanying Breitz during the installation of Hot Potato at KOW. The exhibition reads as both an angry and passionate love letter to Berlin as a site of art and power. Breitz interweaves personal perspectives with historical references, drawing on artists who understand art as a space for political reflection.
In Hot Potato, it takes on multiple forms, appearing as a costumed performer, a damaged sculpture displayed in a vitrine, and a recurring visual motif. It shifts between controlled emblem and vulnerable, resistant figure, exposing the political tensions that shape contemporary artistic practice.