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.

In the 2000s, Caroline Bachmann turned to landscape painting, exploring what might still be possible within such a historically established genre. A recurring element in her work is repetition: by painting the same motif again and again, the familiar gradually becomes strange, opening up new ways of seeing. Her process begins directly in nature, where she makes quick pencil sketches and notes colors and atmospheric impressions. From these sketches, slow and carefully developed paintings emerge that evoke less an objective landscape than the memory of a lived moment.

For the exhibition “Der See und die Sonne” at Meyer Riegger, presented on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, Bachmann traveled from her home on Lake Geneva in Switzerland to Geneva Lake in Wisconsin, USA. Over the course of five days, she circled the lake, capturing its landscape, light, and atmosphere in sketches that were later developed into a new body of work in the studio. Throughout the gallery spaces, these new paintings of the American lake encounter earlier works depicting the original Lake Geneva. Diana Pfammatter, together with Franziska von Stenglin, observed Bachmann as she brought the works into dialogue with one another, documenting some of these moments along the way.