Zander Galerie

Robert Frank

Info: Zander Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition that brings to life the visual narrative of What We Have Seen / Was Haben Wir Gesehen from Robert Frank’s celebrated series of visual diaries. It explores people and places across his long and multifaceted life through images and fragments of memory presented through the artist’s original maquette. The exhibition has been realized in close collaboration with the Robert Frank Foundation and reconstructs the image sequence as conceived by the artist. What We Have Seen / Was Haben Wir Gesehen was published by Steidl in 2016 and belongs to Robert Frank’s late group of photobooks that function as visual diaries. The work brings together photographs, fragments, handwritten words, and recurring motifs, moving between different times and places in Frank’s life. Rather than following a linear narrative, the sequence characteristically unfolds as a rhythm of memory and perception. Images of friends and family, everyday surroundings, travel, and loss are interwoven with textual elements and repetitions, emphasizing the act of looking back and the passage of time. The maquette reveals the book as a carefully constructed visual composition, in which sequencing, intervals, and echoes are as significant as the individual images themselves. (…)

Info: Zander Galerie is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Santu Mofokeng and David Goldblatt, bringing together two of the most important and influential artists in South African photography. Santu Mofokeng (1956–2020) developed a photographic practice that moved beyond conventional documentary categories. Closely associated with the Afrapix collective from 1985 and shaped in dialogue with David Goldblatt, his work combines visual observation with critical reflection and writing. Mofokeng’s photographs address history and land, memory and spirituality, and the lived aftermath of apartheid, forming an œuvre that is both intellectually rigorous and marked by restraint, attentiveness, and poetic nuance. He played a decisive role in redefining what documentary photography could mean in South Africa. Shown alongside Mofokeng’s work are photographs by David Goldblatt from his seminal series The Transported (1983–1986). David Goldblatt (1930–2018) established a photographic language of exceptional clarity and ethical seriousness, examining social structures, power, and inequality through close attention to everyday life. The Transported, created during the later years of apartheid, focuses on Black South Africans commuting long distances by bus between townships and places of work, and is widely regarded as one of his key early series. (…)

Christiane Baumgartner

Info: Zander Galerie is delighted to announce an exhibition of new and recent woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner. Presenting monumental seascapes and landscapes in black and white and color, The Long Goodbye centers on sunsets and horizons along the sea, derived from her own video stills and digital photographs. The images reveal their subjects only from a distance; up close, they dissolve into meticulously carved line grids. While the motifs evoke symbols of longing or quiet eeriness, the works register tensions between stillness and subtle political unease. In the featured Sunken Treasure works, light appears as luminous glimpses beneath the water, in hues of purple and green. Through the pressure and layering of ink, combined with selective abrasion on the verso, Baumgartner transforms each image into a unique woodcut, barely resembling the source material. By slowing the flux of light into a labor-intensive process, these predominantly large-scale prints probe our contemporary perception of time, illuminating the fragile space between control and uncertainty.

Mitch Epstein

Info: Zander Galerie is pleased to present American Arbor, an exhibition of large-scale photographs by Mitch Epstein spanning the last two decades. Bringing together images of trees from American Power, Hoh Rain Forest, and his most recent series Old Growth, the show traces Epstein’s sustained exploration of the relationship between landscape and culture in the United States. Epstein photographs trees near energy production sites and in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in the moss-covered Olympic National Park in Washington and in ancient forests across the country. These towering works illuminate how trees are indicators of environmental vulnerability yet also powerful symbols of endurance.