In Cooperation with Kunsthalle Erfurt and Huis Marseille,
Museum for Photography Amsterdam

September 27 – November 30, 2025 / Opening September 26, 2025

 

 

In an overview and selection of important works and groups of works created over the past
12 years, the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig will be showing photographic works,
objects, and film works by Andrzej Steinbach from September 27, 2025, presenting his latest
group of works, Erweiterungen/Extensions (since 2024) comprehensively for the first time in
Germany.

With this current series, Andrzej Steinbach continues his precise, minimalist photographic
staging practice, staging mostly neutral-looking “figures” as typified, gender-neutral
representatives in equally neutralized spatial environments and with clothing from work
contexts or neutral streetwear. Through gestural and posed interactions with objects from
the world of work, the person appearing in the group of works brings to mind aspects and
contextual shifts of economic, cultural, social, and gender-specific attributions from the
technically oriented world of work, while at the same time establishing references to the
genre of portraiture.

 

 

In this regard, the media-reflective series Der Apparat (2019) was also exemplary in view of the
works presented in the exhibition. The person recurring in the photographs appears with
different cameras. The gestures and poses of their use appear as references to different
creative as well as political and social contexts. Several works from the series will be on display.

In addition to the series of images that focus on the relationship between humans and objects,
and thus always refer to cultural-historical, sociological, and social aspects, while at the same
time dissolving familiar aspects of content attributions into ambiguities, technical objects and
tools also appear in the color and black-and-white series Auto Erotik (2022) and Disassembling a
Typewriter (2022). Here and there, the titles and thus the linguistic level of the works and work
groups of Andrzej Steinbach become important design elements.

 

 

Biography

Born in Czarnków, Poland, in 1983, Andrzej Steinbach grew up in Karl-Marx-Stadt (renamed
Chemnitz after 1989), studied at the HGB Leipzig, and now lives and works in Berlin. He has
already been awarded important prizes and scholarships, and with his cross-media works and
installations, he is one of the artists of a younger generation in Germany who can already look
back on important exhibitions internationally.

His 35-piece series Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei (2017) was exhibited in 2018 at the Museum of
Modern Art in New York, among other venues. The series was shown several years ago at the
Museum für Photographie Braunschweig in the context of the Wüstenrot Foundation’s
important documentary photography award projects, and the Sprengel Museum Hannover
has also exhibited some of Andrzej Steinbach’s works in the region.

With this newly conceived exhibition, the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig aims to
provide an initial overview of the various facets of Andrzej Steinbach’s work through a selection
of important pieces.

 

 

Cooperation

The exhibition is a collaboration between the Kunsthalle Erfurt (winter 2025/26) and the Huis
Marseille, Museum for Photography Amsterdam (fall/winter 2026/27). At all exhibition venues,
the complexity of Andrzej Steinbach’s work will be revealed in different spatial settings.

 

Publication

A publication accompanying the exhibition will be released by Spector Books, featuring texts by
Barbara Hofmann-Johnson, Susanne Knorr, Jan Wenzel, and N.N.

 

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