Opening
Saturday 05.06.2010, 5 pm
Great hall

The way Stefan Heyne deals with the medium light gives his photographs the aura of paintings. Irene Bazinger wrote about the Berlin photographer’s oeuvre, “If one understands how to look properly, the angle between a perfectly normal wall and the adjoining floor can become a natural phenomenon […]. Stefan Heyne’s photographs see the world as we perceive it after waking up in the morning, when reality has not yet fully materialised before our sleepy eyes, because the remainders of our dreams act like a veil shrouding our vision. This masterly captured combination of amazement and knowledge lend Heyne’s images their haunting semantic underlying structure. His photographs are characterized in their lucid coarseness by a marked haziness which imparts the colours with a lyrical flair and at the same time underscores the assiduous everyday character of the motifs. […] Nothing is there, but everything is possible – and for Heyne, the entire world is his stage”.

Stefan Heyne studied scenography under Volker Pfüller at the University of the Arts in Berlin from 1987 to 1992 and was Pfüller’s master student in 1992/1993. As a stage designer, he has worked for directors such as Konstanze Lauterbach, Karoline Gruber and Andreas Kriegenburg. Solo exhibitions of his photographs have been shown in Cologne, Brandenburg/Havel, Potsdam, Bolzano, Detmold, Dresden and Berlin, among others.