Viviane Sassen
The Body As Sculpture
Have you ever looked at your body and imagined it as something else – a shape, a form, a sculpture? The Body As Sculpture invites you to break free from rigid beauty standards. Through self-portraits, sculpture and surrealist collages, Sassen deconstructs and reshapes the human body to embrace its infinite forms - highlighting the connection between outer and inner transformation.
As a child, Viviane Sassen played with perspective, twisting her body into unfamiliar, fluidshapes. Later, while modeling during her fashion studies, she experienced a male-dominated industry that demanded desirability. She took photographs of herself to reclaim control of the gaze:
“My experience of being photographed by men influenced my approach – I wanted to create a kind of sexuality that defied the male gaze. One that felt fractured and discontinuous.”
With a unique experimental style, Viviane Sassen offers a vision of the body as fluid, abstract and full of possibility.
CREDITS
This exhibition is curated by Marina Paulenka (Director of Exhibitions at Fotografiska Berlin) and coordinated by Yolandé Gouws (Exhibitions Manager at Fotografiska Berlin). This exhibition is part of EMOP Berlin - European Month of Photography.
Until 31 Aug 2025
TOILETPAPER
ToiletFotoPaperGrafiska
No moderation. And not a single well-considered decision. Step into ToiletFotoPaperGrafiska, the hyper-visual universe of TOILETPAPER that offers a joyful, satirical journey through the unexpected.
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Until 17 Aug 2025
Šejla Kamerić
EX YOU
In EX YOU, Bosnian artist Šejla Kamerić (born in former Yugoslavia) explores themes of identity, memory, and resilience. What does it mean to be “exed” from history, from belonging, from one’s own body?
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Emerging artist
Until 14 Jul 2025
Chiara Wettmann
SeelSorge
In her poignant series SeelSorge, documentary photographer Chiara Wettmann turns her lens to the emotional and spiritual life in Berlin’s Heidering prison, offering an intimate exploration of belief, masculinity, and redemption in a system built to isolate.
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