Stefanie Bürkle: Imagination of Venice

Berlin artist Stefanie Bürkle has been photographing Venice on her travels for 25 years. In 2022-2025, she realised Imaginations of Venice, an artistic research project as part of the Re-Figuration of Spaces Collaborative Research Centre at TU Berlin. The artist sees her own image production as part of the global circulation of images, a loop in which Venice is fixed, reproduced, reduced and multiplied as a projection foil for diverse spatial imaginations. With Venice BeReal, Stefanie Bürkle is now presenting the results of the project for the first time. Her Venice Atlas, an artistic archive of over 1,000 images of Venice, is at the centre of the exhibition. In addition to analogue and digital photographs, video excerpts from project interviews provide insights into Venice’s realities. A central video work transcends the artistic archive from Stefanie Bürkle’s studio into the centre of the exhibition space.