The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Goldin’s themes are drawn from her immediate environment – her relationships and the circle of friends and lovers she has always called her “family”. In Boston, she observed and recorded the night life of drag queens. In New York, she devoted herself primarily to depicting the day-to-day lives of her friends in a bohemian milieu of film-makers, artists and musicians.

Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. With around 80 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented.

Picture:
Bea with the blue drink,
O-Bar, West-Berlin, 1984
© Nan Goldin /
Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York


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