27/05/2026
In celebration of Walter Schels’s ninetieth birthday, C/O Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation present the photographer’s first retrospective "16° Fische" in Berlin. With more than three hundred works spanning nearly seven decades, the exhibition offers new insights into Schels’s oeuvre and highlights an often overlooked aspect of his practice: his experimental and transformatory works.
became known for his striking black-and-white portraits of newborns and centenarians, famous and unknown faces, animals, and plants. His works revolve around fundamental questions of human existence, while the exhibition reveals how change, repetition, and materiality have shaped his photographic practice from the very beginning.
Walter Schels . 16° Fische . Retrospective
Jun 20 – Sep 2, 2026
Opening on Jun 19
In collaboration with .c.gundlach.foundation
Made possible by C/O Berlin Friends
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Schwarzes Schaf, 1984 © Walter Schels / Stiftung F.C. Gundlach