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Staging the Self

Marta Astfalck-Vietz
11.7. – 13.10.25

Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Ohne Titel (Selbstporträt), ca. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Marta Astfalck-Vietz, Ohne Titel (Selbstporträt), ca. 1927, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

In the space of a single decade, the so-called “Golden Twenties”, photographer Marta Astfalck-Vietz (1901–1994) created a glittering corpus of portrait, nude and dance photography and conceptual series. Idiosyncratic enactments reveal her interest in self-invention. For these she not only took the pictures, but also arranged the setting, directed and posed. 

The innovative images composed under shared  copyright with photographer Heinz Hajek-Halke
(1898–1983) achieve dreamy, often surreal effects by experimenting with techniques like distortion, double exposure and shadow play.

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