Fotografie – Das Werk
Christa Mayer
The exhibition presents work spanning more than 40 years. The photographs and videos focus on portraits and landscapes. Christa Mayer became known for her unusually moving portraits from long-term psychiatric care. One of only a few women, she has been developing her artistic signature since 1980 at the legendary Berlin Workshop for Photography; in 1987, she received the P.S.1 scholarship in New York. She soon broadened her focus to include healers from different cultural backgrounds. Creative people and children inspire her as much as portraits of her own family and symbolically charged landscapes.
The book of the same name will be published by Distanz Verlag in November 2025.