EXHIBITION

FORUM 035: Göran Gnaudschun – Alexanderplatz

Münchner Stadtmuseum, Bayern, München, 03/13/2015 - 05/31/2015

St.-Jakobs-Platz 1 80331 München

ABOUT

Potsdam-based photographer Göran Gnaudschun has photographed the young runaways, waifs and strays, homeless people, punks and attention-seekers of Berlin’s Alexanderplatz square since 2010. Many can tell stories of lengthy prison sentences, drugs and serious drinking. They do not fit into the fabric of conventional society – not the world of work or often even the social welfare system. Very few have actually been raised in Berlin and many have tried to put the greatest possible distance between themselves and the provinces. They want to be different, anonymous and experience the big, wide world without a cent to their names.

Some spend months at a time bumming around other big German cities, while others have wanted to move on and yet have remained stuck at ’Alexanderplatz’ square for years.

The kids amongst them grow up fast and the adults grow old before their time. Gnaudschun’s portraits of the denizens of this particular place invariably seek to unveil an intensity and dignity that should have been, to all intents and purposes, almost completely buried. He photographs situations steeped in symbolism, interviews the protagonists about their lives and writes about the photographer’s view of the Alexanderplatz, a veritably multi-layered phenomenon.

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Göran Gnaudschun

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