About the EXHIBITION:

PROTOTYP/MUSTER
September 12–October 25, 2025
world in a room - projektraum für fotografie, Berlin, Germany

The solo exhibition premieres new photographic works by Ellen Rothenberg with images from Chicago, Berlin and Marseille. The exhibition tracks the accelerating shift between analog and digital technologies on systems of connection and communication operating in public and private spheres. This slippery, ever-changing technological transition is reflected in the photographic image sequences and the techniques of production and reproduction. Fragments of landscape and a special effects green-screen production rig are juxtaposed with remnants of urban infrastructure; abandoned pay phones alternate with a movement-triggered LED projection. These works detail our attachment to anachronistic forms of daily exchange and the anxious allure of future-facing possibilities.

Leseprobe — Reading Sample

October 19, 2025 at 16:00
world in a room
Selections from the exhibition publication PROTOTYP/MUSTER

Readers: Daniel Eisenberg, Jens Kleihauer, Bettina Klein, Felicitas Hentschke

Texts by Cindi Katz, Bettina Klein, Caroline Picard, Shawn Michelle Smith

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Texts by Cindi Katz, Bettina Klein, Caroline Picard, Shawn Michelle Smith

This publication was produced on the occasion of Ellen Rothenberg's solo exhibition, PROTOTYP/MUSTER, September 12–October 25, 2025 at world in a room - projektraum für fotografie, Berlin.

The publication PROTOTYP/MUSTER is fiscally sponsored by Experimental Sound Studio with support from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Demeter Fund, with special thanks to Kate Rabinowitz and Horst Schönig.