Benjamin Pfau

ZINE LAUNCH TODAY!!! 23 April 19:00 @bildband.berlin Hey everyone, I participated in a zine workshop at Bildband this month and on the 23rd we will have a small launch party! It's also my birthday, so it would be great to see lots of familiar faces! The starting point for this project is archive material from the first half of the 20th century from Kargowa, a small town in present-day Poland that used to be known as Unruhstadt (“town of unrest”). History remains in flux, yet these scenes of ordinary life in what appears to be a tranquil town carry a lingering sense of unease, reading almost like an overture to what was to come. The archive material is interwoven with personal photographs from the last decade. By placing past and present in relation to one another, the work traces how this unease does not simply belong to a distant moment, but continues to echo into the present. Unruhstadt Benjamin Pfau Berlin, 2026 Edited by @youvalle and @lament.for.cement Riso-Printed by @bruisestudio

ZINE LAUNCH 23 April 19:00 @bildband.berlin Hey everyone, I participated in a zine workshop at Bildband this month and on the 23rd we will have a small launch party! It's also my birthday, so it would be great to see lots of familiar faces! The starting point for this project is archive material from the first half of the 20th century from Kargowa, a small town in present-day Poland that used to be known as Unruhstadt (“town of unrest”). History remains in flux, yet these scenes of ordinary life in what appears to be a tranquil town carry a lingering sense of unease, reading almost like an overture to what was to come. The archive material is interwoven with personal photographs from the last decade. By placing past and present in relation to one another, the work traces how this unease does not simply belong to a distant moment, but continues to echo into the present. Unruhstadt Benjamin Pfau Berlin, 2026 Edited by @youvalle and @lament.for.cement Riso-Printed by @bruisestudio Edition of 25 other participating artists: @__chapan__ @mashakushnir Veljko Markovich @photography.bylulu

ZINE LAUNCH 23 April 19:00 @bildband.berlin Hey everyone, I participated in a zine workshop at Bildband this month and on the 23rd we will have a small launch party! It's also my birthday, so it would be great to see lots of familiar faces! The starting point for this project is archive material from the first half of the 20th century from Kargowa, a small town in present-day Poland that used to be known as Unruhstadt (“town of unrest”). History remains in flux, yet these scenes of ordinary life in what appears to be a tranquil town carry a lingering sense of unease, reading almost like an overture to what was to come. The archive material is interwoven with personal photographs from the last decade. By placing past and present in relation to one another, the work traces how this unease does not simply belong to a distant moment, but continues to echo into the present. Unruhstadt Benjamin Pfau Berlin, 2026 Edited by @youvalle and @lament.for.cement Riso-Printed by @bruisestudio Edition of 25 other participating artists: @__chapan__ @mashakushnir Veljko Markovich @photography.bylulu

ZINE LAUNCH 23 April 19:00 @bildband.berlin Hey everyone, I participated in a zine workshop at Bildband this month and on the 23rd we will have a small launch party! It's also my birthday, so it would be great to see lots of familiar faces! The starting point for this project is archive material from the first half of the 20th century from Kargowa, a small town in present-day Poland that used to be known as Unruhstadt (“town of unrest”). History remains in flux, yet these scenes of ordinary life in what appears to be a tranquil town carry a lingering sense of unease, reading almost like an overture to what was to come. The archive material is interwoven with personal photographs from the last decade. By placing past and present in relation to one another, the work traces how this unease does not simply belong to a distant moment, but continues to echo into the present. Unruhstadt Benjamin Pfau Berlin, 2026 Edited by @youvalle and @lament.for.cement Riso-Printed by @bruisestudio Edition of 25 10€ other participating artists: @__chapan__ @mashakushnir Veljko Markovich @photography.bylulu

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photo dump september 2025 with @jackgarland

@jackgarland and I went on a little trip after our exhibition. Will share some images from the trip over the next few days. Somewhere around Naumburg, 2025

We are done setting up the show! Can't wait to see you all tonight! 𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 an exhibition featuring the work of Jack Garland and Benjamin Pfau curated by Xiaofu Wang at Sankt Studio, Berlin. Dates: September 18–21, 2025 Vernissage: September 18, from 18:00 @sanktstudio @jackgarland @_xiaofuwang

Thanks again to @andrejalepir who designed a wonderful poster! 𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 an exhibition featuring the work of Jack Garland and Benjamin Pfau curated by Xiaofu Wang at Sankt Studio, Berlin. Dates: September 18–21, 2025 Vernissage: September 18, from 18:00 @sanktstudio @jackgarland @_xiaofuwang

If Waco reveals how real places are consumed by myth, Die Insel shows how myth can be given the form of place. The series takes its name from Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem Die Insel, a Ding-Gedicht in which the island emerges less as a geographic site than as an image of solitude, longing, and interiority. Translated into visual form, the work retains this character: each picture presents the island not as territory but as object—something that gathers and radiates meaning. Though conjured through artificial intelligence, the images feel tangible: forests in fragile light, paths opening onto water, thresholds that seem to lead somewhere just out of sight. They possess a kind of aura—not the aura of documentary fact, but of recognition, as if we had already carried this island within us. In this way, Die Insel functions as a visual Ding-Gedicht: a poem made image, a place that exists not to be located but to be contemplated. 𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 an exhibition featuring the work of Jack Garland and Benjamin Pfau curated by Xiaofu Wang at Sankt Studio, Berlin. Dates: September 18–21, 2025 Vernissage: September 18, from 18:00 @sanktstudio @jackgarland @_xiaofuwang

𝑺𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 explores how places are never neutral but shaped by the collective longings, narratives, and fantasies projected onto them. The exhibition brings together two distinct approaches to fabrication: Jack Garland’s ‘Waco’, which begins with a real event and traces its transformation into myth, and Benjamin Pfau’s ‘Die Insel’, where imagined terrains acquire the weight of lived experience. An ongoing collaboration in the Ruhr area extends these investigations, re-imagining a landscape marked by industry and migration through the same strategies of staging and projection. Together, they show how place is always both material and imaginary, structured as much by memory and desire as by physical ground. @benjaminpfau @jackgarland @_xiaofuwang 
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