Surrender to the Dreamers

"Surrender to the Dreamers" sees photography as a medium that exceeds the boundaries of the visible and goes beyond pure sensory perception.

In both exhibitions, artists use photography to reveal the hidden and create previously unknown, fascinating visual worlds.


Through experimental interventions and unconventional techniques, the participating artists transform photographic images into living narratives that go far beyond the boundaries of the visible:
They bring hidden family histories to light, focus on forgotten people or reconstruct lost archives. This is not about simply escaping into fantasy worlds - rather, their works question common representations of reality and critically engage with them.

With the help of imagination, fiction and reconstruction, the artists use photography as a tool to open up new perspectives and renegotiate personal, familial and collective memories. The photographic image is not a finished end product, but a flexible material that can be changed, shaped and reinterpreted in order to make gaps visible and bring lost stories back into consciousness.


Participating artists

Michael Borowski, Anaïs Boudot, Timotheus Büttner, Cai Dongdong, Ioanna Sakellaraki, Ria Wank


Curatorial team

Organized and curated by analogueNOW, a non-profit association in Berlin that brings together artists, photographers, curators, educators and photo enthusiasts to promote analogue photography.


The exhibition is curated by Claire Ducresson-Boët and Thomas Ming-Hui Stanka.


A special exhibition by analogueNow in cooperation with the Art Library – State Museums in Berlin