Co-operative exhibition at Galerie Ursula Walter
Franziska Klose's photographs show an unusual portrait of Dresden: with her camera, she documents plants that live in a wide variety of places in the city in densely populated and man-made habitats. You can see marsh lilies in a concrete flowerpot on Pirnaischer Platz, wild donkey thistle, maiden thistle and mugwort on a garage wall, as well as chives that have taken up residence in the gaps between the embankments on the banks of the Elbe.
Her photographs are dedicated to the often overlooked communities of urban flora in the city: a surprisingly large variety of species can be found on traffic islands, construction sites and along roadsides, but also in flowerbeds and community gardens. The cities built by humans offer plants a wide variety of habitats, from pavement cracks to botanical gardens.
Franziska Klose's exhibition "Cohabitat City" shows the artistic results of the 9th Dresden Scholarship for Photography, which has been jointly organised by the Dresden Art & Culture Foundation of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and the Technische Sammlungen Dresden since 2016. The scholarship supports artistic and/or documentary projects focussing on the photographic image and photographic processes.
The exhibition as part of the scholarship will be presented at Galerie Ursula Walter in collaboration with Kunsthaus Dresden and offers a comprehensive overview of Franziska Klose's photographs taken in Dresden.
The exhibition forms the urban counterpart to the artist's site-specific installation in the exhibition pavilion of the Kunsthaus Dresden PARZELLE 3 in Flora 1 in Striesen, which can be seen until 5 April 2026. Both exhibitions will be accompanied by botanical walks and artist talks.
Both exhibitions are based on the artist's book "Cohabitat Stadt", published by publish&print Verlag Dresden as part of the 9th Dresden Scholarship for Photography of the Dresden Art & Culture Foundation of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and the Dresden Technical Collections and the Hannover Shots scholarship of the ShannoverStiftung.
- Location
Galerie Ursula Walter
Neustädter Markt 10
01097 Dresden - Opening hours
Thu - Fri: 15:00 - 18:00
Sat: 12:00 - 16:00