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. Man-made cities 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 Foundation for Art & Culture of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and the Dresden Technology Collections 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 is being 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 Technology Collections and the Hannover Shots scholarship of the ShannoverStiftung.
Exhibition dates
FRANZISKA KLOSE: COHABITAT CITY
Guided tour of the Ursula Walter Gallery
Together we will explore the city of Dresden as a habitat for all species. Franziska Klose introduces us to the diversity of urban habitats. Rubble flora, adventitious plants, heat islands, pavement cracks and communal gardens will be examined, as will donkey thistles by the roadside, palm trees in shopping centres, marsh lilies in flower pots and flowering Brussels sprouts.
Franziska Klose is an artist and photographer. She explores nature as a networked organism and the city as a cross-species habitat. She creates photographic series, artist books, collages and field recordings. The photographs that can be seen in Franziska Klose's exhibition COHABITAT STADT were created in 2024 as part of the 9th Dresden Scholarship for Photography, which is jointly organised by the Dresden Art & Culture Foundation of the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden and the Dresden Technology Collections.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Kunsthaus Dresden and Galerie Ursula Walter as part of the 9th Dresden Scholarship for Photography organised by the Dresdner Stiftung Kunst & Kultur der Ostsächsischen Sparkasse Dresden and the Dresden Technology Collections.
- Galerie Ursula Walter
Neustädter Markt 10
01097 Dresden