30 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2024

Exhibitions

JULIUS SHULMAN
30 August – 12 October 2024

CHARLOTTE TROSSBACH
30 August – 12 October 2024


Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries
30 August – 1 September

Fri 6 pm—9 pm
Sat 1 pm—7 pm
Sun 1 pm—5 pm 

21 SEPTEMBER 2024 – 2 FEBRUARY 2025

From September 2024, Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht will show a retrospective exhibition by American photographer Joseph Rodriguez (Brooklyn, New York). This exhibition includes 80 works. All his projects share the same common thread: everyday struggles in the lives of often marginalized groups of people.

13 JULY – 15 SEPTEMBER 2024

Opening 12 July 2024

Sebastião Salgado and Miron Zownir will be featured at Memory Pictures, an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig.

through 13 October 2024

Sound track by Jean-Michel Jarre
curated by Lélia Wanick Salgado
Sebastião Salgado’s Photography Exhibition in Trieste
29 Feb – 13 Oct 2024
Salone degli Incanti

through 14 July 2024

Sottoporticato - Palazzo Ducale
Piazza Matteotti 9
16123 Genova 

1 JULY – 29 SEPTEMBER 2024

Bringing together forty international artists, the exhibition gathers and connects visions of disorder to deploy an imagery of turmoil. Documentary, atmospheric, action photography, intimate archives, burnt-out, forgotten memories, pictorial, police photography: the exhibition stretches out a thought in the negative of graffiti, seen as a revelation of what city and life stir up.
Hugo Vitrani

Edition 2024
Arles – Les Rencontres de la Photographie
Église Sainte-Anne – Access Stairs

Curator: Hugo Vitraini
Exhibition coproduced by Palais de Tokyo and the Recontres d'Arles
Publication: Au nom du nom. Les surfaces sensibles du graffiti, Delpire & Co, 2024

13 - 16 JUNE 2024

Thu, June 13, 2024, 11am to 7pm
Fri, June 14, 2024, 11am to 7pm
Sat, June 15, 2024, 11am to 7pm
Sun, June 16, 2024, 11am to 7pm


Hall 2.0 Booth number B1

Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10
4058 Basel
Switzerland

12 - 14 APRIL 2024

Josef Achrer – Solo Projects

Booth number G14

Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf

through June 2024

Galerie Bene Taschen is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition Arlene Gottfried – From the Archive by renowned American photographer Arlene Gottfried (1950-2017). The photographs draw attention to the multiculturalism of the neighborhoods the artist lived in and invite us to put our preconceptions aside and view the vastness of cultures in all their forms.

10 FEBRUARY– 7 JULY 2024

Singer Alicia Keys and her husband, producer Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) will show their private art collection at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition will feature around 40 selected works, including works by Jamel Shabazz, Gordon Parks, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
 
The exhibition can be seen in the Great Hall on the First Floor at the Brooklyn Museum.

through 16 March 2024

Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Cologne

Galerie Bene Taschen is honored to present the upcoming exhibition In Memory of Larry Fink: BOXING by renowned American photographer Larry Fink (1941-2023). This exhibition was organized in collaboration with Larry Fink.The photographs draw attention to the transatlantic boxing industry during the late 80s and early 90s and celebrate iconic moments of boxing legends such as Mike Tyson and Jimmy Jacobs.

16 NOVEMBER 2023

among the Time Magazine 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business for 2023

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian photographer and co-founder of nonprofit Instituto Terra, which works to restore the country’s Atlantic forest. The project was initially launched on his parents’ cattle ranch in eastern Brazil; Salgado used his photographs to raise funding for a seedling nursery, laboratory, and training center, which allowed the project to plant about 300 different species of native trees and to restore 2,000 natural springs. In 2022–23, it launched “Empresa Amiga,” a program that will raise funds from nearly a dozen corporate partners for forest and water basin restoration.

Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards 2024

9 - 12 NOVEMBER 2023

Thu, 9 – Sat, 11 November 2023, 1 – 8pm
Sun, 12 November 2023, 1 – 7pm

Booth number C20

Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris

16 - 19 NOVEMBER 2023

Thu, 16 November 2023, 12am – 8pm
Fri, 17 – Sat, 18 November 2023, 11am – 7pm
Sun, 19 November 2023, 11am – 6pm

Hall 11.1 Row C Booth number 218

Koelnmesse GmbH
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln

30 OCTOBER 2023

2023 Honoree / Achievement in Documentary

The premiere annual event honoring the greatest achievements in photography

The photography community from around the globe pays tribute to the most outstanding people in the field. Each year, the Lucie Advisory Board nominates deserving individuals across a variety of categories. Once these nominations have been received, an honoree in each category is selected.
The prestigious Lucie Awards gala returns to New York City to celebrate photography with a stellar lineup of honorees and the announcement of the fourth annual Impact Award recipient. The red carpet gala ceremony is scheduled to be at New York’s renowned Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, on Monday, October 30th, 2023.

18 - 22 OCTOBER 2023

Wed, 18 – Sat, 21 October 2023, 11am– 7pm
Sun, 22 October 2023, 11am – 6pm

Grand Garage Haussmann
43 Rue de Laborde 75008 Paris

through 18 November 2023

Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Cologne

Galerie Bene Taschen is pleased to present this year’s Group Show, a cross section of represented artist from our program.

30 SEPTEMBER 2023 - 25 FEBRUARY 2024

DIX AND THE PRESENT

Opening: Friday, 29 September 2023
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Hall for Contemporary Art

DIX AND THE PRESENT is a large-scale exhibition on German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969) with a special focus on his paintings created during the Nazi era, curated by Dr. Ina Jessen. At the same time, the exhibition explores Dix's influence on contemporary art, displaying works by internationally renowned artists like Lucian Freud, Alice Neel, Anselm Kiefer Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Marlene Dumas, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin and Miron Zownir.

In the exhibition 50 black-and-white photographs by the German-Ukrainian photographer Miron Zownir, will be flanking 50 etchings from Otto Dix's series DER KRIEG/THE WAR, which he completed in 1924, ten years after the outbreak of World War 1. In Dix's anti-heroic depictions, he vividly illustrated the brutal violence and devastating effects of war on humanity and the environment. Without pathos and as realistically as possible, just as he had experienced it first-hand as a machine gunner on the Eastern and Western Fronts. Zownir's pictures, on the other hand, show a contemporary world mined with social explosives, which he idealizes just as little as Dix idealized wartime. The art on display show the radicalism of their creators in refusing to whitewash the dark sides of humankind and their daring search for truthfulness between reality and appearance. Otto Dix's unmasking eye and his provocative subjects have inspired generations of artists to this day to focus their work on society and the human condition in the context of their time and, if necessary, to break conventions and taboos.

19 JULY 2023

'Three inspiring individuals were selected as winners of the 4th edition of the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity, in recognition of their leadership restoring and protecting vital ecosystems: Bandi “Apai Janggut”, customary community leader (Indonesia), Cécile Bibiane Ndjebet, activist and agronomist (Cameroon) and Lélia Wanick Salgado, environmentalist, designer and scenographer (Brazil).
[…]
Lélia Wanick Salgado is a Brazilian environmentalist, designer and scenographer. She studied architecture and urban planning in Paris. Her interest in photography began in 1970. In the 1980s she started working on the conception and design of most of Sebastião Salgado’s photographic books and all his exhibitions. 
At the end of the 1990s, Lélia and Sebastião created Instituto Terra, an NGO dedicated to reforestation, conservation and environmental education in the Rio Doce valley region of Brazil. The institution, located in the Atlantic Forest biome, has already planted almost 3 million trees, and has become a world reference in terms of ecosystem restoration and environmental recovery and preservation.'

published by Galerie Bene Taschen
in collaboration with Brooklyn Museum

DC OPEN Galleries
1- 3 September 2023

Opening: Friday, 1 September 2023, 5-9 pm
Lindenstr. 19, 50674 Cologne

Galerie Bene Taschen is pleased to present Josef Achrer (born 1982 in Prague/Czech Republic), to the gallery's roster. Achrer applies different techniques & mediums in his creation of paintings and photographs

14 - 31 AUGUST 2023

We wish a great summer time and look forward to welcoming you back in September.

12 MARCH - 19 NOVEMBER 2023

Amazônia: The Exhibition of Sebastião Salgado’s Photographs in Milan

From 12 May to 19 November 2023, the photography exhibition Amazônia by Sebastião Salgado will be held at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan.
More than 200 photographs are on display, depicting the vegetation, rivers, mountains, and people of the Brazilian Amazon. It will be a full immersion in the forest, accompanied by a specially commissioned immersive soundtrack by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Photographs of Mexico City's sex workers in the 90s
Joseph Rodriguez documented the lives, desires and spirituality of the people inhabiting the dangerous La Merced district.

5 May 2023
by Sabrina Cooper

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Shabazz obtained his first camera in the mid-1970s and immediately began making portraits. His camera was also at his side while he worked as an officer at Rikers Island in the 1980s, where he made portraits of inmates that he later shared with their friends and family. Jamel Shabazz: Albums, the culminating publication of the 2022 Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl book prize, features Shabazz’s albums, spanning the 1970s through 1990s. The exhibition will feature over a dozen of these albums, all shown for the first time.

15 - 18 JUNE 2023

Public Days
Thu, 15 June 2023, 11am – 7pm
Fri, 16 June 2023, 11am – 7pm
Sat, 17 June 2023, 11am – 7pm
Sun, 18 June 2023, 11am – 7pm

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN

Hall 2.0 Booth Number D10

Messe Basel
Messeplatz 10 
4058 Basel
Switzerland

27 APRIL - 22 JULY 2023

Bene Taschen Gallery is pleased to present the new solo exhibition Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City by Joseph Rodriguez. In Flesh Life, Rodriguez documents life in Mexico City in 1997, including the district of La Merced, which has one of the highest crime rates in the city.

31 MARCH - 2 APRIL 2023

Fri, 31 March 2023, 12am – 7pm
Sat, 1 April 2023, 11am – 7pm
Sun, 2 April 2013, 11am – 6pm

Booth number A01

Areal Böhler
Hansaallee 321
40549 Düsseldorf

15 - 22 FEBRUARY 2023

We have temporarily changed opening hours til Wednesday, 22 February 2023:

Wednesday 15 February, closed
Thursday, 16 February, 1-6 pm
Friday, 17 February, 2-6 pm
Saturday, 18 February, closed
Wednesday, 22 February, 1-6 pm

Galerie Bene Taschen wishes you happy holidays and all the best for 2023. 

The gallery will be closed through 10 January, 2023. We are looking forward to welcoming you in our gallery spaces in the next year.  

2022 Recipient of The Gordon Parks Foundation / Steidl Book Prize
Co-published with The Gordon Parks Foundation

Series edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Edited by Michal Raz-Russo
320 pages, 150 images
Hardback 19.5 x 29 cm

First Edition 12/2022

11 NOVEMBER - 11 DECEMBER 2022

As a highlight of of this year's Festival of Photography in Klaipėda/Lithuania a soloshow with photography by Miron Zownir will be showcased at the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre Exhibition Hall. The exhibition was curated by Darius Vaičekauskas, Chairman of the Klaipėda section of the Lithuanian Association of Photographic Artists.

26 SEPTEMBER - 12 OCTOBER 2022

"Sotheby’s is committed to protecting the planet and is proud to partner with Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado and acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado to ensure that the transformative reforestation work of Instituto Terra continues into the future.

Sotheby’s and Instituto Terra will host an innovative three-week long exhibition of award winning artist Sebastião Salgado’s most celebrated photographs, a Benefit Auction, and a show-stopping Gala at Sotheby’s New York on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
Instituto Terra was founded by the couple Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado with a dream to return to nature what decades of environmental degradation destroyed. With this collaboration, we hope to spread awareness about the history of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and the delicate ecosystem that connects all living things within it.
Over the last 24 years, Instituto Terra has successfully:
– Planted nearly 3 million trees native to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest – Revitalized over two thousand degraded water springs  – Produced various educational programs that train farmers, public officials and children in the conservation and restoration of native ecosystems – Bringing back more than 250 animal species to the land, including endangered animals such as the puma
All funds raised through the Gala, Selling Exhibition, and Benefit Auction will directly benefit Instituto Terra." (Sotheby’s)

A new photographic curation by Vikki Tobak, author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop

"Using 40 years of iconic imagery and compelling stories, this visual history shines a light on the world of hip-hop, where mega stars from Run-DMC to Tupac and Jay-Z to Migos and Cardi B flash brilliant custom pieces to show status and personal style." (Taschen)

Ice Cold comprises works from various artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Janette Beckman, Jamel Shabazz, Timothy White, Gillian Laub, David LaChapelle, Danny Clinch, Phil Knott, Raven B. Varona, Al Pereira and Albert Watson.

1 OCTOBER 2022 - 19 FEBRUARY 2023

Works from the Bank of America Collection
African American Museum in Philadelphia

"Vision & Spirit is composed of more than 100 paintings, prints, drawings, photographs and mixed-media works by 48 artists born in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Curated in partnership with the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the exhibition highlights key aspects of these artists’ lives, as well as the important objects they created. The group exhibition focuses on these talented individuals’ strength and spirit as creative forces whose work continues to shape our understanding of the world."

18 AUGUST 2022
In ZEIT VERBRECHEN Nr.16

"Es ist die furchtbare Erkenntnis, die den Polizisten auf manchen seiner Bilder geradezu ins Gesicht geschrieben steht: dass es aus der ewigen Spirale der Gewalt auf den Straßen von L.A.s Problemvierteln kein Entkommen gibt."

Text: Lale Artun

16 – 20 NOVEMBER 2022

Halle 11.1, Stand-Nr. C 405

10 –13 NOVEMBER 2022

Booth C20

02 SEPTEMBER - 29 OCTOBER 2022

Opening Hours:
Fri, 02 September, 1 pm-9 pm
Sat, 03 September, 1 pm-7 pm
Sun, 04 September, 1 pm-5 pm

Gallery Bene Taschen expands its space at Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Cologne and initiatively presents a group exhibition in the former premises of Galerie Petra Martinetz. In the first floor the solo exhibition Gregory Bojorquez - Hang Time will be on display until 17 September, 2022. Selected works of Gregory Bojorquez, Larry Fink, Arlene Gottfried, David LaChapelle, Jeff Mermelstein, Joseph Rodriguez, Sebastião Salgado, Julius Shulman, Jamel Shabazz, Charlotte Trossbach and Miron Zownir will show a cross section of the gallery's program.

15 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2022

We wish a great summer time and look forward to welcoming you back in September.

through 22 September 2022

PARVIS DE LA DÉFENSE
Cœur Défense,
110 Esplanade du Général-de-Gaulle
92932 Paris

through 21 August 2022

ROME
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO
AMAZÔNIA

Via Guido Reni, 4/A
00196 Rome

through 31 July 2022

SESC POMPEIA 
Rua Clélia, 93, Pompeia
São Paulo

through 10 July 2022

CARVER MUSEUM
1165 Angelina Street
Austin, TX 78702

OPEN THROUGH 15 AUGUST 2022

CARVER MUSEUM
1165 Angelina Street
Austin, TX 78702

30 JUNE - 25 SEPTEMBER 2022
FRANKFURT AM MAIN/ ESCHBORN

Deutsche Börse AG, The Cube

Mergenthalerallee 61
65760 Eschborn

Die Ausstellung „New Works“ präsentiert aktuelle Neuerwerbungen für die Art Collection Deutsche Börse aus den vergangenen 24 Monaten. Sie zeigt, wie diese Positionen das kuratorische Konzept der Sammlung erweitern und gleichzeitig vertiefen. Diese umfasst mittlerweile über 2.200 Fotografien von rund 150 Künstler*innen aus 30 Nationen.  

12 MAY - 15 MAY, 2022

Location:
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA

Booth number G7

Opening hours: 1pm–9pm

6 APRIL- 4 SEPTEMBER 2022

"Starting at the young age of fifteen, Brooklyn born photographer Jamel Shabazz identified early on the core subject of his lifelong investigation: the men and women, young and old, who invest the streets of New York with a high degree of theater and style, mixing traditions and cultures. Despite following a celebrated tradition of street photography that includes Gordon Parks, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander, it is to his credit that Shabazz has been one of the first photographers to realize the joyous, infectious potential of youth culture in neighborhoods such as Red Hook, Brownsville, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Harlem, Manhattan’s Lower East Side and the Grand Concourse section of the Bronx. A formidable archive of New York’s communities in the outer boroughs, this exhibition pays homage to Shabazz’s illustrious career of over forty years documenting the vibrant interaction of New Yorkers with their neighborhoods."

The exhibition has been organized by the Bronx Museum’s chief Curator Emeritus Antonio Sergio Bessa.
 
The show is part of Our Stories, Our Voices––a year-long series of exhibitions and public programs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of The Bronx Museum of the Arts. These exhibitions are organized around the idea that visibility is a tenet of social justice.

6 APRIL 2022

"He chronicled the fashion shifts of stylish young Black New Yorkers in the 1980s and ’90s in photographs celebrated at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. […]"

written by Arthur Lubow

8 – 10 APRIL 2022

LOCATION:
AREAL BÖHLER
HANSAALLEE 321
40549 DÜSSELDORF

BOOTH NUMBER A01

"A legendary New York photographer, Jamel Shabazz has created portraits of the city’s communities for over forty years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Shabazz began photo­graphing people he encountered on New York streets in the late 1970s, creating an archive of cultural shifts and struggles across the city. His portraits underscore the street as a space for self-presentation, whether through fashion or pose. In every instance Shabazz aims, in his words, to represent individ­uals and communities with “honor and dignity.” This book—winner of the second Gordon Parks Foundation/Steidl Book Prize—will present, for the first time, Shabazz’s work from the 1970s–90s as it exists in his archive: small prints thematically grouped and sequenced in traditional family photo albums that functioned as portable portfolios."

11 MARCH - 3 JULY 2022

'Upcoming exhibition “MIRON ZOWNIR Berlin/New York” from March 11th until July 3rd as part of the photography double exhibition alongside “WOLFGANG SCHULZ. Live / Life” at Turm zur Katz in the city of Constance.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Galerie Bene Taschen and was created in collaboration with students studying literature, art and media studies at the University of Konstanz under the direction of Prof. Dr. Bernd Stiegler and the curator of the Turm zur Katz, Anna Martinez Rodriguez.'

Turm zur Katz
Kulturzentrum am Münster
Wessenbergstr. 43
78462 Konstanz

23 MARCH - 5 JUNE 2022

OPENING:
Saturday, 19 March 2022, 4pm–6pm
Moltkestr. 81 50674, Cologne

The upcoming solo show Photographs by Jamel Shabazz: 1980–1989 brings together mostly unseen works from this era. Shabazz was one of the first photographers to document the emerging youth culture, along with his own experiences, in neighborhoods across East Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, downtown Brooklyn, up to Times Square.

25 FEBRUARY – 4 MARCH 2022

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN POP UP
9045 Nemo Street, 
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Hosted Future DMND Gallery 

Celebrating the City: Recent Photography Acquisitions from the Joy of Giving Something highlights a gift that has dramatically advanced the Museum’s already exceptional photography collection. Juxtaposing striking recent images with work by some of the 20th century’s most important photographers, including the Museum’s first images by Robert Frank and William Klein, the exhibition is a moving celebration of the power of photography to capture New York and New Yorkers.

"The vibrant photos from Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz capture the magic of life underground in the New York City subway, finding fashion, joy and love in surprising images.
Shabazz’s work aims at showcasing positive portraits of the African American community during a time of high crime, drugs and violence."

Video by Brandon Drenon & Madeline Johnson

5 FEBRUARY - 31 JULY 2022

KUNSTLINIE, Esplanade 10, 1315 Almere, Netherlands

The group exhibition presents "the sheer boundlessness creativity that street- and urban art holds. Every room is dedicated to a style, and within each style we’ll visit different forms of art. The (inter)national artists in the exhibition vary in where they are in their careers, but no matter how green or well-known they are: all of them are boundary-pushing shapeshifters."

5 FEBRUARY 2022, 12am - 7pm

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19, 50674 Cologne

28 JANUARY - 6 MARCH 2022

photographs from the archive of Jamel Shabazz

at Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, North Carolina

curated by Dexter Wimberly

offering a glimpse into a past time and place, capturing moments of Black life for future generations

14 – 21 JANUARY 2022

curated for BAM by Larry Ossei-Mensah, Guest Curator at Large
art by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Genevieve Gaignard, Jamel Shabazz, Frank Stewart, Roscoè B. Thické III., Deborah Willis, and Joshua Woods

Our office will be on winter break from December 23, 2021 to January 6, 2022. We are looking forward to welcoming you in the new year again. The exhibition JEFF MERMELSTEIN - HARDENED will also be on show through January.

All the best,
your gallery team

NOVEMBER 2021

Jamel Shabazz’s signed release of “City Metro” is accompanied by an immersive video display at R13 - 5 massive monolithic screens feature some of Shabazz’s most iconic imagery.

10 SEPTEMBER - 10 NOVEMBER 2021

a2 is a new "public art" initiative created through access to a storefront window on the edge of New York City’s Soho and Chinatown. Developed by anonymous gallery, with support from R13, each presentation will feature one artwork from renowned artists who are known for often making challenging and thoughtfully conceptual statements. Working in close association with artists, estate representatives, and collaborators, the project seeks to not only highlight a singular example of artwork, but to inform a passing audience of the artists’ history and significance through various online and in-person activations. Exploring each artists’ contributions to the history of art, fashion, music, architecture, and the city at large, a2 is an opportunity for unexpected discovery and engagement.

a2 is proud to announce its first installation featuring a significant work by the legendary photographer Jamel Shabazz. Courtesy of, and in collaboration with Galerie Bene Taschen, the artwork will be installed and available for public viewing - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week from September 10 - November 10, 2021 outside of 34 Howard Street, New York, NY 10013.

17 - 21 NOVEMBER 2021

Kölnmesse
Messeplatz 1
50679 Köln-Mülheim

Hall 11.1 Booth B-043

Featured works by:
Joseph Rodriguez
Sebastião Salgado

11 - 14 NOVEMBER 2021

Grand Palais
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris


Our booth features works from:
Gregory Bojorquez
Arlene Gottfried
Larry Fink
Jeff Mermelstein
Joseph Rodriguez
Sebastião Salgado
Miron Zownir

14 OCTOBER 2021

"Legendary photographers Jamel Shabazz and Joseph Rodriguez each present and talk about their photography exploring communities close to them including in New York and Los Angeles, and will also discuss their insights on making documentary images today. Moderated by Lisa DuBois"

15 OCTOBER 2021

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Cologne


We look forward to your visit.

20 SEPTEMBER 2021

"A Fantastic opening night evening what a line up!
Photoville’s 10 Under 10 featuring presentations from The New York Times, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Abrons Arts Center, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Indigenous Photo, United Nations Women, Joseph Rodriguez, The Darkroom Masters, and National Geographic featuring live music from Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project.

Joseph Rodriguez discusses his experience photographing TAXI: Journey Through My Windows 1977–1987, a portrait of the gritty chaos and community of New York in the 1970s. The book is composed of photographs captured from the driver’s seat of documentary photographer (and cab driver) Joseph Rodriguez’s taxi—including scenes of night workers getting off their shifts, children jumping through the spray of open fire hydrants in the summer, and S&M partiers leaving clubs, zipped in leather, in the early hours of the morning."

15 SEPTEMBER – 23 OCTOBER 2021

"Does wearing a tracksuit nowadays define one’s origins and generation or gives others an idea of how one envisions the world?
The Wear the Right Thing exhibition translates this notion into contemporary art through the lens of three artists from different generations, Jamel Shabazz, Mohamed Bourouissa and Sara Sadik, all of whom show, preserve and document the culture and style of diverse communities.
As part of this exhibition, designs by Balenciaga and apparel and accessories contributed by private fashion collectors from across the world will be on display, adding to the spirit of freedom and irreverence of streetwear."

14 SEPTEMBER 2021

"Internationally acclaimed photographer, Sebastião Salgado’s powerful black and white works are instantly recognizable, works that put a spotlight on the dispossessed and exploited, the beauty of nature and the fragility of the world and its inhabitants. As political refugees, he and his wife Lélia moved to France from Brazil in 1969. Initially trained as an economist, he took up photography full time in 1973. He works thematically, using only natural light, his photos posing serious questions about the imbalance of wealth and the impact of wars and disasters. Sahel captured the famine in Africa, Workers, the realities of manual labor, Migrations, the realities of migrants and refugees while Genesis is an homage to the Earth’s natural beauty. Since the 1990s, Salgado has been actively involved with environmental and reforestation issues through the Instituto Terra, an organization that he established with his wife in his home in Brazil. His latest work, Amazônia, is a seven-year exploration of the Amazon ecosystem and the way of life of its indigenous people. The book, Amazônia, was published in May 2021 and an accompanying exhibition is currently touring the world."

10 SEPTEMBER 2021

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Lindenstr. 19, 50674 Köln

We look forward to welcoming you in our new and second gallery space. The event starts at 6pm.

3–5 SEPTEMBER 2021

GALERIE BENE TASCHEN
Moltkestr. 81, 50674 Köln

With the start of the art season in fall, galleries in Cologne and Düsseldorf will present their program and start new exhibitions.

Galerie Bene Taschen presents a solo-exhibition on Joseph Rodriguez' series TAXI.

16 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2021

We wish a great holiday time and look forward to welcoming you back in September.

21 MAY - 31 JULY 2021

Curator: Gaetano La Rosa

The Centro Internazionale di Fotografia presents the exhibition „Zeitwirdknapp | Non c'è più tempo – Retrospektive 1977–2019“, comprising the complex œuvre of Miron Zownir, the poet of radical photography.

The show will be on view in Palermo until July 31, 2021.

through 1 December 2021

on view in Prospect Park near Lefferts Historic House, NY

"Who knows how long the man had been fishing by the edge of the lake in Prospect Park, standing near a thicket of lush trees and staring blankly at someone behind him: Jamel Shabazz, a photographer who took the man’s photo in 2010. For Shabazz’s latest exhibition, 'My Oasis in Brooklyn', there are 25 more images like this one. […] Captured over decades, the shots honor the park’s legacy at a time when its most cherished building, Lefferts Historic House, is being restored."

20 MAY - 31 OCTOBER 2021

Curator and scenographer: Lélia Wanick-Salgado 
Original musical soundtrack for the exhibition: Jean-Michel Jarre 
Exhibition in collaboration with the Geneva Ethnography Museum

"For seven years, Sebastião Salgado immersed himself in far corners of the Brazilian Amazon, photographing the forest, rivers and mountains, and the people who live there. On his journeys deep into this realm—where the immense power of nature can be felt as in few places on earth—his photographer’s eye captured striking images, most being shown here to the public for the first time.
Accompanied by an original soundtrack—a ‘symphony-world’ created by Jean-Michel Jarre using concrete sounds from the forest—the exhibition also gives voice to the indigenous communities photographed, via their testimonies."

5 JULY 2021

By Miss Rosen

“Art was always a part of my life,” says gallerist Bene Taschen, the son of world-renowned German book publisher Benedikt Taschen. “Growing up [in Cologne], I was surrounded by photographers and met great artists working with my father, like Helmut Newton. It was a blessing to have this as a part of my daily life. It was inspiring to be surrounded by art in any form.”

22 JUNE 2021 – 24 JUNE 2022

Journalist: Leonie Wedekind

"Das Leben schreibt ja bekanntermaßen die besten Geschichten. Für Joseph Rodriguez bietet es auch die besten Motive. Zehn Jahre fuhr der US-Amerikaner Taxi. Hinter dem Steuer dokumentierte er als "fahrender Flaneur" in den 70er und 80er Jahren den rauen Alltag der New Yorker. Nun hat der gefeierte Dokumentarfotograf jene Fotos zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht. In der Galerie Bene Taschen in Köln sind die Werke bis Ende Juli zu sehen."

21 JUNE 2021

Joseph Rodriguez captured the many different corners of the city from the window of his cab.

"To drive a cab back then, you either had to have a death wish or come to the job with a biography that inured you to the danger or graced you with such intuitive empathy/curiosity that to see and hear and sometimes engage with the cavalcade of humanity sliding in and out of your backseat trumped the nightly game of Russian roulette." 

The writer Richard Price penned these poignant words that open photographer Joseph Rodriguez's book and show, Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987, currently on display at Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne, Germany.

19 JUNE – 25 JULY 2021

Künstlerhaus Dortmund presents a group exhibition with participating artists: Thaddé Comar, Constantin Grolig, Lois Hechenblaikner, Sabine Springer, Julia Steinigeweg and Miron Zownir.

"Our life is currently being questioned in almost every area. Traveling, flying – we may have to change our habits. But how do we redefine ourselves, how do we find a new identity? First it was changing locations and now even interpersonal contacts have mutated from essential to dangerous. We no longer experience ourselves as nomadic and interacting, but rather as solitary. We are separated from places of longing, also from people we long for. An imagined after is the time onto which we project our longings. Whereby the wish for the future is often enough for it to be the same as it was in the past. The exhibition tries to present these aspects of yesterday, which are supposed to fill and enrich our future, and to question their suitability. Forms of physical closeness, joint ventures and dissolute living, as well as political commitment for a better future: the new old proximity is being put to the test."

12–13 JUNE 2021

"Taxi" (1984) by Joseph Rodriguez — Cheyenne Darko

"Prior to picking up a camera for the first time at the age of 20, Joseph Rodriguez spent time in prison and was addicted to drugs. The native New Yorker would later say that taking up photography saved his life. Becoming a taxi driver in 1977, Rodriguez spent the next decade exploring New York from the front seat of his cab, capturing the mood of the city in one of its most troubled periods. From families en route to church to sex workers in the Meatpacking District, Rodriguez’s camera doesn’t discriminate. As the photographer says: 'There are a million stories here in New York. Everybody’s got a story.'"

8 JUNE 2021

The article of Artribune informs you about the complex œuvre of Miron Zownir as well as the current exhibition "Zeitwirdknapp/ Non c'è più tempo" at the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Palermo curated by Gaetano la Rosa. As the first great retrospective in Italy, this show comprises over seventy middle- and large-sized works which were produced around the world between 1977 and 2019.

27 MARCH – 30 APRIL 2021

An outdoor exhibition, initiated by Aperture and Rockefeller Center, comprises a convolute of New York City street and subway photographs by Jamel Shabazz, who has methodically created street portraits throughout the city for forty years.