Arina Dähnick. Fotografie

Projects

The MIES Project

The MIES Project started in 2012 when my camera and me passed by the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. I was fascinated by the interplay between the construction of the building and the light. It was like being asked for a dance, inviting me directly for photography. This spirit persisted constantly during the next years. I followed the building until it was closed for restauration at the beginning of 2015. In March 2016 I visited the Barcelona Pavilion where the same inner experience happened. There, it became The MIES Project. In the following years I visited buildings in the USA and Europe constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe after 1928—In October 2016 the Seagram Building in New York City; in June 2017 the House Tugendhat in Brno, the second largest city of the Czech Republic. My last stops were Chicago and Plano in 2017 and 2018 as S.R. Crown Hall; 860–880 Lakeshore Drive Apartments; 900-910 Esplanade Apartments; IBM-Building; Federal Center Chicago; Farnsworth House. The book of the project was published by DCV-books previously known as Edition Cantz in 2019. Images from the project have been exhibited in 8 locations in the U.S. and Europe Photographs were added, thex were changed were changed. They have been left just as. The exhibition itself is a living organism and that is wonderful. The last exhibition to date was from August 2021 to October 2021 at the Guardini Galerie at Askanischer Platz/Anhalter Bahnhof in Berlin to coincide with the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The sequence of images below corresponds exactly to the hanging by the curator Frizzi Krella.

900 910 Esplanade 8 Chicago 900 910 Esplanade 8 Chicago 860 880 Lake Shore Drive 12 Chicago 860 880 Lake Shore Drive 12 Chicago Federal Center 3 Chicago Federal Center 3 Chicago 900 910 Esplanade 3 900 910 Esplanade 3 Farnsworth House 4 Plano Farnsworth House 4 Plano Seagram Building 6 New York City Seagram Building 6 New York City Neue Nationalgalerie 3 Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie 3 Berlin Farnsworth House 20 Plano 2019 Farnsworth House 20 Plano 2019 Tugendhat House 3 Brno Tugendhat House 3 Brno Neue Nationalgalerie 1 Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie 1 Berlin Barcelona Pavilion 2 Barcelona Barcelona Pavilion 2 Barcelona IBM Building 3 Chicago IBM Building 3 Chicago Barcelona Pavilion 7 Barcelona Barcelona Pavilion 7 Barcelona Tugendhat House 4 Brno Tugendhat House 4 Brno 900 910 Esplanade 12 Chicago 900 910 Esplanade 12 Chicago Federal Center 1 Chicago Federal Center 1 Chicago Seagram Building 9 New York Seagram Building 9 New York Barcelona Pavilion 1 Barcelona Barcelona Pavilion 1 Barcelona Barcelona Pavilion 11 Barcelona Barcelona Pavilion 11 Barcelona Farnsworth House 16 Plano Farnsworth House 16 Plano Tugendhat House 20 Brno Tugendhat House 20 Brno Tugendhat House 8 Brno Tugendhat House 8 Brno Farnsworth House 8 Plano Farnsworth House 8 Plano Lemke House 4 Berlin Lemke House 4 Berlin Seagram Building 2 New York City Seagram Building 2 New York City Neue Nationalgalerie 24 Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie 24 Berlin Seagram Building 8 New York City Seagram Building 8 New York City Neue Nationalgalerie 15 Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie 15 Berlin Federal Center 9 Chicago 2018 Federal Center 9 Chicago 2018 S.R. Crown Hall 8 Chicago S.R. Crown Hall 8 Chicago