Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents “Mehr Licht” a solo exhibition with Sascha Weidner, until November 8th, 2025. Here is the presentation text from the gallery.
Marking ten years since his passing, “Mehr Licht“ (More Light) revisits Weidner’s poetic and emotionally charged images, which create a radical and subjective visual world shaped by perception, longing, and coded symbolism. Through his photographs, Weidner celebrates and captures the beauty of the perfect moment, turning unconditionally towards himself and his environment.
The moment is what counts. Everything stems from it: Perceptions, desires, dream images and memories. Through his photographs, Sascha Weidner celebrates and captures the beauty of the perfect moment, turning his attention unconditionally to himself and his surroundings. His radically subjective visual universe is a poetic film of life, in which every shot is an affirmation of life or an expression of quiet melancholy. Whether rumpled white sheets, macro shots of veined skin, strangely overturned cars or the tender intimacy of lovers, every nuance of the incidental is important. Although each photo is self-contained, together they create a drama between the individual events. This visual chaos shows how fragile reality and perception are without collapsing in on itself. Rather, his images oscillate between lightness, vulnerability, intimacy and fear, raising essential questions about human existence and forming fragile connections. The arrangement of his photographs pieces together a life story bit by bit. It is one of many, each one new with each viewing.
Through his exhibitions, Sascha Weider provides a deep, personal insight into his life, ranging from childhood photographs to current images from various contexts. Exploring his archive is the distinctive method of his artistic practice. He repeatedly draws on this pool of images, changing the composition and thus the perspective each time. The addition and omission of themes and time levels creates new narratives, associations and interpretations. He arranges the photographs in various formats to fill walls, creating non-linear, asymmetrical installations in which the individual elements, like tracks in an epic DJ set, build on the rhythm of the previous image, interweaving with each other. The meaning is revealed in the whole. It is only here that the photographer’s style becomes clearly visible.
Sascha Weidner : “Mehr Licht”
September 7 – November 8, 2025
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Potsdamer Strasse 65
10785 Berlin, Germany
www.dorotheenilsson.com
