Cocktail Prolongé: F.C. Gundlach special
9th TRIENNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY HAMBURG
5 June 2026 – 22 September 2026
About the exhibition
As one of the most influential German fashion photographers from the 1950s to the 1980s, F.C. Gundlach decisively shaped the aesthetic stylization of the female body. As a private collector, however, his passion was devoted to more provocative, ambiguous, and profound forms of corporeality. Extravagance and queerness are expressed in these works just as much as vulnerability and nonconformity. Drawing on around 300 works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection, the exhibition Cocktail Prolongé: F. C. Gundlach Special explores the diverse ways in which corporeality can be staged — always with an eye to how the body becomes a medium for the portrayal of roles, fantasies, and desires, as well as for articulating critical demands.
Artists
Among the roughly seventy photographers represented in the exhibition are Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Hans Bellmer, Erwin Blumenfeld, Katharina Bosse, Bill Brandt, Larry Clark, Jiří Georg Dokoupil, Greg Gorman, Jenny Holzer, Jürgen Klauke, Les Krims, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Kembra Pfahler, Jimmy DeSana, Cindy Sherman, and Joel-Peter Witkin.
