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Recently our exhibition Oliver Sieber – Imaginary Club was reviewed by Thomas Linden at the newspaper Koelnische Rundschau:

Oliver Sieber: Blonde Angel, Osaka, 2006

Mysterious and wild
Oliver Sieber’s photographs of the global club scene
By Thomas Linden

You want to be unique and at the same time you want to be part of a group. Individualism and uniformity can be two sides of a coin in today’s world of self-expression. Oliver Sieber, photographer from Düsseldorf, investigates this phenomenon in sub cultural milieus in Los Angeles, Toronto, but also in Germany.

Galerie Priska Pasquer has painted its walls in shimmering black, so that Oliver Sieber’s photographs reveal like windows a view onto color portraits and black and white street scenes. The latter appear like shots from B-Movies of the 1950s, mysterious and wild. “Imaginary Club” Oliver Sieber calls his work, in which the portraits looking like sculptures accentuate the show.
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In Oliver Sieber’s photographs the effort to find oneself while using the community for orientation becomes touchning visible as doomed to failure.

In Sieber’s oeuvre publications and single images become intertwined in a way that a suction evolves which sucks the viewer in this dark, glowing scene, in which people in-between Los Angeles, Tokyo and Schwäbisch Hall searching for a home.
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Koelnische Rundschau, July 31, 2010

Full review in German language: