Bornholmer Hüttenwirt, 2023, click to watch, Password: IMMAUFF
Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger

CHEZ BERLIN (2022–2023)
Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger

Chez Berlin is a collaborative project by Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Friederike von Rauch, and Stefanie Schweiger exploring Berlin's neighbourhood bars as places shaped by time, memory, and everyday rituals.

Through photography, film, and text, the project observes these interiors beyond their social function. Light, sound, materiality, and atmosphere become the defining elements of places that are gradually disappearing from the city's public life.

Static camera positions, extended duration, and close observation reveal the quiet presence of these places and invite a slower way of looking and listening.

"Scenes in a corner bar in Berlin, where the afternoon light lazily pervades the semidarkness of the space. The lights of a jukebox flash on and, only a few seconds later, off again. A lace curtain flutters softly in the wind. Faraway voices can be heard, snippets of conversation, a finely woven soundscape of people chattering, coughing, and clinking their glasses."
— Angela Köckritz

WORKS

Photography
Anna Lehmann-Brauns, Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger
Fine art prints (various sizes)
Wallpaper installations (various sizes)

Texts
Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger

Films
Friederike von Rauch & Stefanie Schweiger
Haze, Lace & Doppelkorn
24:39 min., colour, sound
Stammtisch
4:07 min., loop, colour, sound
Kupferscheune
1:12 min., loop, colour, sound
Bornholmer Hüttenwirt
25:29 min., colour, sound, subtitles

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Chez Berlin, Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico
2023 — Chez Icke, Ortstermin, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
2023 — Chez Icke, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany