Monastic (2014–2019)
The Monastic series brings together photographs taken in selected European monasteries, where I lived and worked between 2014 and 2019.
The work focuses on architectural detail and spatial conditions within environments shaped by withdrawal, repetition, and reduction. Rather than emphasizing their religious function, the images isolate structural and atmospheric qualities that define these spaces as systems of light, rhythm, and restraint.
The series includes works from Le Corbusier’s Sainte Marie de La Tourette near Lyon, Hans van der Laan’s Roosenberg Abbey near Antwerp, and Andrea Palladio’s Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Photography, 2014-2019 © Friederike von Rauch
Fine art prints (between 50 × 50 cm, 100 × 100 cm and 110 × 110 cm)
Framed with museum glass or unframed in shadow gap

Exhibitions
2024 — Dunkelschimmer, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, Germany
2022 — Kunstverein Lippe, Schloss Detmold, Germany
2019 — Insgeheim, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, Germany
2019 — Schönheit gegen Gewalt, Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2020 — Art Brussels, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 — Hyper, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2019 — Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2018 — Substance, DRJ Art Projects, Berlin, Germany
2018 — Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 — Insgeheim, Goethe-Institut, Paris, France
2017 — In Seclusion, ITO Projektraum, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 — Dom Hans van der Laan: VAI, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 — Architecture + Abstraction, 68projects, Berlin, Germany
2016 — Formes du Silence, Couvent de La Tourette, Éveux, France
2016 — Enclosure, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 — Paris Photo, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2016 — Friederike von Rauch, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
2015 — In Between, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., USA