Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-86859-673-1
112 pages, 36 photos
Texts by Andreas Nachama, Ursula Wilms mit Heinrich W. Hallmann, Friederike von RauchThe Topography of Terror, a place of learning and remembrance, is located in central Berlin on the site where the headquarters of the Gestapo, SS, and Reich Security Main Office once stood during the Nazi era. Today, it receives over a million visitors each year.
In this volume, historian Andreas Nachama, director of the Topography of Terror Foundation from 1994 to 2019, reflects on his early impressions of the site and traces the development of the institution, with which he has been closely associated since the 1980s.
Architect and exhibition designer Ursula Wilms, together with landscape architect Heinz W. Hallmann, presents the conceptual framework that guided the overall design, integrating architecture, landscape, and exhibition design.
The original photographs by Friederike von Rauch capture the atmosphere of the site shortly before its completion in 2010.
Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86859-591-8
64 pages, 33 photographs
Texts by Frère Marc Chauveau, Birgit Möckel, Friederike von RauchWith a precise eye for architectural detail, Friederike von Rauch captures the contemplative power of monastic interiors while subtly detaching them from their religious function. The Berlin-based artist has lived and worked in several key sites of European monastic architecture over the past years, including 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.
Using an analogue medium-format camera, she creates images that evoke immersion through ascetic light control and reduced colour. The absence of human presence, together with the subtle modulation of light and shadow, lends the interiors a sense of timelessness and placelessness.
NEUES PALAIS
Publisher: Jovis Verlag, 2019
ISBN: 978-3-86859-549-9
112 pages, 65 photographs
Texts by Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe, Samuel WittwerA hundred years ago, the baroque New Palace in the park of Sanssouci was transformed into a museum. Today’s visitors are scarcely aware that its sequences of rooms extend beyond the representative interiors and were long used as workshops, offices, or storage spaces. As part of a comprehensive restoration, these functions have now been relocated, marking a significant turning point in the history of the New Palace.
For Samuel Wittwer, Director of the Department of Palaces and Collections, it was important to preserve the unique atmosphere of the building during this transitional phase, approaching it from an artistic rather than a strictly documentary perspective. Berlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch responds to this situation through repeated explorations of the palace, capturing its specific qualities in both detail and broader compositional structures.
With perceptive observations, texts by Rudolf Prinz zur Lippe form a reflective counterpoint to the visual works. The result is a publication that moves beyond conventional representations—Prussia’s palaces have rarely been presented in such a poetic manner.
IN SECRET
Publisher: Sieveking Verlag, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-944874-02-9
Text by Matthias HarderWith a keen sensitivity to the beauty and fractures of overlooked details, Friederike von Rauch offers striking spatial perspectives. Her uninhabited compositions of light and shadow reveal a subtle visual language that, in many respects, recalls abstract painting. This volume brings together photographs from various bodies of work created between 2009 and 2013. As in her earlier projects, the focus is not on documentation or on rendering places identifiable.
All photographs—taken with an analogue camera and using only natural light—are shaped by an exploration of spatial conditions. Dark bay windows, bare walls, views of objects, and traces of human intervention gain an autonomous presence through von Rauch’s gaze, while still leaving ample room for interpretation.
NEUES MUSEUM
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009
ISBN: 978-3775723763
96 pages, 43 photographs
Text by Andres Lepik“It is not about scars, but about remembrance and history. It is like a painting: if it is left unfinished and you complete it, then you no longer have the original.”
— David ChipperfieldBerlin-based photographer Friederike von Rauch uses an analogue camera to create images of architecture and landscape. The lucid, poetic photographs in this project document the restoration of the Neues Museum, the centrepiece of Museum Island in Berlin, which was severely damaged during the Second World War.
The British architect David Chipperfield was commissioned to transform the ruin into a functioning museum. His approach was initially controversial, yet the results demonstrate a careful balance between conservation and contemporary intervention. While preserving the neoclassical structure, he introduced new spatial sequences of striking clarity and precision.
Friederike von Rauch follows the final stage of the restoration process, capturing Chipperfield’s approach to revealing historical traces while reconciling them with the requirements of a contemporary museum.
SITES
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007
ISBN: 978-3775720397
132 pages, 76 photographs
Texts by Ann De Craemer, Geert van Istendael, Esther Gallodoro, Andres Lepik
For this publication, Friederike von Rauch discovered architectural details in the cities of Berlin, Brussels, and Rotterdam with a precise, almost investigative sensibility. The Berlin-based photographer focuses on architecture, seeking out sites and structures that appear simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar in her images.
Using an analogue camera and predominantly diffuse natural light, she creates photographs of subtle abstraction. Through her sustained engagement with architectural space, she has developed a distinct visual language that responds to each location individually while maintaining a consistent artistic approach.
In 2006–07, the Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren awarded von Rauch a residency in Brussels and Rotterdam. This led to the development of a photographic project that also includes Berlin as a third location and was subsequently presented in all three cities.
Publisher: lucks+vonrauch Verlag, 2003
ISBN: 3-00-011437-8
64 colour plates
A card game and a pictorial collection of Berlin by photographer Friederike von Rauch.64 colour plates, 11x11 cm, German/Englisch game rules plus relevant architectural history.
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