Berlin’s Capitain Petzel gallery is presenting the first solo show by American artist Robert Heinecken with works from 1969 until 1999. The photographer is known for combining existing photographs through collages, lithographs and photograms.  This exhibition will show a large range of Heinecken’s imagination from sculpture, reconstructed magazines and Polaroid works. The heavily diverse artistic output focuses on American pop culture - with a critic aiming at mass media to reveal the ideological systems of control either through the gender inequality, the stupidity of war or the representation of  social classes. To reveal the boundary between the banal and the surreal Heinecken is using juxtaposition and unusual combination.

The exhibition will showcase highlights of his retrospective which was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, such as the ‘Periodicals’ which are ten reconstituted magazines or the ‘Time’ series where Heinecken placed lithographic images from pornographic men’s magazines onto pages of reassembled TIME magazines. The show can be seen until April 18th.

Karl-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Berlin, Germany