Langer.Photography

13/10/2026

✨ LICHTMEILE @ LANGER.✨

📍 LANGER. Space for Photography | Mannheim
📅 October 16 & 17, 2026

Two nights of photography, electronic music and open bar! On October 16 and 17, we're opening our doors for LICHTMEILE Mannheim – featuring our current exhibition TRACING THE POSSIBLE and a special music program stretching late into the night 🔥

📸 TRACING THE POSSIBLE | Photo Exhibition
As part of the OFF//FOTO ZWISCHENFESTIVAL, we present seven photographic perspectives by photojournalists from the laif agency. “Tracing the Possible” explores the challenges of our time in a world shaped by resistance on many levels – as a response to destructive forces, but also as an expression of hope and the pursuit of a better future.

With works of Nora Bibel (Nora Bibel), Rui Camilo (Rui Camilo), Daniel Chatard (Daniel Chatard), Jana Islinger (Jana Islinger), Jeannette Petri (Jeannette Petri), Sitara Celina Rajh (Sitara Celina Rajh ) & Marzena Skubatz (MARZENA SKUBATZ PHOTOGRAPHY)

🪩 FRIDAY, 16.10.
22:00–00:00 | Ragazza (DJ Set) ragazza
Moving across genres from Tech House and Groove to Hardgroove and Techno, Ragazza creates a hedonistic, sexy, physical and provocative atmosphere.

00:00–02:00 | BELA V (DJ Set) isabela
BELA V plays for the body first. A good beat is her greatest hack into the present moment. Expect groove and bounce that move your hips and your feet before the mind gets a say.

🎷 SATURDAY, 17.10.
21:00–23:00 | Una Heard (Solo Live Set) Steffen Dix as Una Heard
Expect a spectrum of glitch-infused ambient jazz, eclectic beats and organic live-instrument sound design

23:00–01:00 | Los Fastidios – Annykiladora B2B Mossos (DJ Set) los.fastidios.kollektiv
Colombian energy meets futuristic sounds! Moving between Minimal and Tech House, Los Fastidios experiment with creative beats and innovative techniques such as live coding. At the heart of their music is a fascination with its boundless power – its ability to break down barriers and connect people, cultures and different backgrounds.

Come by, explore the exhibition, grab a delicious drink and enjoy the music with us! 🪩📷⚡

LICHTMEILE

19/05/2026

What a wonderful Vernissage it was! Thank you all for coming, for your support and positive feedback.

It was great to have all the artists present, Sarah Ungan .studio // Samet Durgun .sametdurgun // Ceren Saner 🫶🏼

Immense thanks to Eleanna Pitsikaki and Peter Hinz .hinz.perc
bringing us together with the amazing music 🤍

Gaze and Skin remains open throughout the summer. You can visit it by prior appointment.

Thank you dear Miriam Stanke for the pictures.

Love,
Elisa & Arthur

12/05/2026

GAZE AND SKIN

Meet the Musicians: Peter Hinz & Eleanna Pitsikaki will accompany our vernissage with two performances during the evening.

Opening: Mi, 13. Mai // 19:00 // LANGER.

Peter Hinz (.hinz.perc) is a percussionist, multi-percussionist, composer, and performer whose work is shaped by rhythmic diversity and intercultural influences. He studied jazz and popular music in Mannheim, earned a Master of Music degree, and has collaborated for many years on projects spanning music, dance, and theater.

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Eleanna Pitsikaki () is a qanun virtuoso, trans-cultural jazz musician, and composer from Crete, known for blending Eastern Mediterranean musical traditions with jazz, improvisation, and experimental sound. She studied Global Music with a focus on qanun at the Popakademie Mannheim and completed a Master’s degree in jazz improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Her debut album AROMA received international recognition, including Global Music Awards and nominations for the German Record Critics’ Award. Alongside her international concert activity at venues such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, she is also active as a researcher, ensemble leader, and lecturer in intercultural music.

10/05/2026

GAZE AND SKIN
Meet the Artists: Samet Durgun with his series „Come Get Your Honey“
Opening: Mi, 13. Mai // 19:00 // LANGER.

As a first-generation immigrant and q***r artist living in Berlin, Samet grappled with the question of belonging. He found connection with gender-nonconforming, q***r, transgender refugees and asylum seekers in the city, whose intricate identities inspire deep respect in him.
His work challenges the traditional view of photography as merely seeing, proposing that it can be more about listening. He seeks to capture people in their wholeness, embracing their differences while recognizing the limitations of representation. His images reflect his personal relationships and impressions of their stories, making them a subjective representation of his own experiences.

Samet uses the question „What if photography is more about ‚listening‘?“ as a compass to narrate stories. He chooses participation over spectating. His works are shown in various venues, including Berlin Museum of Photography and Kunstmuseum Brandts in Denmark. His book, Come Get Your Honey, was published by Kehrer Verlag and featured in various media outlets, including Der Greif, HUCK, i-D Italy, GQ, LFI by Leica, Halle4 by Deichtorhallen Hamburg. He studied at Bogazici University, Istanbul and the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin. He’s German-Turkish-Abkhazian and lives in Berlin.

09/05/2026

GAZE AND SKIN
Meet the Artists: Ceren Saner () with her series „Can’an“
Opening: Mi, 13. Mai // 19:00 // LANGER.

Can’an is a tribute to the matriarch who is the reason for who I am.
My father passed away when I was three, and I came to know him only through photographs. This created a bond first with the frame, and later with the camera itself -something that would guide me years after. In 2025, I began using my father’s old analog camera, originally sent to him from Almanya*.

And my lens -almost immediately, maybe instinctively- turned toward my mother: 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘯, and our relationship.
It happened during a time of many transitions, including ones I did not yet know were coming, like leaving Türkiye.

Looking back at her allowed me to see I had been holding onto an idealized childhood hero I never met, while the real heroine had always been by my side. With all her strength, held in her smile, tears, hands and vulnerability. Can’an is about that shift for me.

A selection from 𝘊𝘢𝘯’𝘢𝘯 will be exhibited for the first time in Germany as part of GAZE AND SKIN.
*𝘈𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘢: 𝘛𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺.

Ceren Saner (she/her) is a self-taught lens-based artist and cultural producer. Her work engages q***r and diasporic narratives across photography, moving image, installation with community building central to her methodology. Through socio-autobiographical storytelling she investigates the visibility and opacity of intimacy and kinship. Her works have been presented internationally across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Türkiye. In 2024, Saner received the Neuköllner Kunstpreis in Berlin for her on-going work „Inside The Ring”.

Portrait photo: Eden Jetschmann ()

07/05/2026

GAZE AND SKIN
Meet the Artists: Sarah Ungan (.studio) with her series „Ayıp!“
Opening: Mi, 13. Mai // 19:00 // LANGER.

In Turkish, “Ayıp!” means “Shame on you!” People are confronted with this expression when they act outside cultural moral codes – for example, studying abroad, riding a bike while wearing a skirt, or dating outside the community. Those around them often react to these various activities and lifestyles with stigmatization. People from German-Turkish communities are therefore often confronted with conflicting codes, ideas, and identities, which can have a drastic impact on their mental health. Through intimate portraits, this project aims to raise awareness about the topic of cultural shame.

Sarah Ungan works in the fields of portraiture and reportage photography. Her work focuses on sociocultural phenomena, subcultures, post-migrant discourse, and representation. Her work has been exhibited in Istanbul, Berlin, and Mannheim, and published in print and online magazines. She also leads photography workshops for children and teenagers and heads the Community & Arts program at the Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof in Heidelberg, which involves the conception and curation of projects that create spaces for encounter, exchange, and self-empowerment.

06/05/2026

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03/05/2026

GAZE AND SKIN
On Identity, Representation and Self-Determination

Group exhibition with Sarah Ungan (Ayıp!), Samet Durgun (Come Get Your Honey) & Ceren Saner (Can’an)

OPENING: May 13, 2026 // 19:00 // LANGER. Space for Photography

To be seen is never a neutral act. Every gaze carries expectations, projections and narratives about who we are supposed to be. It can make us visible, but it can also expose, define or confine us.
GAZE AND SKIN explores the space between self-perception and external attribution. The exhibition asks what it means to feel out of place — within a culture, within family structures, within one’s own body — and how identity is negotiated when it does not conform to binary, normative or dominant expectations.
Focusing on Muslim-shaped biographies and q***r realities, the artists explore how social norms and moral pressure influence not only how people are seen, but also how they move, behave and understand themselves. Shame, vulnerability, adaptation and resistance emerge as central points of tension.
Here, the “gaze” becomes both a force of projection and a site of artistic response. Skin is understood not only as a physical surface, but as a boundary, a memory, a place of exposure and protection. The question is not only how one escapes imposed images, but how one can reclaim them — through ownership, self-empowerment and acts of visibility.

Through the photographic positions of Sarah Ungan (.studio), Samet Durgun (.sametdurgun), and Ceren Saner (), GAZE AND SKIN brings together three distinct approaches to these questions. Their works unfold a visual and emotional panorama of post-migrant experience — moving between external perception and self-determination, vulnerability and resistance, visibility and intimacy.

Curated by Sarah Ungan, Elisa Berdica (.elissa) and Arthur Bauer (.bur)