Photographer Nadine Dinter will inaugurate her latest exhibition, 'TransMutations,' at Atelier Yves Sucksdorff in Berlin on October 31, 2025. This compelling series pays homage to the sculptures she has been photographing around the world since the late 1990s, exploring the visual and spiritual fusion of ephemeral human bodies with immortal statues.
The exhibition presents six works in an ethereal installation that offers an intimate first glimpse of this long-term project. Through a discourse of reflection and meditation, the display invites viewers to contemplate the intersection between temporary human forms and enduring sculptural art.
Since 1991, Nadine Dinter has been capturing the raw stillness of forms and flesh. While she began with portrait photography, her practice quickly evolved toward building a vast archive of photographs featuring statues and cemeteries. From the cemeteries of her native Berlin to legendary sites like Père Lachaise in Paris, and extending to cemeteries in New York, New Orleans, and Mauritius, the necropolis has become her workshop and sculpture her muse.
However, Dinter is not interested in simple photographic documentation. Instead, she seeks to capture a particular atmosphere—an almost tender and human aura within the sculptures and their apparent vitality. This effect is enhanced through carefully chosen lighting, theatrical perspectives, and the changing atmosphere of the seasons. In her work, the object becomes the subject.
Her captivating artwork blurs the boundary between presence and absence, beauty and decay, paving the way for something entirely new. Her images remain faithful to the spirit of transmutation—a term that, in its classical scientific sense, encompasses the transformation of matter, but in a broader sense also evokes the profound alchemical metamorphosis of a person.
Inspired by this philosophy and rooted in her second passion for body photography, the 'TransMutations' series merges sculptural images with nudes in auratic stagings that evoke spirit, energy, and metamorphosis. Women's bodies appear to emerge from statues, penetrating space and inviting viewers to forge a unique connection. This expanded dimension symbolizes detachment from the present, a change of perspective, and ultimately, the passage from being to becoming.
The opening reception will take place on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 6 PM, with the photographer in attendance. The exhibition will run from November 1 through December 20, 2025, at Atelier Yves Sucksdorff, located at Meineckestrasse 6, 10719 Berlin.
