DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Berlin

Lukas Städler

DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM engages in off-site projects and international art fairs, extending its program beyond the gallery space as a way of working directly with place, communities, and with subcultural contexts. This year, the gallery returns to Marseille for ART-O-RAMA 2026 with a solo presentation by Lukas Städler.

 

Throughout the weeks leading up to the fair, the artist and the gallery team will be based in Marseille, engaging with the city and its surroundings. The booth is conceived as the result of this period of immersion, a site-specific presentation shaped by direct experience and a sensitive response to place.

 

Aesthetics of Presence. Why do I want to hold on to things (you) precisely in the moments when I want to let go? To fleeting memories, to colours, to a hand resting on a shoulder. To give the ephemeral a lasting form, to turn it into a summer, into an episode of a life. And how many summers do we have? Eighty, if we’re lucky. From this point on, you could almost start counting them down.

These are the first notes for “Marseille”, Lukas Städler’s new zine.

 

Here, Jan Koslowski accompanies Städler’s photographs as a literary chronicler, gathering traces, preserving fleeting impressions, and searching for a language capable of holding a city, a season, and a particular moment in time.

 

The zine will be available at the fair and online in a limited edition of 100 signed copies.

http://www.dittrich-schlechtriem.com