Billboard – Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag

Looking out across the water: an unnamed „Seestück“ (seascape) on a billboard on the quay wall next to the bridge at Wildenbruch. Between 1845 and 1850, the 10.3-kilometre-long Landwehr Canal was built here to transport building materials for the growing city of Berlin and to relieve pressure on the River Spree. The empty seascape and the canal in question are effects of the same thing: an expression of industrial-urban modernity. The photograph on which the multi-part large-format poster is based was taken at the turn of 2015, on a late afternoon in Travemünde, with an unusually strong north-easterly wind.

The work can be seen on the billboard at the dock 24 hours a day until the end of January.

Curated by Uwe Jonas