Vera Lutter

Carling Dalenson is pleased to announce "when Stones were Blooming", our first exhibition with German artist and photographer Vera Lutter.

"For my first solo show in Sweden, I chose works made in different ancient European sites. I began my investigations into old artefacts in 2012 when I obtained permission to work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographing fragmented sculptures of ancient Greek and Roman Art..." — Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter, Born in 1960 in Kaiserslauten, Germany, is a contemporary German photographer and artist known for her large-scale images of shipyards, airports, factories, and the Egyptian pyramids. She graduated in 1991 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and in 1993, she moved to New York. In order to capture an immediate and direct imprint of her experience in New York, Lutter decided to turn the room in which she lived into a large pinhole camera, or camera obscura. Exposing directly onto wall-size sheets of photographic paper, Lutter decided to retain the negative image and refrain from multiplication or reproduction, making every image unique.

Lutter's images have been exhibited in institutions such as Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dia: Beacon and Dia: Chelsea, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Lutter lives and works in New York City.