MISCHA FANGHAENEL TO SHOWCASE AT CENTRE POMPIDOU’S ARTKLUB

As Centre Pompidou prepares for its five-year closure, Berlin photographer Mischa Fanghaenel will present 60 works from his NACHTS and BLURRED series in a dedicated Level -1 gallery during ARTKLUB’s final event on July 5, 2025. While 2,300 attendees experience DJ sets and performances on the 3000m² ground-level dance floor, Fanghaenel’s subterranean exhibition creates a meditative counterpoint to the kinetic energy above.  

Fanghaenel’s Blurred series is a nocturnal alchemy of dissolution and revelation. Born from night time wanderings through Istanbul, New York, and Paris, urban landmarks dissolve into luminous abstraction. The grids of the Pompidou become painterly streaks; Berlin’s Park Inn hotel sheds its structure and reappears as poetic unrecognizability. Fanghaenel’s intentional play with sharpness and color is an act of tender sabotage forcing viewers not to see the subject itself, but the feeling it leaves behind. As with his NACHTS portraits, the work is ultimately about freedom: the freedom to see a green Manhattan, to feel a velvety dark Paris, to find beauty where others perceive only outlines. “When you lose a bit of sharpness, you begin to see something else. You see emotion,“ Fanghaenel says. The series pulses with this radical permission to see differently, to unlearn, to fall in love with the world again.  

The lineup includes musical artists Anetha, FKA M4A, RAG, and Nicol, alongside aerial performers, Vogue dancers, video installations, and experimental formats.

This exhibition follows Fanghaenel’s recent showcase at Fotografiska, the contemporary museum of photography, art and culture in Berlin, further cementing his status as a defining voice in contemporary photography.

Event Details
Date: July 5, 2024
Location: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou 75004 Paris
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