untitled (Kunstverein in Hamburg)

Olga Balema was featured this year in the exhibition The Distance (February 8 – April 27, 2025) at the Kunstverein in Hamburg. This series of photographs show moments from Balema’s early visits to the upper floor of the Kunstverein, during those necessary but ultimately invisible preparations that preceded her exhibition. They document the artist’s explorations of the space through its light, its architecture, its peculiarities, and atmosphere, which later became the structural and material basis of her exhibition. The images mark the beginning of her exhibition planning, constituting an initial study of the path and distance between design and exhibition, between creation and visualisation.