If you're knocking around Berlin between now and the 25th September then pop the noggin into the Hamburger Bahnhof museum where an exhibition series entitled 'Secret Universe' is sure to blow you away. The whole raison d'être of the exhibition is to focus on artists who have so far remained largely neglected by the established art discourse. The term 'outsider ort' (Simpsons fans will know where I'm coming from) springs to mind here!
The first exhibition in this series is devoted to Horst Ademeit. This artist has devoted more than 20 years of his life to the photographic documentation of what he called "cold rays" and other invisible radiation that he thought harmed him and his environment. Polaroid upon polaroid documents Ademeit's daily rituals, mundane surroundings and everything and anything he lays his eyes on. What's most impressive is his diary entries so tiny, so neat, they have to be seen to be believed. Each border of his polaroid images are also covered in his minute handwriting; although written in German (my limits start and end with danke and gut morgan) the impact was nonetheless powerful.
