Curator's Tour

In celebration of Walter Schels’s ninetieth birthday, C/O Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation presents the photographer’s first retrospective in Berlin. With more than three hundred works, the exhibition offers new insights into his oeuvre, which spans nearly seven decades. The exhibition brings together key series and focuses on an overlooked part of Schels’s oeuvre that consists of a large body of experimental works and transformatory approaches that have shaped Schels’s photographic practice. This new discovery will cast the photographer in new light. The works in the exhibition were selected during a review of several thousand prints from the photographer’s archive, which is kept and made accessible by the F.C. Gundlach Foundation.

Join guest curator Sebastian Lux on a Curator’s Tour of the retrospective and learn fascinating background information about Schels’ extensive body of work.

Sebastian Lux is an art historian and photography enthusiast who has been working with the F.C. Gundlach Foundation since 2003. Following the death of the foundation’s founder, he assumed the role of Managing Director. He has curated exhibitions and authored catalogues, most recently for Peter Keetman. Gestaltete Welt (2016–2017), Fotografie in der Weimarer Republik (2018), Schaut her! Toni Schneiders (2020–2022), Deutschland um 1980. Fotografien aus einem fernen Land”(2022–2024), Dirk Reinartz. Fotografieren was ist (2024–2025), and F.C. Gundlach. You’ll Never Watch Alone (2026). He is committed to the preservation and activation of photographic archives and artistic legacies as part of the visual cultural heritage.