FRANKFURT.- The exhibition "Frankfurter Kopien" at Galerie—Peter—Sillem by the Berlin-based artist Daniel Poller takes a photographic and conceptual approach to the so-called New Old Town of Frankfurt. For this, Daniel Poller photographed the historical stone elements (spolia) embedded in the buildings of the area and combined them through manual overprinting with the colors from the "color guide plan" of the reconstruction. In this way, photographic objects were created that are aware of their own historicity and reveal the historicizing processes at work in the New Old Town as a palimpsest.

"A coherent response to an urban planning approach that, in its method of reconstructing the New Old Town, ultimately fell victim to the deceptions of photography." — Maren Lübbke-Tidow

Daniel Poller (1984) studied photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and completed his studies in 2013 with a diploma under Peter Piller. In 2017, he became a master student of Joachim Brohm and Peggy Buth. He has received numerous scholarships and awards, including the 2016 Work Scholarship from the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony, the 2018 Kunstfonds Bonn, the 2015 Aenne Biermann Prize for German Contemporary Photography, and the 2017 European Architecture Photography Prize.

Solo exhibitions include, among others, 2024 Frankfurter Kopien, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig; 2022 Birds of Tegel, Galerie Poll, Berlin; Viertel nach vor, Kunstverein Junge Kunst Wolfsburg; 2021 DÉCONSTRUCTIONS, Goethe-Institut Bordeaux; 2020 Endgültige Fassung der Beschlussvorlage, Galerie Poll, Berlin; 2018 Trümmertanz, Künstlerverein Malkasten Düsseldorf (with Christoph Westermeier).

His works are held in collections including the Federal Art Collection Bonn, the State Art Collections Dresden, and the Berlin City Museum.