LIKE A WHIRLWIND – Die Genderplays von Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg
Self portrait by Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg.
LIKE A WHIRLWIND – Die Genderplays von Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg
14. June 2024 — 25. August 2024
at f³ – freiraum für fotografie
Waldemarstraße 17
10179 Berlin, Germany
The exhibition LIKE A WHIRLWIND – The Gender Plays of Marie Høeg & Bolette Berg presents unique crossdressing photographs from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg founded the Berg & Høeg photo studio in the southern Norwegian town of Horten in 1894. The couple spent their entire adult lives working and living together. They published their fairly conventional portrait and landscape photographs as postcards. The Norwegians achieved international fame posthumously through their early photographic experiments with gender roles, which are rightly considered the first such complex photographic exploration of the subject of crossdressing.