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Hugo & Marie is a creative consultancy and artist management agency founded in 2008. This boutique was created as a platform to curate, promote, and facilitate the development of products by artists we love and admire. We work closely with a select group of individuals who each work toward a wide variety of creative endeavors. We’d like to share these objects and projects with you.

We are very happy to announce that our next issue (#6) dedicated to the city of Detroit will be out December 8th.

There will be a launch party very soon in Paris, so stay tuned for more info.

When international guests like Danko & Ana Steiner come to Berlin, the fashion, art and media world likes to make a pilgrimage to the small “Galerie für Moderne Fotografie” (formerly the “Galerie für Modefotografie”) in Berlin-Mitte. Because not only can people not miss each other there – everyone is clustered close together on the sidewalk smoking and drinking – the artists and their works are actually also the big attraction. Because, like Anders Edström from Tokyo, they come to liven up the premises of gallerist and stylist Kirsten Hermann. And Berlin loves this internationalism.

(from left to right: Elke Braemer, Mr. Lubojanski, Kirsten Hermann, Danko & Ana Steiner)

Two artists have just arrived – the couple Danko & Ana Steiner. Originally from Zagreb, the two photographers live in New York, where in addition to their work together, they also pursue other illustrious activities: Danko is a design director for Vogue, and Ana works as a stylist. That is why composition and pictorial language can be referred to as the tools of their trade and they are known for also knowing what to do behind the camera. Their own photos, above all, involve an unusual, beautiful mixture of melancholy and irony, poetry and pose, which makes their works special.

Carmen Kass

On exhibit in Berlin now are two large-format photos and three small ones as well as an installation made of clothing racks with a baseball cap and wig. That is the exhibit “Baby, We’re Really in Love,” which, among things, features a photo of Chloé Sevigny. Or at least a photo entitled “Chloé” – because you don’t recognize the “it girl” and actress on the photo. It is actually about love – about relationships and intimacy and especially about the game of observation through another person. Looking for attention, attracting, offering oneself, withdrawing, being unavailable. And Danko & Ana Steiner also know exactly how to do that – regardless of whether they are photographing or being photographed.

Danko & Ana Steiner “Baby, We’re Really in Love”
Through January 7

Galerie für Moderne Fotografie
Schröderstrasse 13
10115 Berlin (Mitte)

photos of the opening event > Franziska Sinn