Soft Evidence brings together thirteen emerging artists who explore the subtle traces of being human. Through intimate gestures, personal stories, and material encounters, their works become soft evidence of vulnerability, memory, and desire.

Showcasing an array of mediums and approaches, the exhibition sets a particular enquiry into today’s visual and photographic discourse. Together, the works bear witness that the human experience is not an act of certainty, but an embrace of questioning and doubt.
—Text by Friederike Eden

The projects presented in the group show Soft Evidence grew out of a year-long seminar at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, led and curated by Paul Hutchinson.

With works by Sebastian Alten, Daria Artemova, Leonardo Flores, Luca Gaspard, Vicky Hristova, Zuzanna Kałużna, Herkusho Kats, Klára Kopečková, Carola Lampe, Kevin Pawlak, Charlotte Stella, Mariia Vydrenko, Anh Vu.

Sebastian Alten

Sebastian Alten (b. 1983) has a background in media studies, sociology and film production. His artistic practice is rooted primarily in analogue photography and darkroom printing. In his recent large-format silver gelatin works, he explores the conditions of appearance, tracing the threshold between disclosure and withdrawal.

Instagram: @sebastianalten | Website: sebastian-alten.com

Daria Artemova | Passing Through

Daria Artemova is a Ukrainian artist whose black-and-white photographic practice explores impermanence, memory and the emotional space between presence and absence. Through her series Passing Through shaped by movement and blur, she creates atmospheric images that linger between observation and feeling.

Instagram: @greyedouteye

Leonardo Flores | 13.90€ + Tips

Leonardo Flores (1989 Mexico) holds a degree in visual arts. Interested in the infraordinary, he seeks to challenge viewers perception of everyday life. He presents a collection of envelopes in which he received his tips while working as a waiter, restaurant order tickets produced continuously during his shifts, and photographs that document the sweat left on his work garments. Together, these traces form an archive of everyday labor, reflecting on the relationship between work, value, and its transformation into artistic practice.

Instagram: @floresleonardo | Website: leonardo-flores.com

Luca Gaspard

Luca Gaspard (b. 1997) works with photography and material, investigating forms of inscription, contact, and transformation. His practice begins with photographic observations of surfaces marked by time, use, and touch. In his current work, he combines photographs with reclaimed materials to explore the relationship between image, surface, and support.

Instagram: @vince.gaspard

Vicky Hristova | Chosen Family

Through my work as a journalist, I tell stories of people whose identities are often misunderstood. Chosen Family continues this commitment to representation, but turns the camera towards those closest to me. I started photographing my closest friends as an intimate way of recognition, a way to say “I see you, and I love you”. Chosen Family is a “thank you” to those who have held me, stayed with me, and made me who I am today.

Instagram: @vickyhrist | Website: vickyhristova.com

Zuzanna Maria Kałużna

Zuzanna Maria Kałużna (b. 1986) follows an associative and experimental working process. Photographs, image fragments, and self-portraits enter into dialogue with one another, forming an open arrangement. Autobiographical traces give rise to visual connections. Between memory, the present, and imagination, a pictorial space unfolds that resists a linear narrative and invites viewers to form their own connections.

Website: zuzannamariakaluzna.com

Herkusho Kats | Reflections of an iconography

Herkusho is a trained architect, photographer, and interdisciplinary artist. Her practice blends intuition, research, and poetic blurriness, and has focused in recent years on the past of places and the stories they carry. The works on show—a video essay and a series of 3D collages—evoke reflections on iconography within historic events.

Instagram: @herkusho

Klára Kopečková | Petrichor

Klára Kopečková (b. 1992, Czechia) is a lens-based artist working across photography and installation. Her practice reflects on adaptation and the ways emotional states take physical form. In Petrichor—taking its name from the scent of rain after a dry spell—photographs printed on fabric create an immersive environment for visitors to move through, inviting an embodied experience of change, sensory memory, and emotion.

Instagram: @klarakopecek

Carola Lampe | Tell me what to feel

Carola Lampe is a Berlin-based artist and software developer with a degree in Fine Arts. Working across photography, installation, and video, she explores the social, cultural, and political implications of digitalisation. Tell me what to feel is a video essay that weaves together found footage into a speculative narrative examining how digital technologies increasingly shape everyday life and society.

Instagram: @carolalampe | Website: carolalampe.com

Kevin Pawlak | Study hard, otherwise you’ll end up like me, a cleaner

Kevin Pawlak (b. 2000, Bochum, Germany) works with photography and archival material. His work explores questions of identity, migration, class, and queerness. For „Mach deine Schule, sonst wirst du wie ich, eine Putzfrau (Study hard, otherwise you’ll end up like me, a cleaner),” he returns with his mother to places from their shared past in Germany’s Ruhr region.

Instagram: @keevvkeevv

Charlotte Stella | Visibility can be a Regulatory Act

Charlotte Stella works with analogue photography and cyanotype. In Visibility can be a Regulatory Act, black-and-white photographs become cyanotypes depicting natural and artificial structures emerging through light and shadow. Informed by a legal feminist perspective, her work explores how visibility is never neutral but can be produced, regulated, and denied through law and political power.

Instagram: @charlottestella

Mariia Vydrenko

Mariia Vydrenko’s (Ukraine, Kyiv) artistic practice addresses the processing of personal and shared experiences against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. She uses analogue media in opposition to the manipulation and anaesthetising effect of digital documentary imagery. In her recent darkroom prints and Super 8 video, 3 layers of “new reality” are uncovered: interaction with the symbolic object embedded from the military into the urban, the reality of those involved with the military in the rear (a friend who develops tactical gear for the army in his workshop) and the affected intimacy of private space and conversations.

Instagram: @tardi.maria

Anh Vu | Pacing

Anh Vu (b. 1990) is trained in medicine, art history, philology, and culture-sensitive psychiatric-ethnological research. She collects field notes from her life reality shaped by Post-Covid Syndrome and ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). This condition dictates her artistic methodology. Her autoethnographic long-term research project Pacing is an invitation into a mixed-media microcosm of care, longing, ableism, and systemic violence.

Instagram: @anvussell | Website: anh-vu.de

Thursday, Aug 27, 2026, 7 pm
Opening reception

Thursday, Aug 27, 2026, 7:30 – 7:35 pm
Reading Performance (de)
5-min Reading Performance by Anh Vu

Saturday, Aug 29, 2026, 3 & 6 pm
Sunday, Aug 30, 2026, 4 pm
Guided Tours (de)

Saturday, Aug 29, 2026, 12 – 12:30 pm
Online Talk: Soft Evidence Dynamics (de)
An online talk with Marie Therese Huth (she/her), expert for hidden power dynamics in the arts and educational circumstances and Anh Vu (she/her), exhibiting artist. Both have Post-COVID with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and talk about the dynamics that preoccupy them in the context of art.
The event is free. We would be happy if you could support Marie’s Hbot treatments with a donation via Paypal.
Please register to receive the Zoom meeting link.