A man who is rightly considered one of the meanest security managers in the world, Berghain’s icon Sven Marquardt recently had an experience on his own skin that he often takes care of himself in the case of numerous ravers – they did not allow him to enter the club! It all happened in Sydney, where he looked very suspicious to the door security at the entrance because of the tattoos on his face. The owner of the club later apologized, but added that he did not manage to enter Berghain on his own trip to Berlin. Well, its a draw now.
Markuardt spoke about all this in an interview as part of the presentation of his exhibition led by Sebastian Preuss at the Galerie Deschler. It is a series of photographic portraits of musicians from the world electro scene, which is exhibited under the name “Pack” in a gallery on Auguststraße in Berlin. Most of the somewhat morbid black-and-white photographs were taken in Sven’s Kingdom, the Berghain Club.
However, Marquardt photographs not only musicians but also other motives, and the above-mentioned (non) incident of getting stuck at the entrance to the club happened during his six-week art residency in Sydney, where he was invited by the Australian branch of the Goethe Institute. Taking photos on the sunny beaches in Sydney, he thought that everything was too bright and sunny for his work, but then he was saved by an unexpected long three-week rain.
Berliner took the opportunity to photograph frozen surfers on the beach as they emerged from the suddenly too cold sea. He says he enjoyed it from afar because it never occurred to him to enter the Australian Sea.
