Strange? Make strange! at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus: Photography as an intense art experience
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When photography irritates, seeing begins anew
With Strange? Make strange! Photographs from the BLMK Collection, the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art opens an exhibition space for the unusual, the mysterious, and the lingering. The show gathers photographic works that pause the gaze, shift fragments of everyday life, and question the relationship between reality, staging, and visual memory. The exhibition runs from 14.3. to 31.5.2026 at the Diesel Power Plant on Uferstraße in Cottbus. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/kalender/kategorie/ausstellung/?utm_source=openai))
Photography as a disturbance of habit
The curatorial approach relies on irritation as a moment of understanding. According to BLMK, works that appear strange, compel pausing, and evoke a deeper engagement with the image through alienation, wonder, amazement, and curiosity are at the center. Thus, photography is not only readable as a document but as an aesthetic experience: as a medium that organizes perception, unsettles, and restructures anew. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/kalender/kategorie/ausstellung/?utm_source=openai))
Collection, space, and gaze movement
BLMK owns a significant collection of modern art with a strong focus on photography, painting, graphics, sculpture, and poster art. The Diesel Power Plant Cottbus itself is accessible as an exhibition venue via elevators; the museum ticket office lists opening hours from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm, as well as special hours on holidays. This place creates a clear industrial spatial effect that particularly highlights photographic series and single images. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/))
Education, communication, and deeper seeing
BLMK understands art communication as part of the museum's mission and offers guided tours, studios, and programs for different target groups. For the exhibition practice, this means: Those who visit the exhibition will not only experience a presentation of photographs but also a place of cultural education where work observation, contextual knowledge, and aesthetic experience come together. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/))
Why a visit is worthwhile
Strange? Make strange! promises no loud spectacle but a precise, intellectually stimulating art experience. The exhibition invites visitors to experience photographs as a space for thought, where gaze, memory, and interpretation become dynamic. Anyone seeking art that sharpens seeing and expands perception should definitely visit this exhibition at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus live. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/kalender/kategorie/ausstellung/?utm_source=openai))
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