Dorothée Nilsson Gallery (DE)

Dorothée Nilsson Gallery was founded in 2017 in Berlin, Germany. The gallery represents an international portfolio of artists and artists' estates. While the artists of the gallery practice in a vast range of mediums, their work is often based on photography. Experimental approaches regarding medium or engagement with societal issues play a core role in their work and are explored through a critical, aesthetic or poetic lens. Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents a dynamic exhibition program while valuing long-term collaborations with the artists. Each year, five to six exhibitions take place in the gallery space at Potsdamer Str 65, in addition to artist talks and panel discussions. The gallery regularly takes part in several international art fairs.

Potsdamer Strasse 65
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Curated for
CHART

For CHART 2026, Dorothée Nilsson is pleased to present works from the Dutch artist Marike Schuurman, as well as portraits from Julia Peirone's 'Some Like It Hot' series and her new series (untitled). Julia Peirone has just been awarded the Uno Troilis Scholarship Fund by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and is widely recognized for her meticulously staged photographic tableaux, which explore girlhood and adolescence. In her scenes, vulnerability, resistance and self-conscious performance coexist. By probing the dynamics of looking and balancing intimacy and distance, she has established herself as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Scandinavian photography.

Julia Peirone (AR)

Julia Peirone’s practice draws on the visual language of contemporary social media, particularly the homogenised gestures and expressions found in selfies. She examines how identity is constructed and performed, asking whether the “face” we present is an adopted mask shaped by cultural expectation and the camera’s gaze. In her series inspired by Marilyn Monroe, Peirone directs young women to recreate the iconic look without mirrors, using the camera as an observing surrogate. The resulting images reveal subtle imperfections (smudged lipstick, uneven eyeliner) that disrupt the uniformity of the mask. These traces of error become central, reintroducing individuality and humanity within repetition, and questioning ideals of beauty, identity, and representation.

Julia Peirone (b. 1973, Argentina) lives and works in Stockholm. She studied photography and fine art in Gothenburg and Stockholm. Since her debut in 2000, her work has explored the identity of young women and the possibilities and limits of the photographic image. Peirone has exhibited internationally, and her work is held in major Nordic collections, including Moderna Museet, Gothenburg Museum of Art, and Kiasma in Helsinki.

Angela P

Pigment print
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

Lorelei L

Pigment print
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

Sugar K

Pigment print
2022

Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery

Portrait of Julia Peirone

Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery. Photo by Ola Kjelbye

Marike Schuurman (DE)

Marike Schuurman’s photographic practice explores the space between documentation and abstraction, focusing on landscapes shaped by human intervention. Grounded in specific locations, her images reveal both physical transformations and the subtle, often overlooked traces of history embedded in the environment. Moving beyond straightforward representation, her photographs invite reflection on absence, memory, and perception - on what remains and what disappears. Through her work, Schuurman examines humanity’s persistent ambition to control nature, offering a nuanced meditation on destruction, transformation, and the fragile limits of recovery.

Marike Schuurman (b. 1964, Groningen) is a Dutch artist-photographer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. A graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and former Rijksakademie resident, she received Mondriaan Fund-supported residencies in Berlin, Beijing, and São Paulo. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in public and private collections.