Portfolio
The photographic work of Bernd Weingart unfolds in the liminal space between the visible and the hidden. He is drawn to moments in which reality, perception, and imagination merge - instances when the obvious becomes transparent to a deeper, often inexpressible dimension. For Weingart, photography is not mere documentation, but a medium in which atmospheres, memories, and inner resonances take form.
In Whispering Vaults he embarks on a journey through the landscapes and memory-spaces of his origins, touched by the environments of a vanishing world at the end of the 1980s in the former GDR. Abandoned houses, overgrown parks, and nocturnal paths mirror an inner topography where personal experience and collective history converge.
With the Nocturnes series, his gaze shifts to Berlin’s urban night: streets whose darkness enables another way of seeing, where he reads traces of laws and ideas and translates them into a spiritual equivalent - images shaped by a contemplative perception that touches the invisible.
Odes leads him back to his beginnings, to the landscapes of Thuringia, where moments of timeless presence condense into a quiet unity of nature, memory, and resonance. In Lemusich's Garden an imaginary space opens, where philosophy, myth, and the free play of imagination intertwine. This visual »glass bead game« transcends the boundaries of reality and fiction, unfolding worlds of perpetual transformation.
What unites these series is the pursuit of those fleeting moments in which the world gazes back at him, and he perceives the enchantment of experience as a profound connectedness with all that is visible and hidden - seeking to transform this into a sensual, contemplative presence.
Weingart’s photography resists pure mimesis: the camera is not a tool of mere documentation but a medium of inner density. Each frame reflects a way of seeing infused with the integration of his own existence and with poetic-philosophical resonances.
Thus, the everyday is charged, the ordinary made transparent to the inexhaustible. The »transparency of the moment« becomes visible - a quiet, timeless experience that moves the viewer and leads inward.
Weingart’s photographs speak of freedom: the freedom to perceive the world in the moment without reducing it to fixed meaning. In this openness lies the force of his art - a promise of intensity, melancholy, and transcendence that touches us beyond time.