Martin Eberle - Temporary Spaces - 2001

Temporary Spaces - Martin EBERLE - 2001

Hardcover book bound in white Skai, 144 pages, 1st edition.
Format 27.5 x 21.5 cm
text by Heinrich Dubel
Edited by Die Gestalten Verlag Berlin in 2001.
Now rare, a copy in very good condition.


The Berlin club scene is an international touchstone for improvisation and coolness, defined by its very essence: the people, fashion, music, performances, and theatre. Covering a ten-year period, Martin Eberle's striking photographs are the first to document these places as they truly are. By radically reducing them to their very essence—the empty space—and juxtaposing crumbling façades with meticulously designed interiors (from improvised to exuberant glamour) against architectural brutality, he captures their legendary, unpolished modernity to perfection.

Personal anecdotes from promoters and owners of renowned clubs, whose experiences have already wreaked havoc in every corner of the city, come to fill and contrast this vague, unreal void.

Clad in a textured white wallpaper with a reptile pattern, “Temporary Spaces” is at once a nostalgic testament to a spectacular era, a personal photo album, and a sincere love letter to the transience and the exhilaration that shine through in the striking precision of these images.