Jan Madeus · Berlin

Fremde Fassaden

Walls, corners and painted surfaces, photographed straight on. What began as painting on canvas continues here as colour, structure and the space in between — a series made in Berlin, Duisburg and on Gotland. Prints in small, numbered editions.

Yellow painted wall with a shuttered window, Berlin

Facade detail in Berlin-Kreuzberg, window and rendered wall

Black and white building edge with hard shadow, Berlin

Architectural study, facade divided by a geometric shadow

Building edge against sky and clouds, Berlin

Minimal facade detail in Berlin, plain wall and shadow line

Window with a rolled shutter, Berlin-Kreuzberg

Colourful building front in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Building front with green and yellow panels

Industrial architecture detail in Duisburg

Urban hospital building, pipes against a rendered wall

Window light and shadow falling across a floor, Douglas, Isle of Man

About this series

Fremde Fassaden began with a habit from painting: standing in front of a surface long enough for it to stop being a wall. The photographs keep that distance. No people, no weather drama, no wide-angle heroics — only the plane itself, the colour someone chose for it years ago, and the light that happens to be crossing it.

The series is ongoing. Most frames come from Berlin, with detours to Duisburg, Visby and the Isle of Man. Every image is available as an archival pigment print on Hahnemühle paper in a small, numbered edition.

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