Am 4. September 2025 eröffnet die Berliner Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin ihre neue Doppelausstellung Newton, Riviera | Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS × Helmut Newton, wirft damit einen völlig neuen Blick auf das grandiose Werk ihres Gründers.
Im Sommer 2022 entstand für die historische Villa Sauber in Monte-Carlo die Einzelausstellung Newton, Riviera. Kuratiert von Dr. Matthias Harder und Guillaume de Sardes.
Erstmals wurde damit auch dieser späte Wohnort der Newtons und die
gesamte Region intensiver beleuchtet, in der so viele ikonische Fotografien entstanden.
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| Grand Hôtel du Cap, Marie Claire, Antibes 1972 © Helmut Newton Foundation |
Jetzt ist Berlin dran.
Bereits zwei Mal wurden in den vergangenen Jahren in der Helmut Newton
Foundation neben den Einzel- und thematischen Gruppenausstellungen auch
fotografische Sammlungen präsentiert.
Sowohl Between Art & Fashion (2018) als auch Chronorama
(2024) beinhalteten bedeutende fotohistorische Bildikonen.
Dieser
Ansatz wird nun fortgesetzt, jedoch in anderer Form.
Die neue
Ausstellungskooperation (in Zusammenarbeit mit der Collection FOTOGRAFIS aus dem Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien) setzt sich aus über 60 Diptychen zusammen, allesamt spannende visuelle Dialoge.
Ein Ausschnitt aus der
Ausstellung in Monte.Carlo wird nun – parallel zu Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS × Helmut Newton
– in der Berliner Stiftung präsentiert.
Damit wird die Auseinandersetzung
mit den für den Fotografen wichtigen Orten und Lebensmittelpunkten nach Hollywood (2022) und Berlin, Berlin (2024/25) konsequent fortgesetzt.
Newton, Riviera
(5. September 2025 bis 15. February 2026)
Museum für Fotografie – Helmut Newton Stiftung
Jebensstraße 2
D-10623 Berlin
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| Untitled, Saint-Tropez 1975 © Helmut Newton Foundation |
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| Jude Law, Monaco 2001 © Helmut Newton Foundation |
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| Monica Bellucci, Monte Carlo 2001 © Helmut Newton Foundation |
Newton, Riviera: A New Look at Helmut Newton’s Côte d’Azur Years
At the turn of the year 1981/1982, Newton and his wife June relocated from Paris to Monte Carlo. The move marked not only a shift in their private lives, but also a dramatic change in Newton’s photographic settings and perspective.
Gone was the effortless elegance of Parisian chic; in its place, Newton turned his lens on the Riviera’s glamorous social scene – often set against the stark concrete walls of Monaco’s many construction sites.
Even the modest garage of their apartment building became a stage for his bold, conceptually sharp fashion stories for magazines and designers, as well as for the enigmatic black-and-white series The Woman on Level 4.
Newton’s love for the French Riviera, however, ran deeper still.
As early as 1964, he and June purchased a small stone house near Ramatuelle, not far from Saint-Tropez.
It became both a summer retreat and a space for creative work, as evidenced by black-and-white images shot for Vogue US and vibrant color photographs for the Pentax calendar.
The exhibition includes a wide range of early prints, including unique vintage and lifetime prints.
During the 1980s and ‘90s, Newton’s unconventional fashion shoots took him to Cannes and Nice, and later to other parts of the Riviera: Cap d’Antibes, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Menton, and even across the Italian border to Bordighera.
Across these locations, he explored his three signature genres – fashion, portrait, and nude – with the region’s distinctive light playing a central role.
At times, he also captured serene nocturnal seascapes from his Monaco balcony.
Similarly atmospheric landscapes emerged during the mid-1990s in Berlin, culminating in his 2001 gallery show Sex and Landscapes at Galerie de Pury & Luxembourg in Zurich.
A version of the exhibition was also presented at the opening of the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin in June 2004, shortly after Newton’s death.
Now, more than 20 years later, this new presentation of large-format original prints brings that trajectory full circle.
New double exhibition
On 4 September 2025, the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin will open its new double exhibition:
- Newton, Riviera
- Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS x Helmut Newton
In the summer of 2022, the Helmut Newton Foundation’s director Matthias Harder and Guillaume de Sardes co-curated the exhibition Newton, Riviera for the historic Villa Sauber in Monte Carlo.
For the first time, this late-life home of the Newtons – and the surrounding region where many of Helmut Newton’s iconic images were created – took center stage.
A selection from that exhibition will now be shown in Berlin, running in parallel with Dialogues. Collection FOTOGRAFIS x Helmut Newton.
This continues the foundation’s focus on Newton’s personal and professional environments, following acclaimed exhibitions such as Hollywood (2022) and Berlin, Berlin (2024/25).
A companion book titled Newton, Riviera was published for the original Monte Carlo exhibition by Gallimard, with the international edition released by Prestel.
Both editions are available at the museum bookshop and in bookstores worldwide.
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