High-gloss, high-camp, playful and weird, the photo magazine Toiletpaper grabs your gaze and doesn’t let go, so bold and saturated are its visuals. The meticulously produced photographs in the Milan-based publication – released biannually by artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari since 2010 – are frequently jarring and unnerving. But boring they are not. Now the duo’s deranged vignettes will be even harder to miss as they migrate from shiny print to the walls of Fotografiska Berlin. The exhibition, ToiletFotoPaperGrafiska, opens tomorrow (09.05.2025) and brings together highlights from Cattelan and Ferrari’s compositions over the years. The pair say the show is akin to being at a party “where everyone is wildly intoxicated and you’re the only sober person in the room”. True to form, tomorrow’s openingwill be a decadent late-night dance-off with performances, live sets and a DJ program of trademark swing-heavy house and disco from the Toy Tonics crew, and a live concert by Myss Keta. And yes, the photographs will be there – not that you could ever miss them…
Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Toiletpaper
Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str.54, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
ToiletFotoPaperGrafiska (09.05–31.08.2025) – tickets for tomorrow’s opening party are available here.
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