Into The Unseen: The Walther Collection

Oct 24, 2025 - Apr 26, 2026
THE WALTHER COLLECTION is considered one of the world’s most renowned collections of global photography. INTO THE UNSEEN marks the final major presentation of the collection in Europe before 6,500 works are gifted to THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART in New York. The exhibition unfolds a poetics of the unseen through artistic works and vernacular photographs that focus on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and multisensory perception.

Showcasing work that activates the multiple sensory registers of photography, INTO THE UNSEEN invites us to embrace the audible, tactile, and affective registers of photography by exploring what it would mean to understand photography as a medium that stimulates the full array of our senses – from the haptic (touch) to the sonic (sound) to the olfactory (smell) and the gustatory (taste)? Instead of understanding photography as a tool of categorization, a modality for capturing the real or the true, the works shown in this exhibition trouble the lines between the visible and the invisible, the spiritual and the corporeal, the silent and the audible, the remembered, the imagined and the repressed.



THE WALTHER COLLECTION is considered one of the world’s most renowned collections of global photography. INTO THE UNSEEN marks the final major presentation of the collection in Europe before 6,500 works are gifted to THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART in New York. The exhibition unfolds a poetics of the unseen through artistic works and vernacular photographs that focus on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and multisensory perception.

Showcasing work that activates the multiple sensory registers of photography, INTO THE UNSEEN invites us to embrace the audible, tactile, and affective registers of photography by exploring what it would mean to understand photography as a medium that stimulates the full array of our senses – from the haptic (touch) to the sonic (sound) to the olfactory (smell) and the gustatory (taste)? Instead of understanding photography as a tool of categorization, a modality for capturing the real or the true, the works shown in this exhibition trouble the lines between the visible and the invisible, the spiritual and the corporeal, the silent and the audible, the remembered, the imagined and the repressed.



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