After Nature - Susanne Kriemann

The “After Nature. Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize” is a joint project of the C/O Berlin Foundation and the Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt. In 2026 it will be awarded for the third time. The prize honors artists who explore new concepts of nature in photography and other visual media through their work.

Susanne Kriemann traces the branching legacies of the atomic age. In her work, radiation is not a distant or abstract phenomenon but part of our immediate surroundings—in the landscapes, for example, where uranium was once mined and processed. She is equally drawn to the residues of heavy industry that have quietly seeped into everyday life, such as the slag used as fill beneath the floors of Berlin Gründerzeit buildings, her own studio among them. Through photographic processes and attentive material observation, Kriemann renders these hidden presences visible, exposing how permeable the boundaries are between an industrial past, the landscape, and the spaces we inhabit today.