Light Industry
19 Sep—15 Nov 2025"Light Industry" brings together the work of nine artists and photographers, across generations who have worked within the theme of industry. Each of them has focused their lens on human interaction with machines or large tools, industrial areas and their architecture, building sites or labor itself and the traces of these in post-industrial landscapes from the US to Russia, to Sweden, Italy, England and Wales. Viewed collectively, "Light Industry" explores how industries, past and present, and of various scales and levels of visibility, continue to impact our bodies and shape the wider environment.
Caught between excessive expansion and disappearance through decline or deliberate obscuration, the mundane, lived reality of industry in this moment, seems to have fallen out of focus or been temporarily lost from view. In turning to the overlooked and forgotten traces of industry, "Light Industry" brings our relationship to different modes of production back into focus. In doing so, it asks us to reacquaint ourselves, both with the people on whose hard labor industry depends but also with the tactile sensibility and physicality of materials whether found in industrial architecture, post-industrial landscapes or on the surfaces of a print.
For a period of two weeks, the exhibition extends outside the gallery to two large billboards across the Caledonian Road, next to the railway bridge, with artwork by Rut Blees Luxemburg and Morgan Levy.
Laurenz Berges (b. 1966, Cloppenburg, Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Berges' photographic work focuses primarily on transience, and the space between use and decay. Berges studied under Bernd Becher and spent a year assisting Evelyn Hofer in the 1980’s. Selected Exhibitions: The Becher House in Mudersbach, The Photographic Collection SK Kultur, Cologne (solo, 2023/24); Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop (solo, 2020).
Guido Guidi (b. 1941, Cesena, Italy) lives and works in Cesena. Guido Guidi is one of Italy’s most respected photographers, with a career spanning more than five decades. He has mostly focused his lens on rural and suburban geographies close to his home. Selected Exhibitions: ‘Col tempo, 1956–2024’, a comprehensive retrospective is currently touring Europe from the MAXXI, Rome, and is accompanied by a major new monograph published by MACK.
Craigie Horsfield (b. 1949, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in London. Horsfield’s work combines film, photography, sound, engraving and drawing, and is most well-known for his large-scale, unique prints. He often prints the photographs many years after they were first taken, bringing into contrast memory and the present reality. Selected Exhibitions: Documenta X and XI, Kassel (group 1997, 2002); Tate Britain, London (solo, 2017). He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996.
Gerry Johansson (b. 1945, Örebro, Sweden) lives and works in Höganäs. Johansson is one of Sweden’s most renowned photographers. Working mostly in black and white, and favouring the square format, Johansson is attracted to the neglected details of urban space. Selected Exhibitions: Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (group, 2024); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo, 1982 and 2003). He has been awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for outstanding artistic achievement in 2024.
Morgan Levy (b. 1985, Philadelphia, USA) based in Brooklyn. Levy combines performance, staged photography and documentary approaches, often working in partnership with her collaborators. Levy is informed by canonical 20th century images of work and labour in America, and feminist photographic practices from the 1970s onwards. Selected Exhibitions: V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, Peckham24 (group, 2025).
Rut Blees Luxemburg (b. 1967, Germany) based in London. Blees Luxemburg is Professor of Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art. She re-envisions cities through large-scale photographic works, public art installations, and operatic productions. Selected Exhibitions: Werkstatt Fotografie, Hamburg (group, 2024); Museum of London, London (solo, 2015).
Roger Palmer (b. 1946, Portsmouth, UK) lives and works in Glasgow. Working as an artist and educator since the 1970s, Palmer's research and practice have contributed to debates on the representation of place, as well as ideas of location and dislocation, migration and settlement. Selected Exhibitions: Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow (solo, 2022); South African National Gallery, Cape Town (group, 2000).
Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954, Bethlehem, USA) lives in Los Angeles. Working primarily in the western territories of the US and Canada, Ruwedel's work explores how geological, historical and political events leave their marks on the landscape. Merging documentary and conceptual methods, he also finds influence in land art echoed in his images of abandoned railways, nuclear testing sites and empty desert homes. Selected Exhibitions: Tate Modern, London, (solo, 2018); Getty Museum, Los Angeles, (group, 2019). He was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2014.
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (b. 1938, Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War. Since the 1970s, she has sought out places of transit and borderlands, locations geographically and politically caught up in a state of in-between. Selected Exhibitions: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, (solo, 2025); MEP, Paris, (solo, 2019/20) Tate Modern, London, (solo, 2013). Schulz-Dornburg has been awarded both the NRW Art Award and the Bernd and Hilla Becher Award in 2025.
Lucy Rogers is an artist, writer and researcher. She has just completed her PhD on the archive of the photographer, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and has curated the exhibition, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Memoryscapes at Large Glass gallery in 2023.
Caught between excessive expansion and disappearance through decline or deliberate obscuration, the mundane, lived reality of industry in this moment, seems to have fallen out of focus or been temporarily lost from view. In turning to the overlooked and forgotten traces of industry, "Light Industry" brings our relationship to different modes of production back into focus. In doing so, it asks us to reacquaint ourselves, both with the people on whose hard labor industry depends but also with the tactile sensibility and physicality of materials whether found in industrial architecture, post-industrial landscapes or on the surfaces of a print.
For a period of two weeks, the exhibition extends outside the gallery to two large billboards across the Caledonian Road, next to the railway bridge, with artwork by Rut Blees Luxemburg and Morgan Levy.
Laurenz Berges (b. 1966, Cloppenburg, Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Berges' photographic work focuses primarily on transience, and the space between use and decay. Berges studied under Bernd Becher and spent a year assisting Evelyn Hofer in the 1980’s. Selected Exhibitions: The Becher House in Mudersbach, The Photographic Collection SK Kultur, Cologne (solo, 2023/24); Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop (solo, 2020).
Guido Guidi (b. 1941, Cesena, Italy) lives and works in Cesena. Guido Guidi is one of Italy’s most respected photographers, with a career spanning more than five decades. He has mostly focused his lens on rural and suburban geographies close to his home. Selected Exhibitions: ‘Col tempo, 1956–2024’, a comprehensive retrospective is currently touring Europe from the MAXXI, Rome, and is accompanied by a major new monograph published by MACK.
Craigie Horsfield (b. 1949, Cambridge, UK) lives and works in London. Horsfield’s work combines film, photography, sound, engraving and drawing, and is most well-known for his large-scale, unique prints. He often prints the photographs many years after they were first taken, bringing into contrast memory and the present reality. Selected Exhibitions: Documenta X and XI, Kassel (group 1997, 2002); Tate Britain, London (solo, 2017). He was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1996.
Gerry Johansson (b. 1945, Örebro, Sweden) lives and works in Höganäs. Johansson is one of Sweden’s most renowned photographers. Working mostly in black and white, and favouring the square format, Johansson is attracted to the neglected details of urban space. Selected Exhibitions: Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles (group, 2024); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (solo, 1982 and 2003). He has been awarded the Prince Eugen Medal for outstanding artistic achievement in 2024.
Morgan Levy (b. 1985, Philadelphia, USA) based in Brooklyn. Levy combines performance, staged photography and documentary approaches, often working in partnership with her collaborators. Levy is informed by canonical 20th century images of work and labour in America, and feminist photographic practices from the 1970s onwards. Selected Exhibitions: V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, Peckham24 (group, 2025).
Rut Blees Luxemburg (b. 1967, Germany) based in London. Blees Luxemburg is Professor of Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art. She re-envisions cities through large-scale photographic works, public art installations, and operatic productions. Selected Exhibitions: Werkstatt Fotografie, Hamburg (group, 2024); Museum of London, London (solo, 2015).
Roger Palmer (b. 1946, Portsmouth, UK) lives and works in Glasgow. Working as an artist and educator since the 1970s, Palmer's research and practice have contributed to debates on the representation of place, as well as ideas of location and dislocation, migration and settlement. Selected Exhibitions: Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow (solo, 2022); South African National Gallery, Cape Town (group, 2000).
Mark Ruwedel (b. 1954, Bethlehem, USA) lives in Los Angeles. Working primarily in the western territories of the US and Canada, Ruwedel's work explores how geological, historical and political events leave their marks on the landscape. Merging documentary and conceptual methods, he also finds influence in land art echoed in his images of abandoned railways, nuclear testing sites and empty desert homes. Selected Exhibitions: Tate Modern, London, (solo, 2018); Getty Museum, Los Angeles, (group, 2019). He was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Scotiabank Photography Award in 2014.
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg (b. 1938, Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf. Ursula Schulz-Dornburg grew up in the aftermath of the Second World War. Since the 1970s, she has sought out places of transit and borderlands, locations geographically and politically caught up in a state of in-between. Selected Exhibitions: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, (solo, 2025); MEP, Paris, (solo, 2019/20) Tate Modern, London, (solo, 2013). Schulz-Dornburg has been awarded both the NRW Art Award and the Bernd and Hilla Becher Award in 2025.
Lucy Rogers is an artist, writer and researcher. She has just completed her PhD on the archive of the photographer, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg and has curated the exhibition, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg: Memoryscapes at Large Glass gallery in 2023.
Laurenz Berges
Guido Guidi
Craigie Horsfield
Gerry Johansson
Morgan Levy
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Roger Palmer
Mark Ruwedel
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Enquiries
sales: Charlotte Schepke
info: Gabrielle Slack-Smith
Exhibition Text
‘Light Industry’, Lucy Rogers, September 2025
Guido Guidi
Craigie Horsfield
Gerry Johansson
Morgan Levy
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Roger Palmer
Mark Ruwedel
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg
Enquiries
sales: Charlotte Schepke
info: Gabrielle Slack-Smith
Exhibition Text
‘Light Industry’, Lucy Rogers, September 2025