SOLD OUT. The Night Glam Realism Hit Berlin's Map
On Saturday, August 9, the legendary KitKat Club became the stage for here&now — a sold out the multimedia vernissage celebrating the upcoming photobook by Sahin Dellemann. More than an exhibition, it was a happening: art, bodies and sound colliding in pure Berlin energy.
"The here&now vernissage was, for me, living proof that photography can be more than still images – it can become a space where people see, feel, and celebrate each other."– Sahin Dellemann
From fearing that no one would show up to 400 guests lining up around the block — it turned into a full-blown Berlin art happening.
The Build-Up
Months of anticipation built up to this night: prints from the upcoming book meeting fabric, skin, sound, and movement. here&now was not an exhibition but a sensorial deep-dive into the raw, glam-infused world Dellemann captures — blurring lines between gallery and club, garments and body, presence and myth.
“My aim was to take photography out of the white cube and give it the intensity, glam, and immediacy of a live performance.” – Sahin Dellemann
The Night
Projections bled across walls and bodies. A catwalk pulsed through the club. Performative fashion, dance, and live music animated the images — reclaiming life as a space of radical self-expression.
The protagonists of the book stepped out of the images and onto the stage — no longer just subjects, but co-creators of the moment.
After the projections of the protagonists’ statements on liberalism and freedom, images from the book section "behind the scenes or is it make up & shopping" lit up the screens. Then the models entered, carrying canvases in their hands and presenting them to the audience. When they turned, the backs of their t-shirts revealed the artist’s statement — a living manifesto woven directly into the performance:
here&now – a love letter to liberalism by sahin dellemann
This is where it begins.
In Berlin. In the flicker of club lights and kitchen conversations.
In shared cigarettes and stolen mornings.
In the bodies of friends refusing to be edited, cropped or explained.
here&now is a declaration of presence — loud, fragile, unapologetic.
A visual love letter to those who live freely,
without compromise, without apology.
In a city where the nights are longer than the rules.
Between chaos and care, between solitude and sweat,
between the beauty of becoming and the grit of surviving —
a new visual language is born: Glam Realism.
A style that doesn’t choose between truth and theatre.
That allows softness to shimmer and darkness to sing.
That sees rebellion not as noise — but as nuance.
here&now tells the story of a chosen family —
friends bound not by blood, but by vision.
By the will to feel, to celebrate, to resist forgetting.
here&now is a love letter to freedom, and to those who choose to live against the current.
Then the lights dropped, and the chapter "faces" unfolded across the 6 x 3 metre main screen and the vertical 70 x 150 cm side panels. Dellemann’s portraits magnified into towering presences — intimate, unguarded, impossible to ignore.
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The exhibition kept moving — photography leaving the screen and spilling onto garments. Dresses, bodysuits, and t-shirts became living canvases. Protagonists framed their bodies with empty picture frames, making the prints on their clothes appear as art-in-motion. The book’s central figures — Tamara, Mos, Viktoria, Basti, Nori, Jason, Giannina, Larissa, Gon, and Gautam — stepped forward not only as subjects but as co-creators of the moment.
Another chapter emerged: "wohngemeinschaft". Projected larger than life, the images filled both the monumental 6 x 3 metre screen and the vertical panels, immersing the audience in the intimacy and rawness of shared living.
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Later in the night, "after hours" came alive on the walls — the book’s darker, electric pulse magnified through scale and sound. Projected across the main screen and vertical panels, the series captured Berlin’s raw nocturnal energy in its most unguarded state.
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IXA bent genres into alien seduction. As the night unfolded, KitKat’s own DJ Don Basti took over the decks, turning the vernissage into a high-voltage rave.
Choreographer Andrea Spartà delivered a visceral dance interpretation, amplifying the project’s physical urgency.
The Response
The response was overwhelming — in the club, online, and from the press. here&now was more than sold out; it was a rare meeting of communities, art forms, and energies under one roof.
"Freedom is most beautiful when it's shared."
- Sahin Dellemann
Our Thanks
Thank you to every guest, every model, every performer.
Thank you to KitKat — the legendary location — for hosting this moment in Berlin's history.
We are answering all inquiries as quickly as possible — thank you for your patience and your love.
This is just the beginning
The release of the here&now photobook and the launch of the S. Dellemann online shop for fine art prints and garments are next. 👉 Don’t miss the next chapter — sign up here to be the first in line.