Fotografiska Berlin’s latest exhibition, White Nights in Wonderland, invites visitors into the unnerving, electric universe of Chinese photographer Feng Li. Spanning two decades of work, the show brings together 150 images that blur the lines between documentary and dream, banality and spectacle.
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Known for his use of harsh flash and disorienting composition, Feng captures moments that feel accidental but linger with intent.
Curated by Holly Roussell, the exhibition traces Feng’s evolving practice across global cities, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Berlin, and his hometown of Chengdu, while maintaining a consistent visual logic: one that finds strangeness in the ordinary and reveals how surreal contemporary life already is. The photographs appear at once spontaneous and staged, vibrant yet cold, absurd yet precise. A child mid-scream, a businessman in a plastic poncho, an animal appearing in the wrong context, Feng isolates these everyday ruptures and renders them unforgettable.
Fotografiska presents this body of work not as a retrospective, but as a living system of images. Some are widely known from Feng’s White Night series, others are shown in Berlin for the first time. Together, they create a non-linear narrative of global disconnection, where meaning slips just beyond the edge of comprehension. As Jessica Jarl, Global Director of Exhibitions, notes: “Feng Li’s photographs present the world in a new way, with his singular approach to revealing what is special in the mundane.”
The title White Nights in Wonderland plays with contrast, light and dark, order and chaos, familiarity and distortion. In a time oversaturated with polished imagery, Feng’s approach resists explanation. His lens doesn’t ask the viewer to understand; it asks them to look again, and then again. The result is not clarity, but something more elusive and enduring: unease, fascination, and the thrill of not knowing what comes next.
Feng Li’s White Nights in Wonderland runs from 22 August to 23 November 2025 at Fotografiska Berlin. The opening takes place on 21 August.
