Backstage Burlesque

From 16 March to 6 June 2024 the gallery showed “Backstage Burlesque”, a photography exhibition by Zora Jurenkova.

For years Jurenkova photographed burlesque performers behind the stage – mainly in Berlin, for instance at the Berlin Burlesque Festival and the variety revues at the Wintergarten, but also in Hamburg, Prague and Paris. In 2020 this became her book “Backstage Burlesque”, a photographic documentation of the neo-burlesque subculture with more than 200 photos in black and white and colour. The series had previously been shown as a solo exhibition at Bassy Club (2017) and Kaffe Mitte (2019) in Berlin, among other places.

Zora Jurenkova was born in Prague, moved to California at 20 and has lived in Berlin for more than 20 years. She specialises in artistic, people and erotic photography and performs on stage herself as “Miss Popalina”. More at zorajurenkova.de.