Concrete, lots of concrete. Hardly any people and practically no cars. Pictures of silence where normally there is none. Pictures of green spaces that no one ever enters because they are between two arms of the motorway, allotment gardens, parked household goods, signs.

Pictures that show what we normally only pass by because we are in the car.

By staging a car-free motorway with his photographs of Berlin's A100, Rolf Schulten reduces it to its architectural and urban core, while at the same time showing the traces of its history. Where have people preserved their own spaces in the face of its massive presence? What non-places, fractures and wastelands have been created by this promise of mobility cast in concrete?

The A100 urban motorway was built between the 1960s and 1990s. For 28 kilometres, it cuts a mostly six-lane semicircular path through the west of Berlin, through residential and commercial areas.

This series of photographs was taken between 2021 and 2023 along the entire route and its feeder roads, from Wedding in the north to Neukölln in the south of the city.

A portrait of the A100 - but not just that. It is also a reflection on an ageing monument to the car-friendly city. And a Berlin book of a different kind.