A journey through love, photography, and everyday life in Juergen Teller and Dovile Drizyte’s ‘Guten Morgen Sonnenschein’

This summer, Juergen Teller returns to Berlin with Guten Morgen Sonnenschein, on view at Contemporary Fine Arts through August 29th, 2026. Bringing together new photographic series, videos, and installations, the exhibition celebrates Teller’s longstanding creative partnership with his wife, Dovile Drizyte, revealing photography as both an artistic practice and a shared way of moving through life.

A Berlin exhibition shaped by love, collaboration, and everyday rituals

Translated as Good Morning Sunshine, the exhibition celebrates more than eight years of artistic collaboration while offering an intimate portrait of family life. For Teller and Drizyte, the personal and the creative are inseparable. Photography becomes a visual journal, capturing fleeting moments while reflecting on love, memory, and the quiet poetry of everyday experience.

The exhibition opens with the eponymous series of diptychs, where Teller’s morning coffee ritual appears alongside books, artworks, drawings by their daughter Iggy, and photographs of Drizyte asleep. These understated pairings form a tender love letter, revealing the emotional resonance hidden within ordinary moments.

Photography as autobiography and a shared artistic language

The couple’s creative dialogue reaches one of its most lyrical expressions in Symposium of Love (2025). Inspired by Symposium, the series follows Teller and Drizyte rolling across sand dunes as their bodies gradually merge into a single mythical being. Landscapes, sunsets, and animals weave through the photographs, portraying love as a continual act of closeness, change, and mutual growth.

In Sono Qui (2026), originally created for Harper’s Bazaar Italia, autobiography meets cultural observation. Nude portraits of Drizyte appear alongside still lifes, fashion imagery, and atmospheric views of Venice, offering a deeply personal portrait of the city. A photograph of the late Pope Francis, taken at the Giudecca Women’s Prison, expands the narrative beyond the intimate, placing private moments within a broader historical and social landscape.

A democratic portrait of life

One hallmark of Juergen Teller’s photography is its refusal to rank its subjects. Portraits of artists, actors, musicians, designers, writers, philosophers, and athletes—including Sandra Hüller, Lars Eidinger, Iggy Pop, Katharine Hamnett, Florentina Holzinger, Danh Võ, Constance Debré, Slavoj Žižek, and Michael Olise—stand beside candid family photographs. Teller approaches each sitter with the same candour and curiosity, whether depicting a celebrated public figure or someone closest to him.

Family forms the emotional heart of the exhibition. Their daughter Iggy appears throughout several series, from The Myth (2022), made before her birth, to A Sciuta (2023) and the playful Iggy Teller does Teller (2023), in which she reenacts some of Teller’s most recognisable photographs. These works present family not simply as a subject, but as an ongoing creative partnership.

Following his recent exhibition You Are Invited in Athens, Guten Morgen Sonnenschein reveals Teller at his most intimate and reflective. At a moment when artificial intelligence and digital manipulation increasingly shape visual culture, he and Drizyte reaffirm photography’s enduring power to preserve presence, intimacy, and emotional honesty.