Jürgen Nogai
L.A. moments

Opening – 14 MAR 2025, 6 – 9 pm and 15 MAR 2025, 11am – 6 pm
28 FEB till 12 APR 2025

“Rent the World for Your Party” reads a sign that Jürgen Nogai captured passing by while on a trip to the US as a student. The snapshot taken in 1979 is the starting point for a series of immensely authentic Street Photography, the entire panorama of which is unfolded before us in the exhibition L.A. Moments.

After his studies in Cologne, Jürgen Nogai (*1953) successfully established himself as an advertising, art and architectural photographer in Bremen and surroundings.From November 2022 to December 2024, he directed the F15 photo gallery in Bremen. From 2000 on, he spent twelve years living in California, working with the legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman until the latter’s death in 2009, taking pictures of iconic buildings by architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig and Richard Meier.

Besides, Nogai captured the diversity of urban life in the metropolis Los Angeles using a 35mm camera: Immersing in the streets around Downtown he captured the juxtaposition of perfect aesthetics and excessive life with a kaleidoscopic perspective. Blessed with a sharp eye for detail, Nogai has taken numerous snapshots that – often in flashy colours – bring the everyday side scenes of L.A. to our attention as main subjects.