The Academy of Arts is dedicating a large exhibition with photography by Michael Ruetz to the decade around 1968. Michael Ruetz influenced the image of '68 as did hardly any other artist. Many of his photographs are a part of our visual memory. However, Ruetz is far more than merely the reporter of this period in time. As a student of Sinology, he grew into the role of the documentary-maker as an active part of a movement. His pictures live from this proximity to the events, from a feeling for situations and the view of people: in the 130 photographs, mainly black and white, the emotionality of the period at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s comes to life again.