For his third exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, German photographer Juergen Teller presents a major new body of work entitled Nürnberg. The exhibition is an emotional panorama that draws on personal history, both new and old. It is a celebration of family and an investigation of the past, in private and public terms, as represented by the city of Nuremberg.

In the centre of Nuremberg, home of the National Socialist Party in the 1940s and the site of subsequent war trials, there is a partially completed group of Nazi monuments: a coliseum, a parade ground and a huge stadium. Designed by Albert Speer and personally commissioned by Adolf Hitler, the completed Zeppelintribüne at the Reich Party Rally grounds is well documented as the site of Nazi propaganda rallies, memorably captured on film by Leni Riefenstahl in Triumph of the Will. Today the Zeppelintribüne parade ground still stands, remarkable in its architecture and the failure of its ideal. It has not been turned into a historical study centre as the neighboring coliseum has, nor has it been destroyed to make way for physical and emotional regeneration. Instead it has been ignored and allowed to begin a gentle process of decay, used casually by local people for walking their dogs, rollerblading and the occasional sport event or rock concert.