Peace is our Profession

Navigating Crisis with Confidence

Opening 29. May 2026

Vintage original photographs

Peter Voigt

Strangelove Collection

The title derives from the surreal motto of the US nuclear arsenal — later a backdrop in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), a caustic satire on the logic of the Cold War. Peter Voigt's work draws on historical photographs of nuclear technology and rocket research from the 1940s to 1970s. In Peace is Our Profession he arranges this material into new image sequences and visual narratives. The method lies in juxtaposition: through grouping, sequencing and counterpoint, patterns become visible that remain hidden in individual images. What emerges is the staging behind the documentation. Senior military figures pose with phallic rocket models. Civilians practice duck-and-cover, trusting protocols that now read as tragicomic. These images were never neutral. They were propaganda, self-assurance, theatre. The absurdity is not a side effect — it is the method. Trump fantasises about nuclear testing. Arms manufacturers boom. The absurdity of then is the politics of now. Peace is Our Profession offers no consoling images. It exposes the belief systems and collective illusions that continue to sustain the atomic age.