• Linn Schroeder · Exhibition in Berlin
    29.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Books/Exhibitions

    In the collective exhibition "STRAIGHT FLUSH" Linn Schroeder shows her new work, "My little sister". "She is my sister and she has a knife. She says, in school it would be better ". This song line, probably the single hit from the group "Spektacoolär" goes through my head when I photograph my sister. (Linn Schroeder)
    Because of an eating disorder and depression, the younger sister of the photographer was a long time in a rehabilitation clinic. At the weekly visits they always made a photo. The images were for the sister as a kind of mirror in which she found shocked at how sad she looks. Even after the time in rehabilitation, the sisters continued the series of portraits. It shows not only the portrait of the individual but also their relationship to each other.

    "STRAIGHT FLUSH"
    Alexander Rischer, Linn Schroeder and Henning Rogge
    Opening: 30.10.2010, 19:00 clock
    Exhibition: 31.10.2010 - 11.02.2010

    THE FORGOTTEN BAR / GALLERY IN GOVERNMENT DISTRICTS


    Boppstrasse 5, 10967 Berlin

  • The City - Exhibition in Munich
    27.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | The City Project

    'The City' moves on: Exactly four months after the end of our anniversary exhibition at C/O Berlin, 'The City. Becoming and decaying' will be shown at the Art Lounge of the Bavarian Chamber of Insurance located at Maximilianstraße 53 in Munich.

    The exhibition will be on display from 4 November 2010 to 23 January 2011 every day from 9am to 7pm apart from public holidays. Admission is free.

    Shortly before the end of the exhibition in Berlin, Deutsche Welle TV reported about it in the cultural magazine 'Arts.21': Flashback and outlook at the same time.

    Plakat

  • 20 years ago - East German magazine "Fotografie"
    20.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | 20 years ago

    In search for a chest of drawers, our colleague Susanne Strauch made a nice find on a flea market in the Brandenburg countryside last weekend. Among lamps and cutlery she discovered some old copies of the East German magazine "Fotografie".

    "Fotografie" was published by VEB Fotokinoverlag in Leipzig and used to be the photo magazine in the GDR with the highest circulation. As 40% of its copies were exported, it also had a remarkable number of readers in the West. After the reunification and the sale of the publishing house, the magazine was discontinued, also due to the fact that there already was a same-named West-German magazine.

    We post an article presenting Ute Mahler and her long-term project "Living Together" in the September issue of 1985.

    Fotografie

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  • Various - Arno Fischer awarded with the "Hannah-Höch-Preis"
    14.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Miscellaneous

    Our friend and photographer Arno Fischer will be awarded with the "Hannah-Höch-Preis" for his lifework. The artprize carried with 15.000 Euro has been awarded since 1996 by the Berlin senate’s admin of art for an outstanding artistical lifework. The awards ceremony will take place today (thursday), the 14th octobre at 19 pm in the Berlinische Galerie. The award ceremony’s combined exhibition will be shown from 15th octobre 2010 untill 28th february 2011.

    Arno Fischer
    © Arno Fischer

  • Exhibition – Frank Schinski – "Images of men"

    11.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Books/Exhibitions

    Last Friday the opening of the exhibition "Images of men", including photographs of Frank Schinski, took place at Galerie Forum Amalienpark in Berlin-Pankow.

    The pictures are part of the series 'Quitting', which shows people of various professions on their last day at work: From the professional soldier clearing his barrack room after thirty years, via the postman on his last tour through to the bank employee toasted to for one last time.   

    Frank Schinski
    © Nicole Welgen

    In spring 2010, five years after their retirement, the magazine Chrismon commissioned Frank Schinski to visit some of the people he had portrayed and find out how they were coping with this new stage of their lives.

    The exhibition will be on display until 13 November 2010 (Tuesday - Friday: 14h00 -19h00; Saturday: 11h00 -16h00).

    Frank Schinski
    © Nicole Welgen

  • Julian Röder · Photography Award / Lucie Foundation
    07.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | news

    At the Photography Award of the Lucie Foundation Julian Röder was convincing with his work "Lagos Transformation“ in two categories! He was awarded the first prize in the categories of "Architecture, Cityscapes" and "Editorial, Other“.

    www.photoawards.com
    www.julianroeder.com

  • Sibylle Bergemann photographs · Next stations of the tour

    07.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | news

    The great Sibylle Bergemann retrospective is more than a year on tour, the next two stations are:

    Seoul, South Korea
    Museum of Art - Seoul National University
    www.snumoa.org
    Duration: 05.10.2010 - 28.11.2010

    Tochigi, Japan
    Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
    www.art.pref.tochigi.jp
    Exhibition Dates: 01/22/2011 - 03/21/2011

    More stations: Nanjing, Manila, Hanoi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Sydney, Wellington, New Zealand, Jakarta, Indonesia, and Bangkok.

    The tour is organized by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations.
    www.ifa.de

  • Various - Sibylle Fendt wins Vattenfall Photo Award

    05.10.2010 | OSTKREUZ | Miscellaneous

    To our great joy our new junior member Sibylle Fendt has won the first prize of the Vattenfall Photo Award for Berlin 2010. Last night the presentation of the prizes took place at C/O Berlin and so did the opening of the exhibition, which, showing the works of the four prize winners, will be on display until 2 November 2010.

    Sibylle Fendt
    © Dawin Meckel/OSTKREUZ

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