The OSTKREUZ photographers gathered the images for our group exhibition all over the world. Now "The City" travels with the Goethe-Institute to the metropolises of the earth. In summer it is shown in Tel Aviv.
"The City. Becoming and Decaying"
Exhibition: 22 June - 24 August
Centre for Contemporary Art
5 Kalisher St.
Mon - Thu 2.00 pm - 7.00 pm, Fri/Sat 10.00 am - 2.00 pm
http://cca.org.il
© Heinrich Völkel/OSTKREUZ
'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. 
Only five days until the end of our exhibition ˝The city - Becoming and decaying" . Those who could not visit the exhibition have the opportunity to do so until sunday evening (04.07.2010). 
images: © Lene Münch
Last year Jörg Colberg presented a personal selection of OSTKREUZ reportages on his renowned photography blog Conscientious. Now he posted a review on the catalogue of our anniversary exhibition 'The City. Becoming and Decaying' (on view until 4 July 2010 at C/O Berlin). Thanks very much, Jörg, we are glad you like it.
image: screenshot Conscientious webblog
Linn Schröder: Some of the pictures were chosen to be part of the selection for the exhibition and the book at the very end of the process. I especially like them, they are so surreal. Why do the two cowboys ride a chair lift in the desert?
Maurice Weiss: People who live in cities grow apart from nature. They eventually long for nature again and return but are not willing to do without the city's conveniences. And so a chair lift is built in the desert, a prosperous business for the operator. This chair lift takes you on the top of a huge sand dune where you are guided around on a camel, before you slide back down on a sledge.
© Maurice Weiss/OSTKREUZ
Linn Schröder: On another picture a woman is shown, she is crouching and speaking on the phone, a skyline is painted on the wall and there is a couch on the right-hand side. What does the business woman do in this unfinished town?
Maurice Weiss: She is doing business, she will have to sell the apartments in the skyscrapers.
© Maurice Weiss/OSTKREUZ
Linn Schröder: When will the city be finished? And how long you will accompany this project?
Maurice Weiss: The city is finished when people live there. What do people need to want to live in a city though? Only a job? Or do they need some kind of urban culture? And if so, what would that be? Ordos is an exciting project, I will continue to accompany it. 
© Maurice Weiss/OSTKREUZ
Linn Schröder: I have also taken pictures of a city in the desert. Do you see any parallels to Las Vegas?
Maurice Weiss: Yes and no, there is a huge desire for colour, especially for green, trees and flowers are planted everywhere. Cities close to Ordos (like Bautou) glow in all colours at night, even without casinos.
© Maurice Weiss/OSTKREUZ
Our anniversary exhibition "The City - Becoming and Decaying" will be on display in the C/O Berlin until the 4th of July. C/O Berlin and OSTKREUZ offer guided tours through the the exhibition on every Saturday and Sunday at 3 pm with a different OSTKREUZ photographer at each event.
05.6. - Espen Eichhöfer
06.6. - Jörg Brüggemann
12.6. - Thomas Meyer
13.6. - Anne Schönharting
19.6. - Frank Schinski
20.6. - Annette Hausschild
26.6. - Andrej Krementschouk
27.6. - Heinrich Völkel
Update:
3.7. Jordis Antonia Schlösser
4.7. Frank Schinski
If you are interested, please come to the C/O Berlin Foyer just before the tour starts and register there.
(Sueddeutsche Zeitung No. 106 / Page 11, Monday, 10 May 2010)
Two and a half weeks after the opening of "The City. Becoming and Decaying" at C/O Berlin here a first collection of press reviews.
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Last Friday was the opening of our exhibition ›The city. Becoming and Decaying«, with which we celebrate our 20th anniversary, at C/O Berlin in the presence of all 18 photographers: Attracting 3.000 visitors, it was one of the most successful openings C/O Berlin has hosted in its ten-year history and the highlight of the project’s three-year process.
The evening before we gathered to celebrate the release of the 300-page catalogue of the exhibition, which is published by Hatje Cantz. Our host was Marcus Jauer, who had attended to the project from the beginning and wrote the texts with the assistance of Anne-Dore Krohn.
Thanks very much to all who believed in the project and made it happen.
The exhibition is on view until 4 July 2010 and open to the public every day from 11 to 20 o’clock. During weekends two OSTKREUZ photographers take part in the guided tours at 15 o’clock.
C/O Berlin, Oranienburger Straße 35/36, 10117 Berlin
