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Until December 5, our billboard exhibition "Pictures from the Twin City" can be seen in public spaces in Bergisch Gladbach, Borna and Munich. This exhibition brings pictures taken by our photographers Emile Ducke, Johanna-Maria Fritz, Mila Teshaieva and Sebastian Wells, who have been regularly documenting the war in Ukraine since the end of February, to the German partner cities of the places where they were taken. Thus, Munich is the twin city of Kyiv, Bergisch Gladbach is the twin city of Butscha and Borna is the twin city of Irpin. Previously, the posters were also seen in Leipzig, Nuremberg, Memmingen and Freiburg. Presented on large-format billboards in the urban space, the exhibition aims to draw attention to the ongoing plight of the Ukrainian population and to appeal to the solidarity of residents to get involved in helping refugees. The project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Duration: until 5.12.22

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Linn Schröder is represented with works from her series "I also think family pictures", which is unlimited in duration and motifs, in the internationally mounted group exhibition "Family Affairs. Family in Contemporary Photography" at the Kunsthalle Erfurt. In this exhibition, put together by Ingo Taubhorn, curator of the Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen Hamburg, more than 20 photographic positions take up the theme of "family". In Hamburg, the exhibition was only on view for a short time due to corona, in Erfurt as a follow-up it will be shown over twelve weeks.

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From 22.11. - 05.12.22 OSTKREUZ shows the photo exhibition "Pictures from the twin city" about the war in Ukraine. The innovative exhibition in public spaces takes place in the seven German twin cities of the Ukrainian places where the photographs were taken.

In Munich, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Freiburg, Bergisch Gladbach, Borna and Memmingen, works by OSTKREUZ photographers Emile Ducke, Johanna Maria Fritz, Mila Teshaieva and Sebastian Wells will be presented at prominent, publicly visible locations in the respective city areas.

The images do not depict atrocities, but capture current events in the twin cities to draw attention to the ongoing plight of the Ukrainian population. The exhibition "Pictures from the Twin City" was conceived and realized by the agency OSTKREUZ, financed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

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After stops at Hamburg's Deichtorhallen, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt and FOAM Amsterdam, Tobias Kruse's work "Deponie" (2019/20) can now be seen in its entirety for the first time in Berlin. Galerie Artco will present the series in its new space at Frobenstraße 1 in Berlin-Schöneberg starting December 16. Ingo Taubhorn, chief curator of the Haus der Photographie at the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, wrote on the occasion of the opening in Hamburg: "Tobias Kruse combines the major social issues of our time with an explosive poetry inherent in his visual language. In his new group of works, "Deponie," he shows a personal approach to East Germany and finds in his black-and-white images a symbolic hinge between past and present." An extensive monograph will also be published by Spector Books in Leipzig. The publication is also planned for the end of this year. 

Opening: Dec. 15, 2022, 7 p.m. 

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The Lippische Landesmuseum in Detmold is showing the group exhibition "Experiment HEIMAT", featuring Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler and Jörg Brüggemann. It asks: Is HEIMAT an emotion or a place? A reality or an ideal? Is it where we were born or grew up? Or here, where we live now? Does it perhaps not exist (anymore)? Is it an inescapable destiny or something we create for ourselves? These are just some of the questions addressed by the literature and photography project "Experiment HEIMAT". Commissioned by the Westphalian Literature Office in Unna, internationally renowned authors and photographers traveled to nine places in Westphalia with "homeland" connotations and explored the dazzling and controversial concept of HEIMAT. From the experiences of the artists on their travels and the impressions from their encounters with the local people, a kaleidoscope of highly diverse literary and visual interpretations of the theme of HOME developed. 

Duration of exhibition: 19.11. until 11.12.2022 

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In 1987 and 1988, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, together with the author Wolfgang Kil, made two trips to Lisbon to take photographs for a book project of the Leipzig Brockhaus publishing house. For the photographers, who were already well-known in the DDR at the time, it was a rare opportunity to take a look in front of the Iron Curtain. But the book, planned for 1989, could not be published (anymore), like so many other book projects from the time shortly before the fall of the Wall. The pictures and contact sheets disappeared and did not reappear until 2021. Upon reviewing the photographs, it became clear that Lisbon can be considered the Mahlers' first joint project, long before they first made a conscious decision to co-author. Nevertheless, the shared signature that developed in Monalisen der Vorstädte, Seltsame Tage, die Kleinstadt and Ströme is already clear. They are black and white street photographs in the best sense. Lisbon '87/88 is a small book, carefully designed by Florian Lamm, published by Hartmann Books. It will be presented for the first time in November at Paris Photo at the publisher's booth. 

Paris Photo: 10-13 Nov. 2022. 

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We are very pleased to announce that Mila Teshaieva's first documentary film "When Spring came to Bucha" has been selected by the 35th International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) for the category 'Luminuos' to premiere at the festival. The film, co-directed by Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz, depicts the three small Ukrainian towns of Borodyanka, Bucha and Irpin, which the Russian Army occupied for weeks during its campaign of conquest towards Kyiv. Immediately after the Russian troops were repulsed after a month of heavy fighting, Mila Teshaieva and Marcus Lenz were on the ground. They accompanied the people as they rose from the still-smoking ruins, listening to them and giving them a voice. The IDFA has been held annually in Amsterdam since 1988 and is considered the world's largest film festival for documentaries. 

Duration Festival: 9-20.11.2022 

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Anne Schönharting gives a talk at a conference at the University of Bremen on her book and project "The Heritage" on the topic: The Hunting Room. The conference directs attention to exemplary spaces and spatially conceived imaginaries of the hunting as well as their colonial, social and gender implications. What in other families is the guest room, in Anne Schönharting's family was called the "Africa room." For four generations, the "Africa Room" was the place for great-grandfather Willy Klare's collection. With her own paintings and reproductions of inherited artifacts and photographs, Anne Schönharting embarks on an associative journey into a history unknown to her and consciously enters into a personal dialogue with her family's past, with German and European history, and with the very private as well as social colonial responsibility. 

Talk: Nov. 4, 2022 at 8 p.m. 

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As part of the exhibition "The New Abnormal" , which is currently on view at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg until November 6, Sebastian Wells, OSTKREUZ photographer and editor of the magazine soлomiya, discusses the topic "Into endlessness - Photographic reflections on the war in Ukraine" with his fellow photographers Mila Teshaieva and Daniil Russov. "It's not about photography, it's about me, my place, my history and the history of the whole world that is happening here right now," Mila Teshaieva wrote on March 3, 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion began, as the first entry in her Ukrainian War Diary for her eponymous work "Ukrainian Diary." How does one react as a photographer in Ukraine when suddenly a war begins that is unimaginable for many? What sense does one still see in photography when close friends suddenly become victims of missile attacks? Sebastian Wells asks his colleagues these and other questions during the artist talk, which was conducted in English and is now available online via Youtube. 

Link Online Artist-Talk here.

In the double exhibition "no place called home" the works of Annette Hauschild and Jordis Antonia Schlösser enter into dialogue. Both deal with a current topic: the loss of home. In "Hit the Road Jack," Annette Hauschild addresses the centuries-old exclusion of the Roma in Europe. Jordis Antonia Schlösser's work "Before the Disappearance" tells of the destruction of villages in the Rhenish open-cast lignite mining area over a period of almost two decades. 

Opening: 17.11.2022, 7 p.m. 
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin 

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The exhibition project "Grenzen-Granice" deals with the meaning of "border" (Grenzen) in the broadest sense of the word: border as a dividing line that separates someone or something from each other, moral-ethical prohibitions or language barriers, borders in the sense of physical, psychological capacities, etc.. Ina Schoenenburg is represented in this group exhibition alongside German, Polish and Ukrainian artists with her work "Związki" (engl. Connections), which she has been realizing since 2016 on both sides of the German-Polish border river Oder. The exhibition will be presented both in Poznań at Jeżyckie Centrum Kultury and at St. Thomas Kirche on Mariannenplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg. 

Opening Poznań: 22.10.2022 

Opening Berlin: 17.11.2022 

Duration of the exhibition in Berlin: 18.11. until 4.12.2022 

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Over the course of 10 years, Anne Schönharting has photographed people in their apartments in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The Haus am Kleistpark presents her finely composed portraits in the solo exhibition "Habitat". These show her protagonists and their apartments in wondrous, sometimes almost cinematic situations. Sometimes it is only the view of an empty room, a window or a door that tells of the people and the constellations of their cohabitation living in this place. In Anne Schönharting's photographs, the apartment becomes an individual stage, a place of self-expression as well as of social positioning. 

Accompanying the exhibition, the book of the same name will be published by Hartmann Books on October 13 with a text by the curator Inka Schube. An edition print will also be offered as part of the exhibition. 

Opening: 13.10.2022, 7-10 pm

Duration of exhibition: 14.10. to 11.12.2022. 

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On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the gallery, Galerie Springer Berlin presents a group exhibition with works by selected artists. Sebastian Wells and the Ukrainian photographer Vsevolod Kazarin are represented in the context of this exhibition in a one-week presentation with works created for their joint magazine "soлomiya" in Ukraine. At a panel discussion in October, Sebastian Wells and Vsevolod Kazarin will talk about their magazine and their joint work. The "soлomiya" magazine can be ordered through the OSTKREUZ store. 

Panel discussion: 12.10.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration of the exhibition: 11.10. to 15.10.2022. 

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With the exhibition "Walker Evans Revisited" curated by David Campany, Museum Helmond shows different ways of dealing with Walker Evans' work by contemporary artists and photographers, ranging from appropriation and collage to re-examination and homage. Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler are represented in the group exhibition with their series "Small Town," for which they traveled throughout Germany several times from 2015 to 2018. In the process, they set out in search of images that reflect the mood, attitude to life and spirit of small towns in Germany. 

Duration exhibition: 11.10.2022 to 5.3.2023. 

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At the invitation of curator Sarah Carlet, Sebastian Wells work "La Rada di Augusta" will be shown at the festival "Castelnuovo Photography x Edizione" in Italy. Sebastian Wells realized this series in 2019-2020 at the bay of Augusta in southeastern Sicily. There, one oil refinery follows another along a thirty-kilometer stretch of coastline. The petrochemical industry has left a lasting mark on this landscape, its inhabitants and their lives for a good seventy years. 

Duration: 1.10. to 9.10.2022 

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The German Internet is connected to that of neighboring countries at only a few dozen transition points. The underground cables at highway parking lots, bridges, meadows and forests are unspectacular and essential at the same time. Heinrich Holtgreve and Moritz Metz research and visit the most important and most desolate border locations, equipped with camera, microphone and a big heart for the Net. They share their experiences as "Internet Explorers" in their podcast of the same name with the listeners. 

Duration exhibition: 13.10.2022 until mid-December 2022 

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In the spring of 2022, our photographer Thomas Meyer was invited by the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe (ZKM) to photograph a free creative work for the ZKM's new magazine, entitled "Innensicht" ("Inside View"). He gave a new dimension to the idea of staging employees in the rooms with impressive perspectives. His series of portraits was published as an artistic part of the magazine over 12 double pages plus the cover. 

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In 2012 Anne Schönharting began photographing the residents of Charlottenburg in their natural habitat. Over 10 years, she portrayed and staged people and their apartments in this traditional, "better" neighborhood of Berlin. To accompany her solo exhibition of the same name at the Haus am Kleistpark, her publication entitled "Habitat. Berlin-Charlottenburg" by Hartmann Books, designed by Stefan Stefanescu and with a text by Inka Schube. The book can already be pre-ordered. 

Duration exhibition: 13.10.2022 until mid-December 2022. 

To the book order.

Kunsthalle Rostock is showing fashion photographs by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler entitled "Unsere Zeit auf dem Land, diese Tage am Fluss, sie werden uns bleiben. Für später und für immer." Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler, a couple for more than 40 years, decided to photograph a fashion series together for F.A.Z. magazine in the summer of 2020. There were 25 years between this and their last fashion series. They photographed with their large-format camera in Werben (Saxony-Anhalt), the smallest Hanseatic town on the Elbe, and spent three days together there with the youthful models. In the Kunsthalle Rostock, the entire photo series will be exhibited for the first time. 

Duration of the exhibition: 2.10. to 27.11.2022 

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Until mid-October, the Berlinische Galerie is showing the wonderful exhibition "Sibylle Bergemann. Stadt Land Hund. Fotografien 1966-2010", which was developed by curator Katia Reich together with the Estate Sibylle Bergemann. The initiative "Das Archiv als helle Kammer" will be presented at the event "Das Archiv als helle Kammer. The Work of the Estate Sibylle Bergemann," talk with the daughter, Frieda von Wild, and the granddaughter of Sibylle Bergemann, Lily von Wild, about their tasks and challenges as administrators of the estate and ask: What does it mean today for the descendants to preserve, administer, and exhibit the photographer's estate? 

Date of the Talk: 22.9.2022, 7 p.m. 

Duration exhibition: until 10.10.2022 

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