For years now, the ifa presents the Sibylle Bergemann "photographs" all over the world. Now the traveling exhibition goes on home leave. It is shown for a month at the ifa gallery in Stuttgart before moving on to Tehran.
"Sibylle Bergemann. Photographs"
Opening: 26 June 26 2014 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 27 June - 27 July 2014
ifa-Galerie Stuttgart
Charlottenplatz 17, 70173 Stuttgart
www.ifa.de
For 25 years, Maurice Weiss was everywhere, where you would have liked to have been later. Now he shows us the most important snapshots of his career as a photographer in a book, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Arab Spring.
He presents "Facing Time" in a traditional bookshop in Charlottenburg, in discussion with Matthias Harder.
Maurice Weiss: "Facing Time"
Book Launch: June 12, 7.30 pm
Bücherbogen
Stadtbahnbogen 593, berlin
S-Savigny Platz
What does "home" mean to people of a region that has experienced as many upheavels as Eastern Europe since the Second World War? An exhibition in Regensburg brings together works by 13 photographers who deal with transformation and and affiliation east of the Oder. Annette Hauschild shows pictures of her series "Hit the Road Jack", for which she visited Roma families in Kosovo, Hungary and Slovakia.
"Heimat? Osteuropa in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie"
Opening: 5 June 2014, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 6 June - 7 September 2014
Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg
Dr.-Johann-Maier-Straße 5, 93049 Regensburg
www.kunstforum.net
On 3 May Harald Hauswald celebrated his 60th birthday and the photo gallery Friedrichshain congratulates him with a large exhibition. The gallery, which was the first and most important East Berlin exhibition space for photography in GDR times, shows highlights from four decades of photographic work.
"Harald Hauswald Querbeet - Zum Sechzigsten"
Opening: 8 Mai 2014, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 9 Mai - 20 June 2014
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain
Helsingforder Platz 1, 10243 Berlin
http://www.kulturring.org
Art book publisher Hatje Cantz and Isabelle du Moulin, initiator of the Berlin Gallery District create a large Pop Up Showroom at Bikinihaus in Berlin-Charlottenburg with paintings, sculpture, photography and performance.
Gallery Weekend will be celebrated here. On Saturday Ute Mahler and Anna-Christina Hartmann discuss with Nadine Barth and Simon Menner on current trends in the photo book. Then there is a book signing with Anthony James and Katja Eichinger and a big party in the showroom.
"Beautiful and bizarre. Trends in photo book"
Panel: 3 May 2014, 5.00 pm
Bikini Berlin
Budapester Str. 38-50, 10787 Berlin
www.hatjecanz.de
Ute Mahler photographed the various ways in which people live together, everyday life and the most special moments in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s. The series "Zusammenleben" (Living together) that she started 40 years ago will now be published as a book for the first time by Hatje Cantz.
We will celebrate, with pictures, music and talks at the Rote Salon, Volksbuehne Berlin. Jana Hoehl, as a child, one of the protagonists of the series, reads the introduction of the book by Sibylle Berg. The filmmaker Sabine Michel and Nadine Barth by Hatje Cantz speak with Ute Mahler about her work, the series "Zusammenleben" and the conditions of photography then and now.
Book Release "Zusammenleben"
22. April 2014, 20.00 pm
Roter Salon
Volksbuehne Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
6,- Euro at the door, Order tickets --> www.volksbuehne-berlin.de
For our "On Borders"-exhibition in 2012, Thomas Meyer portrayed the Bengali minority in Calcutta. People of different social classes, all of which come from the country that we call Bangladesh today. Now the images go back to where they originated. A gallery in Calcutta shows "Exile in Calcutta" in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute.
"Exile in in Calkutta"
Opening: 6. 30 pm, 10 April 2014
Exhibition: 11 April - 26 April 2014
Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre
36C S.P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata
www.goethe.de
Als Jugendliche haben Werner und Ute Mahler gemeinsam beschlossen, Fotografen zu werden. Über 40 Jahre später werden sie von den Deichtorhallen mit einer großen Werkschau geehrt. Das Hamburger Museum zeigt aktuelle Bilder und Klassiker, Einzelarbeiten und Fotografie im Duo. Zu sehen ist auch erstmals ihre neue gemeinsame Arbeit "Die seltsamen Tage".
"Ute Mahler und Werner Mahler - Werkschau"
Eröffnung: 10. April 2014, 19.00 Uhr
Ausstellung: 11. April - 29. Juni 2014
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
HAUS DER PHOTOGRAPHIE
Deichtorstraße 1-2, 20095 Hamburg
www.deichtorhallen.de
An OSTKREUZ photographer with a solo exhibition in Chad, this is a first. Maurice Weiss exhibits images from the turnaround and the reunited Germany in N'Djamena. Funded by the German Embassy and the Institut Francais he also travels through the country for three weeks realizing a new photography project.
"Tomber les murs"
Eröffnung: 19. März 2014
Institut Français du Tchad
Avenue Mobutu, BP 1284
N'Djamena , Tschad
www.institut-francais-tchad.org
From 1 - 31 March, the "International Image Festival" is held in Jordan, this year under the theme "together". The Foresight Gallery in Amman exhibits in this context Sibylle Fendt's work "Gaertners' Voyage". The pictures show a woman with dementia and her husband on their last trip through Europe.
"Gaertners' Voyage"
Exhibition: 11 - 31 March 2014
Foresight Gallery
bn Al Roumi st. 32.
Amman, Jordanien
Playtime" is a friendly title for an exhibition about work. The big show in Munich discusses the importance of work in our society and its echo in art. Julian Roeder shows images from his series Human Resources, in which the staff at trade fairs blurs with the illusory world of the market.
"Playtime"
Opening: 14 March 2014, 7.00 pm
Exhibition: 15 March - 29 June 2014
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Luis Straße 33, 80333 Munich
www.lenbachhaus.de
An exhibition in Frankfurt deals with images of masculinity in photography over the past 40 years. Pepa Hristova shows her Albanian "Sworn Virgins". Biologically, they are women, but they have taken over clothing, tasks and habits of men to fill the role of head of the family.
"Mannsbilder"
Exhibition: 7 March - 17 May 2014
DZ BANK Kunstsammlung
Platz der Republik
60325 Frankfurt am Main
www.dzbank-kunstsammlung.de
For twenty years now, the Wuestenrot Foundation has been awarding prizes to outstanding young documentary photographers, including several OSTKREUZ members. An exhibition at the Museum Folkwang now shows current works by 17 selected winners such as Espen Eichhoefer, Sibylle Fendt and Linn Schroeder.
"Past and Present"
Opening: 7 March 2014, 19.00 clock
Exhibition: 8 March - 15 June 2014
Museum Folkwang
Museumsplatz 1, 45128 Essen
www.museum-folkwang.de
One of the most exciting contemporary themes is how our increasingly diverse society can form a harmonious unit. The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden presents now a huge exhibition on the theme of migration and diversity, among others with pictures by Maurice Weiss and Julian Roeder. Stephan Cleef and Anna-Christina Hartmann have designed the image concept for the book accompanying the exhibition.
"Das neue Deutschland. Von Migration und Vielfalt"
Exhibition: 8 March to 12 October 2014
Book: Konstanz University Press, 250 pages, with a colored Essay cycle of OSTKREUZ - photographers agency
Our collective exhibition "On Borders" was already shown in Berlin and Dresden, now the Kulturforum Schorndorf presents a newly edited version. Seven OSTKREUZ photographers tell about the emergence of a new African state, the tolerated refugees in Berlin, the walls of Belfast and other visible and invisible borders.
"On Borders"
Opening: 21 February 2014, 8.00 pm
Exhibition: 22 February - 27 April 2014
Kulturforum Schorndorf
Karlstraße 19, 73614 Schorndorf
www.kulturforum-schorndorf.de